Smash creator Sakurai sparks debate with his hot take on long games NintendoSuper Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai\u2019s hot take about long games has sparked an interesting debate online. On his very own YouTube channel, Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games, the legendary developer spoke about the uniqueness of game writing. Near the end of his video, Sakurai touched on why story and background information should wait so that players can jump right into the action at the start of a game. He noted that, depending on the game, \u201cThe idea that \u2018longer games are better\u2019 is a thing of the past these days, so I\u2019d say it\u2019s best to just get to the good stuff as quickly as possible.\u201d Smash creator Masahiro Sakurai sparks debate about long games Twitter user hatok argued that this hot take from Sakurai \u201cfeels really out of touch.\u201d Yet, replies to the post suggest many gaming enthusiasts believe otherwise. \u201cIt\u2019s a growing sentiment (a good one too),\u201d one person pointed out in the replies. Several other people chimed in to say they simply don\u2019t have enough time for longer games. Someone else added, \u201cI think this is the majority opinion now though. I think the people preferring longer games are the niche group.\u201d The original poster disagreed, specifically citing the unceasing popularity of open-world games like Tears of the Kingdom. As others noted, however, the Smash creator\u2019s argument about long games doesn\u2019t necessarily apply to the open-world genre. \u201cMinecraft is an open-world game, but you can *beat* Minecraft in under 30 minutes.\u201d How many people have time to sit through a 30-minute prologue, play a tutorial, then watch yet another lengthy cutscene? Such discussion recently reared its head following the launch of Final Fantasy 16, as many players felt its cutscenes lasted far too long. The length of video games has been the topic of much debate for several years, picking up steam during the PS3 and Xbox 360 era. As publishers used online passes and tacked-on multiplayer modes to combat the used game market, games also became far more robust. More content didn\u2019t necessarily engender better content, though. After all, this was the generation that birthed Ubisoft\u2019s open-world formula, wherein sandboxes became packed with radio towers and other arbitrary tasks. Sakurai\u2019s comments about the storytelling and gameplay aspect of it all suggest this is one discussion that won\u2019t soon come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash creator Sakurai sparks debate with his hot take on long games NintendoSuper Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai\u2019s hot take about long games has sparked an interesting debate online. On his very own YouTube channel, Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games, the legendary developer spoke about the uniqueness of game writing. Near the end of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}