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Originally Posted by flip
This post is the exact reason why I don't enjoy 4 or 5 as much as 1 and 2. Nobody and I mean nobody finished RE 1 or 2 in five days.
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Even though I loved the game, I'm forced to agree - I'd guess it took me about 20 hours to get all the way through and that was with, as I said, a significant portion of that being fighting the bosses and trying to figure out the specific steps you have to take to finish them off.
I think much of it has to do with the vastly improved graphics and physics engines games have now - the development resources put into these games are far bigger, but most of the staff are concerned with making the game look good and optimize what's under the hood, and the actual content is secondary. In the PC world, the modding community really takes up that slack and you get games that still have value years after release, but on the console there are very few games that once you've "beaten" there is any reason to go back and explore as there *is* nothing really to explore except the main story.
There are some exceptions like Fallout 3 or Oblivion, where there is more of an effort to create a small "world", but even then there is always some kind of linear quest grafted into the game that you can finish in a few hours if you want to. The best games for going back to ever were of course Diablo and Diablo II, simply because there was an element of randomness in locales and items, plus a plethora of different personas and therefore playing styles you could try out to make each run-through the game somewhat unique.