Why would anyone buy Vanquish?

Why would anyone shell out $45 or whatever for Vanquish, when the game is just 7/8 hours long, has no multiplayer, and going by the Gamespot review, it doesn't have a particularly strong replay value. There are games that you can play again and again and again and not get bored, there are games that have an awesome multiplayer that you can keep playing for months, there are games that have a long single player campaign (40-50+ hours) and Vanquish doesn't seem to be either. So then why would one get it? Am I missing something here?

...because they like it?

So then why would one get it? greengloop

Because I can.

Got it for $20 and was well worth it.

Awesome game.

Nah I havent bought it but I'm thinking of getting it so wanted to know what motivates folk to buy it. I probably wont get it discounted so I dont know if I should pay $45 for a 7 hour game.

Because it's an astounding game. I'd rather pay $45 (which I did) for a short but sweet 4-8 hour game that leaves me wanting to play it again the moment it's over, than a 20+ hour game filled with mediocrity that leaves me thanking god when the credits roll. Much like Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner and Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, Vanquish was a fast-paced game with a lot of unique setpiece battles and boss fights. I just finished replaying it for the third time recently, and I'm planning to start doing speed runs and no-death runs soon.

...because they like it?

skooks

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So then why would one get it? Serial_Killa

Because I can.

Got it for $20 and was well worth it.

Awesome game.

This.

yes its definitely fun... but I was expecting a whole lot more coz i was really hyped up when I first got to know that it was from the makers of Resident Evil series

i bought it on principal to support sp only games, since of all this multiplayer junk that had plagued gaming as of late.

despite all that i enjoyed it and playyed through it a couple of times

Because the game's price is rapidly going down. It's already only $30 at Target.

Because theres alot more to do in it then just go through the story once, there are the challenges and the gameplay is actually fun giving actual replayability (instead of just other stuff to do) getting platinum would probably take awhile for the average person to platinum it

I bought the game as it looked somewhat original and fun, it was 40 euro and I really enjoyed Platinum games previous title.

Since then I've played through it maybe 5-6 times, which is a lot more than other games Ive purchased with tacked on multiplayer.

You must be a gamer from this newer generation of online and all you do is play the online. To me I need a game that has a good story first, good multi last. Vanquish is just a flat out good game and didn't have multi which is sad, but the game itself is awesome.

The game may not be as long as you want it to be, but then again, this gen I think we have seen much shorter games then the last gen and that is because devs are putting in more work on visuals then story.

All in all the game is good and your judgment istn't fair. The game is fun even though it doesn't have online. Also you can find a cheaper price somewhere its not that hard. You shouldn't judge a game by price either. Fun is priceless to me. You can't judge a game by how much it costs, its just not fair. That doesn't mean I would spend hundreds for a single game but Im not gonna judge a game saying "It just cost too much so its not that great because of the price tag"

I love how people cry about the lack of multiplayer. They need to take the bullet-time mechanic into account. Remember the slowdown in Killing Floor, whenever someone gets a headshot? In that game, it helped the rest of your team get more headshots, but it got annoying after a while. How would you like a versus game off Vanquish with manually-triggered bullet time which affects everyone in the game? It would be pointless, since part of the bullet time in Vanquish is having an unfair advantage over the enemy robots. If everyone's in bullet-time, then it's the same as real-time, just slower. In which case, they might as well remove bullet-time from multiplayer, except doing so would remove one of the key elements that made Vanquish fun. It's designed as a single-player game, and excellently so. Again, I paid $45 for my copy, and got much more than $60 worth of sheer fun through replays and the incentive to outdo myself via scoring and time attacks.

Loved the game, worth every penny, gameplay was amazing, story was great, graphics was astounding, It was pretty sweet to play a fast paced shooter that gets your blood pumpin.

Sure the campaign was short, I finished it in a short amount of time but that was just a sweep through, I barely found those statues and I seldom got the achievements and I only finished it on normal. Oh, and those challenges? they're freakin hard :(

About multiplayer, you know they couldn't make a multiplayer out of this game because of the certain stuff they put it in, most notably the reflex mode, I mean it's a big part of campaign, how will they put that in multiplayer? I do think it's a very succesfull game though and I am already seeing a sequel (hoping)

A lot of the members here have solved your problems on the pricing, try gamefly, or just rent it out for a day or two, it's definitely worth the play

Its a game that you try and beat on hardest diffictulty and with the fastest time.

