Is it just me...

[Guitar Woman]

...or are videogames one hell of a lot shorter these days? I finally decided to catch up with the times and rent some current gen games (Enter the Matrix and True Crime: Streets of LA), and man were they short. I beat each of them in less than 24 hours and managed to get a decent amount of sleep that same night. Same thing with the splinter cell games. What's up with that? Am I just renting all the impossibly short games by some crazy coincidence?

[FS]

Some games nowadays are ridiculously short, but I think it's more the difficulty level which has gone down. As games have become more complex, they've become more about the play experience than the difficulty.

[Emu]

I think it's just that you spend less time looking at a badly rendered ...say, chair, and sit there for twenty minutes wondering what the fuck it's supposed to be.

Example: Faxanadu
http://www.neshq.com/games/f/faxanadu/800x600-game.gif

What the fuck is that thing on the right? A cliff? A red waterfall? WHO KNOZ

[James]

Just all the wrong games; Nobody should ever play Enter the Matrix.

There are plenty of great games that are fairly lengthy, especially when you take into account replayability and 100% completion. And not every game that's short is bad. God of War is about 8-12 hours long, but it's the best 8-12 hours you'll ever have playing a game.

[Supafly345]

Originally Posted by Emu

Example: Faxanadu
http://www.neshq.com/games/f/faxanadu/800x600-game.gif

What the fuck is that thing on the right? A cliff? A red waterfall? WHO KNOZ

It's a dried up waterfall you numbskull.