Tom Henderson: LEGO: Horizon Adventures is "relatively short"; can be completed in ~6 hours

Gediminas

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Good, I prefer them to make more games of the size of a Morales / Rift Apart / Uncharted (not 4) game.

Not all of them have to be huge open worlds, particularly these spionoffs.


No, Sony's gaming division is making record revenue and profit.


The previous Lego games were for previous generations, where having less detailed visuals meant less art work, time and budget was required. And well, they weren't Sony games.

Making it shorter they keep the budget at aprox. the same levels, or even smaller. It's an experiment to make a spinoff for kids, so makes sense they don't want to spend the budget of a big ass AAA game on it.
So why is it priced as AAA game?
Plus, there is 0 chance, licence cost more or the same as Star War and other well known IPs.
 

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So why is it priced as AAA game?
Because even if in the low side, it's still a AAA game. And in this case, Lego will also get part of the revenue.

Like Returnal, Helldivers 2, Rift Apart, Elden Ring or Tears of the Kingdom, it will pretty likely have a staff of somewhere around between 1250-1750 people.

As a reference, games like Spider-Man 2 or FFVII Rebirth were in the range of around between 3500-4000 people.

And games like CoD, Far Cry, mainline Assassin's Creed, Fortnite, GTA, Starfield, Diablo IV go even beyond that.
 

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Uncharted Lost Legacy was great? 🤷🏼
I had more fun playing Saints Row 2022.

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And rightfully so. Hi-Fi rush is great.

It also wasn't $70

Did you like the game? I hoped you played how it was meant to be played with ps5 controller for the haptic feedback.

And of course the smoother, and better graphics on ps5.

Question why do you care so much for game for kids, if it's too short, too expensive vote with your wallet.
 
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Did you like the game? I hoped you played how it was meant to be played with ps5 controller for the haptic feedback.

And of course the smoother, and better graphics on ps5.

Question why do you care so much for game for kids, if it's too short, too expensive vote with your wallet.

Neither Lego: Horizon Adventures nor Hi-Fi Rush are marketed for kids.
 

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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy IS the best fucking Uncharted game because it takes everything from the previous four games and wraps it all up in one. P.S. - Chloe > Nathan Drake and no, I don't want to play as his non-binary daughter. No thanks. Also, how can anyone not love Claudia Black!!! 😍
 
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Am I right in saying they want 70 euro for this?

It's $70? 🤣 I thought it was $40?

Surely must be $40 I even remember them mentioning that at some point. Or is it $40 in the US but 70 euros (which would seemingly make it almost $80 USD)?

EDIT: Just looked it up; it's $60 in the US. Kind of crazy considering Astro Bot was the same price but offers a lot more content (going by completion times to 100% everything).

Not that I think a game should be priced depending on how much content it has; that's part of the reason some of these AAA games seem to take so long to make nowadays (usually to their detriment). But LEGO Horizon is probably gonna have a hard time convincing some people it's worth the same price of admission as Astro Bot.
 
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