I love traditional arcade shooters, as you might have surmised from my interview with Cave’s IKD elsewhere on this site. A shorter game can provide a more tightly designed experience This being the internet, I can’t just lay out a hot take like that and not back it up some some reasoning, so allow me to give you my rationale. No, I just honestly think that, in the majority of cases, a shorter gaming experience is a better one.
But honestly? I don’t have full-time commitments (yet – you’re welcome to offer me work, game media sites!), I don’t have a family to provide for, and I have no problems parking myself in front of a monitor for an extended period of time to grind out a lengthy gaming session. So yeah, I confess, I may be a bit jaded after freelance reviewing a lot of mediocre JRPGs for a little over a decade.
Well… I am pretty busy, but that’s mostly because I get requests to review a lot of lengthy games. You might be thinking I’m saying that because I’m old and don’t have time for things. Short games are friggin’ fantastic and I want more of them. Even with our massive backlogs of unplayed Steam Sale acquisitions and potentially ill-advised Amazon purchases Cheap Ass Gamer alerted us to, we still somehow view not getting a long game as a detriment.īut you know what? That way of thinking is wrong. Many of these titles would be considered “short games,” things you’d wrap up nicely in a couple of hours with some adequate gaming skills if you were playing “casually.” 1 Being short, however, is often considered a detriment to a game’s quality.
Summer Games Done Quick is a thing that’s happening right now, and I can’t help but find a bit of irony in the fact that, in the quest to be able complete games as quickly as possible, a lot of these runners have poured hundreds of hours into individual games.
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