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Chapter 95 "The Evil Within" takes more than 30 hours?

Today is the first day of National Day.

The working people are lying at home while the students are playing games.

And on such a legal holiday, the first news was that "Blue Star Crisis", which had been delayed for two months, was released!

The price in the domestic market is 198 yuan, which is a bright spot for most players who are on vacation.

They all paid for it and prepared to play the game till they forgot to eat and sleep to spend the National Day holiday.

however…

No one expected that after only half a day, the ratings of "Blue Planet Crisis" began to plummet.

The reviews of the cyber platform have become mixed.

The same discussion voice has appeared on major social networking sites, which is two words: mediocrity.

This is what the players felt after experiencing it for half a day.
To be honest, the players were on vacation at home and wanted to find some fun to kill time.

Agate Studio's "Blue Star Crisis" just fills the domestic players' idle holidays.

With such a good opportunity and the trust in this studio, this open-ended survival game should have quickly become popular and the number of players should have skyrocketed.

But unfortunately, the gaming experience failed to meet the players' psychological expectations.

The biggest problem is that the gameplay remains unchanged.

It's just old wine in old bottles, and it plays no differently than other open-ended survival games.

If you play another similar game, the experience will be the same.

Therefore, the players who were originally extremely looking forward to it gradually felt tired after experiencing "Blue Star Crisis" for only five or six hours.

Visually, this is just one of those assembly line games that fight mutant creatures.

There is no main storyline at all, only some errands like collecting items and clearing out degraded monsters.

After players did two or three of them, they started to feel bored and repetitive.

Apart from this, there is no other plot-related content.

This makes many fans of the plot feel regretful. It is a good game but there is no need to explore the background of the story.

The only way to survive and build is to pick up garbage repeatedly.

Therefore, the gameplay is quite complete, but it lacks any highlights and is all the same.

After a long time, it gets a bit boring.

Especially these players have also played "Abnormal Invasion".

In comparison, the unchanging assembly-line game "Blue Planet Crisis" seems somewhat disappointing.

This has caused many players to run into "Abnormal Invasion" again to experience the joy of killing zombies, completing tasks, and going through the storyline.

Therefore, to sum up, "Blue Star Crisis" is an edible dish, but the taste is very average.

It can be regarded as one of the many options to kill time during this National Day holiday.

However, players never felt sorry for the mediocrity of "Blue Star Crisis" for a moment.

Because the second piece of news that followed directly shocked the players.

The Star Games corporate account posted an update on Vblog and Danmu.com at around 9 p.m.

After watching it, the players couldn’t believe it and called it the conscience of the industry!
This notice is not long, and its content is roughly as follows:
Dear players, hello.

After the full efforts of our multiple development teams and outsourced projects, the main game of "The Evil Within" has been polished.

The main storyline of the first round is about 20+ hours, and the experience of replaying it for the second round is up to 8 hours. The content is definitely enough!

However, we think that 20+ hours for a game is too short and cannot fully present the game's plot.

Therefore, the boss decided to incorporate the original DLC content into the game itself.

The first round of "The Evil Within" will last for more than 30 hours, which is definitely a large amount and the price will not be much different from "The Invasion".

In addition, in order to prevent some players from feeling that the process is too long and unable to complete it, this game deliberately adopts a dual-protagonist and dual-line narrative approach.

In the first round, players can choose one of the protagonists to complete the game, and in the second round, they can choose another protagonist to experience the remaining plot, without having to play the game repeatedly.

The different experiences of the two protagonists will tell you a terrifying and exciting story!

We strive to bring the most direct fear to all players and will never let you down!

In order to allay players' fears, a story DLC will be included when the game is released.

Players can play the role of BOSS, and while supplementing the game plot, they can also release the fear in their hearts with absolute violent aesthetics.

The Evil Within is now available on the Cyber ​​​​platform store page, and players are welcome to add it to their wishlist.

See you on November 11st.

After reading this notice, the players in front of the computer all looked confused.

WTF?

Do you think 20+ hours of the main process is not enough?

So merge the DLC into the main game and expand the process to 30+ hours?

Dual-line narrative, the second round is no longer a repeated experience, but the experience of another protagonist?

And they also give you a story DLC where you can play as a boss? Wow! What a generous company!
Isn't this a slap in the face to those foreign giants with ugly behaviors?

Foreign big companies cut out a part of a complete game and sell it as DLC, or even cut it into several parts and sell them separately, for fear of losing out.

You, Star Motion, are so good. Not only did you give away a DLC for free, you also merged the other DLCs into the main game and sold them for a fee.

