What are your thoughts?
Modifié par DonSwingKing, 09 octobre 2012 - 05:03 .
RPGs should be 50 hours long.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:02
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I don't know who came up with this standard, but it worked for years. Since Bioware decided to halve it with Mass Effect, other RPGs followed. While DAO offered this amount of content even whitout DLC, Dragon Age 2 was way too short even whit the DLC. In my opinion a good RPG story needs time. The word epic actually means "long story". I want a story of epic proportions. I can see why some people might disagree with me, but i would rather abandon non linearity for more actual playtime.
What are your thoughts?
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:04
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More play time would be awesome. The longer the better, but with that said, I don't just want fetch quests to have that happen. To make it longer it needs to have something to do with the story..
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:07
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Mass effect didnt start anything....
My playtimes of Kotor, Dragon age, Jade Empire never went over the 50 hours mark - the same files record the time and the longest first play was Dragon Age at around 35 hours. DA2 sat around 25. My thoughts are that you plunked this out of thin air.
My playtimes of Kotor, Dragon age, Jade Empire never went over the 50 hours mark - the same files record the time and the longest first play was Dragon Age at around 35 hours. DA2 sat around 25. My thoughts are that you plunked this out of thin air.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:07
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more time is good let's have 100 hours let the game never end yay
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:07
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I totally agree with this. The DA2 was a fun game in the DA universe but was way too short. One of the fun things of DAO was traveling from location to location with several random encounters built into the game that added little side scenarios. Like the Dwarf and his caravan to buy items from or the random animal/dark spawn attacks..
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:07
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isn'i 50 hourd a bit much i mean think of the man power bioware would have to put into it
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:07
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id have to agree, i only yesterday did mass effect for the very first time having never played any of them before i was not expecting anything but it turned out not to bad although it did only take think it was 18hours to complete, although tbh thats hardly the games fault once i start im awake till completion lol
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:08
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Well... EAs last RPG was 200+ hours without DLC and using non stop sprint and fast travel, so maybe DA3 will get atleast half of that.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:11
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50 is the bare minimum content wise for an RPG, yes.
By which I mean it takes me with my laborious play style 50 hours at least to do every single thing there is to do in the game.
DAO took me about 75ish, for reference. The only thing not done was romances, and a few of the fetch quests.
By which I mean it takes me with my laborious play style 50 hours at least to do every single thing there is to do in the game.
DAO took me about 75ish, for reference. The only thing not done was romances, and a few of the fetch quests.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:12
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Terrorize69 wrote...
Well... EAs last RPG was 200+ hours without DLC and using non stop sprint and fast travel, so maybe DA3 will get atleast half of that.
wat game was that sounds like something i would like
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:17
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Terrorize69 wrote...
Well... EAs last RPG was 200+ hours without DLC and using non stop sprint and fast travel, so maybe DA3 will get atleast half of that.
Don't know what you mean. EA never made a RPG. They only do ****ty Sports and Racing games.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:19
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Kingdom Of Amalur: Reckoningkrul2k wrote...
Terrorize69 wrote...
Well... EAs last RPG was 200+ hours without DLC and using non stop sprint and fast travel, so maybe DA3 will get atleast half of that.
wat game was that sounds like something i would like
Was over shadowed by ME3's release, both came out the same time. I recently picked it up for a bargin price, a price given to it due to EAs rep being hurt over ME and not cause the game is bad.
Main story, 40+ hours. It's all the side missions and factions and exploring that makes up the over 150+ hours.
It has so much that ME3 should of had. If they had combined both aspects of these games, ME3 would easily of rocked our galaxy.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:24
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Kingdoms of Amalur was not 200 hours long unless you mean 100 hours of travel time and 20 hours of killing random things for set items. I managed to get to max level, finish the main story, do all the faction quests, and get all the lorestones in under 80 hours.
Alternatively, I finished a 121 hour run of The Old Republic last night, and that was just the Jedi Consular story, and I did one flashpoint, a handful of Heroics, and no operations. If I go Imperial in December, that will be another 100 hours of brand new story content, though there is overlap in planets.
