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[MerinTB]

Without using a strategy guide or a walkthrough ... I really have to question anyone who claims on their first time through the game they "did everything!"

Even discounting that on one play through you miss 5 origins.
Even discounting that playing one gender misses stuff that happens for the other gender.
Even discounting the quests that only appear for certain kinds of characters (the rogue missions at Denerim, for example)
Even discounting how making one choice eliminates all the things you could do with having made a different choice at that point in the game.

Just looking at what is possible on one playthrough with one set of choice making, odds are that most people who say they "did everything" missed stuff.

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I think perhaps the BIGGEST deciding factor in how long the game takes you depends on HOW LONG YOU WANT THE GAME TO TAKE YOU.
If you want to rush it, you'll get done fast.
If you don't like the time it takes to listen to the voice-overs, to read the codexes, to talk to pretty much every NPC that will talk to you, to double-back over locations to see what has changed since the last time you were there - you'll get done fast.
If you are just in the game for the action, the hack N slash, and want just more loot to find and stuff to kill as opposed to experiencing the world and the characters and the story, you'll get through fast.

Maybe it can be boiled down to - do you want to experience everything the game world and design has to offer as if you were role-playing your character living in that world, OR do you want to create a build of an avatar to run through and complete a game while having fun with combat and such?

How you play determines how long the game takes.

Modifié par MerinTB, 15 janvier 2010 - 06:54 .

[I Valente I]

My first playthrough took me 62 hours playing at a normal speed (as in not milking the clock...or rushing.) I didn't do that many sidequests, only a few companion quests. It could have been longer had I done everything, but I didn't want to lose touch with the flow of the main story.



I believe it's possible to hit 100+ hours, but I wouldn't be able to do that unless I actively tried, I mean really tried, to play as slow as possible. Even in games like Oblivion, those 200+ hours claims you see, are from people who walk everywhere, pick flowers, and do nothing but re-raid dungeons etc. The actual meat of the game ends much sooner than 100 hours. Could be the same for dragon age I guess.

[MerinTB]

I had never "finished" an Elder's Scroll game before because they are too wide open for me and I get lost in having no direction.

I put on blinders for Oblivion and refused to get side-tracked from the main quest - as much as possible, I stuck to it and didn't explore, didn't look for extra quests - the only big thing outside of the main quest I did was join a couple of the guilds and rose in their ranks, but outside of that I stayed focused.

Now I did have alchemy and did use the tower's garden to make stuff as well, so that I'm sure added time.

I did NOT, however, read most of the books. Hardly any, in fact, short of clicking on them to see if they gave a bonus.

And my Oblivion time when I beat the main storyline was 180 hours.



I Valente I, don't make blanket statements about how long games should take people. That Oblivion playthrough barely scratched the surface of what was in that world, and I'm not talking forceably wasting time or making things take longer than they should.