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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
I'd rather pay $60 for an amazing ten hour game than the same price for an average game that's twenty hours long with multiplayer I don't even enjoy playing.
It's all relative. You can't just say "RE5 is bad value because it's ten hours long". But then, those ten hours are some of the most intense and downright fun action gaming available on any console. Not to mention the incentive to play through on multiple difficulties, upgrading weapons to get infinite ammo, the Mercenaries mode, the downloadable multiplayer expansion pack coming in a few weeks.
You set your game value yourself. You might pay $60 for a five hour game, but if that's one of the best games you've ever played, isn't it worth it more than a game packed with 30 + hours of gameplay that is mediocre?
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I agree with what OutOfTheCube said. If you find a $60 game that only lasts 10 hours but is a great game then it's worth it. The first example that comes to mind is Dead Space. I bought it for $60 when it came out and it lasted about 10 hours but it was an amazing game and well worth $60.
That being said, there are some games that have 20-25 hours of gameplay but it seems to just drag on and on. I'd rather have a game that lasts a small amount of time and doesn't have any additional content added in just in order to pad the completion time stats. An example of this, in my opninion, is Mass Effect. The side quests just seemed tacked on and there was no variety. The main story probably could have taken maybe 8-10 hours to complete but those additional side quests made the completion time jump an additional 5-6 hours.
I think that a game that runs around 12-15 hours is a great amount of time. Back in when I was in school a 20+ hour game was great but now with work and other extra curricular activities (i.e. the girlfriend) a 20+ hour game is difficult to stomach.
And just to kind of stay on topic...I like the previous RE games more than the last few interations. I enjoyed the puzzles and the intensity of the games (saving ammo, having to use your knife more often than not). I think I stopped enjoying the games after Code: Veronica which I guess was RE4 and now RE5. But with RE5, after playing the demo again, I just can't get around the controls. It just seems that there's so many things happening around me but I can't seem to turn around fast enough to see all of that. I just find things very "clunky" though I don't remember ever having those issues for RE4 on the Gamecube. Maybe I'm just getting old now
