Snatcher said:
But the best games are yet to come like Hitman: Asolution for example.
I was actually going to pre-order hitman absolution yesterday, but then right before i was about to get it, i decided to look up gameplay on youtube in case the game was leaked early and there was footage of it on youtube. And there was, so i watched it.
Honestly, it doesn't look too good now. Not terrible, but nowhere near as good as blood money.
There's 20 chapters, but it's actually more like 13 or 14, because there's 4 chapters that are literally about 30 seconds long (one of which it seems like you can't do anything but walk around in), one that's just a level where you have to test your shooting skills at a shooting range (no really, that's the only thing you do in that chapter) and two that are basically just entirely tutorial missions. The other chapters for the most part only seen to be about on average 10 minutes long.
The amount of actual chapters that you really have freedom in, that actually have replayability, is pretty much exactly the same as blood money, so there's not actually any extra levels compared to blood money.
It was also very heavy on the cutscenes, like the cutscenes on some levels were longer than the actual gameplay for the levels.
The AI also seems to be actually worse than blood money. I know that blood money's AI wasn't exactly perfect because you could get away with stupid things like making loud noises and then people not even noticing, but it seems to be even worse in absolution. I saw 2 occasions just in one video where the player shot a police officer with 4 other people in the same room, and nobody even noticed the body even though it was out in the open, and another occasion where the player started an all-out gunfight (with no silencers) with like 5 or 6 guards, but then 4 people who were in the SAME ROOM didn't even notice anything had gone on, and let 47 just stroll on by.
Also i know i've mentioned lens flare quite a bit in this thread, but it seemed to be so overused in absolution that i just couldn't tell what was going on half of the time, and the player seemed to have difficulty too in some parts with it.
Pulse said:
Or maybe they cost more now, so you have a smaller selection.
The games were also generally shorter back then so you get through more of them and play a wider variety of games.
Add that to the fact that you usually have less time to play video games as you get older. Means your list will be past heavy, you're even including game-boy games.
The price of a game usually hasn't put me off buying it, if i think i'll like it at all then i usually get it. I've played probably over 100 games that have been released in the last few years, on every platform apart from the PSP.
As for the games being shorter back then.. i don't really remember ever being done with a game back then after just a day or two. For example i can remember playing nothing but spyro 2 for like weeks, and i still didn't ever complete it.
Actually, games seem to be getting shorter these days, but with some exceptions.
For example, a few days ago i started playing dungeon keeper 2 for the first time.
I've had xfire running for probably the entire time i've been playing it, and so far i've been playing it for about 24 hours. I'm not even half way through my first playthrough yet.
I've also played zoo tycoon 2 for about 35 hours and rollercoaster tycoon 2 for 24 hours, and only got through some of the campaign missions on both games.
In comparison, i'm going to look at some games i've played that have come out in the last few years on steam, which i've completed:
Duke nukem forever took me about 20 hours to complete, and i probably could have completed it in about 15 hours if the level design was a little better and the bosses wouldn't have killed me so often.
Payday: the heist i completed in 15 hours.
Portal i completed in about 18 hours.
The walking dead, the last episode hasn't come out yet but so far i have 26 hours, so i'll have probably have completed that in 30 or 32 hours.
Battlefield: bad company 2, completed the singleplayer campaign in 20 hours (+ broke my mouse while playing it..)
Half life 2: 33 hours for it, but i completed it fully twice now and i played halfway through it a third time.
As for episodes 1 and 2, i got 35 hours for episode 1 which i completed fully 3 times, and 37 hours for episode 2 which i completed fully twice and half completed a third time.
I could go on, but i'm sure you get what i'm talking about.
As for not having enough time now..
Not really, i still have plenty of free time, probably not so much in a few years' time, but at the moment i still have full days where i'm not doing anything.
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