My friend and I follow the $1 per hour of a game rule.
We're not going to replay the story unless it has multiple endings, or has multiple ways to get through most of the missions [And doesn't fail in the execution by giving you every way in the end like DX:HR], so the time of a single runthrough is a good measure of this.
Multiplayer I'm not interested in unless its only with friends, and that rules out 90% of online games as its hard enough to get a group of 3 friends who have the same game we want to play, let alone 10-20 to populate a small server on competitive multiplayer games, so that's ruled out too, but +5 hours of trial run to see if the people who play the game are idiots or not.
Hence, with the price of games generally being between $60 and $100 over here, that game better be 60-100 hours long, or only cost $20-$40, dependent on length. If neither condition is true, I'm not going to buy it as its not worth the money.
We're not going to replay the story unless it has multiple endings, or has multiple ways to get through most of the missions [And doesn't fail in the execution by giving you every way in the end like DX:HR], so the time of a single runthrough is a good measure of this.
Multiplayer I'm not interested in unless its only with friends, and that rules out 90% of online games as its hard enough to get a group of 3 friends who have the same game we want to play, let alone 10-20 to populate a small server on competitive multiplayer games, so that's ruled out too, but +5 hours of trial run to see if the people who play the game are idiots or not.
Hence, with the price of games generally being between $60 and $100 over here, that game better be 60-100 hours long, or only cost $20-$40, dependent on length. If neither condition is true, I'm not going to buy it as its not worth the money.