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[Vandicus]

Maybe the quickly as possible playthrough involves skipping dialogue and cutscenes while focusing just on the main story takes a while longer?

 

There's all kinds of way to do a run.

 

The 200 hours is probably a single playthrough, doing every sidequest.

[BabyFratelli]

I haven't heard 200 hours myself, but I think the confusion comes from people having different styles of play. At the last demo I think it was Arryn who said that a completionist play through had clocked more than 150 hours (I would assume this meaning something like 152 hours).

 

I mean, it's such a difficult thing to measure especially in a game that isn't really finished (+20 minutes for staring and laughing at crazy bugs, +40 minutes for leaving the game running while filing a bug report, +10 minutes for grabbing everyone around you to check out the cool content you found that they missed, etc).

[LPPrince]

Each player plays a game differently, causing different total times for game completion.

 

Some players walk where others run, some players stop to take a look around where others rush head on, some stop to micromanage while others press on for the heat of the moment, and some search every nook and cranny while others head straight for the next main quest.

 

If I told you my last few Mass Effect 2 playthroughs with all DLCs each took a little over 100 hours to complete, you might go nuts. Some people thought I just sat there doing nothing.

 

Others beat that game in a fraction of the time I did. Its because I wanted to enjoy the game world so I took my time taking it all in. If I came out and said it'd take 100 hours to beat, people would go, "WHAT!?"

 

So don't take the numbers to heart. Just play to YOUR heart's content.

[LPPrince]

Sounds like a lot of exploration, which isn't really my favorite thing in an RPG. But I'm also a completionist... I have a feeling I won't be able to finish this game.

 

Thats okay too. You don't have to complete a game to have fun in it.

[Ron Brugal]

ima a check the room twice before opening the door.

[Lyrandori]

I wouldn't mind 30 hours, but if people are going to just do "main quests"... then that begs the question, why?

 

The only thing in this universe that would convince me not to play at my own pace and actually explore the game's map and do at least "some" side quests would be the announcement that the Earth will explode within 3 days after November 18th. In such case then sure I'd want to see the ending of at least my first playthrough before I'd die. But, really, there's no reason to go through it the fastest you can, why would BioWare take 3 and a half years to craft and sculpt such a vast game for people to ignore 60% of it.

 

Anyway, even if doing absolutely everything that can be done in any given playthrough wouldn't take more than 40 hours I really wouldn't mind at all, the original Mass Effect took me about 38 hours to complete if I recall correctly (first playthrough and I did almost everything, like 90% of it was done, searched, quested, collected, explored, etc). I think that a full ME2 playthrough with all the DLCs took me a good 40+ hours. I'm content with similar lengths of completion for most games. I'm pretty sure, however, that DAI is quite bigger and needs more time to complete it, and when I mean "complete" I don't mean doing just the main quests... I mean exploring, finding secrets, doing at least some side quests, etc. I'd guess that DAI is a solid 60+ hours game, it really looks massive. I mean just look at the map for crying out loud, check the latest videos where you see the player interacting with the game's map in the "HQ room" with all the other characters around the table, it's absolutely gigantic.

 

Additionally, in that 8 to 10 minutes footage video from GamesCom you can hear the guy explaining the video as it plays that a completionist playthrough (perhaps internally at BioWare for testing purposes) clocked at 150 hours. I don't have the link to that video but it's the one where you see the gameplay with the human female Inquisitor during night time with rain and thunders going on, listen carefully and you'll catch that in the video, 150 hours... that's just absolutely mind blowing. If that's true (and I wouldn't see why it wouldn't be) then let's imagine that you don't have a job and you can spare 8 hours of game time every day. And let's say that during those 8 hours of game time you actually progress, you accomplish things, you don't just walk around and stopping by the top of a hill to look at the scenery for 30 minutes. Let's imagine that you're doing a "completionish" playthrough but without idling too much around and doing things. That would mean that you'd need about 18 days worth of 8-hours long daily sessions before seeing the credits rolling on your screen.

 

Now THAT is what I call an epic journey.

[adorkable-panda]

I like to watch all the cutscenes and read/see all the possible dialogue, so i'll probably be one of those 100+hours per playrthrough people, since in ME3 I literally ran around the Citadel for an hour trying to hear all of the misc dialogue. 

[DanielCofour]

Considering that someone finished skyrim in 54:35 minutes, a game I played for at least 500+ hours, I'd say there is no way of accurately quantifying a game's length. 

[Cylan Cooper]

I'm more curious about how much of those 150 hours for a completionist playthrough were spent with their fingers crossed hoping something they need for a quest would spawn. I once spent 10 hours on Red Dead Redemption hunting for skunks for a hunter challenge. I guess that time counted but it felt like a cheap way to fill up time compared to say, missions or actual side-content. Hopefully those 150 hours just count side content and not things that, in my opinion, artificially stretch a game's length (which a lot of open world games do).

[Shadowson]

I can see myself easily hitting that 150hr mark, what with talking to every npc at least twice incase i've missed something, exploring under every rock for crafting components and lore and redoing dungeons just to see if anything new has appeared.

 

I personally don't understand people who can complete massive games like this and other like assassins creed, kingdoms of amalur etc in 2hrs for example. Your only getting a small fraction of the story, experience and fun.

[Shadowson]

Considering that someone finished skyrim in 54:35 minutes, a game I played for at least 500+ hours, I'd say there is no way of accurately quantifying a game's length. 

if someone finishes skyrim in under an hour.. just no.. they need to have their gaming platform removed from their possession.

[Deflagratio]

As more people play the game, they're going to find ways around situations or faster solutions to problems, so the length estimates are going to come down obviously.

 

Difficulty setting can also impact length. People playing on easy, steamrolling encounters by mashing buttons will obviously complete the game faster than Nightmare Players who have to prepare more thoroughly for encounters.

[Aurawolf]

MORE MORE! Make it 400 hours, keep adding don't stop. Tired of buying the 3-5 hour games give me a game that takes a week to play the whole damn thing straight through.

[Some Attitude]

Why worry about how long the first  playthrough is going to be? 

I already know that I'll have at least one-per-race-per-class. 

If that doesn't hit 500 hours I'd be very surprised!

[n7stormrunner]

yep it vary even on a completionist mine tend to be a lot shorter then partly cause I've been gaming a long time so it takes me very little time to get used to a new game, also partly cause I tend to play on easy because I don't like taking 20 tries to finish a hard boss fight. I can't see me taking more then 70 hours on any play through.  I'm probably going to miss alot of llittle well hidden things.

[Some Attitude]

if someone finishes skyrim in under an hour.. just no.. they need to have their gaming platform removed from their possession.

 

Or have it bronzed! 

[LPPrince]

In any case, I got 195 hours out of one character on Origins, so I imagine Inquisition will clock in with a similar figure.

 

Damn Morrigan did you at least let The Warden stand up and stretch afterward, good lord

 

No wonder he went missing

[Maria Caliban]

You could finish BG in an hour, couldn't you?

[LPPrince]

We're talking playing a game quickly but not exactly speed running, right?

[JWvonGoethe]

Bet Konami playtesters could finish it in 5 minutes max.

[MKDAWUSS]

200 hours? Plenty of time to do things while waiting for DLC.