Too short

[Mogard]

Is it just me or is this game a bit short. Kinda reminds me of heavenly sword. I beat this game in an eavening. fun though!

[CursedPanther]

Agreed.

Presumably it's because this game focuses primarily in hand-to-hand combat gameplay and not an RPG type of game. The CoD series' campaigns suffer in a similar way, it's impossible to justify tens of hours of shooting while events are theoretically progressing onwards and without being ridiculously repetitive at the same time. Unlike multiplayer mode, players are practically reliving the same instances over and over again, with slightly different potential outcomes.

[Mogard]

agreed but for that reason I don't play multi player games. No matter how you do it, it's always the same ♥♥♥♥. I just keep playing the same games over again.

[The_Pastmaster]

How short is "too short"? ( <--- Never played it.)

[Mogard]

I beat the game in 8 hours. Hence the.....too short.

[^7ja^1co]

Originally posted by Mogue:

I beat the game in 8 hours. Hence the.....too short.

I have yet to buy the game (i have almost 1000 games on steam, so no rush, waiting for price drop).
I really want it cause I love anything related to roman times in games, i was worried You are going to say 4-5h, but 8 h sounds pretty decent. Yeah agree, i wish this had more, perhaps if the game was more like borderlands set in different times. Nevertheless, nice looking slasher in great setting that will take 8h is pretty ok for me.

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:

Originally posted by Mogue:

I beat the game in 8 hours. Hence the.....too short.

I have yet to buy the game (i have almost 1000 games on steam, so no rush, waiting for price drop).
I really want it cause I love anything related to roman times in games, i was worried You are going to say 4-5h, but 8 h sounds pretty decent. Yeah agree, i wish this had more, perhaps if the game was more like borderlands set in different times. Nevertheless, nice looking slasher in great setting that will take 8h is pretty ok for me.

This game wasn't set in an open-world environment. There could only be so much squished into a linear campaign.

[Mogard]

Regardless of how long it took to complete a play through, I had a blast. I too love Roman stuff. I just couldn't wait for the price to drop. It looked to good and the violence is exquisite. If that is the right word. Really fun game. I actually upgraded my pc just so I could play it. So happy I did. When you play the game you will have a blast.

[I have quit gaming]

In my opinion it's not too short.

The game feels a bit repetitive when you play for a long time, i really liked the game but at the end i've had a feeling that it was doing the same thing over and over again, so overall i think it has a good lenght.

[Coldsmoke]

Too short + no replay value + shallow multiplayer = i regret spending my money on this

[^7ja^1co]

Originally posted by Coldsmoke:

Too short + no replay value + shallow multiplayer = i regret spending my money on this

That's why it is sometimes worth waiting a while, either for a review, price drop, patch...i learned the hard way long time ago :)

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:

Originally posted by Coldsmoke:

Too short + no replay value + shallow multiplayer = i regret spending my money on this

That's why it is sometimes worth waiting a while, either for a review, price drop, patch...i learned the hard way long time ago :)

Ryse was released on XB1 over a year ago. Surely there has been more than enough time to make a proper decision.

[Coldsmoke]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Ryse was released on XB1 over a year ago. Surely there has been more than enough time to make a proper decision.

I like how you question if I made a proper decision or not based on nothing. I already researched it and thought I would like it enough to make up for the shallow gameplay.

You can stop assuming things for no reason.

[Mogard]

The game is extremely repetetive, that's for sure. But it's still a fun game. I did beat the game in one play through my first time but it did feel like a really long night. Some games you can play all night and it feels like only a couple of hours, like no time had passed at all. Usually I would use that as a gauge for how much fun I'm having but it really wasn't the case for this game. Yes there were times when I got a little frustrated but I think that is normal. Still the continual blood bath had me rapt. The game may not be worth what was asked for it, but if you like the setting it is in and you like mindless gratuitous bloody violence now and again then maybe it's worth spending the money. Sometimes short adventures are more exciting than the long ones even though we wished it could have lasted longer.

[^7ja^1co]

I am hoping they will learn from this one and perhaps do a sequel, that will be more borderlands like, with some in depth RPG elements, that would make my day :)

[Good Cossutius]

It was quick but very fun, the visuals were astounding! I still have fun with the arena mode though :D