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Yes. I hope in the future there are more games of a similar length to portal & braid. Thats about the maximum I want to play a game. I'm in the middle of GTA4 a

Yes. I hope in the future there are more games of a similar length to portal & braid. Thats about the maximum I want to play a game. I'm in the middle of GTA4 at the moment, and the game is completely fantastic, but I'm getting to the point where I am hoping it will start wrapping up and giving me closure, but I just unlocked the whole map and don't even have all the weapons...

tibbon 16y ago
Some massively long games like GTA really need more 'skip' options available. I've played through the first 25 intro chapters a handful of times (different xbox systems). The first time they were annoying, and the third time they were absolutely tedious. I don't want to hear the long dialogue for a third time. I don't want another 'instructions' mission if I already know how to pick up a gun or deliver a car. Game designers have created this logic that you must do X before you can see Y. If you haven't done X then you don't deserve to see Y. Yes, it can make it 'too easy' if you can skip anything, but I'm the one here making my own entertainment. If I've already read a novel and want to skip a chapter that was boring, I can skip it with the turn of a page. No author tries to stop you from doing that. Same with a movie. Just press Fast Forward.
- Raphael 16y ago
  Exactly. If I have paid for a game, it doesn't make sense to prevent me from accessing large portions of it. At least provide cheat codes to unlock "undeserved" content.
- hugh3 16y ago
  What really bugs me is driving games. I used to enjoy driving games, but nowadays it seems that every driving game wants me to start off by doing dozens of laps in some crappy car to save up enough in-game cash to buy a slightly less crappy car, with which I repeat the process over and over until eventually I've saved up enough to buy the shiny supercar on the game's box which I wanted to drive in the first place. No thanks: been there, done that. If you ask me, the best driving game of all time was Outrun. It plonks you in a Ferrari at the start line of a race, and you drive as far and as fast as you can in the time allotted. The more you play the game, the better you get, and you're rewarded by being able to see more of the world, but it doesn't reward you for just slogging through.

tibbon 16y ago

Some massively long games like GTA really need more 'skip' options available. I've played through the first 25 intro chapters a handful of times (different xbox systems). The first time they were annoying, and the third time they were absolutely tedious. I don't want to hear the long dialogue for a third time. I don't want another 'instructions' mission if I already know how to pick up a gun or deliver a car. Game designers have created this logic that you must do X before you can see Y. If you haven't done X then you don't deserve to see Y. Yes, it can make it 'too easy' if you can skip anything, but I'm the one here making my own entertainment. If I've already read a novel and want to skip a chapter that was boring, I can skip it with the turn of a page. No author tries to stop you from doing that. Same with a movie. Just press Fast Forward.

Raphael 16y ago
Exactly. If I have paid for a game, it doesn't make sense to prevent me from accessing large portions of it. At least provide cheat codes to unlock "undeserved" content.
hugh3 16y ago
What really bugs me is driving games. I used to enjoy driving games, but nowadays it seems that every driving game wants me to start off by doing dozens of laps in some crappy car to save up enough in-game cash to buy a slightly less crappy car, with which I repeat the process over and over until eventually I've saved up enough to buy the shiny supercar on the game's box which I wanted to drive in the first place. No thanks: been there, done that. If you ask me, the best driving game of all time was Outrun. It plonks you in a Ferrari at the start line of a race, and you drive as far and as fast as you can in the time allotted. The more you play the game, the better you get, and you're rewarded by being able to see more of the world, but it doesn't reward you for just slogging through.