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[FoxholeHunter]

How much of the second one was "fleshed out" by planet scanning.

[Aradace]

Short? really? What, were you expecting 80 hours or something more? Wasnt going to happen. My first playthrough I had 40 hours, my second playthrough, I had 37 or 38 (cant remember). Regardless, that's SoP now days for most games like this. If you want 90-100+ hours of gameplay (or more), go play Skyrim/Elderscrolls or something of that magnitude.

[naughty99]

How are you guys checking your playing time (if on PC)?

Unlike Steam, Origin doesn't seem to track your playing time anywhere.

Aradace wrote...

Short? really? What, were you expecting 80 hours or something more?

 

I would estimate that my current playthrough has already lasted around 50-60 hours and will probably exceed that by the time I finish the game. Considering how many times I died and reloaded when I tried Insanity, I imagine a full playthrough on Insanity will last at least 100 hours.

And assuming they continue to update the multiplayer maps or allow fan-created maps, I imagine I will probably play an additional few hundred hours with multiplayer. 

I played thorugh ME2 once, on the second hardest setting, and it only lasted around 50 hours or so, including all the DLC except Arrival, so ME3 seems to have quite a bit more content than ME2 (or significantly more challenging levels). 

Modifié par naughty99, 15 mars 2012 - 07:31 .

[Boraean]

Took me 35 hours to complete everything - no missions left. A lot shorter than 1 & 2.Hope DLC adds a lot to it - found the game very story driven and of that 35 hours not sure how much time I was actually in control.

Modifié par Boraean, 15 mars 2012 - 07:24 .

[truestatic]

My ME2 playthrough was 42 hours, including all DLC. My first ME3 playthrough, including everying, was right around the 40 hour mark. Both playthroughs were on insanity. The content of this game was also very dense. There was relatively little time doing stuff like planet scanning or mako driving. I felt like the length was good and I got my money's worth. Sorry you don't agree.

[greghorvath]

40 hours on insanity, 43 saves, which for me means about 35-38 playable missions (can be bothered to count). I think that is pretty cool and definitely not short. (Insanity on ME2 took me less than 35, so...). Not to mention the fact that if it were longer, my marriage would probably suffer... Now I only have to think of an explanation why I am on a second playthrough... Don't give us free DLC. Make it good and charge fair for it!

[HappyHappyJoyJoy]

AndersIsLush wrote...

ME1: 15 hours
ME2: 35-ish hours
ME3: 30-ish hours

Did you do any sidequests in ME1?  That's really short.

[Oldbones2]

It's about Quality not Quantity.

I was just glad they made a game that was so intensely fun that I could lose myself in it for days at a time. And replay value? I was one of the people going in who said that ME 2 didn't matter. Boy was I wrong. I could replay this game a hundred times and not be satisfied.

So who cares how long it is?


Wait.

wait, wait wait.

Is that the ending? It's just red, green or blue? NONE of my choices matter. And there are plotholes.

No. NO! That's not true. THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE.

BIOWARE: Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be true!

NOOOOOOOARRRRHOOOOO.


So in summary short/long, doesn't matter since I only played it once anyway.

[AkiKishi]

FoxholeHunter wrote...

How much of the second one was "fleshed out" by planet scanning.

Not that much really. Although I heard that in the Xbox/PC release planet scanning was much slower than in the PS3 release originally.

In my first ME2 game I probably overscanned but soon realised I could do what was required very quickly once I knew which planets to hit.
The problem with scanning/fed ex in ME3 is unless you don't care about the end/play a lot of MP it's always going to be required.

[Tezlaa]

Way too short? No.

[Venix117]

Ran at 40HRS for my completion how is that short considering most games runa at 10 hrs most

[BatmanPWNS]

HappyHappyJoyJoy wrote...

AndersIsLush wrote...

ME1: 15 hours
ME2: 35-ish hours
ME3: 30-ish hours

Did you do any sidequests in ME1?  That's really short.

Not really I also did it in around 15 hours.

[Swordfishtrombone]

My first playthrough took me around 45 hours. I don't like to rush, and I actually read many (not all) codex entries, so my playthroughs of games usually take a little longer than average. I got the feeling the game offered more content than ME2.

[Sirartistic]

How can you people compare Skyrim to Mass Effect???? Mass Effect has a stronger story, better graphics, gameplay...everything!

[Oldbones2]

Except I thought Skyrim's ending was ****ing awesome, in spite of the fact that is was a completely linear story.

[Aradace]

naughty99 wrote...

How are you guys checking your playing time (if on PC)?

Unlike Steam, Origin doesn't seem to track your playing time anywhere.

Aradace wrote...

Short? really? What, were you expecting 80 hours or something more?

