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This game scared the crap out of me as a kid. I'm surprised it didn't break sales records. lul #horror
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Doom 3 is pretty scary too in the beginning, but once you become a beefcake with tons of weapons the threat of danger kind of leaves the game.
Can't wait to play DS: Extraction, and can't wait for DS2 either. #horror
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But - who knows? - maybe that Silent Hill remake will not completely shatter our memories and Alan Wake will manage to both get released and not blow...
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Is it any good? #horror
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Then you didn't play Left 4 Dead the first two weeks the game was out with three other people who were as clueless about where to go and what to do as you were.
Until we got it down to a science and made it routine, running and gunning through the levels, it was scary as FUCK and it was not uncommon to hear your friends scream like little girls into the headsets or panicked 'Save me save me save me save me!' as a hunter was eating you. #horror
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"GAME IS ONLY 8-13 HOURS... RENTAL" don't be so ridiculous. How long does the original Mario take you? 15 minutes? How the hell does time have to do with whether you should own a game or not? I suppose if you knew how to write a sentence explaining all your points, you could have avoided making it look like your #1 reason for it being a rental is time. The definition of a rental is a game that isn't worthy of being in a collection. Not because it's eight hours long. Think of how many games you've played and own that aren't even five hours long. Oh wait, that's right, by your standards that'd be none. Maybe writing reviews just isn't for you. Maybe your next one can have a paragraph about how the prices and length of movies are comparable to games in some way that you come up with.
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Man, I tell you, sometimes on my first trek through a game today takes hours and hours, since I like to explore every nook and cranny. On a second play through, I usually think, man, what the hell took so long? Throwing caution to the wind and just playing usually speeds that up in a lot of slower paced games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted:DF. I sunk many hours into my first play of Dead Space and BioShock, and on subsequent play throughs finished em up pretty fast. All those games are certainly worth owning. Heavenly Sword gets a lot of complaints about length, but it was the perfect length, and a great experience. Reminiscent of days of old, like Ninja Gaiden.
The only games that should require many hours are RPG games, but what can you say about that? Grinding, farming, starting off weak and working to godhood. Sometimes it becomes extreme repetition, especially when you have to work off weak enemies before you can tackle stronger ones. None of that truly makes sense in other types of games, action games where the main character is already skilled and should beat ass without thinking of it, or survival horror on a second play through when the fear and ignorance of what will come is no longer a factor.
What should qualify as a rental is a game the reviewer is on the fence about. A game that has problems, yet is still found enjoyable, one you should decide whether or not you can tolerate its faults enough to purchase or just say nay. Length should never be a factor. #saw
10/30/09
Games in the past were very short, for sure, but they were also much more replayable than most games these days. If you can get the full experience of a game in less than 10 hours, why would you pay full price? Especially if the game, like this one, isn't very good to begin with.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a game that, while short, I could still see having in ones collection simply because its a well put together game and I could see replaying it sometime down the road. Saw? I just don't see it having much in the way of making me want to replay it.
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I'm also a firm believer that 30 hours is the best time spot for an RPG as well, but I seem to be in the minority in every aspect. Oh well. #saw
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It's when games try to be long for the sake of being long that I have issue with. Most RPGs are guilty of this - forced grinding, fetch quests and other silliness is bringing the genre down, all because they want to put "80+ hours of gameplay!" on the box. Many other games are guilty of this as well, and from what this review says in the "Repetition" section, I'd say this is one of them.
In fact, I'd say Repetition is the sign of a game forcing length. A game can't be repetitious if you are always doing something new, and the best way of padding out a game is to make the player do the same crap over and over again. #saw
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I'd rather take 50 hours of great content than 8 hours of sub-par content.
Not all games are created equally. A good developer can make great things happen, even when it is spread out over a long period of time. A bad developer won't be able to do much, even with just a quick-burst game.
For an example, put Metal Gear Solid against Terminator: Salvation.
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Heh... saw Saw... I'm never gonna see Saw either...
heh... see Saw...
I'm sure someone will say, "I see what you did there..." but maybe they'll say, "I Saw what you did there..."
Okay, I'll stop. #saw
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The second one was gratuitous trash, and I gave up on the franchise at that point. I did see the fifth, because I was working at a movie theater at the time, and we watched it at our halloween party. It was also terrible. #saw
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I feel like i missed a joke and/or announcement..? #saw
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Best part of the review by far! #saw
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