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Nintendo, once the greatest games developers with timeless classics such as super mario world, mario 64 and zelda occ. But notice something similar about all of these. They are all 40 hr + epics. Now nintendo decide to make games shorter to produce more and to make them accessible to everyone to finish. My view, 8 hr games a good game does not make. If this doesn't show nintendo making games for little kiddies i don't know what does.
I'd rather play 3 Long, great games, instead of 6, short and boring ones. As strafex said, I'm sure that they will only apply it to multiplayers and such.
You're right. Apparently, Nintendo have gone in for this stupid "short but sweet" policy...
I've been told that they're not applying it to major games like Mario and Zelda though so there's no need to really worry about it.
I think that the only games with an excuse to be short and sweet are multiplayer based games because they don't need long single player modes to keep the player occupied.
And then there's Perfect Dark with both.
I checked the stats today to see how much I'd played it.
Apparently, I've spent 55 hours on the single player missions and over 80 hours in the Combat Simulator!
That's over 135 hours overall on one game (still doesn't beat Pokemon Red's 800 hours though...).
I hope that with the Gamecube version being slowdown free and online playable, it might even double that tally!
I've been told that they're not applying it to major games like Mario and Zelda though so there's no need to really worry about it.
I think that the only games with an excuse to be short and sweet are multiplayer based games because they don't need long single player modes to keep the player occupied.
And then there's Perfect Dark with both.
I checked the stats today to see how much I'd played it.
Apparently, I've spent 55 hours on the single player missions and over 80 hours in the Combat Simulator!
That's over 135 hours overall on one game (still doesn't beat Pokemon Red's 800 hours though...).
I hope that with the Gamecube version being slowdown free and online playable, it might even double that tally!
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Nintendo, once the greatest games developers with timeless classics such as super mario world, mario 64 and zelda occ. But notice something similar about all of these. They are all 40 hr + epics. Now nintendo decide to make games shorter to produce more and to make them accessible to everyone to finish. My view, 8 hr games a good game does not make. If this doesn't show nintendo making games for little kiddies i don't know what does.