[THE BIG WEEKLY QUESTION] Only got 4 minutes to save the world (and I did it in 3)

[FlyingJesus]

A game can be too long if nothing changes ever tbh, but yeah most games these days sacrifice gameplay for graphics, which is a pretty poor trade-off frankly. I'd far rather play FFVIII which is about 10 years old now I think but guarantees well over 100 hours of gameplay even without any extras and side quests and stuff than something like GTA4 which you do in a day or two

[Ashley 12344]

Exactly as I said.
Paying £10 for 100 hours (way more - more replayability), for a PS1 games or £40 for some highly detailled piece of **** which'll take me 6 hours to complete before I can run around aimlessly. The quality of storylines is nothing these days either, on most games.

[Andeeh]

Yes they are really short nowadays and its a shame because some games would be that 1 step better with a great campaign nowadays i think its focused more about online play.

[Hated]

I've still not beat gta4 and i've had it 3 months
Everytime i go to play it though i get distracted and just joy ride so i've never actually got any further than going out on a first date with michelle.

[PaulMacC]

Final Fantasy is one of the best RPG series out there Tom, it has everything. I mean even replaying the original one on the NES you can see how much effort they put into it. I can get 20 hours of gameplay from a nearing 20 year old title on the NES why cant they do it today.

[mangle]

Most are, some aren't. Thing is people don't want replayability nowadays, back with Megaman and stuff like that you always used to replay. But you won't see me replaying my games that often now.

[today]

Dead Space - Way too short
Fable 2 - Really short, not worth it

I think the longest game i've played is Tomb Raider lol..

[mangle]

I think they're at the length where we don't want to replay them for the fact they're too long to replay if you get me?

A 4 hour game like L4D will be replayed whereas GTA wont.

[J0SH]

They're long if you take time to enjoy them instead of sitting down for that many hours straight and them complaining that it was so short. I still haven't even done campaign on World at War, I've got a few missions left but I just can't be bothered with campaign, so I wouldn't really call them short if you take your time with them.

[The Professor]

Yep, I remember playing Digimon World 3 on the PS1 way back when which took me weeks to complete playing it pretty much non stop. Even as little ago as Final Fantasy X and GTA San Andreas the games took at the very least a fortnight to play through. I don't actually have a console atm for that very reason; you just don't get value for money any more. I play games on the PC because the backlibrary is massive and the games are about half as cheap; I can't justify spending £150 on a 360 with another £0/40 whenever I want to play a game.

When they stop with the cavalcade of money spinning and short, medicore games I might be persuaded to invest, but the value just isn't there atm. Yahtzee makes a good point in Zero Puntuation though; graphics are about as good as they're ever going to be so games designers are going to have to start focusing on gameplay and story to sell games. If that happens it should be more exciting