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What game surprised you with their length? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We know that certain games are big, like BG3 or Persona 5. But recently games like FF7 rebirth and Indiana Jones just kept going on and on past "Act 3". Also Rise of the Golden Idol seemed a little short to me

Are developers getting more efficient with generating content?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can still get short games, you just won't find them from AAA developers anymore because publishers want big games with bigger profits. Titanfall 2 was a great campaign even if short, but Halo 5 was the last short game we had and people threw a shit storm (rightly, it wasn't near the quality of TF2 and had other issues).

If you want short games, the indie space has you covered. Always small games out there releasing.

And game devs have certainly not become inefficient, it's just the standards of quality are higher. People still want more complex, better looking games. And I don't mean just graphics; unique art styles are all the rage. Games like Balatro and Cruelty Squad prove graphics aren't everything as long as you keep a cohesive style and have good gameplay to back it up.

Personally though I avoid small games. I've had my fill of them growing up, I'd rather play big games with open worlds and all that jazz. I want to be invested in these worlds not play and forget.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I agree that AAA developers are the ones typically not making short games, and I agree that I am well-covered by indies. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. FPS games are about the only genre I feel like I used to be well-served in that indies haven't quite picked up yet, so I can't really just "go elsewhere" these days to scratch that itch (but games like Mouse: P.I. for Hire may be the start). But I was really just arguing against the efficiency part. I don't think they've become less efficient at making content, but they've seemingly stayed exactly as efficient and just spent much longer doing it. I don't find that a big open world makes a game any more memorable, especially when it exhibits the negative trends of filler and bloat I mentioned already.