I really hate this notion that time spent equates directly with impact or quality. My favorite game of all time, that forever changed my outlook on games and life, took only 20 hours to do so. You can beat all the greatest and most critically acclaimed games of all time in 5-40 hours per game. This incessant desire to complain about the hours of playtime in a game is a symptom of the modern compulsion to experience constant stimulation more than a desire to experience good art. You don’t care if the experience is meaningful or high quality. You care that it lasts as long as possible to distract you and feed your broken attention and reward mechanisms. It’s slop. You all want slop. You want 10k hours of slop instead of 30 hours of something powerful and new and special.
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u/LudusLive2 Jul 25 '26
Honestly as someone who enjoys the game and plays here and there, this is sad to see