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[Bionuts]

One thing that annoys me with many games is that they don't inform you on how long the journey is.

I want to know how long it takes to get from Point A to Point B. I also want to know how many years have passed from the beginning to the end.

[Marakov7]

Oh, I thought you were talking about daggers...carry on.

[Volus Warlord]

I thought this was about how long the game was.

I'd be happy with 20-30 hours in vanilla SP.

[Bionuts]

Volus Warlord wrote...

I thought this was about how long the game was.

I'd be happy with 20-30 hours in vanilla SP.

Too small. I have high hopes for DAI, so 50+ hours is what I want.

[mikeymoonshine]

scyphozoa wrote...

To be fair, most games, especially RPGs vary in length depending on how many sidequests you want to do, and which difficulty you are playing on.

ie. you can rush through ME1 or DA2 doing just the main quests and skipping the sidequests in a fraction of the time of completionist playthroughs.

My guess is, a completionist playthrough of DAI will be more than 50 hours.

Yeah Laidlaw said there were ways you could complete the game relativley quicly. 

I guess you would be missing out on allot of content though. 

[katerinafm]

I'm guessing it's going to be a pretty long game, if only because of the maps we've seen.

If they avoid giving a time estimate until the game comes out then it might be shorter than anticipated.

[Volus Warlord]

scyphozoa wrote...

To be fair, most games, especially RPGs vary in length depending on how many sidequests you want to do, and which difficulty you are playing on.

ie. you can rush through ME1 or DA2 doing just the main quests and skipping the sidequests in a fraction of the time of completionist playthroughs.

My guess is, a completionist playthrough of DAI will be more than 50 hours.

Of course if you go full completionist it will take forever.

I'm saying I'd be happy with a 20-30 hour "average" playthrough w/o DLC.

I mean, if you backtrack for chests, read all the codexes three times, and pilfer through sidequests it will obviously take longer.

[Captain Obvious]

I'm hoping that the storyline is longer than the one in DA:O.

[Vulpe]

If the main story arc , without any sidequest, is ~ 30 - 40 h long I'm happy

[Iakus]

Bionuts wrote...

Volus Warlord wrote...

I thought this was about how long the game was.

I'd be happy with 20-30 hours in vanilla SP.

Too small. I have high hopes for DAI, so 50+ hours is what I want.

Indeed.

DAO length, at least.

[Navasha]

I never pay much attention to how long a game (RPG anyway) says it will be as it almost never matches up to my own playtime experience.

I am a pretty much a full completionist, doing everything possible in every playthrough. So they always take me much longer than the typically stated amount.

[Volus Warlord]

Navasha wrote...

I never pay much attention to how long a game (RPG anyway) says it will be as it almost never matches up to my own playtime experience.

I am a pretty much a full completionist, doing everything possible in every playthrough. So they always take me much longer than the typically stated amount.

The stated amount is mostly for comparison.

For instance, many games tend to be about 10 hours of SP.

Well, some newer are shorter than that, thanks to the new "cut SP material" trend. 

[Fast Jimmy]

Bionuts wrote...

One thing that annoys me with many games is that they don't inform you on how long the journey is.

I want to know how long it takes to get from Point A to Point B. I also want to know how many years have passed from the beginning to the end.

Do you mean Point A as the very start of the game and Point B as the very end?

Are you considering side quests, alternate content and optional material, or just the prime, core main story? Are you talking about hours played by the player, or the actual game world time passing? If you are talking about the time the  player plays, does that include any replayability or instances where you would only be able to see content if you imported a different world state (like the OGB)? If you are talking about the time in the actual game, are you talking about where the main story truly starts and ends, or where the bulk of the game takes place (for instance, DA2 technically covered 10 years from the first scene in Lothering to the last scene of Cassandra interrogating Varric, but the bulk of Act 1 throuh 3 actually only occurs within a five year time span)?

Just trying to get some quantifiers to what you are asking.

Modifié par Fast Jimmy, 14 septembre 2013 - 02:41 .

[Maria Caliban]

Ten inches.

[crimzontearz]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Ten inches.

12!!!


 
On a serious note... I never understood why they would be resistant to share the length of the game or be dishonest about it

[Sanunes]

crimzontearz wrote...

Maria Caliban wrote...

Ten inches.

12!!!


