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TwistedScrote wrote:Meow... I think you missed the point.


Yak was trying to explain a new concept... ever changing gasmeplay etc and you replied with one line.. and it was a nasty, spiteful comment at that.


I'm disappointed in YOU.

Surely when you typed that in and sat back in your chair you must of had some small measure of 'oops that was a shitty comment'

If not then it's a bit of telling comment about you.
I know I know....I re-read what he wrote. yes I was wrong. I miss-read.
what if I give you a game where the experience of playing it is different every time, where even if you finished all the "levels" (if I decide there should be an end) you still want to play because it feels good?
What I should I said that would be rare and wonderful I'm not sure how that could be achieve. but its too late now. I have just as much trouble as reading as writing. I thought he ment a repetive game...doh


If you look it makes no sense. to what he said.
Then I would think that you were a crap game designer/programer. Oblivion wasn't repetive. I think of at least 100 games that are not. You don't need to be repetive to create a long game. If going to make short games that are ten hours long change the price. don't charge full price, is all I'm saying.
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Post by Mr Meow »

Anyways back on topic.

Anyways Like I said Saints-Row-Demo

You can get it off XBM right now or a EBgames pre-order.

Xbox Live Marketplace on August 1st, I'm looking foward to this. Accept I'm moving on that day yet again. so I have to fit it in the downloading time.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11234/Sai ... emo-Dated/
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Meow...

If it's coming out on XB Live arcade it wouldnt be full price.. Most people and I really mean MOST people dont have a fixed price limit of something they enjoy....

Did you like llamatron?

It was a fiver ! I'm still playing it now! And shamefully for me.. I never paid for it then and still havent! ( I did offer to pay for it when I came here but was told not to worry... and that still bothers me now! I would like to pay my way now just so my conscience is a little better!)

Xbox 360 wasnt cheap... I struggled to get it... but the fun it gives me is more than worth it.
Half Life 2... cost a fair bit but I must of had 2-300 hours playing it again and enjoying it still! Like most I dont quantify how LONG a game is... But how much I will enjoy it. Max Payne can be blasted through in a touch over 3 hours but it's still a quality title. Oblivion is a huge title but after a mental couple of weeks on it I havent touched it since I got stuck near the end.

It's a personal thing... but just renting a game seems so...... devoid of enjoyment. You probably tear though your games so it's not late for return and never truly sink into it... Picking it back off the shelf to have another go doesnt happen for you! I only have a few dozen games on the shelf besides me... and all have been enjoyed time and time again.. On the pc it's simply because as my machine gets upgraded I pull a title of the shelf to see how it handles etc... On the xbox or the 360 it's just to make a change from whatever latest title I have!

Crikey sometimes a percieved 'duffer' of a game can suddenly open right up and you wonder what kind of shit was in your eyes the first time you saw it and put it back on the shelf...
Thief, Fable, Moto Gp I'm looking at you.... :D

Anyway... I'm glad it seems like a misunderstanding that you should probably PM an apology about..


Dead Rising.... Oh my fucking god I cant wait.. (especially now as I fucked my RR6 dvd... and I did it in the worst way.. I moved my 360 while drive was spinning.... and it tore the disc up)

The new intro movie for Dead Rising just backs up my opinion that I was BORN for this game to come out!
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Wait wait, it's only *now* that we decide that Mr Meow is a cock? Hasn't anyone read his older posts or something?....;)


Cloning Clyde is good fun, but i can see how it isn't everyone's cup of tea definitely.

One thing that i have seen misquoted is the whole "1 release a week" thing. Originally the announcement was that there would be a game released every Wednesday for the rest of the year, now i read that its only til mid August? whats the score on that one? Is it possibly that there WILL be one every week til the end of the year, but we only know what the next 3 or 4 are? The nation needs to know!
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Mr Meow wrote:I would say 75% of gamers feel that way. People hate short games.
Idiots do, yeah.

Other people like to be able to actually complete the game they just bought before they get bored shitless of it.

