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[rjabber]

It will take me months to finish. Life is busy and I am lucky to get an hour to play every other day - maybe two hours on weekend days. We have 3 kids, an active social life, workout for an hour every day, have season tickets to my University's basketball and football games, and a demanding work schedule. I never watch TV and dont read unless travelling.



I am playing three character simultaneously and doing all the side quests. I am not worried about finishing any time soon. I finished BGII dozens of times and replayed the game many many times. That game provided years of intellectually challenging recreation.

[Bopjo]

Take your time and savor the game.

[SomeoneStoleMyName]

warrick13 wrote...

 hi  guess i have owned da for nearly a couple of weeks now(nz) and have managed to put about 25 hours into it,
what between work, the kids, odd jobs and general life i didnt think this was to bad an effort, until i read about  a guy who said hes put 150 plus hours into the game think hes nearly done, and a lot of other people clocking the game in  two or three days isnt it mean to take  80 hours plus  at least not including everything.
Now  im just wondering how people  do this in such a short time, do they sleep , go to work,, eat, go to the toilet,
or just spend  24 hours a day in front of the computer, still dosnt add up.
Now i reckon this will take me weeks or even months to finish . Am i strange or just normal are these people finishing in a few days gaming genuis or crazy game freaks, i couldnt come close to finishing an rpg in two days
i do like to take my time alittle looking a round but gee i must be slow. im a bit older than 40 might be iit.
So how about you how will it take you  you reckon?

Dont really know where all the time comes from, but i can tell you for a fact that todays gaming genration has an INSATIBLE hunger! Some people play like several MMOs and tonns of singleplayer games and still have time!

WTB time dilation device from stargate.

[oxygen1234]

Have a job, and wife. No kids yet (thankfully?). I've been waking up 3 hours early in the morning to make time to play this wonderful game, haha. And here I am at work posting during lunch...

[addiction21]

<---- works from home, not married, no kids, single again, and well that just makes me have lots and lots of free time.

[DrudgeRavener5]

I have about 130 or so hours in and on my third game (probably going to go slow this time since I don't want to burn out) but I don't have a job either so that's why I've been able to put that much time into it. Yay for crappy economies!

[bzombo]

it's all about being single. us married types are stuck squeezing things in around obligations. i play at night when everyone is sleeping and early in the morning before i get ready for work. only my oldest daughter is up then, and she goes to school at 8:30. work's not til 11, so i have some time. if i get really obsessed, i could i always play during lunch. i have it on my laptop now, whihc has a better graphics card. got graphics on very high and detail on high. i've found that combining that with any resolution over 800X600 makes for nice graphics and fps, at least for my over 30 years old tastes.

[feroxthegreywarden]

marshalleck wrote...

Dusty Arne wrote...

what does tab do on pc?

It highlights interactive items. Books, chests, doors etc.

I couldn't believe that there was no "toggle" tab option... I have to put something on it lol, thats a good idea, I usually just hold it down with my pinkey finger.

[AiyanaLindari]

I work from home as an artist and this game works out great for me. I can just hit pause, go paint some more and come back to play while the paint dries. Fits right into my work routine.

I don't like to rush games like this so I'm taking my time and enjoying every moment. Still on my first play through. I also get to watch my husband play the game on weeknights and weekends which provides a different perspective since his style of play is quite different from mine. Fun.

[I Valente I]

hmm I've had this game since day 1, about 32 hours in, and without spoiling anything, I'm about halfway through the "open-ended" part. How much game is after that I have no idea since I really dislike spoilers. I've been taking my time, walking everywhere, sent a lot of time in base camp talking to people.



I think I'll probably finish at around 50+ hours, I haven't done many board quests and only 1 companion quest, I might save them for a second playthrough.

[Artemesia Cousland]

This game deserves a lot of time. Just got to level 10 and I think I've played 20-25 hours. The story and characters have made this my favorite game of the year (Uncharted 2 is a close second), and I'll be sorry when it's over, so I try not to rush.

[Ralsar]

My daughter still takes 3 hour naps so I fit in gaming during then. I still won't be done with the game for a few months, and its the reason I only buy a couple games a year these days. Hard to be a gamer with a career, wife and baby though I wouldn't have it any other way.

[KOSZOCK]

Also there are some people who need about twice as long to complete the game (which sums up to much more than it already is; eating up your real life entirely), because of the romancing options.

Running around searching every corner for flowers to give them Leliana. If you haven't had sexes with her the game seems not to make any sense at all. Not like there are threatening Darkspawns running around carrying death and evil with them; NO! You have to set priorities! Leliana has to like you first and this takes much, much time.

Modifié par KOSZOCK, 19 novembre 2009 - 10:51 .

[summervacation]

I didnt realize so much of the DA community was 40+ I expected alot of snotty sixteen year olds..

[BorkisLars]

summervacation wrote...

I didnt realize so much of the DA community was 40+ I expected alot of snotty sixteen year olds..

What, you don't think they raced through the game already, was disappointed by the sex scenes and found another game to play ?

/joke

[Artemesia Cousland]

KOSZOCK wrote...

