Endorph posted:

on the whole games are actually the same length or shorter than they were in the ps2 era, open world games excepted. its just that as aaa game dev has become more about aping hollywood you get those insanely long end sequences. basically you're getting a hollywood movie but stretched out to 20 hours, so a 20 minute finale becomes a 2 hour finale. like resident evil 4 and the last of us 2 are about the same length its just that in resident evil the whole climax is about 30-45 minutes of gameplay and then a maybe 6-7 minute long cutscene ending, versus the finale of tlou2 where its like an entire hour long denouement with not that much gameplay. so its hard to find a good stopping point and it also feels like it drags way more. yknow.

in conclusion resident evil 4 was good