To all you modders out there!

[plutomaniac]

I'm gonna be honest, I can't stand it when people use replay value and gameplay time as a means of judging a game. It's not about how long a game is, it's about what it does with the time it uses. If a game only needs two hours to tell its story and give you the intended experience, then adding on extra time just so it has a lengthy play time would only detract from the experience and act as filler. I'd rather have an incredibly mind blowing hour long game than a good game that lasts 20. Same goes for replay value, I'd rather play an incredibly well done game once and have an amazing experience than play a good game 5 times because it has replay value.

If you really need any proof of this, go play Journey, and then get back to me on how longer play time and replay value make a game better.

An excellent example of what I think you are saying is a small game called Thirty Flights of Loving. It also includes the previous game this developer made which was even smaller and free (Gravity Bone). TFOL tells you a good story in less than 13 minutes, it's really something unique.