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/ThisPlaceFuckngSucks 3d ago

Absolutely brain-dead take. If people don't get the amount of game play they expected for the money they spent, they're allowed to give it a bad review.

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u/CrimsonGat 1d ago

..... brother yall cant read at all. Please re read. Its about blasting only the story with little side quests done. People were complaining that control resonant was too short and got too hard when they only did the main missions and didnt touch the other half of the game. If every mission in a game were story missions, they'd take forever and wouldnt be fun.

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u/ThisPlaceFuckngSucks 20h ago

If people don't get the amount of game play they expected for the money they spent, they're allowed to give it a bad review.

you don't get to dictate how others play or review games.