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| The game cannot be overly long. This is quite the opposite of what most would say, but I feel that brevity is a concept lost on many game designers. Movies routinely get edited down, removing scenes that don't work or disrupt the flow of the film. Games should be no different. |
Exactly. I'd much rather play a short game that engrosses me completely for several days (or even hours) than trudge through a larger game through some weird sense of obligation, distracted but never really entertained. With the advances now possible in delivering genuine plot and characterisation in games, artificially elongated gameplay just feels increasingly weird.
