"No game should be longer than 12 hours"

[Caracus2k]

No video game should be longer than 12 hours - Reader's Feature

A reader suggests making all single-player games shorter will not only help with budgets but ensure people aren’t put off from playing them.

metro.co.uk

Usual click bait nonsence or do many people agree?

Quick accessible games have their place but I have multiple games where Steam indicates playtime running into the hundreds of hours. And some of these are definitely amongst my all time favorites.

Some quite old titles that I've returned to every now and then like the Fallout series, Oblivion, Skyrim, Civilisation series (I still occasionally load up Alpha Centauri from circa 1996), Elite etc.

I know there's concern about the balloning budgets of some of the newer games but thoose budgets don't always corrlelate with replayability/ longevity of a title.

 

[Caracus2k]

I think articles like this really show the issue with the universal use of the title "gamer".

Like other posts it's entirely generic specific and whilst 12 hours might be plenty for some games it's far too short for others.

RPG', flight sims, world building games etc may not be everyone's bag, even thoose who play computer games, but there's definitely a market for something you can sink hundreds of hours into and these games don't necessarily require the huge budgets that are causing issues these days.