SvennoJ said:
atomicblue said:
SvennoJ said:
Btw I do play every day for a couple hours. Games are getting too long nowadays.
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Not really related to the subject, but I have that problem as well. I tend to avoid most of the big, sprawling games and I find myself wondering how someone could find time for Witcher 3 and MGSV and Fallout 4 and Xenoblade in a single year. Games of that sort of scope tend to keep me busy for months so I try to limit myself to one or two of them per year, otherwise I'll never get around to catching up on old games. I mean, my backlog still includes things like Metroid Prime 2 and Psychonauts.
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I have Psychonauts waiting for me in my Steam library as well :/ I have given up on Steam and GoG sales, still have plenty in my backlog. On ps2 too, for example PES 3 and DQ8 are still on my shelf.
GTA5 and TW3 both dragged on too long imo. Instead of difficulty levels, there should be content levels in these kind of games. A story focused mode that cuts out all but the most important side quests, removes the side activities and most of the crafting and loot. Fallout 4 has plenty of filler too. The problem is you never know what leads to an interesting fleshed out quest sequence and what's just a one time retrieve or kill mission. And although I'm loving F4 for now, I'm spending way too much time in the menus organizing my inventory, just like in TW3.
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Oh, did Psychonauts get a PC release as well? I've actually got a PS2 version. But don't even get me started on GOG, I have to avoid that and Humble Bundles, they'd cause my backlog to spiral out of control.
I'd love to see something like what you suggest with large-scale games for that exact reason. I played FO3 and New Vegas and found that the little side quests were a mixed bag. I'd love to see something that allowed for choices between pure story-only, access to absolutely everything, and maybe a couple of in-between options that included access to the bigger side quests but filtered out all of the really finicky, little quests that only feed my OCD.
