I remember the good ol' days. When you would pay 20 or 30 pounds on a new game. An FPS, on the back cover it promised hundreds of weapons, thousands of enemies and hundreds of hours of gameplay. That was the last generation. The likes of the Gamecube, Playstation 2 and the Xbox (no 360, just Xbox). These platforms had epic-ly long games. Half of them were RPGs with such detailed stories and, sometimes, graphics. And then the other half was the FPSs. The ones where you would fight zombies on in an open-world style or linear. Sure some of them were short, but the ones I remember took at least 30 hours plus to complete. And even longer to 100% them.

But today, game developers seem to be, lazy seems too harsh a word, not putting everything into a game. Why? We're paying 40 to even 60 pounds for new games (and that's not including special editions). Games like Black Ops. 'It's amazing!', 'Have you seen the graphics?!'. The praise I heard for it, when I got it... I was, well, a little taken back. It certainly was not great. The graphics had gotten worse since MW2. There were as many glitches as there were missions. And it only took five hours to complete. MW2 took six. It cost me 40 of my finest, well earned pounds. I didn't pay that much for a short, straight-forward and easy campaign. Sure there's the multi-player, but it isn't as good as other games' multi-player. Another example is Crysis 2. This time the graphics are good and the glitches are less frequent and less severe, but still I completed it in 5-6 hours. And I was going slowly. There is a lot of replay value, but why not make the story A LOT longer.


It seems today the formula for games is:
Cost more + More explosions - gameplay + more COD like features - campaign length = Every FPS shooter game out there today.


It's sad to say, but just look at the games out there. The longest game campaigns I can think of are Halo's and Gears'.
So why are FPS stories so short when we pay so much?    

Since half the people online are immature five year old ass holes that don't know what teamwork is , i was wondering if i could party up with 3 other people and then we could all get online achievements, if you are interested (which you should be as i know how to engineer a lot of the achievments) then add me my GT is the same as my Giantbomb name: TEHMAXXORZ (all capitals)