How long should a game be?

[mauvais]

ENEMY! MAN!

UNKNOWN! VEHICLE! FAR!

 

[fogbat]

They are a fantastic way of killing time at any age!

Ive lost a couple of days before today, playing the tomb raider games (ps1) and have been glad to do so. Though i tend to go for games that are played online these days like call of duty. (ps3) so lenth of game play has become less important to me. Still like at least 10 hours. Has anyone bought the recent tomb raider games? They went a bit shit on the ps2 in my opinion, was wondering if they had improved of late? X

I've played Tomb Raider Underworld on the XBox 360.

Only paid a fiver for it, which is good as it's really not worth any more

Terrible design, which leave you frequently jogging in mid air because your player model has caught on some tiny, invisible bit of scenery.

Annoying controls.

Awful camera.

Big levels with next to no guidance about where to go - without a walkthrough I'd have thrown the disc out of the window by the second level.


Avoid like the plague.

 

[bmd]

thats just crazy.


dave

Yeah but I am crazy.

The more I think about it the more I realise that that really is my gaming preference. I play multiplayer games but they all have a beginning, middle and an end, like Counterstrike or Left4Dead. I would hate something like Eve Online or just MMORPGs generally.

I loved Turrican as well, upsidedownwalrus, it was ridiculously long but so good that I never got bored of it. James Pond was a bit like that in that there were about a million really long levels. I loved that as well.

 

[starfish]

Used to just play sports & fighting games with mates so the length of the game was unimportant. Then i played FFVII .
So the longer the game the better, unless, like The Wanderers you can go back & redo levels & get things you missed first time round.