Only 8 hours?

[IncCapybara]

I've seen some playthroughs of the game and it seems to not have very much content at all... For the price they're charging, 8 hours seems ridiculously short. Gets me thinking about the season pass; will they add like, one or two hours of content for half the game's price? Hell, on my internet it takes more time to download the game than to finish it.

[AuroraBorealisNo]

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https://youtu.be/ExYnfKY1yqQ?t=2h58m19s
The beloved Ray 'Brownman' beat this game in 7 hours.

Where I live, thats almost 10 euros an hour. But he didn't get all the collectibles, so that could add another 3 hours to that. Also, he played on Normal.

From what I've seen, this game looks great but you can tell it was rushed near the end.

Like on the boat where you get ontop of a elevator and open the hetch. I noticed that there was not animation for opening it, while there were always animations for basicly everything.

The areas near the end are also shorter than the house at the beginning. Made my wonder why they bothered making all those assests for it, if the player doesn't spent that much time over there. i'm mainly talk about the mine in this case.

PS Not specifically berating you, Basse, just sick to death of seeing that word :D

I say beat, only because americans say it like that. In holland we say we 'finished' it, as in we got through the game, which makes more sense.

Beating a game is something fomr the early 90's when games were actually hard to get through.

[Aryend]

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And that, ladys and gentlemen, is how we get games where the unmeaningful filler content and fetch quests outweight the qualiy content.
To be fair, 10 hours seems like a good duration, specially if there's decent replayability, which seems to be the case with RE7 and all the changes made in madhouse difficulty. To be honest I never beat Alien Isolation becouse at a point I just feel like the game drags on way to long.

Well said. I personally adore Alien: Isolation and have played it three times to date, but I fully understand anyone saying they think it's a bit on the long side. I'd say about a fifth too long...I could happily lose a fifth of the playtime. This obsession people have with super-long games is truly tiresome.

Agreed, I still like Alien Isolation a lot, it's just that at times it feels too dragged out, and the first 1-2 hours you spend running around until the Alien finally pops up are also pretty dull imo... It feels like the game could have benefited from beeing better paced and more concise.
Doom is a great example of why games don't have to be all that long, think I finished the campaign in around 15-17 hours (including a fair ammount of replaying levels searching for secrets, guess the normal playthrough would be around 11h) and I don't think the game should be any longer. If it was longer I can see the game getting repetitive, becouse as it is the pacing is just right. The duration feels adequate and if after beating it you want more there's a decent ammount of replayabilty with all the secrets, hidden levels, different difficulty settings and arcade mode. Not every game need to be 30+ hours.

[rjmacready]

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PS Not specifically berating you, Basse, just sick to death of seeing that word :D

I say beat, only because americans say it like that. In holland we say we 'finished' it, as in we got through the game, which makes more sense.

Beating a game is something fomr the early 90's when games were actually hard to get through.

Haha, fair comment.

[[U.S.M.]HunkUmbrella]

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Recent game character, lol, Hunk appeared in Re 2 in 1998 in 4th survivor mode, kid, I finished the game in a 6 hours without a savegame, because of the error in regedit for Leon.
Actually game had 4 different scenarios to regame (2 for Leon, 2 Claire, plus some game modes)
I bet you dont know anything even about Rockfort Island and Ashford family facility.
5 hours - is average time, people need to shot a full walkthrough on youtube, check it, youll find that even those who examine every item spends from 5 to 6 hours.
Also you can rely on another statistics, people were examine everything - https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=38051
average 8h 26m medium 8h 13m rushed 6h 57m leisure 10h 09m

I am not talking about rushing or not actually, or game style you need to play, how much time you may explore location - it is own player business, if you take my time I spent regaming old resident evil series, outbreaks and remakes it will take for years hours spent there, but there is a location limitation that is in game, game devs from beginning of game creation set the average game hours from 8 to 10 hours and people proved that you can beat it in less then 8 hours without rushing - reading all mails, watching all materials, collect all collectibles. The case and problem is that you got 8 to 10 hours (or even less) a room shooter, highly scripted game with VR support only for PS4 only, that plays only 10 percent of people who bought it, then why 65 bucks price then!? Get It?

Kid? Haha, I'm 43, dude. And I don't do "survivor modes" generally, so may be why I missed him the first time 'round.

Apparently I must live in a space-time vacuum, because I took much longer to look around lots and complete it. It being RE7. We were talking about RE7, weren't we? I'm confused now, with you quoting me RE2 times...

I've played every RE game except the Wii ones. Even the Survivor games, and well...some of the Outbreak games (which lost my interest as a single player after a while). So yes, definitely played Code Veronica (several times).

Seriously, which RE game are you talking about with all these times? You jump all over the place, man, I can't keep up. Stick to one topic at a time, please...

Even if you dont played 4th survivor, Hunk - is seen in cinematics in Re 2 and is in messages and stuff letters.

[rjmacready]

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Kid? Haha, I'm 43, dude. And I don't do "survivor modes" generally, so may be why I missed him the first time 'round.

Apparently I must live in a space-time vacuum, because I took much longer to look around lots and complete it. It being RE7. We were talking about RE7, weren't we? I'm confused now, with you quoting me RE2 times...

I've played every RE game except the Wii ones. Even the Survivor games, and well...some of the Outbreak games (which lost my interest as a single player after a while). So yes, definitely played Code Veronica (several times).

Seriously, which RE game are you talking about with all these times? You jump all over the place, man, I can't keep up. Stick to one topic at a time, please...

Even if you dont played 4th survivor, Hunk - is seen in cinematics in Re 2 and is in messages and stuff letters.

Okay, all good. We've established that I don't take the so-called "characters" of the RE universe quite as seriously as yourself. I mostly just refer to them as "cardboard cut-out character #16", so I'm obviously not going to remember my Hunks from my Jakes and whatnot.

Anyway, we've established that "boss" players like yourself can play the game in five hours on first play, and 'tards like myself take way over ten. I'm tired of this line of argument, frankly, and only care about debating the question of why games need to be 44 hours long anyway.

I choose quality over quantity. All you indiscriminate mouse-mashers can have your overlong, super-repetitive games and beat them in as short a time as you want/claim. All I ever really cared about was an experience, be it a forty minute album, a two hour movie, or a five hour game. Clearly, my life only gets shorter arguing with people whose values in life have very little resemblance to my own. Enjoy your life whatever you wanna do with it, man. I got games to play and other art forms to experience, in my own way and at my own speed. Peace ;)

[Len's]

is crazy how post are made by non customer

[Kyle B]

its aboout 10 hrs I would get the game when its on sale

[MRKitano]

The game is meant to be replayed and finishing this one quickly is actually encouraged as soon as you're finished exploring at your leisure (just like the first games in the series actually).

A game isn't a movie, it doesn't have a running time.
You get out of a game as much as you want. It's not a passive experience.

But this is the fault of gaming "journalism" (I call them media/commercial outlets these days with zero research involved) and video let's plays.

[Syynx]

I'll take an exciting short game over a boring long game any day. Fallout 4 is long, sure, but it's boring and clunky as ♥♥♥♥. Portal was only 4 hours long and I consider it one of the best games I've ever played.