Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Rushing Through Your Games

"This Game Is Only 10 Hours Long!"

I remember in my youth, I'd buy a game for a hefty price of about 2,500 - 4,000 pesos (60++ dollars), go home and rush through the entire thing in one afternoon. I'd see the end of most Sega Saturn games after around three or five hours of play. And to think that today's gamers complain that games are too short this generation..... ten hours of play is actually quite a lot of time. Anyway, at some point, having used up nearly a fortune in game purchases, and staring at my library of titles, I realized, there must be something wrong with what I'm doing. I mean, think about it.... it takes long enough to save up enough money to buy a single game ....and I would beat these same games within an afternoon, or three hours or less, depending on the type of game. Then it occured to me, in my simple minded adolescent brain----" Sayang pera." [What a waste of money....] Was it the game's fault? It didn't matter. All I knew was that I was blowing through money t...