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Is It Acceptable For A Game To Be 5 Hours Long?

360 Magazine: “Single-player games should be a four-hour experience,” says Lucasarts’ Clint Hocking

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Neckbear5440d ago (Edited 5440d ago )

It really depends on how you look at it, to be honest. I think some short games ARE worth 60$, mainly thanks to their level of polish and fun. In fact, those are of the few games I ACTUALLY feel like replaying, given I love their gameplay.

I'll take quality over quantity anyday, that's it.

jerethdagryphon5440d ago

case in point

mirrors edge about a 5-6 hour single player story fits perfectly in that time frame long enough to feel the the game without becomeing overly irksome
its backed up by gods alone know how long ill spend doing the time trials mode. which gives replay and perfecting your skills.

a highly single player based game should be 10-15 hours no less unless it has exeptional circumstances like M.E

dead space 1-2 are about the right leagth in my opiinion

my friend thinks they should be like 30hours in leagth but by that time the fun is gone and its a chore

games that were two short force unleashed 2 i played through the game on hard in 6 hours and on insane or its equivlent in 5.5 to easy to short

kreate5440d ago (Edited 5440d ago )

@neckbear

say that to Ninja Theory. they'll like u.

PhantomT14125440d ago (Edited 5440d ago )

Star Wars The Force Unleashed II was fun and polished. It's a "full price" game and it only lasted 4 hours in normal. I wanted (and I still want) my money back more than any Call of Duty.

EDIT: Plus it's a story mode only game.

NYC_Gamer5440d ago

i wouldn't pay 60 bucks for 5hrs

plb5440d ago

If there is no MP than I agree $60 for 5hrs is a rip off.

FantasyStar5440d ago

Even with MP: 5 hours of content is worthless. When the servers go down, then the MP is as good as dog turd. It's there, but you don't want it. MP depreciates over time: SP never depreciates.

ReBurn5440d ago

SP depreciates if there's no replay value. I can handle 5 hours of gameplay if it is worth playing over and over. But even at that, I doubt I'd pay $60 for it.

FantasyStar5440d ago

Good point. I knew that already but it never hurts to mention replay value.

hamburger1235440d ago (Edited 5440d ago )

I'd rather have a 6-8 hour game then a 20+ hour game full of bugs and shit.

kreate5440d ago

but they'll keep making these games cuz gamers keep supporting them.

prime examples are Treyarch, Bethesda, Obsidian Entertainment.

their games sold like hotcakes filled with bugs!

let the games bomb for once so we can send our messages through their thick heads.

haymoza5440d ago

It is unacceptable when it's at a retail price of $59.99. That's robbery in my opinion.

Magic number is 10 hours, 15-20 including any side quests/mini-games

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Kotick claims lawsuit objecting to MS-Activision deal was "tied to Embracer's desire to boost sales"

Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.

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OpenGL1d 5h ago

Yeah, the Microsoft deal has DEFINITELY worked out for everyone.

galgor1d 2h ago

Can this mother fucker just get lost already

PRIMORDUS1d 1h ago

He belongs in here ⚰️, hopefully sooner than later.

MrDead10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.

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Saudi Arabia Will Own 93 Percent Of Battlefield 6 Publisher EA

When the dust settles on the $55 billion leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts, Saudi Arabia will be its only true owner, despite a “consortium” of investors being involved in the deal. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will control 93 percent of the company, according to filings with Brazil’s antitrust regulator.

blacktiger44d ago

Technically speaking, Saudi Arabia and TENCENT can buy the entire USA. ANf Democrat and Republican will not do crap!

Inverno44d ago

Letting foreign entities own half of American businesses is liberal and very progressive. So is bringing in all that talent from outside the States to replace the talentless and lazy American workers. And here I thought the Trump administration wanted to border is up but nope. We're supposed to worry bout them "radical Muslims" minding their own here and ignore China/Saudi/Israel taking over.

blacktiger44d ago

Another thing I hate hearing is "liberal and very progressive"
It's 2025 and that stuff is outdated. Everything and everyway is literally the same thing wheter it's progressive, conservativ. Because they all wants the same thing have, king unlimited oney buy everything including your house.

Now they making mainstream media news that it's AI Bubble justify to highjack the price of RAM.
Another excuse for inflation!

Tacoboto44d ago

"here I thought the Trump administration wanted to border is up but nope"

Lol, you actually bought what he was selling? Let's see this week alone...

Yesterday he pardoned an international drug lord, while allowing the murder of random fishermen on boats. Remember drain the swamp? He pardoned a Democratic Congressman jailed for bribery just today, nevermind that fraudulent drag queen republican that was kicked out of Congress and imprisoned for their fraud. It's so petty they're picking fights on social media with pop stars while using their music, and even using Franklin the damn Turtle to cartoonify their murders.

thorstein43d ago

You believed him!?!!

I've got some Trump $5000 bills for you, only half off.

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Inverno42d ago

People I do not use /s to point out my sarcasm. Should be obvious I don't believe anything coming out of Trump's mouth or any politicians mouth.

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gold_drake43d ago

its quite ridiculous that they were able to do that. or even allowed to.

but saudis even have their grabby hands in nintendo stocks.

maximusprime_43d ago

Looking on the bright side, the games may be patched to remove any ideologies that are incompatible for the majority of the world.

S2Killinit43d ago

What do you mean? You want censorship in games?

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Microsoft needs to listen or risk irreparable harm to Call of Duty

Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."

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StoneTitan51d ago

Because ms is so good at managing studios, surely they will get it right

:P

franwex51d ago

In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.

Profchaos51d ago

To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7

bsingle4051d ago

Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD

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1Victor51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
Happy thanksgiving to all the N4G members
🥳 🍗 🦃

MDTunkown51d ago

Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite

dveio51d ago

Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.

But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.

The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:

Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.

They didn't.

Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.

blacktiger51d ago

you need to stop saying "let see next year"

XBManiac51d ago

dveo is an alias of Phil Spencer?

XBManiac51d ago

dveio is an alias of Phil Spencer?

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