We Support an R18+ game Classification

Look around the internet and you can learn a lot of things about gamers. One major trend for gamers at the moment is to group together on forums to either complain or praise games. Mostly there seems to be a lot of complaining about changes a game is making or how stupid one company is for not doing something.

That’s all well and good but when people start to use a mathematical calculation when considering if a game is worth buying or just "renting and beating" then things are starting to get crazy. Yes this is a rant about those stupid people that complain that a game isn’t worth their money because it is only x amount of hours.

Sure, wanting value for money is fine. But when it comes to the point you are not going to buy a great game because it is a single player only game that is 10 hours long you are an A grade idiot. Somewhere their head the decided a specific game length was worth a purchase if it was a good game. But a great 10 hour game gets a rental and then never gets a sequel. The value in Fallout 3 was the wasteland and the stories within, not that you could spend 100 hours playing the game.

By that logic White Knight Chronicles is worth more than Uncharted 2 because White Knight is about 30 hours long, ignoring the fact that Uncharted 2 hours contains more fun along with a better story and game play. That logic is bullshit and it doesn’t make sense, just like the logic of people who won’t buy a game that has no Multiplayer, even if the game is predominantly single player.

*Deep Breath*

IT IS YOUR FAULT WE GET SHITTY TACKED ON MULTIPLAYER!

Dark Sector didn’t need it; neither did Bioshock 2 or a ton of other games that have come out with multiplayer that sucked did not need it. To make a single player only game these days limits so many sales that most companies will put a lot of time and effort to get it working and then have it ignored forever just so people and game reviews around the net who need multiplayer or a 30 hour plus game for it to be a “Purchase”

If you only play Multiplayer that is fine, there are a lot of gamers out there like you, but if you are looking forward to… let’s say inFamous 2 but won’t actually buy the game unless it has multiplayer. What is wrong with you? It is people like this that are causing developers and publishers to make multiplayer, no matter how much it doesn’t belong, a part of nearly every game to come.

If we never get a sequel to Mirrors Edge, Alan Wake, Prince of Persia (2008) or a new Ratchet and Clank game you have no right to be disappointed