Platinum Games Price Comparison

[robthebob11]

To those defending the price by saying it's from Platinum Games and therefore worth it, I have a genuine question for you. No offense to Transformers: Devastation, but aren't Platinum's games usually longer, more complex and a deeper overall experience than this?

I remember Bayonetta being quite a packed game. Howlongtobeat.com places completion averages of Bayonetta (main campaign only) at 11 hours and Bayonetta 2 at 10. Everyone I'm hearing from is saying this game is 3-6 hours tops.

Comparing this for $50 to Bayonetta for $50 (at its original launch price) just drives the absurdity of the price home for me.

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引用自 Reizo Ryuu：

4 hours is really impossible unless you are playing on easy, or are replaying on normal.
I started on hard and afterwards I watched some normal gameplay. The gap of difficulty between these 2 settings is immense:
On normal regular enemies died in 1 combo even with default weapons and devastator only did like 10% damage per hit.
On hard however a hit from devastator does 60% and on v hard it's even 99%. Makes me suspect enemies would die by sneezing in their direction on easy.

Hard took me 13 hours and v hard took me 4 hours for the first two chapters (I lucked out and got an SS dark star saber after chapter 1). The only way I see people rushing through this game or thinking it sucks is if they played it on the easiest setting.
Even normal seems like it would take at least 7 hours for the average player (first playthrough).

The harder difficulties are definitely reserved for when you've maxed the stats on your characters and built up some great A-S weapons.

[Metro]

That people defend this amount of 'content' for a $50 price tag is why most new AAA games are $60 plus another $40 or so in Season Pass DLC. Thanks, guys.

[Sparse Dunes]

引用自 Reizo Ryuu：

4 hours is really impossible unless you are playing on easy, or are replaying on normal.
I started on hard and afterwards I watched some normal gameplay. The gap of difficulty between these 2 settings is immense:
On normal regular enemies died in 1 combo even with default weapons and devastator only did like 10% damage per hit.
On hard however a hit from devastator does 60% and on v hard it's even 99%. Makes me suspect enemies would die by sneezing in their direction on easy.

Hard took me 13 hours and v hard took me 4 hours for the first two chapters (I lucked out and got an SS dark star saber after chapter 1). The only way I see people rushing through this game or thinking it sucks is if they played it on the easiest setting.
Even normal seems like it would take at least 7 hours for the average player (first playthrough).

Yeah the difficulty curve certainy spikes. I might go back into hard now that I have some weapons.

Aside from this though my ony REAL complaint, thus far, is the loot system.

[Chucs_Padina]

引用自 Metro：

That people defend this amount of 'content' for a $50 price tag is why most new AAA games are $60 plus another $40 or so in Season Pass DLC. Thanks, guys.

A 1.5 hour movie costs $20. Also games have cost $50 - $60 since the NES days. Pretty sure your assumption is wrong.

[Chucs_Padina]

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[Broadsword]

It's pretty funny because if I show anyone anything from this game, they're like, "Wow, what game is that? That's pretty cool"

[Kawaii Dude]

It's often hard to juctify the length if you are not a fan of these types of games. They are made for Character Action game fans because they require you to put time and effert into mastering the combat system and enemy attacks. That means lots and lots of Replay value.

That's Platinum's Beliefs, they want you to stick with a game and learn how to play it. Too many gamers today only give a game one try and just move onto the next one.

[Marundo (Mark)]

How is this even an argument here, most of us on Steam probably have over 100 (You can add an extra zero to mine) games, a bunch of stuff we will never play. 50 for however many hours I will play this is a way better value then all of the games I've bought and never booted.

[Meturoido]

6 hours is a tad too short indeed but as many here say, it's a matter of taste and if somebody is really into it they will get more out of those 6 hours than say, an average 100 hours campaign game for half the price.

Too bad this is an Activison published game though, it's gonna take a while for it to fall down in price to something more coherent with the duration.

引用自 Marundo：

How is this even an argument here...

Yeah, it's called tastes and opinions, everybody is entitled to their own.

[Marundo (Mark)]

I agree, opinions are just that, and people are welcome to them, I think some people are going in not knowing what a Platinum game is and are expecting something else, which is fine. It might not be for them.

But I do think it's funny that people have bought a thousand games and complain about a games price to hour ratio when they have spent hundreds of dollars on games they have recieved zero hours of play time.