To be honest, I'm kind of over 200h behemoths anyway. A concise, focused, high-quality 20-40h experience is kind of optimal I think. Every time as of late that I start a massive game (thinking I'd be really into it and feeling hyped!) I just end up burnt out by the 75% mark and having to force myself to finish it, actively resenting it as I press through to see the credits.
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It takes a lot of talent to design and develop a 200 hr game and to keep it engaging throughout. For example a talentless studio like Ubisoft will make AC Valhalla on one end and you’ll have a talented studio like Larian make Baldurs Gate 3 on the other.
8-10h games are fantastic too. It's just nice to be able to wrap up a game in a couple weeks and enjoy it while it lasts and then move on to the next one.
The only game I wished I had more is cyberpunk 2077. Long games for me are fine, but not at the cost of having a shit story, or by filling it with tedious, boring, repetitive side quests.
So yeah, sometimes less is more
Cyberpunk needs more main campaign, I played for 100 hours, but for 90 of them I was at the last mission just doing sidequests
Although I enjoyed the game, I was shocked at how short the main campaign was. Especially coming from something like the witcher 3
They need more Perales quest too. Tbh cyberpunk had some GREAT side quests
I don't mind long games but if it's an RPG with branching story lines I think I would prefer a shorter game that I could replay. I always want to replay RPGs to see the different paths but never do cause they are insanely long and I don't want to devote my existence to one game even if it's amazing
Exactly this. I liked witcher 3 but I can never bring myself to replay it because of the time commitment. I replayed Witcher 2 a dozen times and its a tight 30 hours.
The size of the open world doesn't matter, especially if a ton of it is empty procedurally generated nothingness.
Likewise, the length of the game doesn't matter if it is bulked out by empty, meaningless fetch quests and busy work.
It's like boasting that you are serving gallons of 1% Beer.
Good for these guys.
Quality over quantity.
That is perfectly reasonable.
only? 30-40 hours is still pretty damn long ...
As it should be lets get back to Artists and programmers making games not marketing and HR
That's a longer campaign than any competitive multiplayer and lots of RPG games out there.
30 hours is more than enough for me.
That's actually very welcome to me as a older gamer with a family.
I don't have the time for these massive 100+ hour RPGs anytime, I've yet to finish BG 3, which I absolutely love, due to time constraints and trying to remember where I left off.
Just hope this game can rise above the anti woke mob. Saw them flooding the trailer comments section because finally! A game that has a white man in it! Woke cdpr would never!
Maybe anti-wokes can play other games in the mean time. But, wait a minute, the entire industry is woke. There are no games where you play as a white man, right? Right?
White men are the most underrepresented demographic, notoriously
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