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Sqrl on 05 August 2007
RolStoppable said:
12-15 hours is twice the length of the first God of War game.

Action games of that kind are usually about 10 hours long, so Heavenly Sword isn't doing bad at all.

 Yes, I can see the problem with this trollish post, how dare Rol support Heavenly sword in responce to the OP's question.

/sarcasm off

 

@OP,

For this type of game the length is fairly normal, its not a long game and its not particularly short.  The stoyline will probably play the biggest role in determining whether you got "enough" gameplay, even short games can have good storyline that give them a sense of completeness.   
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naznatips on 05 August 2007
Legend11 said:

Bodhesatva,

Your bias blinds you. I think we all know that you love the Wii and PC so much that whenever you bash the PS3 and Xbox360 and I bring up a point that I know is valid you simply can't see or accept it. For example when you were bashing violent videogames and I brought up Unreal Tournament 3 because I knew you were eagerly anticipated it, I knew you would find some excuse to well excuse it from the bashing, and it came as no surprise to me when you did by claiming Unreal Tournament 3 wasn't violent. I mean who are we kidding here? You honestly can't see how the claim that God of War is half the length of another 12-15 hour game is ridiculous? Look I'll be honest, I've given up on expecting you to be fair and balanced when it comes to the consoles, so I'll stop wasting my time debating with you with this post.

Some people may think I'm an Xbot or whatever but when it comes to games I treat each system's games fairly, that's the difference between me and many of the actual trolls that are on this board. I'd never see an rpg that claims to be 50 hours in length and say something obviously biased like "Wow, that's twice as long as Zelda Twilight Princess.".


You are the one trolling this thread Legend.  Rol was giving a valid view on the game through his own experiences, complementing Heavenly Sword.  You came in and trolled him, and the thread, not the other way around.



Legend11 on 05 August 2007
Sqrl said:
RolStoppable said:
12-15 hours is twice the length of the first God of War game.

Action games of that kind are usually about 10 hours long, so Heavenly Sword isn't doing bad at all.

 Yes, I can see the problem with this trollish post, how dare Rol support Heavenly sword in responce to the OP's question.

/sarcasm off


Yeah because you obviously don't think that taking a dig at another game is trollish.



Sqrl on 05 August 2007
Legend11 said:
Sqrl said:
RolStoppable said:
12-15 hours is twice the length of the first God of War game.

Action games of that kind are usually about 10 hours long, so Heavenly Sword isn't doing bad at all.

Yes, I can see the problem with this trollish post, how dare Rol support Heavenly sword in responce to the OP's question.

/sarcasm off


Yeah because you obviously don't think that taking a dig at another game is trollish.


Care to site an example? You are inferring a hell of a lot, and making a big deal out of nothing.



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Bodhesatva on 05 August 2007

Legend, calm down please. You're going off the deep end again. I like you, you know that.



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Legend11 on 05 August 2007
Sqrl said:
Legend11 said:
Sqrl said:
RolStoppable said:
12-15 hours is twice the length of the first God of War game.

Action games of that kind are usually about 10 hours long, so Heavenly Sword isn't doing bad at all.

Yes, I can see the problem with this trollish post, how dare Rol support Heavenly sword in responce to the OP's question.

/sarcasm off


Yeah because you obviously don't think that taking a dig at another game is trollish.


Care to site an example? You are inferring a hell of a lot, and making a big deal out of nothing.


Go to Gamerankings and check out the reviews for God of War.  Lets assume these people reviewing them for media outlets are actually halfway decent at games and can give a rought estimate of a game's length (for the average player).  Check out ones like Eurogamer, IGN, Gamespot... Get back to me on what they say. 



Sqrl on 05 August 2007
ckmlb said:
This whole idea about how games are getting shorter is pretty funny to me. I'm sure some of you used to play games a while back when every game was max like 5 hours on consoles, where you had to play through the whole game in one go.

To say that this is a new trend developing because of new consoles and how much games cost is to ignore most games in the past. The majority of games are pretty short, people somehow tend to ignore that and continue with this whole 'graphics are killing my games' nonsense...

