Following its Inside Xbox showcase Microsoft launched a new trailer showing off the many games that were included in the show.
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
100% agree
All these ubisoft titles, Farcry, AC, Ghost recon, boast huge maps, but with the same, 3 missions or the same base to clear 100s of times. Hour 1 of any of those titles is the same as hour 100, there big for the sake of being big, with the illusion of player freedom, where we really want depth and player expression.
Give me a solid 15-20 hour engaging single player driven IP any day. Life's too short you dig.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
Filler, it's like a 80 episodes show where only the first and last episodes actually matter
It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".
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Nothing looks better than games I've seen on ps4. I can't wait for sonys ps5 event
Was pretty underwhelming overall. First impressions matter... yet they’re doing what they’ve done of the last few years.
“Exclusive” reveals and other stuff that ends up being pre-rendered gameplay. All while hyping it up beforehand as gameplay. Hopefully their first party can actually bring something to the table. Halo can’t carry them all.
I don't mind games being "Optimized for Series X" but I do miss the games that would state "Only on Xbox" on their covers. those days are long gone.
So, games that are also going to be on PS5 and other consoles. Gee, thanks Microsoft.
this presentation was a total disaster. no ammount of damage control can save this one im afraid. this was hyped as the ultra takedown reveal by n4g users every day we was reminded of this event ive seen loads of hashtags last week #12.5TFv10.5TF