I bought PS4 for playing girlie games for kids such as My Little Pony, Paw Patrol games, My Universe games, etc.
Not everyone here have interest with AAA games for adults.
There's a very thin line between "good value for money" and "goes on for far too long". Sony first and second party titles are outstaying their welcome - the last few I've played - "DS", "HFW" , "TLOU2" and "GOW:R" have all started testing my patience long before reaching their conclusions.
Yeah, anyone who says more game = better game needs to play all 90 hours of Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
I think it is a real shame the industry seems to have somewhat shifted focus to making sure every game is this endless treadmill designed to trap the player, rather than just being about telling great stories and providing interesting, innovative, gameplay loops.
It is why a game like the first Last of Us, as dated as the gameplay may feel nowadays, still only becomes better for me with each passing year, as games like that become increasingly rarer to the tidal wave of live service garbage and bloated open world filler.
It is a shame too, as about ten years ago I loved live service games and massive open world games, but I love cheesecake too, but I wouldn't want to eat it every day for a decade. Having a nice cadence of big, triple AAA, titles, mixed in with more focused, linear, single player experiences that are 10 to 15 hours long would be ideal for me. But now it is like, hey, which of the thousand hour games released this week do you want to play first?!
@Pizzamorg@LN78 Agreed. I think there is some strange algorithm that game producers use where they have to justify pricing by sheer time to completion. I’ll happily pay for a game that is shorter if it is quality content during that shorter span.
It’s why Miles Morales is a better game than Spider-Man. And why Lost Legacy is better than Uncharted 4. I really like these interstitial releases where Sony has explored the more focused shorter expansions. Even Rift Apart ventured into that refreshing sweet spot of 12-15 hrs. Unfortunately I don’t think it sold well at full price, and the shorter runtime was one of the criticisms out there.
I’ve definitely played games that were short but felt long (The Marvel’s Avengers campaign most recently, 8 hrs felt like 40) or were long and felt short (so far Hogwarts is like that for me, although I’ve got a lot of game left, but another example for me is Death Stranding). So it can be more about how well the game clicks individually.
Definitely quantity does not guarantee quality, although there’s a time and place for everything, and marathon games like Elden Ring or Persona 5 do have a place.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
American dates on trailers. Please stop. As far as I'm aware you are the only country that uses that format. More common in gaming as staggered release dates are less common these days.
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@sorteddan #dreamsshattered Is that how hash tags work?
@RogerRoger I agree when it is some time away, but when it is quite close, like with Starfield yesterday when it is a 'Release Date Trailer' it kind of defeats the object if there is no date.
@LN78 Yeah, there is that realisation that 'Oh wait. I need to swap the month and day around'. That threw me when the first anniversary came round.
@JohnnyShoulder And why we use the English system for measurement instead of the metric system like the rest of the world, I’ll never understand. 😂 Even the English don’t use it. Somehow we still pay homage to whatever king’s foot was 12 inches long.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution How does that tie in with video games?
And do mean the system that originated in France in the 1790's and only three counties in the word do not currently use (according to Wikipedia)? But in my experience, everyone and everywhere uses the metric system that I'm aware of in the UK. There maybe the odd shop that uses it here, but that was an age ago.
@RogerRoger Yeah all that does my head in slightly. I found myself using some of their sayings and stuff, but had reel it back in as I was getting on my own nerves.
@RogerRoger Don't know about all that, it just a preference and what I'm used to.
No need to apologise, it doesn't really bother when other people do it, but more so when I see it creeping into my everyday language.
@LN78 Bugs me when I do a spell check and it brings up the American spelling instead of the UK version. Some words like 'disk' and 'disc' I get confused which is is which.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
"Y'all" was being used in English poetry well before the States were even a thing. We just popularized it (by 'we,' I mean white southern and black Americans).
As to dates, if you write out a date, it'd follow the "[month] [day], [year]" format. If someone asks you to specify a date, would you say "1st April," or "April 1st?" Looking at it this way, our format is more intuitive and in line with how people would actually speak.
As for American spelling variants, you can thank us for cleaning up the unnecessary surplus of letters in your words.
@RogerRoger On the other hand, we do owe an apology to the world for inflicting the word "irregardless" on the English lexicon. At least until someone dives around in databases a few years from now and discovers that it's another stupid Americanism that somehow originated among 17th century poets.
Have to agree on the American dates - the simple solution would be longform as @RogerRoger suggests. I remember thinking Metroid Dread was coming out on 10th August at first, but it turned out to be 8th October (still very close after the reveal).
@Ralizah No joke, but in the UK we actually say "1st of January" rather than January 1st, so it works out for us.
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