Quote: "What's the point if it's just the same experience every time?"
Quote: "Books are generally longer, and films are much cheaper."
Regardless of price the experience is the same. EVERY TIME. I have favourite books which I have read numerous, the experience is never different. I have many, many movies which I have watched numerous times. The experience doesn't change.
But this is not so with games. It seems to me that many games these days change constantly. I can play a multiplayer game on the same map 1000 times and never have the same experience twice.
I can run an instance in an MMO with the same people and not have the same experience twice.
Granted with a puzzle game things are slightly different as once you have solved the puzzle, you have solved it. Although I have seen with some recent puzzle games that multiple solutions are available for puzzles. So I can have a different experience each time.
Quote: " It sounds like you have nothing against gamers getting less for more these days."
I don't feel like I am getting less. I
can have as much fun replaying a game as I did the first time I played it. Or maybe more if I wast to try something different. Or I can put arbitrary things in place to heighten my experience, and sometimes the devs put those in for you as achievements. You don't have to do them but the option is there should you choose to. In an FPS maybe I'll see how far I can get only using melee weapons. Maybe in an RPG I'll switch on permadeath so every encounter is tense and has to be thought out. I think games today give us so many options with what we can do that it doesn't matter if it only takes 5 hours to complete the campaign.
I say go back and play those old games without the rose tinted glasses. They weren't as good as you remember.
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