Research that stopped you from getting a game.

[hazabaza1]

You hear about Metal Gear Rising? Fun little hack'n'slash with a cyborg ninja? Sounds pretty cool, and I was about to go order it from Amazon after trying the demo and having a bunch of fun. I knew it'd probably be short, but you don't expect massive length from an action game
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Then I decided to search "metal gear rising all cutscenes" to see how much of the game it is. Turns out there's about 2 full hours of cutscenes. What.

If it's a big long 20 hour epic or something, or hell, even 10 hours I could understand having that many cutscenes, but people are saying that including cutscenes the game takes about 6 hours to beat. I know it's made for replayability but jesus really? 4 hours on an average run? Apparently it can be finished even quicker according to some websites. It's not even just that there's so many cutscenes that bother me, it just seems like the gameplay would be massively diluted and there'd be a massive separation between gameplay and cutscene segments.
Hell, I don't know if those videos include the "you're doing gameplay but it's slowly walking listening to the codec" bits. Does that mean there's even less actual gameplay?

So yeah, needless to say, I'm going to wait until Rising is budget priced. Any other experiences like this?

 

[hazabaza1]

You've never played a Metal Gear game before have you?

Seen Let's Plays, and I knew they had big ol' cutscenes but since this was more of a Platinum thing than a Kojima thing I thought it wouldn't be as extensive.

 

[Auron]

I only played MGS, I didn't drag cutscenes that much I think, not certain of size. I actually won revengeance in a goddamn site promotion and been trying to sell it lol. No investment in the series since the PS1.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Eh, the game doesn't need to be long, it's meant to be replayed on the higher difficulties.

I personally love the game, it offers that special level of camp that only Platinum Games can do

 

[Scrustle]

You're really missing out on a whole lot with MGR if a lot of cutscenes are putting you off. The gameplay is fantastic. The game isn't even as short as people say it is. For one thing, the game length counter doesn't include cutscenes, and you can get way more time out of the game if you explore environments and listen to even a moderate number of codec conversations. My first playthrough was almost exactly 8 hours.

That's not even mentioning putting it on to a difficulty that's actually a decent challenge, and multiple playthroughs of the game, which it is designed for.

It's still a "short" game, but it more than makes up for it in quality. Definitely worth the asking price.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Naughty Bear. The trailer made it look like a fun, teddy bear torture simulator. Then I looked up reviews and found out it was supposedly buggy, repetitive, and not very fun. I didn't buy it.

 

[Vern5]

Mass Effect 3.

I need Origin to play? Hmm... I'm hearing a lot about Origin sucking a big fat one. And what's this? The endings are complete ass? Oh, apparently the devs fixed it. Wait they didn't get rid of the child-AI and stuff. How did they fix things? I think I'll just wait until disaster strikes EA and all of their products appear on Steam.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Well was going to get Injustice Gods among us as despite not being a huge fan of Mortal Kombat overall I liked the story and challenge modes they put in MK9 (just not the fighting and art style). From the Demo I have played and and what I have seen its basically more of the same good breadth of content ok combat marred by stiff animations and some ugly as hell character models almost as bad as SFIV in some cases.

They also are not including Lady Shiva it seems who is the only character I would have bought the game straight away for plus I hear there is 4 or 6 DLC characters coming so basically I am waiting until they re-release with all the actual content included like they did with MK9 and when that hits a decent price I will buy it unless ofc the aforementioned Lady Shiva is in it then it will be day one.

On a similar note I also delayed buying MVC3 because Psylocke wasnt in it and it was a good job as they then bought out UMVC3 but that didnt have Psylocke either dammit I eventually got it when it hit 15 pounds. I like fighting games but when it draws from established IPs like these games I always look for my favourite characters and if they are not included I get disapointed and usually end up leaving the game on the shelves for quite a while. Especially in Psylockes case as she is my favourite comic book character of all time and the sole reason I am considering the new Deadpool game, how much she is in it will hugely influence my decision to buy that game.

 

[Tom_green_day]

The Last of Us. Looked amazing, but the developers seemed to be boasting about a 12 hour campaign. Only 12 hours? Games used to last me about 40 hours without replays, what is the industry turning into when 12 hour campaigns are considered long? It doesn't matter about quality, each Mass Effect game I spent around 35 hours on and they have great campaigns.
Preparing for the inevitable shitstorm where I get called entitled and brattish...

 

[porous_shield]

I've played all the GTA games, even the early games, and thought about getting GTA IV for the PC but apparently the game plays like ass no matter your settings. I imagine there are workaround but I just don't want to deal with it.

Bioshcok Infinite. Enjoyed the other Bioshock games but the more I read about the combat the less I want to experience the story. Two weapon limit, shields, and checkpoints just aren't my cup of tea.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

Brutal Legend.

Initially, I was really excited about the game - then I did a little research into it and found that it was nothing like the trailer.

It's more of a strategy game, which is nice, but not what I wanted.

I'm sure there are other examples, but my brain is frazzled and I can't think of them right now. ouo

 

[soren7550]

The only thing for games that I can think of is the Omega DLC for Mass Effect 3. Buggy, unfinished in parts, short, and outside of one line with Aria, no one ever mentions the events of Omega. So I'll wait until there's a price drop before I pick it up.

Capatcha: bacon and eggs
I could go for some right now.

 

[blindthrall]

I always research DLC, and that's why I didn't get Leviathan. Not gonna pay for stuff they should have told us in the main game.

And the more I looked into Blizzard's latest, Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2, the less I liked. Never going to get Diablo 3, only want Starcraft as a bundle of all three sides.

Black Ops 2. Surprisingly enjoyed the first, but really dated graphics and short trite campaign turned me right off that one.

 

[vid87]

"Oh hi there *censored friend's name*. I see you're playing Pokemon Black. Y'know, I've been thinking of getting back into the series and heard this was really good. Would you mind terribly if I played for a minute? Thanks!"

*Sees Pokemon based on: trash bags, ice cream cones, muscle-thing whose evolution involves holding different steel girders*

"....the hell is this?"

 

[josemlopes]

Black Ops 2. Surprisingly enjoyed the first, but really dated graphics and short trite campaign turned me right off that one.

Weird, Black Ops 2 is probably about the same lenght and that one is made to be replayed with the multiple endings and stuff so it ends up giving you a lot more for the single-player. The graphics are the typical COD graphics although the faces seem to look better.

There are also a lot of things to play with in the multiplayer with bots and stuff if you dont want to go online. I just find it weird that your complaints are about the only stuff that they actually seemed to improve lol.

OT: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, played the demo and loved the characters but the gameplay was kind of meh so I searched online to see how long the game was and if it managed to keep things interesting.

After the first few chapters in the city the story seemded to loose some steam and after watching a walkthrough on youtube it really does. Those first chapters are great though, the character interaction is really good.