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Still interested in this game regardless.

he majority of games on the PS1 and PS2 were between 12-20 hours of gameplay. Now they are between 6-12, if that sometimes. Games have gotten alot shorter.

If i remember correctly these guys made the last sly cooper game which was criticized for being too short as well. I think it was like 4-5 hours long or something

I might be wrong though

it wont be short... cause like spider man 2...
ill just explore all day

short games are fine...







....to rent

good one vegan, I'm still laughing.

I think for an action game 8-10 hours is usually just right, some games are so good though that you don't want them to end so soon.

im fine with a short game as long as it has a ton of replay value

I'm talking about any game on any system. I played games even in the 80's that saved your progress and they only lasted anything between 20 minutes and a few hours. Games in general have become MUCH longer compared to the last two decades. You guys expect too much, but then again maybe I appreciate the games more now as I played games back in the days of the Electron and Spectrum.

Hopefully 15 hours i would be happy as

if this game is shorter then 8 hours, i wont get it...
it will be a waste of 60 dollars... all games should be at least 11 hours long

I was one of the peeps that loved Heavenly Sword.. and I actually put a fair bit of time into it. Even the story took me at least 10 hours, but I replayed a few levels here and there to get better scores.

If Infamous is the same length, it probably won't bother me - and this one will have loads more to do in terms of free-roam

Heavenly Sword had great quality didn't it? Just was short as hell. I hope this game is longer than that though.

And I for one hope it does not. From what we know about the story Co op has no place in a game like this.

This game looks really good and I am really looking forward to it. it is up there on my top 5 list for next year. As long as the game has a lot do to in the city itself. It's open world with a person who has super powers. How much fun would it be to just run around and blow everything up. The story only has to be about 10 hours, but I think people will play it longer than that.

This is one of my most anticipated games for next year. I hope it gets co op play

it can be 5 hours and I'll still get this game

Don't know about you but most of the games in the 90's actually only lasted 2-6 hours, games nowadays are actually much bigger than before on average.

I may be off on the time line but if your talking about the megadrive and snes type games. The reason alot of them were alot shorter was because you had to play them in one play through. As you were unable to save your progress.

Games today were you can save when ever you want as many times as you want. Need to be a certain length other wise they get to easy.

I myself much prefer games with limited saves and only in certain places.
Alot like the early RE games. I have no idea how they do it now.

I'm trying to play this way through Fallout 3, but even that auto saves all the time for you. Which turns the games hard points more into a ground hog style game were i just keep repeating untill i get it right.

Having waffled on, my point is......
oh yeah now adays with all the hand holding games give you, they need to be longer.

A single-player game, IMO, has the best playtime around 8-15 hour mark. If it's too long, I wouldn't bare to play it again. Just look at Uncharted, punched that one in barely 8 hours. Dead Space in 12. Perfect playtime for a SP game and it gives you the urge to play it again sometime since it's not too long.

Agreed, there are too many people that have very pre-set ideas on game length and a lot of games get un due criticism because they 'only' last 10/12/15/20/25 or 20 hours (delete as appropriate.)

In fact quality should be the only measure and because games are so variable it's even harder because while an RPG may only last 100 hours, something like SOTC might be 5 hours of just immaculate fun.

Gears was around 12 hours I think? But it was a fantastic 12 hours that made me want to play again. so that's about 20+ hours now not including on-line.

Games nowadays are selling to an audience that has so little time on it's hands it's going to be a mad dev that sets the time invested bar so high it is willing to risk excluding a large portion of it's customer base just so it believes it has achieved a certain level of game play that it imagines people expect.

Some people just prefer longer games.

Personally, if a game has both quality and quantity I see no problem with long games as I just want to continue playing.
Even if it's not a RPG.

Yeah I think to much emphasis is put on length of games these days. If it's a quality experience it doesn't need to be 30+ hours long. I prefer games to finish around the 8-10 hour mark myself (except RPGs) so I can finish it and move on. Infamous is looking like quality so it's better if they don't feel forced to pad it out unnecessarily.

well since it is coming around next march or so then i don't expect for sony to know about its length just yet, there is still time. i want this game to last atleast 15 hours, this game looks sick

You gotta remember there are alot more shooters now, and they have always been pretty short, RPG's are as long as ever from what I have seen.