Comments on: Borderlands: 100Hrs Long, Slight Delay

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By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:35:52 +0000

Did you not read my earlier post? Or did you not quite get it?

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:51:53 +0000

a 100 hour game is easily digestable. look how popular multiplayer games are. look how many hours people have thrown into mmos, and multiplayer shooters and rts games.

Easily easily digestable. Because they are indefinately replayable. Just like borderlands is aiming to be.

Just because it took him 100 hours, doesnt mean it will take everyone that long either. i personally like to explore every inch of a game.

Take fallout 3 for example. you can play through that game in a matter of hours, but if you go out and explore and do other stuff, that could turn into well over 100.

By: Shnyker

Shnyker — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:45:41 +0000

I clicked because of the cleavage. And the borderlands.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:04:19 +0000

What doesn’t make sense exactly? You’ve just admitted that you wouldn’t sit through a 10 hour movie. Because 10 hours isn’t a digestible chunk of entertainment. My point exactly. You wouldn’t listen to a music track that lasted for 16 hours, nor would you read a 50,000 page book would you?

A 100 hour game isn’t a digestible length for most people with commitments and given the gamer demographic is between 25 – 35 I’d say most gamers do have commitments. Now I’m not arguing for 7 hour games, or do I give a shit about paying full price (whatever that has to do with it tbh) but 30 – 40 hours is a good median to aim for in terms of game length. For me if I’m lucky I might get 10 -15 hours gaming in a week, so if I can complete a game in 2 – 3 weeks, enjoy the experience and have the satisfaction of having finished it so I can free myself up to play even more games, guess what? I’m golden.

Also the shorter the game length generally the tighter the experience. A 100 hour game is going to rely heavily on the formulaic situations far more than a 10, 20 or 30 hour game.

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:36:59 +0000

kadayi, your examples do not make any sense.

most people dont fill an 80 minute cd. a typical cd has 10-12 songs. song lengths are 3-5 minutes. that doesnt fill a cd. I also dont think anyone has ever complained that there were to many songs on a cd they purchased.

Next up, your movies. 1 of the highest grossing movies ever, lord of the rings. It was divided because you cant expect someone to devote 10 hours at a time to a movie. Most movies are 1-3 hours because that is all that is required to tell the story.

Harry potter? really. They are written as sequels, so that one doesnt make any sense at all. Anynow, harry potter would have been popular regardless.

there is nothing wrong with having long games, and in fact you get more for your money. The great thing about games is that you can go at your own pace and experience as you see fit. You can play it for 30 minutes, or hours. You will eventually finish the game.

The idea of paying full price for a short game is kinda stupid. it is basically devs that are trying to make a quick buck. They realize they can charge an absurd amount of money for just a fraction of what it took them to make previous games.

Sure games can apply to different demographics, just like music, movies, books. Alot of games just try to go the michael bay route, all flash, no substance, and you still payed full price, and then you go play the sequel, that you also payed full price for.

Give me a good meaty game to play for a long time, rather than a Call of duty series game that i will finish in a weekend and never play it again.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:00:14 +0000

No ones saying that long games are less of a game or not experiences, people are merely highlighting the fact that its nice to see a game through to its conclusion, especially when you’ve invested a considerable amount of time into it, especially if you’re a gaming aficionado with a busy life. The average gamer is over 25, not a 15 year old with endless hours of free time.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:57:26 +0000

You clearly don’t get it (sense of achievement isn’t a reference to games alone). No one buys a book with the intention of just reading the first couple of chapters, or buys an album and only listens to the first 4 tracks, or goes to see a film to watch the first half an hour. Nor do the people who write books, record albums and make films expect their audience to do so. With any of those things the the whole is the point. Also why is it that books are a certain size? why are albums long enough to fit on a CD? and why are most mainstream films generally 1.5 – 3 hours long? Is it perhaps because those formats and sizes are comfortably digestible for most people? Do you think Harry Potter would have been as successful as it has been with children if all six books had been released as one single unabridged volume rather than easily digestible bite sized chunks?

By: madned

madned — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:10:24 +0000

100 hr game for months?
at 8 hrs/day you only play for 13 days. :P

who needs a job, family or more than 4 hrs of sleep.
come on, quit being a slacker.

By: Persus-9

Persus-9 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:29:34 +0000

I clicked because I’m interested in Borderlands (sorry to break the combo) but I didn’t notice how weirdly square her elbow is for ages because of the cleavage.

By: Persus-9

Persus-9 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:03:09 +0000

60€? That’s an insane price! You’d be far better off importing it at that price. Shopto.net ship internationally for about 5€ and they’re doing pre-orders of this for 25€ so that would be half the price.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:14:11 +0000

Time doesn’t even exist, anyway. Oh the futility and confusion of our posts.