ne1butu
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I did RE7 in about 6-7 hours normal non rushed play through. It isn’t a long game at all
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There's nothing worse than a good game that just doesn't know when to end
Kerotan
Member
I was given the complete edition on disc a few years ago but no point starting it until the PS5 version comes out.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Game still looks fantastic, but at this point I agree. Wait for the upgrades.
jshackles
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I saw the thread title, and immediately thought of Tales of Arise. Was going to post in here about that game, but it turns out that's what prompted the OP in the first place.
So... Tales of Arise, the thread.
So... Tales of Arise, the thread.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Most of them.
gela94
Member
I'm glad nobody cares about your opinion! I like my JRPGS long!!!
drotahorror
Member
How's the DLC? Should I just stop what I'm doing and go right to the DLC to freshen things up?
Simpkin92
Member
This is the reason I haven’t played any of their recent entries. I hate padding
Lucifers Beard
Member
Didn’t finish RE7 for that very reason. It was good but just fucking end at a reasonable point.
MacReady13
Member
Should've been an hour shorter, if not more.
Nico_D
Member
I hate fake endings but didn't feel like The Witcher 3 had the problem. The pacing was a bit off mid-game but not the end.
I did a couple missions of act 3 until it felt like everything was a little calmer, did the DLC, then came back to wrap up the story.
there were a couple of weird dialogue moments, but it broke things up nicely.
iorek21
Member
Red Dead Redemption 2
Alien Isolation
TLOU2
Hades (with its grind to get to the epilogue)
AC Valhalla (some mandatory story arcs should’ve been optional)
Oddly enough, Persona 5 Royal’s 120h runtime didn’t bother me at all. Probably because it’s a more passive experience with all its dialogues and story stuff; made the experience less demanding.
Alien Isolation
TLOU2
Hades (with its grind to get to the epilogue)
AC Valhalla (some mandatory story arcs should’ve been optional)
Oddly enough, Persona 5 Royal’s 120h runtime didn’t bother me at all. Probably because it’s a more passive experience with all its dialogues and story stuff; made the experience less demanding.
dorkimoe
Member
Far cry as well
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Agree with OP. Pacing is key and especially lately I‘ve played too many games felt like they are finished and then dragged on nevertheless. Like:
- TLOU 2
- Alien Isolation
- RDR 1+2
- Far Cry 3
I have no problems with longer games and all of the above would have been fine with they playtime but it‘s such a bore when you are given the feeling that the story is at an end but then it goes like…. But hold on, there is more. Destroys the whole game. Movies do that too some times. I mean, I really love Casino Royale for instance but the whole final scene in Italy feels tacked on... If there is more to the story, fine, but tell it kn a different way then.
- TLOU 2
- Alien Isolation
- RDR 1+2
- Far Cry 3
I have no problems with longer games and all of the above would have been fine with they playtime but it‘s such a bore when you are given the feeling that the story is at an end but then it goes like…. But hold on, there is more. Destroys the whole game. Movies do that too some times. I mean, I really love Casino Royale for instance but the whole final scene in Italy feels tacked on... If there is more to the story, fine, but tell it kn a different way then.
SCB3
Member
When it gets to Novigrad and the bits with Dandelion is where the game starts to drag, its fine after that though
I loved DQ 11, and really would like to play the special edition, but I don't have that much time in my life to replay so much of the same game. The same goes with Persona 5 Royale. I love both, but that's just too much of a time investment for me.
Nico_D
Member
Exactly. I have played the game through twice now and the Dandelion quest line is such a drag.
Kerotan
Member
Yeah bro I'd say its only 6 months away and anyway can't see myself having time for the next 7 or 8 regardless.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Linear games that force cutscenes on the player every 7 minutes are waaaaay worse.
Spaceman292
Banned
I could have punched him more honestly
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Nier Replicant should be in here. Surprised it wasn't mentioned with all the those side quests.
Bragr
Banned
Yeah, this is a problem with too many games. I might be wrong, but I feel like the 360/PS3 generation was better at this.
I have to force myself to finish a lot of games these days and I'm getting real sick of it. Currently trying to finish Assassins Creed Valhalla and it's almost hard to believe how much of that game is fluff.
