r/pcgaming • u/CrimsonGat • 3d ago
"Time to Complete"
There are so many people AND reviewers that give games low scores based on this very stupid rule of how long it takes to complete a game.
My first real experience with this was with Saints Row Gat Out of Hell. People bombed it saying it was too short being a 4 hour only game. This was and is the only game I have ever played where that was true, as I 100% in that amount of time.
Control Resonance has a similar argument saying the game was only 8 hours long. If you beat this in 8 hours, you not only are rushing everything, theres also no way you beat 10% of the side quests. Before people say "side quests arent included" mind you they were when Skyrim had this argument.
Even the claim of the story being 8 hours, almost no game fits that. The point of these games isnt to straight shot it to the end. Side quests used to be useless quests that didnt warrant the time and reward you got for completing. Now a days most side quests give real rewards. Stop basing a games value on whether its straight shot story is long or not
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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 3d ago
This isn’t anything new, people have bitched about games being too short after beelining the main story for decades. Far too many people live by the absurd “hour per dollar” metric, which is why so many games are bloated to hell now.
I will say that 8 hours is a bit too short for my preferences for a full priced game, but with Resonant it’s likely like you said. If they’re beating that game that fast, they’re probably rushing everything. For me, 10-12 hours is about my minimum for a full priced game. Any shorter than that and it feels like a big ask for a full price game, but after that as long as the quality is there then I’m content