I brought up my quake and doom to back up my point that games used to be longer and less expensive. I don't see any hypocrisy. Back in the early 90s and even thourh the late 90s games on average (imo) were longer. Even crysis was shorter than farcry by about 3 hours for me.
You cannot make a blanket statement that games used to be longer, its ignorant to do so. There are plenty of long games today. Yes, games used to be cheaper. But since you cant grasp the concept of the fact that games have not gone up in price like most every other form of entertainment, or things in our daily life, you dont get the point.
Its hypocrisy, using Quake and Doom as an example, then saying that Oblivion is too old to be used as one.
There are also older nintendo , super nintendo and others that are longer than modern day gaeams. Mario 3 is much longer than mario galaxy's even if you include searching for every star in the game. Heck call of duty 2 was longer than call of duty 4 single player and the multiplayer was top notch at the time.
Wrong again. You can find very long games, all over the place today. Once again, making a blanket statement that games from years past are older, is ignorant.
you can argue that game prices have come down. I bought mario 64 for $70 and smash broes for $90 . However in the last 20 years we have gone from expensive rom carts to cheap discs . We have gone from long exerpiances to shorter ones.
Hows that movie price? Hows that arcade game price? Hows that roller skating price? The
fact is that prices have gone up. You cant expect game prices to stay the same, when prices have soared to make them, and most every other form of entertainment has gone up a lot more, percentage wise. Care to take a guess at the movie prices of 20 years ago? Compare that to days prices, and you'll see it has risen much more. Either you can admit that, or not. But its a fact.
Meh , I know that over the last 2 generations i have bought less and less games because there is less value in all of them. Look at heavenly sword. You can beat it in 6 hours and they charge 60 bucks for it. For me games have gone up $10 bucks since the ps1 and saturn days of buying games while the amount of time required to beat them has gone down.
Then I hope you have gone to see less and less movie, not gone to theme parks, been to a zoo, etc. Because they have all gone up a lot more than games.
I wouldnt say 6 hours for HS, took me around 9. Sure I could have rushed thru it, but I didnt. And you could beat it in 6 hours, if that was your only goal. Guess what, you can beat SMB in under 6 minutes.
And again (how you cant understand this I dont know) you cant make a blanket statement that games in the past, are longer than current games. There are
plenty of games that are long. Mass Effect is pretty long, FF Tactics is long, the list goes on and on. Not to mention, that with a lot of games, there is multiplayer of the internet. Which was not available with previous systems, that you mentioned. Which adds hours upon hours of gameplay. You could play Gears of War, Halo, COD4, TF2, etc as long as you wanted to.
In fact, in todays console world, not only can you play online, but you can also get downloaded material that gives you extra play time in games. New maps, new characters, etc. Play Ridger Racer on the PS1, you get only whats on the disc. Play it on the PSP/PS3, you get new tracks, that lengthen play time. This is the case with many games.
So for the last time, your statement that games were longer in the past, is ignorant, and wrong. Its really as simple as that.
