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overstaying the welcome

Playing some Mercenary Kings  currently, a run-and-gun Metal Slug -a-like from 2014 that like so many others comes straight out of my 'games to play that will honest-to-goodness get played someday' list. It's been something of a disjointed experience to say the least, a game that's provoked some thoughts about one of the pre-eminent qualities of modern gaming: the time it takes to complete, to finish and to call it a day.