Also there are some people who need about twice as long to complete the game (which sums up to much more than it already is; eating up your real life entirely), because of the romancing options.

Running around searching every corner for flowers to give them Leliana. If you haven't had sexes with her the game seems not to make any sense at all. Not like there are threatening Darkspawns running around carrying death and evil with them; NO! You have to set priorities! Leliana has to like you first and this takes much, much time.

Leliana seems to be one of the more difficult characters to romance cause she's so sensitive, I guess. I put my money on Alistair ( I'm going to rule Ferelden and/or die trying!) and he was quite easy to impress after only 2 gifts. But now Wynne is saying all these ominous things about how love is ultimately selfish and gets in the way of making important decisions, that there MAY come a point where we will have to choose between love and duty... Nerds!

[wonko33]

Work-gym-home- make diner- family time. Can't really play 16 hours a day



But my kids are older and my wife falls asleep early so I can usually put a few hours in (from 9 or 10 to midnight). I'm not in a big rush though, if this game lasts me until spring/summer, then all the better I got my money's worth.



Next week the family is out of town but I couldn't go because of work, so I might get a few more hours in (6 to midnight) maybe... hopefully

[ausente]

I live in a students flat during the week, and I don't have a decent computer here, so I can only play on weekends. This means that these two days I play all the time; in fact, I've already played 50 hours or so. Hopefuly i won't finish the game till a few weeks, though.

[WildstarGoethe]

warrick13 wrote...

 ...between work, the kids, odd jobs and general life...
So how about you how will it take you  you reckon?

Nothing to feel bad about. You should actually feel good because you have a life outside of games. I love video games. I've been playing them since the early 80s (I'm 36), but at the end of the day they are just games. Real life is more important.

[Battl3hamm3r]

I actually started the game 4 times (2-3h in) because i wanted to see which class/spec I really enjoyed the most... Now im taking my sweet time playing, reading most of codex stuff (some stories/lore are amazing) and doing all the side quests.

I have no idea how many hours ive put in, but im sure it will take me a while to finish the game !

The challenge factor is also time consuming, i often restart fights if one of my character dies

[catofnine]

I got the game the next day after it came out. Installed it, sat down in the afternoon to "take a look" and next thing I know it was midnight... and I was starving due to not having eaten pretty much all day. I remember sitting there that night thinking to myself that "this is going to be a problem."

Still on my first playthrough and have clocked in over 85 hours already. I put in some hours here and there, and I'm still not done. I tend to play games only once, and usually take my time to do a careful playthrough as a result. A lot of the time spent was figuring out the game mechanics/classes, exploring what I could, reading all the codex entries, and taking the time out to enjoy npc conversations and so on.

I suspect I actually have more 85 hours since I do sometimes reload conversations and fights to see if there are different ways of doing things. And I also likely wasted an hour or so backtracking to places I've been for that stupid corpse gall quest. Honestly, all it would take to make that quest "not suck" was to give it out earlier. =/

Modifié par catofnine, 20 novembre 2009 - 02:25 .

[Spaceweed10]

marshalleck wrote...

It's pretty simple. Some people don't have a job or a family.

Both of those are overrated...

[oxygen1234]

The challenge factor is also time consuming, i often restart fights if one of my character dies

I had been doing this as well until I realized that 'dead' party members just get back up after the battle and you can use injury kits on them to cure them of injuries. I think it is an old habit I developed way back in the gold box days where a party member would not get xp for the entire battle if they died, and was a possible PITA to ressurect.

[warrick13]

Just a thought do you think people really tell the truth about how long they take to finish the game , seems to me there are a small number who are are almost bragging about how fast they clocked the game, i wonder if some people arnt bending the truth fork with their imagination just to prove they have the biggest c err rocks in the gaming community. I mean come on who can win every battle or slay every opponent first time , every time not me thats for sure, some battles i die 10 plus times. that eats up a lot of time, or do some people only count the time they win?

I mean to clock the game in 40 to 50 hours straight seems a bit unreal to me, maybe some people

fell asleep on their pcs and dreamed they finished the game, ha ha no but really dont you think some people are trimming their hours down considerly,well thats my 5 cents..

[Cuuniyevo]

The game automatically tracks how long you've been playing, and it bases that figure on your savegames, which do not take into account anything that happens 'outside' of a save game. In other words, if you have to reload a save, everything that happened after that point doesn't exist anymore. I'm about 80 hours in, and am less than halfway through, according to the in-game stat. See the 'My Characters' link in my sig and go to the 'Story' tab on Nahi for proof if you don't mind spoilers.

Personally, I started playing at about 9PM on a Friday and played until my computer got all laggy from the memory leak…12 hours later. After a midday nap, I went back in until early Sunday morning. I've worked 10 out of the 11 days since, so I have only had a couple to a few hours of gaming each day. Current tally: about 80 hours. I'm loving it.

EDIT: I just looked at my hours chart and checked the timestamps on my savegames, and I actually started on Thursday, after work…not Friday. That weekend is kind of a blur now… xD

Modifié par Cuuniyevo, 20 novembre 2009 - 09:01 .