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Portal is a single-player side game set in the Half-Life universe that features one key new gameplay mechanic: the ability to use a gun that can create portals on walls, which the player can then walk through.
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Short games become the new standard
The time where we spend days or even weeks on a game are a thing of the past. This is what game writer Erik Wolpaw of Valve Software tells us. He was responsible for Portal, the innovating game which was included with several others in The Orange Box. His explanation for the short life span of it, is that players only want to spend 3-4 hours a game.
Luckily there are still exceptions like Bioshock, which i personally enjoyed several hours because of its atmosphere and gameplay!
They're constantly referring at Valve to people who really think a lot about games and play games, and many of my adult friends never, ever finish games anymore. Like, they don't finish them. We just thought it would be nice to have a game where, if you play it, you probably will finish it, unless you just don't like it.
In the end i have to agree that i rather play a game which is short but strong, then a game which is long but boring after a certain amount of time.Although it seems to be a trend. In Call of Duty 4, the single-player is awesome, but I think it took me five and a half hours or something. So it's not super-long either. That seems to be the trend. BioShock was pretty long, but it almost seems like a throwback, in how long it was.
This might not be a problem for games who have an active multiplayer, but what about games who don't have that or are 100% singleplayer? Do we just have to accept that we pay full price for a title which only last a couple of hours before it is thrown in our closet?Luckily there are still exceptions like Bioshock, which i personally enjoyed several hours because of its atmosphere and gameplay!
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Oblivion for example had this technology and it was really beautiful, since there were over 400 different types of vegetations in that technology :)