Well, in the 8 and 16 bit days, I routinely paid $40-$60 for NES, Genesis and SNES games. I don't think any of them lasted more than a few hours. Probably 7 or 8 at the most. But most of them were absolutely joyful experiences. It's amazing to me that games have to be longer than 20 hours to be worth it these days. To me, that's a long-ass time to play a game!
Short and sweet is how I like my games and I'll gladly pay top dollar for a short, amazing experience as opposed to a game that has me bored half-way through and wishing it would end. My attention span usually drops off after 5-10 hours. 20 is typically my limit - after that, I have to put the game down for a few months and come back to it.
I'm probably just old and cranky. Time for my nap.
It'll be awhile before I figure out how to do one of these. :P
