i used to complete doom in 3 hours but lol
but yeh i remember games like dungeon keeper and diablo and C&C taking weeks to complete. Even hexen/heretic, spacehulk took a while!
I've only been into gaming for about 14 years of my 19 years on Earth. But what happened to the days when a game would take DAYS to complete. As consumers we should be demanding quality AND quantity for the amount of money we fork out each year.
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Doom and quake the exception.
Commander Keen used to take at least a day.
Games now a days are considered long if they take over 7-8 hours.
Although, me considering that short could just mean I have less of a life than 14 years ago.
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Maybe it's becuase the computers are so much faster now?
Or reduced attention span ?
Then again, I am currently playing Left For Dead 2 and D&D Online.
Both games will take MONTHS or Years to play - though LFD2 will be much of the same, but then, so is Soccer or Cricket etc etc It's not where you are it's what you are doing, and who with...
NFS Shift also takes quite some time to play - It seems to be shooters that are shorter, and as you are always moving and it's always different, it takes a huge amount of effort to make a map that you can run across in game time in less then 5 minutes. Even if it was 20 minutes, 30 maps means only 6 hours of gameplay if you are MOVING fast.
Poor developers
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Super Mario Bros 1 on NES
can crack in 9mins
attempted it again on the wii (can download old nes games) and did it in 15 lol
Sure, we dont have to worry about viking raids or scurvy anymore, but instead we make a daily routine of sitting in flimsy, fibreglass (or metal) boxes full of gasoline which are propelled in opposing directions on the freeway at velocities matching that of low flying aircraft.
This is a roundabout way of saying that cars are dangerous....
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Sure, we dont have to worry about viking raids or scurvy anymore, but instead we make a daily routine of sitting in flimsy, fibreglass (or metal) boxes full of gasoline which are propelled in opposing directions on the freeway at velocities matching that of low flying aircraft.
This is a roundabout way of saying that cars are dangerous....
used to take me days to complete jeep command and/or choplifter on my old C64 - and that was about 23 years ago... mostly due to load times..
now that takes me back..
The old Amiga500 games were the best, the likes of Flashback, Dragon's Lair etc...
The old Bubble Bobble was also great with some beers/cones & a group of mates...
I actually downloaded an Amiga emul couple of months ago with a few roms & it worked great, found an old classic game called 'Persian Gulf Inferno', has the alaba achmeds yelling thru it, great shotgun sounds...
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