Hideo Kojima believes 'massive, long games will become a thing of the past'

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Kinda surprised that he of all people would say this, but I agree with him.

I realize more and more time is more valuable than money. For me to invest 15+ hours into one game means that the game must be tremendously rewarding and consistently well crafted through out.

I'm not investing that much time into a game where it's like "oh wow! the world is sooooo huge, lets explore! But the story gets shitty half way through".

Nuh uh. If the story is getting shitty half-way through, then I turning that game off and it's going to shelf and probably never played again.

I'm not 10 years old anymore where I'd get one game every birthday and that was precious and I would play through every nook and crany even if the design was flawed in some ways.

Too much to watch, read, play these days. It ain't the 90s anymore, I have like 10 different TV *series* that friends are bugging me to go watch in my backlog. I have 10 books I should be reading in my backlog on my tablet. I have 20+ games I probably should get around to playing. I have 10 movies that I missed in theaters that I probably would still like to watch.