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Is Halo a better game than World of Goo? Personally, I probably enjoyed WoG better, but I haven’t finished either game, so I have no idea which is longest. Clearly, game length didn’t vaguely factor in for me. And That doesn’t put me in some minority either. A huge chunk of gamers never finish games. I’ve been gaming since pong and only ever ‘finished’ 3 games in my entire life. I got bored with Half Life (yes really) and Half Life 2, and Bioshock, and almost any game you care to mention. When I read about how some l33t haxxor ‘finished’ a game in 8 hours, I find it laughable. Imagine bragging about ‘finishing’ war and peace in 2 days. The idea is to enjoy the experience, not race to the end as fast as you can.
Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Aug 18, 2010, 14:32:
That just seems silly to me. If a game is so bad or annoying that I have no desire to finish it, that's a perfectly valid and informed opinion. Plus, I don't have to play shite to completion, making my life more pleasant.
There's a lot of apologists on the Internet who always insist that a game only hits it stride at some imaginary gameplay length. In some cases maybe a good game becomes a great game or etc but for the most part I find it a convenient fanboy parachute more than anything else. FFXIII is a good example of that. As if the gameplay changing at the 20+ hour mark somehow excuses the previous hour upon hour of corridor based snoozefest with poor characterization and a story best described as convoluted.
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