 
On a serious note... I never understood why they would be resistant to share the length of the game or be dishonest about it

They might be hestitant because no matter what they say if its not 100% accurate people around here will use it as ammunition against them and there are a lot of variables including skill of the player and what they decide to do and not do in the game.  People can skip all the dialogue, just listen to the parts that will move the story forward, or listen to every line of dialogue in the game and that can drastically change the amount of time in the game.

[crimzontearz]

Sanunes wrote...

crimzontearz wrote...

Maria Caliban wrote...

Ten inches.

12!!!


 
On a serious note... I never understood why they would be resistant to share the length of the game or be dishonest about it

They might be hestitant because no matter what they say if its not 100% accurate people around here will use it as ammunition against them and there are a lot of variables including skill of the player and what they decide to do and not do in the game.  People can skip all the dialogue, just listen to the parts that will move the story forward, or listen to every line of dialogue in the game and that can drastically change the amount of time in the game.

that is what qualifiers are for tho....

[Mr.House]

There's no use for Bioware to say this since game length is always up to the player.

[DarthLaxian]

Volus Warlord wrote...

I thought this was about how long the game was.

I'd be happy with 20-30 hours in vanilla SP.

for an RPG?

come on that is mighty short - i would be OK with 50 hours for a non-side-quest, non-exploration, non-companion-quest and no-romance play-through (only main-quest - nothing else!)

greetings LAX

[Topsider]

How long is a piece of string?

[Bionuts]

Fast Jimmy wrote...
Do you mean Point A as the very start of the game and Point B as the very end?

Are you considering side quests, alternate content and optional material, or just the prime, core main story? Are you talking about hours played by the player, or the actual game world time passing? If you are talking about the time the  player plays, does that include any replayability or instances where you would only be able to see content if you imported a different world state (like the OGB)? If you are talking about the time in the actual game, are you talking about where the main story truly starts and ends, or where the bulk of the game takes place (for instance, DA2 technically covered 10 years from the first scene in Lothering to the last scene of Cassandra interrogating Varric, but the bulk of Act 1 throuh 3 actually only occurs within a five year time span)?

Just trying to get some quantifiers to what you are asking.

1. The distance between areas. I want to know how many miles/days apart areas are from each other.

2. I'm thinking a hard difficulty run, completing 90% of the content.

3. I want to know how many years the story will be. I'm hoping the main storyline is 4-7 years long. Just something I want. From the very beginning of the game (where we take control of the PC), to the end where the credits roll.

[Sanunes]

Bionuts wrote...

Fast Jimmy wrote...
Do you mean Point A as the very start of the game and Point B as the very end?

Are you considering side quests, alternate content and optional material, or just the prime, core main story? Are you talking about hours played by the player, or the actual game world time passing? If you are talking about the time the  player plays, does that include any replayability or instances where you would only be able to see content if you imported a different world state (like the OGB)? If you are talking about the time in the actual game, are you talking about where the main story truly starts and ends, or where the bulk of the game takes place (for instance, DA2 technically covered 10 years from the first scene in Lothering to the last scene of Cassandra interrogating Varric, but the bulk of Act 1 throuh 3 actually only occurs within a five year time span)?

Just trying to get some quantifiers to what you are asking.

1. The distance between areas. I want to know how many miles/days apart areas are from each other.

2. I'm thinking a hard difficulty run, completing 90% of the content.

3. I want to know how many years the story will be. I'm hoping the main storyline is 4-7 years long. Just something I want. From the very beginning of the game (where we take control of the PC), to the end where the credits roll.

They said they haven't taken a measuring tape out to measure the exact size of an area, but the medium sized maps they have been demonstrating at PAX would take about 15min to walk across if you could walk in a straight line.

With asking how long it will take is no matter what they guess its going to be different for different people, with Mass Effect 3 I keep hearing around here how easy it is, but I know a person that gets frustrated with it and doesn't bother, but I can beat the game on that difficulty with very little extra work compared to other difficulties.  The other problem is if they are designing the game to be replayed and will have content that is locked out will shorten the game.

They never really say how long it will take to complete the game within the story.  If its like any of the Mass Effect games or Dragon Age: Origins it could have easily taken days, weeks, months or even years, to my knowledge Dragon Age 2 is the first and they only say how long the time jumps are, for all we know it might be years in the city of Kirkwall while we are playing and skip three years between acts.

[In Exile]

The length is a silly measure, because it doesn't distinguish between what might be trash filler content and good content.

[Iakus]

In Exile wrote...

The length is a silly measure, because it doesn't distinguish between what might be trash filler content and good content.

But a long quality game is still better than a short quality game