StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Yup.Currently my time is being shared between two AAA campaigns, ffxvi and starfield, this time being limited, I can only squeeze an hour or two luckily a night
If I'm lucky
Modern game design/pacing/story-telling has characters nattering on for minutes and minutes on end. it's always just pointless meaningless shit with side characters we are meant to Care about apparently.
Am I only one finding this pointless droning on by characters about menial shit ruining most modern games, the writing seems to be extremely superfluous and doesn't respect the players time whatsoever.
I am finding myself mashing the skip button as fast as I can in these games after a few hours.
EDIT: thanks to mods for getting this on the right side
Have you tried Hellblade? If you havent and have GP to test out a download, for sake of laughs give it a try. You'll throw your gamepad at the TV as the first hour of gaming is probably 30 minutes of unskippable cutscenes. I deleted the game after the hour. You can literally go to the kitchen, grab some food and come back. And the cut scene will still be going.
There's so much cutscenes and walking sim parts, someone even made a 2Hr video of it. As crazy as that sounds, you can watch most movies for shorter than that time.
As for your post, 100% true.
And some people wonder why the most popular games played are typically jump in and jump out MP games. Its not necessarily about amping up om MTX. I dont buy that shit. But I know I can have some fun in small time sessions. You can get your fill in half an hour of gaming not tied down to droning on or mandatory cutscenes, walking scenes and shit like that.
Some people hate MP gaming and that's fine. Not everyone wants to play competitive or coop games shooting people or scoring goals. But you got to admit, it's a lot easier to jump in and out of game sessions as each match might only be 10-15 minutes at a time.
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