Kaos defends "5 hour" Homefront campaign

Kaos' play test sessions showed only "really expert players" completed the near-future FPS in five hours, creative director and general manager David Votypka told Eurogamer this afternoon.

[DaThreats]

Cmon devs
Focusing too much on the multi-player

[Steve007]

All of them are, it's sad that 5-6 hours is all we get from FPS these days.

[pixelsword]

That's true. Even though I got 8 to 10 hours out of Killzone 3, I did first play it on Veteran (hard); if I played it on trooper (normal) It probably would have been noticeably less. I play just about all FPS games on hard to lengthen them.

...Except Resistance, I have to admit the two I have are long, even on normal. Resistance for the PSP is a decent size too (even though I currently don't own a PSP).

[plb]

Episode 3 is our only hope for a decent FPS length.

[JsonHenry]

Yep. episode 3 is our last hope at this point. :/

[DigitalRaptor]

RAGE...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (more of an RPG hybrid like Fallout, but still can be classed as FPS)...

There might be more. Episode 3 is hardly the last hope.

[Wenis]

I want them to focus 'too much' on the multiplayer. Its the main aspect that you're going to end up playing for 10s if not 100s of hours.

[christheredhead]

it definitely is the selling point for almost everyone when picking up a game like this. i almost feel like they should skip the single player all together. im not saying just for homefront but in overall sense. whats the point of giving me a single player that will be end in 5 hours if your goal is to draw in multiplayer? you know, why not just make the multiplayer and sell us that aspect at 40 dollars since they will most likely sell insane amounts of dlc map packs anyways. then round off the single player in a 20 dollar package for us that just want the story seeing as how it is an underwhelming 5 hours anyways. i always thought they should start doing that, they wont, but id enjoy that much more.

[r1sh12]

many games in FPS would be focussing on multiplayer.
They all want to take COD down, all new FPS will be trying to go for the same objective, they all want a chunk from COD, since COD is mainly played for multiplayer what else can we expect?

[Urmomlol]

Honestly --first the horrible PR stunt in San Fran and now a really dumb quote from its developer?

Who are the clowns handling PR for these guys? I haven't even played the game and I already don't want to play it unless it gets stellar reviews.

[gillri]

another military FPS?

I only have time for BF3 this entire year as my military game

[jriquelme_paraguay]

BF3 is out?

[bumnut]

this entire year will be almost over when bf releases.

[WhiteNoise]

I don't know why people think the fact that a game has MP is excuse for a short SP...

Remember goldeneye or turok 2..those games had a SP of easily 20hrs and had unlimited replayability with local co-op and bot matches.

Now games don't even have that aspect of the MP.

It's quick and dirty online only.

Even the 'bot' matches in COD black ops were online, the devs called it 'online single player'.

It's just an excuse not to have to code + additional DRM.

Games should be 15hrs long for the SP. If Bioshock can do it so can the rest.

[wicko]

I don't think you understand how much work it is these days to pull off a convincing singleplayer, especially one for 15 hours. Games that can do that tend to be strictly MP. Comparing this to games in the past is just plain naive. Game development then and now are totally different beasts.

Not to mention games like Bioshock and Fallout deal with a lot more exploration and optional areas, and their gameplay style fits that kind of level design, whereas games like Killzone or Halo have a much different feel, its more linear but its also more action, more scripted moments, the gameplay is much faster paced. Exploration doesn't really fit their vision.

Instead of expecting games to be longer, we should expect them to be cheaper.

[wicko]

I guess 3 idiots would rather pay more money for games!

[DeadIIIRed]

It costs money to add more content. These companies have to allocate labor time to create a product that will do well in the target market. I'm sure if we paid about $79.99 a game, they'd be more than happy to give us 20+ hrs plus online game modes. It sucks, but these companies don't really respond to anything but loss in revenue.

[MAJ0R]

are developers these days really this delusional that they think people are going to believe crap like this?

[StitchJones]

Well that made my mind up, I'll be skipping till price drop.

[KingPin]

and this is why il get this game 2nd hand or when the price drops. see, i dont play online, my internet sucks ass. South Africa is not known for being top of the range tech. i play single player and if this is all ima get, game devz should STFU about used game sales.

[Drazz]

Was thinking about getting it, but 5 hours is a deal breaker. If I want multiplayer FPS, why not just go play the game everyone else is playing.... the WoW of FPS.

[lucifon]

I'd much rather them focus on the online than the singleplayer which i'll play through once and never again. Homefront's focus is quite clearly on the MP, these guys come from an MP background after working on BF2 on PC.

[dukegodtezza]

I dont think they did on bf2 they worked on Desert Combat mod on 1942

[dukegodtezza]

did some research and yer they did work on bf2 for a while http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[lucifon]

Yep after Desert Combat they were hired by EA to work on BF2, which after it was released EA got rid of them.

[specialguest]

I was going to get this game during release soley for its single player campaign. I was hoping the game was at least 8-10 hrs of gameplay, but now it looks like I'll have to pick it up used.

[Izanagi-no-Okami]

I'll be getting this just because of the interesting SP. I'm sick of Multiplayer shooters. Just BF3 to make me back to play them.

[BabyTownFrolics]

oh come on now, I beat KZ3 in 5 hours and 40 minutes on normal difficulty, if I had done it on hardest it would have taken longer, same goes for most modern FPS. So if this is a dealbreaker I think your just looking for excuses to put this game down.

[Axonometri]

Deal Breakers? How many times have you gone to see a movie and left the building saying, "Damn it! It was AWESOME but I am pissed it was only 5 hours! Damn it! 5 hours?!?"

SP components are becoming increasingly complex and asset heavy especially in the AAA titles.. I know we are all used to 10 to 15 hour SP campaigns, but do yourself a favor.. go look at some screen shots of those aging titles and then compare them to shots of modern FPS... Striking difference. We are approaching Film quality folks.. the effort put into this is one reason time is tapering off...
I personally would rather have 5 hours of WOW!

[dukegodtezza]

Ive got about 52 xbox 360 games and ive finished prob about 8 games pretty sad so 5 hours isnt that bad