Edit: I feel like half of the minor objectives in Halo Infinite (rescue squads over and over) are also just padding, it's fine but you could remove it and it means nothing. And the Far Cry games, jesus christ.
I have to force myself to finish a lot of games these days and I'm getting real sick of it. Currently trying to finish Assassins Creed Valhalla and it's almost hard to believe how much of that game is fluff.
Edit: I feel like half of the minor objectives in Halo Infinite (rescue squads over and over) are also just padding, it's fine but you could remove it and it means nothing. And the Far Cry games, jesus christ.
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Bragr
Banned
Yeah, there are 2-3 missions too many in that game, and the cutscene pacing is annoying. It's the sort of game that will give you a cutscene, let you play for 10 minutes, and launch you into another cutscene. You feel trapped in the narrative.
Ulysses 31
Member
Especially if you found out about the requirements to get to the added palace too late and have to restart the story...
Strider Highwind
Banned
Tales of Arise, Last of Us 2, and Ghost of Tsushima are some of my fave games of the past couple years and I felt that way with those 3. I spent the last few hours of all three titles wishing it would just end already.
And it’s not just those 3, but they came to mind(Control was another one actually)…the last Dragon Quest and Ni No Kuni 2 also. All good games I loved, they just needed to wrap that shxt up a bit better imo lol.
And it’s not just those 3, but they came to mind(Control was another one actually)…the last Dragon Quest and Ni No Kuni 2 also. All good games I loved, they just needed to wrap that shxt up a bit better imo lol.
RetroAV
Member
That was my one complaint with Guardians of the Galaxy. Not that the game is bad, but the depth in its design/mechanics is not enough to justify its length. And I don't necessarily believe I would have noticed it as much had the game been shorter. In every other aspect though, it is still one of this year's best!
Jack Videogames
Member
Hear, I'm just leaving Knowhere for the second time and the game is like "Ok, this should be heading to the end now... psych bitch, we're going hunting". I'm 15h in and while I'm having a lot of fun and I feel this is not a bad length at all for an action game, I can see the padding.
For me I experienced this issue with Days Gone. Just when I thought I finished the game (and I enjoyed it immensely), BAM - last chapter out of nowhere, only tangentially related to the main story, undoing plot points that have been there all along, and generally feeling like the 12th season of that show you liked so much during the first two.
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Honey Bunny
Member
JRPG padding the thread
ZywyPL
Banned
That's sadly the issue with most games nowadays, especially AAA ones which aim for the price tag first and foremost and then desperately try to fill the story with something that's more than 3-5h for which no one will be willing to pay 70$.
That's the biggest flaw of modern game development, it takes 5-6 years to make a 70$ game you'll finish once and forget about it, and most likely finish it with a bad impression because of how bad the pacing was or how dragged the whole experience was, or you won't even finish it at all because of it, so the and impression will be that you thrown out 70$ for something that's garbage...
IMO the devs should be making shorter, but much more compelling games that are wrapped up in those 4-5h but are made within just 2 years and cost 20-25$, so that in the same 6 year timeframe you spend the same money but not on just one but three different titles, and ones that are actually great.
This is why I started to love indies so much, because they end up before all the the hype/excitement wears off, so you finish the games with fantastic impression, and hence are more likely going to replay them agan, especially knowing it's just a few hours journey instead of 20, 30, 50, 80 etc. like it is in all those boring-ass open-world walking sims nowadays.
That's the biggest flaw of modern game development, it takes 5-6 years to make a 70$ game you'll finish once and forget about it, and most likely finish it with a bad impression because of how bad the pacing was or how dragged the whole experience was, or you won't even finish it at all because of it, so the and impression will be that you thrown out 70$ for something that's garbage...
IMO the devs should be making shorter, but much more compelling games that are wrapped up in those 4-5h but are made within just 2 years and cost 20-25$, so that in the same 6 year timeframe you spend the same money but not on just one but three different titles, and ones that are actually great.
This is why I started to love indies so much, because they end up before all the the hype/excitement wears off, so you finish the games with fantastic impression, and hence are more likely going to replay them agan, especially knowing it's just a few hours journey instead of 20, 30, 50, 80 etc. like it is in all those boring-ass open-world walking sims nowadays.
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