Just because you think 20 hours is not enough???
And the price won’t be too different from “Abnormal Invasion”?
Is this a capitalist???

After reading the news, the players were shocked.

The price of "The Invasion" is 298 yuan, so "The Evil Within" is probably around 300 yuan?
Considering the 30+ hours of content, the price is reasonable.

Good guy.
A pure linear horror game. It's 30+ hours long? It also has a dual narrative and two protagonists.
Oh my god.

Which horror game is more than 30 hours long?

This is not an open world survival game like "Abnormal Invasion" with a lot of story missions.

Not even those sandbox RPG games.

This is just a linear game!

Other horror games that are longer than 2 hours are already sold by independent developers.

Other shoddy works only last half an hour or even more than ten minutes.

Even Star Animation's previous work, Rotten Meat, took no more than 4 hours to complete.

This time, Star Moving Company has made a big move.

Players can already imagine what they are about to face.
Especially after watching the trailer, I felt both excited and timid.

On the other hand, when the popular male anchor Guoba Ge found out, he immediately shouted out in the live broadcast room.

"Holy crap! Are you kidding me? A new game lasting over 30 hours!?"

"With such a long process for making a horror game, isn't Xingdong afraid of failure? Aren't they afraid that players will be too cowardly to pass the game?"

Guoba Ge was tired of playing "Blue Star Crisis", so he turned off the game and chatted with the audience while watching the announcement of Star Moving Company on the live broadcast.

You won’t know the result until you see it. Even he, a veteran gamer, was shocked.

A linear horror game that lasts more than 30 hours? Are you kidding me!

The last game with a duration of more than 30 hours was the open-world fantasy ARPG game "World of Dragons".

And this length of time is only possible because of the large number of side quests, errands, life gameplay, etc.

How can a linear horror game like you achieve the scale of an open world?
At this time, some viewers heard Guoba Ge exclaiming about the length of the time, and they all commented, saying, "Is 30 hours a lot?"

Isn't it just the size of an open world RPG game? Even "Invasion" is hundreds of hours long, so it's not surprising.

Guoba Ge looked at the fans’ comments and directly asked black question marks.

"Fuck, you're comparing the size of an open world game to a linear game? Or a horror game? This is a comparison of a market."

“30+ hours is just the standard time set by the production team after you have mastered the game. It doesn’t mean you can also complete it in 30+ hours. If you are a beginner, it will take at least to hours, and casual players will take three or four days.”

What Guoba said is true.

Even though the game development team has stated a certain number of hours it will take to complete the game, it does not mean that players will actually be able to complete the game within that time.

For example, the game "Rotten Meat" takes less than 4 hours to complete, but many players took a day or two to finish it, and some of the more casual players haven't even finished it yet.

Another example is the FPS game "Global Liberation 4", which has an 8-hour process, but many players took more than ten hours to complete it.

Now, The Evil Within is announced to be 30+ hours long. Considering that it is a horror game, it goes without saying that it would be amazing to complete it within 40 hours.

Guoba Ge held his forehead with his hand.

He was curious now.

At present, "The Evil Within" has revealed that the protagonist is Sebastian, the homeless man in "The Invasion".

Now that the production team has personally announced the dual protagonists, there is no doubt that it will be Kidman, the middle-aged woman on the 19th floor of the tower.

If you say you don’t look forward to the story of these two people 20 years ago, you’d be lying to yourself.

He really wanted to know what had happened to Sebastian that turned him into a homeless person who could be bullied by everyone.

And this anticipation reached a peak after watching the trailer.

Especially the creepy scene changes, the invisible monsters in the corridor, the weird videotapes, the scary TV ghost, and the mysterious enhanced zombies.
Everything is telling the story of the protagonist's unimaginable dangerous experience.

And this is also the point that Guoba Ge is eagerly looking forward to.

Not to mention the setting of dual protagonists and dual narrative lines.

So far, I haven’t seen any manufacturer use this kind of setting in games. It’s basically the film and television industry that plays with this kind of dual-line narrative.

Now Star Animation Company is doing this in the game, it's really the first time for a young lady to get married.

If nothing unexpected happens, the plot of the new game will most likely be very exciting, otherwise it wouldn't be 30+ hours long.

Damn, I can't wait any longer.
"It's released on November 11.1st, and there's still a month left. Humph, I want to see what this "The Evil Within" can do. It can actually be 30+ hours long."

"Brothers, when the game is released, I will broadcast it for 24 hours straight and swear to become the number one on the site!"

“I’m going to add this to my wish list…”

(End of this chapter)