To play a fun game instead of some slow, clunky cinematic piece of crap that rockstar plopped out.

To play a fun game instead of some slow, clunky cinematic piece of crap that rockstar plopped out.

krunkfu2

Lol. Nice random RDR burn.

Because it's awesome

Lol I finished the game on hard in 5 hours. Then I finished it again in 3 hours on Normal.

If a game takes 3 hours (no matter in which difficulty), then you know it's a complete fail on the developers part when it ships for 60$.

Lol I finished the game on hard in 5 hours. Then I finished it again in 3 hours on Normal.

If a game takes 3 hours (no matter in which difficulty), then you know it's a complete fail on the developers part when it ships for 60$.

PabloEscobar20

Because it features the single best shooter campaign that I have ever played through. It was so amazing that I played through it once, then played through it again without dying and then played through it again on Hard and after I get my fill of Bad Company 2 I'll probably go back to play through it on God Hard.

Vanquish is the highest quality shooter I have ever played and I have played a ton of them across multiple platforms starting with Wolf 3D. This gen alone I've played Halo 3,Halo 3:ODST,Halo: Reach, CoD4, MW2, Black Ops, Rainbow Six Vegas, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, Crysis 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, F.E.A.R., Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Quake 4, The Orange Box, BioShock, Left 4 Dead, and more. Not one single game out of that list matches the sheer insanity of playing through Vanquish's campaign. That game is literally holy $*** moment after holy $*** moment from beginning to end.

To answer the original question yes, I would not buy it for a high price. $60 or $45. But I did play the demo and it was awesome so I went to Ebay and got it for way cheap.

Because the game's price is rapidly going down. It's already only $30 at Target.

XboxGuy1537

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vanquish-blog-entry

5 hours, 4 minutes. Watch and weep.

And again: As someone who imports 40-minute shmup ports on the 360 for $70-80 a pop, I really don't see any validity in crying over a significantly lower-priced, much longer game. Anyone complaining about paying $60 for an incredibly thrilling, "holy $*** moment after holy $*** moment from beginning to end" (as NeonNinja so elequently and accurately put it) epic game either needs a better job or needs to get one in the first place and stop living allowance-to-allowance. God's sake, I paid $50 for the import Sin & Punishment on the N64, and if we're counting speed runs, that's technically a 39-minute game. Vanquish is $10 more and at least 5 hours longer. :lol:

On a related note, I paid $50 for Sin & Punishment: Star Successor on the Wii last year. 3-hour game (not counting the first time through, which was roughly 4 hours on easy, 6 on normal, and 10 on hard, due to Treasure's own blend of hard-but-fair difficulty), loved every second of it, and replayed it over a dozen times. Much like Vanquish, it had incredibly tight controls, well-thought-out setpiece battles in its stage designs, and even more memorable and unique setpiece boss battles. (Also, a delightfully nonsensical story that takes a back seat to the outstanding action.) Quality > quantity, and it was chock-full of the former. So is Vanquish. Deal with it.

I agree with everything pills4louis said :P

new generation gamer checklist for not buying a game:no online multiplayer, only 7 hour single player

new generation gamer checklist for not buying a game:no online multiplayer, only 7 hour single player

BLAS1AN

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new generation gamer checklist for not buying a game:no online multiplayer, only 7 hour single player

javafriek

Am I the only one who did not know what Vanquish was until it was released?

Am I the only one who did not know what Vanquish was until it was released?

z50macdaddy

Hey, what is that .gif in your sig from? Lol

People would buy it for the same reason they'd buy the new Tiger Woods game or the next Call of Duty. They like it. Not everyone has the same taste.

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new generation gamer checklist for not buying a game:no online multiplayer, only 7 hour single player

pills4louis

thats is so true. "Contra only has offline co-op? no matchmaking?"

thats is so true. "Contra only has offline co-op? no matchmaking?"

BLAS1AN

"Only offline co-op? No matchmaking? LIVES?! No regenerating health, and LIVES!!?!!!?! And you only get three of them?! And... What the heck, I don't get to start from a checkpoint after using a continue..? And there's limited continues in the first place? Who thought that would be a good idea? Why would they do that, why would they do that to anyone? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU"

To play a fun game instead of some slow, clunky cinematic piece of crap that rockstar plopped out.

krunkfu2

RDR