Alternatively, I finished a 121 hour run of The Old Republic last night, and that was just the Jedi Consular story, and I did one flashpoint, a handful of Heroics, and no operations. If I go Imperial in December, that will be another 100 hours of brand new story content, though there is overlap in planets.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:28
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Did mention without fast travelMaria Caliban wrote...
Kingdoms of Amalur was not 200 hours long unless you mean 100 hours of travel time and 20 hours of killing random things for set items. I managed to get to max level, finish the main story, do all the faction quests, and get all the lorestones in under 80 hours.
Alternatively, I finished a 121 hour run of The Old Republic last night, and that was just the Jedi Consular story, and I did one flashpoint, a handful of Heroics, and no operations. If I go Imperial in December, that will be another 100 hours of brand new story content, though there is overlap in planets.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:29
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Was 38 studios owned by EA? Last I heard they went under, and closed their doors.
And yeah I hit the level cap in reckoning even skipping an entire part of the continent (the entire gnome area, other that one or two quests in the city), and only doing about half of the Dark Elf part of the world. I stopped playing it somewhere in the swamp area at the end, completely lost interest in the combat.
And yeah I hit the level cap in reckoning even skipping an entire part of the continent (the entire gnome area, other that one or two quests in the city), and only doing about half of the Dark Elf part of the world. I stopped playing it somewhere in the swamp area at the end, completely lost interest in the combat.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:30
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50 hours is a minimum to be honest. It's a singleplayer game after all.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:32
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Games should be as long or as short as they need to be for maximum enjoyment. The amount will vary depending upon the game.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:38
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Me: Finally I beat Dragon Age Origins. It took me 50 hours.
My Brother: I beat it in just less than 25 hours.
Checked the data, turned out to be correct.
How did he do this? I'm so jealous!
My Brother: I beat it in just less than 25 hours.
Checked the data, turned out to be correct.
How did he do this? I'm so jealous!
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:40
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Fixedmousestalker wrote...
The main story should be as long or as short as they need to be for maximum enjoyment. The amount will vary depending upon the game.
Optional content like side quests and factions should add a fair bulk to a game to further increase the story of those that would like the option.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:40
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Abraham_uk wrote...
Me: Finally I beat Dragon Age Origins. It took me 50 hours.
My Brother: I beat it in just less than 25 hours.
Checked the data, turned out to be correct.
How did he do this? I'm so jealous!
Playing on easy, and skipping through dialogue, would be my guess.
Edit: It also counts time you leave it paused and go afk. I know I often am doing other things while I am gaming.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:41
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Abraham_uk wrote...
Me: Finally I beat Dragon Age Origins. It took me 50 hours.
My Brother: I beat it in just less than 25 hours.
Checked the data, turned out to be correct.
How did he do this? I'm so jealous!
Maybe he missed alot of side quests, maybe he skipped every dialogue, maybe you play on different difficulties, maybe his just so good at it and you stink compare to him.
#22
Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:42
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If it makes sense that the game should be that long then absolutely. If however they are just going to add random fetch quests or some crap like that to make it longer then I'd prefer it'd be shorter.
#23
Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:43
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Abraham_uk wrote...
Me: Finally I beat Dragon Age Origins. It took me 50 hours.
My Brother: I beat it in just less than 25 hours.
Checked the data, turned out to be correct.
How did he do this? I'm so jealous!
Your imaginative brother is god. That's it.
#24
Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:45
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With half of the DLCs, DAO took near 60 hours for me.
50 hours satisfies my RPG hunger. More than that threatens my life, like Skyrim and New Vegas!
50 hours satisfies my RPG hunger. More than that threatens my life, like Skyrim and New Vegas!
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 05:45
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Abraham_uk wrote...
Me: Finally I beat Dragon Age Origins. It took me 50 hours.
My Brother: I beat it in just less than 25 hours.
Checked the data, turned out to be correct.
How did he do this? I'm so jealous!
You bring up a good point though, playing time differ quite a bit from player to player so one man's 50 hour game could easily be another man's 30 hour game or 100+ hour game.