 

I would estimate that my current playthrough has already lasted around 50-60 hours and will probably exceed that by the time I finish the game. Considering how many times I died and reloaded when I tried Insanity, I imagine a full playthrough on Insanity will last at least 100 hours.

And assuming they continue to update the multiplayer maps or allow fan-created maps, I imagine I will probably play an additional few hundred hours with multiplayer. 

I played thorugh ME2 once, on the second hardest setting, and it only lasted around 50 hours or so, including all the DLC except Arrival, so ME3 seems to have quite a bit more content than ME2 (or significantly more challenging levels). 

Really? My insanity run in ME2 was under 40 hours myself.  That's all DLC, and no dialog skips.  Point is, combat difficulty doesnt really factor "too" much into gaming time.  Well, at least not for me anyway.

Sirartistic wrote...

How can you people compare Skyrim to Mass Effect???? Mass Effect has a stronger story, better graphics, gameplay...everything!

 

Opinion, not fact.  Plain and simple.

Modifié par Aradace, 16 mars 2012 - 10:30 .

[Tirigon]

Oldbones2 wrote...

Except I thought Skyrim's ending was ****ing awesome, in spite of the fact that is was a completely linear story.

I could agree, were it not for the fact that you can choose to never speak to the blades and somehow, the end of the World just never happens.
Yes, you can save the world by choosing to NOT DO A DAMN THING about it.

[insomniac13]

Oldbones2 wrote...

Except I thought Skyrim's ending was ****ing awesome, in spite of the fact that is was a completely linear story.

Skyrim's ending was pretty lackluster imo. It doesn't hold a candle to Oblivion!

Back to ME3: I'm about 20 hours in and i only just reunited with Tali, plus there's a bunch of side quests that needs solving! I'm not rushing anything, i talk to pretty much everyone that i can coverse with and i play on Hardcore - Which really isn't that hardcore.

What i'm saying is that i'm pretty satisfied with the lenght. Besides, you cant expect a game about Reaper invasion to go on forever.

[Alithinos]

It's shorter because.
A. There are really fewer dialogue options
B. There are no mini-games.
C. There are less no battle-roaming and exploring areas.

There is plenty of shooting though.

[Crimzoneyed]

For me in all three games my playtime was around:

ME: 17 hours. 100%. Casual.
ME2: 30 hours first playthrought and 32-33 something the second round with the dlc's (insanity both rounds)
ME3: 38 hours 99.99%, missed some quest that wasn't possible to do after cerberus attack on ...
On my 2 run now as sentinel.

[MaxQuartiroli]

I'm about halfway now, with 25 hours logged.

Of course the 1st playtrough is always the longest, It took me some time to figure out how do fetch quests and new scan system works. Moreover I spent a lot of time in wandering around the citadel reading all people's dialogues. Same thing inside the Normandy. Therefore I suppose my 2nd playtrough will be half longer, which is not a small amount of time anyway, if you consider that after a while I've been able to finish a 100% completist playtrough of ME1 in less than 20 hours.

[abaris]

naughty99 wrote...

How are you guys checking your playing time (if on PC)?

You see it when doing a save. It's recorded there. At least it was with ME2.

[Plaguemaster]

Mass Effect 3 is way too short

[Julie the bogan]

Took about 40ish hours for me.
Then again im the type of person who takes 20 mins gazing at the birds flying around the presidium wondering how the hell they got there, then trying to figure out what happens if they fly out of the fakesky.

[Cainne Chapel]

Alithinos wrote...

It's shorter because.
A. There are really fewer dialogue options
B. There are no mini-games.
C. There are less no battle-roaming and exploring areas.

There is plenty of shooting though.

eh I dont really think ME3 is short, i've spent roughly the same amount of time in each game honestly on my first playthroughs

ME1 my first playthrough was37 hours and I explored pretty much EVERYTHING.
ME2 my first playthrough was 34 hours
and ME3 my first playthrough was 38
So no not a lot shorter, but then I tend to "rush" by most peoples standards, heck my speed runs of ME1 lasted 6 hours, 14hrs for ME2 and haven't done one in ME3 yet.

and while there's FEWER dialogue OPTIONS, trust me when I say that doesn't mean dialogue is lacking, especially if you actually listen to the ambient dialogue, there's quite a bit going on, and while you cant always talk to squadmates on command, go back after each mission or N7 mission, there's quite a lot said that you can overhear or catch.  Especially the banter between squadmates is golden.

and as for battle roaming, exploration areas, yeah there's not many of those, but technically in ME1 or ME2 there was blessed few of those too,e xcept for jumping around the planets on the moon buggy, which really artificially padded the time as well.