 I think a lot of people missed the point.  There is room on the discs for the larger games, but not as much room in the development budget.  I think it is fairly obvious that PS3/360 games are going to be a bit shorter than Wii games in part due to the sheer amount of effort required to get games looking as nice as the consumers for those consoles want them to look. I don't think we are going to see games regularly 10-15 hours but probably in the 20-30 hour range which is still very respectable and honestly not much different from last gen. 

I think the difference is going to come more from longer Wii games than from shorter 360/PS3 games actually.  In part due to the extra development cash, and in part due to the fact that the games are different genres/styles. 

But this is all speculation from both side, so honestly I wouldn't be surprised either way.  But I do think there are reasons to believe game lengths will be different from console to console on the average...for whatever reasons.



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WiteoutKing on 05 August 2007

Who here is "taking a dig" at anything? Clam down, Legend11.



PS3: 5.51m/51w, avg 108,039/w (up 239)
360: 12.93m/102w, avg 126,764/w (up 625), leads PS3 by 7.42m (up 70k), avg lead 18,725/w (up 386)
Wii: 13.52m/51w, avg 265,098/w (dn 1,102), leads PS3 by 8.01m (up 90k), avg lead 157,059/w (dn 1,341)

If 360 sales stabilize, PS3 sales increases needed to pass 360 by...
01/08: (008w) +875.8%, 04/08: (021w) +344.4%, 07/08: (034w) +219.3%, 10/08: (047w) +163.5%
01/09: (060w) +131.8%, 04/09: (073w) +111.4%, 07/09: (085w) +098.1%, 10/09: (099w) +086.7%
If Wii sales stabilize, PS3 sales increases needed to pass Wii by...
01/08: (008w) +1072.%, 04/08: (021w) +498.4%, 07/08: (034w) +363.4%, 10/08: (047w) +303.1%
01/09: (060w) +269.0%, 04/09: (073w) +246.9%, 07/09: (085w) +232.6%, 10/09: (099w) +220.3%
If PS2 sales freeze, Wii sales increases needed to pass PS2 (as of Mar07, 108.4m) by...
2008: (008w) +4373.8%, 2009: (060w) +0496.5%, 2010: (112w) +0219.6%, 2011: (165w) +0116.9%
2012: (217w) +0064.9%, 2013: (269w) +0033.1%, 2014: (321w) +0011.5%, 2015: (376w) -0004.8%
At +0% it will pass it in 358w, the week ending September 19th, 2014, at an age of 409w (7y44w).
Current age of PS2: 7y37w.

Last update: Week ending November 3, 2007

naznatips on 05 August 2007
Legend11 said:
Sqrl said:
Legend11 said:
Sqrl said:
RolStoppable said:
12-15 hours is twice the length of the first God of War game.

Action games of that kind are usually about 10 hours long, so Heavenly Sword isn't doing bad at all.

Yes, I can see the problem with this trollish post, how dare Rol support Heavenly sword in responce to the OP's question.

/sarcasm off


Yeah because you obviously don't think that taking a dig at another game is trollish.


Care to site an example? You are inferring a hell of a lot, and making a big deal out of nothing.


Go to Gamerankings and check out the reviews for God of War. Lets assume these people reviewing them for media outlets are actually halfway decent at games and can give a rought estimate of a game's length (for the average player). Check out ones like Eurogamer, IGN, Gamespot... Get back to me on what they say.


What are you talking about?  He never insulted God of War... Rol speed runs games Legend.  He wasn't taking a shot at God of War, he just completes games very quickly.  You're insulting him and attacking him using "the average player" as a bearing, but he just admitted he doesn't play games like "the average player."  You are arguing for the sake of it.



Saiyar on 05 August 2007

ICO was 6 hours. SotC was about 8, as was PoP:SoT. Those were some of the best games I played on the PS2.
If HS is a good game (which i think it will be based on the demo) then I won't be complaining.