Most gamers try to get the biggest bang for their buck when purchasing their games. However, not every game needs to be 20+ hours. Find out why a 6-10 hour game is more than justified in our latest editorial!
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.
My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.
One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.
I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.
5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.
6 was awful.
I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷♂️
it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol
What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.
You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.
Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.
It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.
At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.
like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.
people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.
5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.
What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.
@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made.
Depends on the genre and if it has multiplayer.
A single player only game needs to be 10 - 12 hours for me to shell out the cash, or else I might as well rent it for the day and send it back with gamefly or Redbox (yes redbox let's you rent game for $2 now.)
If a game is full of action, good story and replayability then 6-10 hours can be enough. Its just that there are a lot of games releasing now that are only 5-7 hours long and after 1 playthrough you're done, and not interested in replaying them.
There are also games that go on too long and the story or gameplay gets boring. Longer games need to keep you interested more. Those games do need a very good story and nice gameplay.
Well that is long enough for a rental... but unless it also has multiplayer that is not enough to buy.
I just played Heavy Rain the other day, I rented it and completed it in 2 days. I enjoyed playing it, but I have no desire to replay it as I know the story and different endings will not persuade me to replay. So it was a great rental, but would have been a bad buy.
A game like COD or Killzone however it is not so bad if the single player seems a bit short (although its still better to be a bit longer) as alot more hours will be spent by most people on the multiplayer than on single player.
Single player games like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Effect are worth buying though as they obviously have a long shelf life!
any shooter shouldn't have more than a 10 hour campaign. even with a great story line and some new additions, it all comes down to the same thing. Run and Gun. Go up head to head with 10+ AI enemies and win without a problem. Just seems dumb to me now.
I buy games for multiplayer these days anyways.
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