Retail Releases - Too long, too many features, too expensive.

$60 is too much for me to pay for games.  I just don't think they're worth it and my gaming style doesn't get value from them.  I'd rather play a game and move on, instead of playing multiplayer for 100s of hours on the same game.  I get that people do that and enjoy it and that's great, but it sucks that I don't, but I still have to pay for it.  Just because I can potentially get tons of hours of gaming, it doesn't mean that it's worth it to me.
 
I am playing Darksiders now.  I'm about 15 hours in and I feel like I'm getting pretty close to the end.  I may have another few hours left, depending on if I get stuck somewhere.   ...but I'm DONE with this game.  I'm enjoying it, but I'd ready to finish it and for it to be over.  I think that we've demanded longer games for value, but that's like wanting longer movies for value.  It's a skewed sense of quality.
 
I think that we need to get away from the "all games cost 60 bucks" mentality.  If you want to have a COD game with all of these features for $60, go ahead, whatever.  ...but why can't I buy a sindle player only version for $30?  The worst offenders are single-player games that have no need for multiplayer at all, but that's another discussion.
 
At this point in my life, I'd rather play 10 hour experiences for 20 bucks.  That's where I am.   I get some of that from games like Shadow Complex, but it's a rare find.  My time is valuable and sludging through repetitive gameplay to build length is irritating.

How much are games worth to you?

--Dave

Sounds like you need Gamefly...

You have the option to rent or buy used.

Sure you don't like mp, but I do. I've spent over 1000 hours on Gears of War 1 + 2, so for £100 ish with all the add ons it seems worth it.

But then again, £40 for a good 6 hours is also worth it to me...

I am totally with you there, except that I do think a 10-hour single player experience can be worth 60 bucks, depending on the experience. 
 
Just do what I do: Buy the acclaimed or niche short games from 2-3 years back used and keep a close and open eye on the downloadable as well as the indie games market.  And buy the 1-2 major releases every year that are worth it.

i do agree on one point the single player. it gets me mad when i buy a game for $60 to find out that the single player is only like 5 hours. i hate when that happens. it's to short of a game to pay for that much. call of duty doesn't bother me because the multiplayer is good. i think that if a game is going  to be single player then make the game about 12 hours +. i think that is a great point for a game to be long.

I'm not poor so $60 for console games and $50 or less for pc gaames means jack and shit to me. It sounds like the TC just needs to live within his means and rent games instead of buying them.

If that's your playstyle then nobody is saying you HAVE to buy them when they cost $60.  
You can wait a month or 5 months and the games would be cheaper. 

Stop your god damn whining. Thats less than half than what we have to pay for games.

" $60 is too much for me to pay for games.   "

" If that's your playstyle then nobody is saying you HAVE to buy them when they cost $60.  You can wait a month or 5 months and the games would be cheaper.  "

and next generation you'll have a $70 price tag to look forward to!  :D

$80-$90 for a game around here. (console)  
You don't see us whining about prices but then again our economy might be very different and we have jobs

I understand your problem but this isn't about a mentality, this is a fact of the industry, it's just not financially viable for publishers to release a single-player version of all the games they put out so they're not going too.

I want to stave off the Angry-Birds-ifying of the games industry for as long as possible, so I will continue to pay $60 for my games and like it.

If you prefer iPhone games to something as great as Darksiders, I'm not sure you and I can really agree on much.

" @Faint I'm sorry but if you're paying $120 bucks for new games you're buying them in the wrong place. Try JB Hi-Fi. "