RE4, while a very nice game, was too long. I only kept playing because I wanted to see what came next. Wasn't really enjoying it anymore. Rocketed the last few enemies just to get it over with.

And then, of course, you unlock other stuff to play, but by then, I didn't want to anymore. Should have made the main game shorter, then I'd have played the other stuff.
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rockwaldo wrote:Wait wait, it's only *now* that we decide that Mr Meow is a cock?
Nah ;)
rockwaldo wrote:now i read that its only til mid August?
I'm pretty sure they have more than enough stuff to keep them going until well into next year. And by then, they should have a load more. It'll keep going as long as people keep supporting it :)
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Post by GeeZa »

Snakey wrote:
Mr Meow wrote:I would say 75% of gamers feel that way. People hate short games.
Idiots do, yeah.

Other people like to be able to actually complete the game they just bought before they get bored shitless of it.

RE4, while a very nice game, was too long. I only kept playing because I wanted to see what came next. Wasn't really enjoying it anymore. Rocketed the last few enemies just to get it over with.

And then, of course, you unlock other stuff to play, but by then, I didn't want to anymore. Should have made the main game shorter, then I'd have played the other stuff.
I agree, games that are too big do become a chore. I think also what Yak was trying to argue is that superficially short games often have massive replay value. You can clock or complete a game, but once you've honed your skills you can sometimes go back and fucking OWN it. Hitting all the perfect scores, the combos, the powerups, the secret bits, the gameplay depth is so much more important than the width of the content imo. I still return to T2K (thanks to the emu) trying to beat my high-score and I still fail. I'll be back though. :D

Back to topic, can the first person to get Dead Rising post a review please. :D
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Post by Jamesac »

All we get in the US for a Dead Rising presell goody is a t-shirt. Anyone want to trade a swanky steel case for a Dead Rising t-shirt? :)

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Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote: Can we moo-ve the fuck on now and restore this thread to it's intended topic.


-KThx.
Hmm, shame I wasn't awake (or a mod) when this went off last night, otherwise I'd have done some post deleting. :twisted:

Maybe it'll get back on topic by Wednesday, when the nexy XBLA game comes out. :roll: :wink:
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Post by Jamesac »

The thread would be back on topic if all the people complaining about it being off topic wouldn't keep dragging it off topic. :wink:

Cloning Clyde is good fun, by the way. I just blew through 10 levels, going back and earning par time on them all after the first exploratory run-through. Good stuff. :)

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Post by mamemeister »

Mr Meow wrote:
Wife_Of_Snake wrote:Just because you think short games are a con, doesn't mean others do :roll:
I would say 75% of gamers feel that way. People hate short games.
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Yeah absolutely, these 40 quid fancy graphic FPS games that run for 5 levels are a rip off.

Yak's games on the other hand are like old school arcade classics, they are easy to pick up and have endless longetivity............oh and cost not very much, Grindrunner ++ anybody?

Cloning Clyde hasnt really done it for me although I AM enjoying Frogger.

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mamemeister wrote:Yeah absolutely, these 40 quid fancy graphic FPS games that run for 5 levels are a rip off.
Hehe. It's funny. I used to say the same thing about the late '80s scrolly shooters - a handful of levels and that's your lot. I was used to the 'endless' games of Defender and Asteroids. ;)

The reality is that a lot of folks have a very limited amount of spare time to spend on something as trivial as videogames. WIth the exception of a couple of Zeldas I've not foun dthe time to finish a 'long' game for years. Give me quick bursts of adrenalin gaming any day.
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Post by WiredWorm »

I think if this thread is ever to get back on track then might I suggest we move the discussion about 'are games too short' and other such items to a new thread?
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Post by RiK »

The thread would get back on track quicker if people just resumed talking about the 360 instead of how the thread has gone off-topic..  :roll:
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Post by Bubba »

*More* Dead Rising videos. This is giving me the serious zombie blood lust thing now:

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/748/ ... ids_1.html

The bike riding one looks ace - smooth framerate, metric fuckton of zombies, and a quick zombie porn photo moment at the end!

I *need* this game, and just after my birthday too :)

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