Like, I get that modern AAA games are becoming too bloated but lemme just point out Elden Ring, RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, GoW Ragnarok. The length is not the problem, its the content within it
Like, I get that modern AAA games are becoming too bloated but lemme just point out Elden Ring, RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, GoW Ragnarok. The length is not the problem, its the content within it
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RPGs: “How cute.”
Imma just drop in to tack Hollow Knight on your list of longer, excellent games.
whoever posted this only plays story based linear games, never played any rpg pr open world games ever
what stops people playing for 12 hours and thats it?
Depends on the game, single player rpg should not be 12 hours however I do agree that some games add a lot of bullshit just to make it longer.
Why 12 hours and not 12 minutes 🙈
>I know I’m not the only one that thinks like this, because I see people complaining about it all the time, both online, in the Inbox, and within my own friend group.
It’s not reductive or myopic if I’m terminally online. 🤡
I agree, no game should make you play more than 12hours per day
The last game I played was Dragon’s Dogma 2. If I only played for 12 hours I wouldn’t have reached Vernworth.
They can’t mean Valhalla, you’ll spend that going from one objective to the next.
Laughs* in (insert MMO/Mutliplayer Shooter, RPG, Simulation) game here.. A publication clearly desperate for clicks and/or filler content.
As always, radicalism never fails to sound dumb.
Rage baits are have become too common these days. Articles like this are an example.
Nobody told them you don’t have to play a whole game in one sitting
That’s for one session, right? Right?
What the fuck is the logic behind that
That’s how long it takes me to get some mods to work lol
I think they meant less than 12 hours
the readers feature on metro is always the most stupid uninformed nonsense.
Fck am I doing playing wow for the last 20 years then
Imagine spending years on a robust RPG game engine only to use it for building 12h worth of content.
Ok, but it better not cost more than $12.
Fair? Fair.
This is the video game equivalent of “movies shouldn’t be longer than 90 minutes”
12 hours max entertainment then, based upon my personal value equation, means I won’t pay more than $12 for a game. That alone tells me their proposition makes no sense.
Final fantasy 12- ‘am I a joke to you??’
I guess I better leave a negative review on Rimworld after 1.7k hours. Far too long
What? I’m currently playing AC: Origins and i love the long gameplay
I’ve had fallout 4 for 11 years and still haven’t finished it.
I unironically agree. I prefer to replay games, and also find games designed with replay in mind wind up being the most fun. If it has additional difficulties, an NG+, or challenges that unlock, I’d rather play the same 10 hour game 4 times than play through a 40 hour long game once. It’s not even close.
I’m not saying that 40 hour long games shouldn’t exist, just that I have no use for them. They’re specifically programmed to have the reason I play video-games removed from them.
It’s the 1st of June, not the 1st of April.
It’s funny this is the same narrative they pushed with music. If you don’t want to listen or play the game for a long time just don’t. Why are the masses with shorter and shorter attention spans dictating run times/album length for everybody?
Honestly I think the article’s got a point but would just adjust the numbers a bit. 30-40 hours max for RPGs and open worlds, 15 or less for mostly everything else. I cant say Ive ever played a game lasting above 40 hours that ultimately didnt just devolve into a lot of filler, grind, severe pacing issues, or repetitive copy paste content.
Its just an inherent consequence of game development. You only have so much resources and time as a developer so if you want your game to be a big expansive 100 hour experience you cant necessarily keep the quality up to say a 15 hour linear game without cutting corners or spending 10 years on development cycle, which is obviously not realistic.
Theres too many games that prioritize quantity over quality now though and it does frustrate me that a lot of players have cultivated this mindset by insisting games have to reach a certain length or else its somehow not worth their time. Some of my favorite games of all time I can sometimes beat in 4 hours or less…
It pissed me off that the actual article wasn’t linked.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/01/no-video-game-longer-12-hours-readers-feature-20935264/
Well, my 31 hours in Cyberpunk (so far) state otherwise, so whatever.
Who is actually saying that? Video game should be endless at best. At least 10 hours long should be videogame. Except of its indie.
persona 3/4/5 : *quietly laughs in the background*
If you cannot stomach playing long games please quit being a gaming journalist, jesus fucking christ, this is getting ridiculous.
Every video game should be longer than 12 hours.
This just proves the old adage that opinions are like clits. Every cunt has one.
No game should be full of content lock behind a paywall that is already in the main game, a single player game should not require an always online connection to play, no DRM that degrades the performance or installs malware in the kernel, no publisher should be able to delete games on the player’s system (account). And more.
I’m not paying $70 for 12 fucking hours
No article should have click bait titles.
See what I did there? Two can play this shit. Journalists are so scummy nowadays.
it’s just journalist problems. they wanna finish the game asap so they can publish review right when the embargo lifts and get as many clicks as possible
The screenshot is of AC Valhalla, and being fair, that game is overwrought. Too few ideas spread out over unnecessary dialogue and considerable busywork. There *was* only about 12 hours worth of game inside Valhalla, if that.
Valhalla (and some other Ubisoft) games are particularly egregious examples, but this is a trend that’s becoming more and more common in games.