Always, always take time estimates with a bucket of salt.
Definitely.
Granted, I do expect to take a ridiculously long amount of time finishing a single run, but that's cuz I play super slow.
It would probably be a bit more useful for them to compare the amount of overall content to previous games. I recall for DA2 they said it was "shorter than DAO but longer than Awakening". That was accurate without really going into time estimates.
And there's my point
In my case, Mass 1 was a 40 hour game. Mass 2 even without the DLCs ran me longer. With the DLCs it was 2.5 times that.
It differs so much from player to player that I'd hope for some numbers to go off of, person by person.
I seriously want to ask how (seriously as in not disparaging or anything) ? In ME1 did you skip sidequests and going to all the planet markers - or were you just better at driving and path finding that I was? I burned a lot of time trying to find my way around impassible ridges and mountains in moon buggy.
I seriously want to ask how (seriously as in not disparaging or anything) ? In ME1 did you skip sidequests and going to all the planet markers - or were you just better at driving and path finding that I was? I burned a lot of time trying to find my way around impassible ridges and mountains in moon buggy.
In Mass 1 I did all the assignments and such that I unlocked which was most of them. I avoided the collection quests(asari writings, turian insignias, etc etc)
I'd still drive around the uncharted worlds in the Mako like everyone else who went on those assignments.
And...you'll dig this one...
I loved The Mako. hahaha
And there's my point
In my case, Mass 1 was a 40 hour game. Mass 2 even without the DLCs ran me longer. With the DLCs it was 2.5 times that.
It differs so much from player to player that I'd hope for some numbers to go off of, person by person.
Yeah, I took way longer playing ME2 than ME1, but then I didn't do all the random planet stuff in ME1, which was probably the biggest time sinker (and boring as hell...).
Random, I also take around 100 hours or so with ME2 and dlcs, so yeah, your point isn't lost on me.
Random, I also take around 100 hours or so with ME2 and dlcs, so yeah, your point isn't lost on me.
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Was Awakening's time added to your DAO run? I saw Awakening as being separate.
Nah, I just added its time to the rest mentally afterward.
Ahh okay, thought I was missing something. Cheers
ME1 runs me around 42.
ME2 runs me around 70.
ME3 runs me around 70.
All with DLCs and whatnot.
I forgot but does ME3 actually track how long it takes to complete/game time?
I forgot but does ME3 actually track how long it takes to complete/game time?
Mhm. Well, on 360, at least. Same way as 1 and 2. I just look at my save times. Same window style and stuff, just with ME3's dark blues and reds.
Ahh. Cause I can't remember my Mass 3 total completion times, and even with all my problems and misgivings with that game, I still completed it I believe four times.
Nothing compared to my Mass 1 twelve playthroughs, or Mass 2 fifteen pre-launch of Mass 3 with an additional one during Mass 3.
Yeah, that's going to be problem.
Pokémon: Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby are coming out three days after DAI. That's a mere seventy-two hours afterwards.
I, officially, am in trouble. Hopefully, my book will make me enough money by that point that I can leave my job. If not... reeeally hope they don't need me for those three days,
I forgot but does ME3 actually track how long it takes to complete/game time?
Origin also has a timer like steam, though that's only really useful to know how much time you've spent with the game overall.
The savefiles did keep track of the time though.
Yeah, that's going to be problem.
Pokémon: Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby are coming out three days after DAI. That's a mere seventy-two hours afterwards.
I, officially, am in trouble. Hopefully, my book will make me enough money by that point that I can leave my job. If not... reeeally hope they don't need me for those three days,
In my case, the Halo Master Chief Collection releases the following week.
Will I beat Inquisition within a week's time? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no idea. If I don't, I imagine Halo will wait. I usually commit to the games I give my time to before jumping to another, unless in extreme circumstances.
Ahh. Cause I can't remember my Mass 3 total completion times, and even with all my problems and misgivings with that game, I still completed it I believe four times.
Nothing compared to my Mass 1 twelve playthroughs, or Mass 2 fifteen pre-launch of Mass 3 with an additional one during Mass 3.
In my case, the Halo Master Chief Collection releases the following week.
Will I beat Inquisition within a week's time? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no idea. If I don't, I imagine Halo will wait. I usually commit to the games I give my time to before jumping to another, unless in extreme circumstances.
I don't think I can wait to play Pokémon, though. I mean, its Pokémon.
I'm gonna have to play them at the same time. It's the only solution. And hope either I can retire or work doesn't need me for a week.
I don't think I can wait to play Pokémon, though. I mean, its Pokémon.
I'm gonna have to play them at the same time. It's the only solution. And hope either I can retire or work doesn't need me for a week.
A person tends to be consistent when it comes to how fast they play a game genre.
This is scarily true for me. I'm pretty sure most PSX/PS2-era JRPGs ended up being over 60 and just under 70. Then there's the outliers like 150 hours for Star Ocean 3 or whatever, but they just emphasized the uniformity of everything else even more.
This is scarily true for me. I'm pretty sure most PSX/PS2-era JRPGs ended up being over 60 and just under 70. Then there's the outliers like 150 hours for Star Ocean 3 or whatever, but they just emphasized the uniformity of everything else even more.
I dunno. For me there is such a thing as a game being "too long." I've been replaying New Vegas with all its DLC and I've put in about a 110 hours or so. Give or take. I've done most of the side quests and [re]discovered most of the areas. This feels like a sweetspot for me. I feel like I've explored enough of the game to have really experienced it without having bled it dry and it's kept me busy for a good long while. This is probably my third or fourth replay [first time with all DLC though] and I'm still not bored. Probably because New Vegas isn't filled with endless variations of the same quest. It stays interesting. As long as that's the case with DAI it's copacetic.
I do get restless after a while though. DAO had me getting restless towards the end. I think I may have put a few more hours than I did with FNV in there to get that same feeling of "I have experienced this game to a satisfying degree" but it did start to drag a bit towards the wrap up.
200 hours is a long ass time. Depending on how you define 'completetionist' [I will never hunt down 150 kinds of mushroom because some dirtfarmer asked me to/unlock an achievement] this might fall comfortably in my range of thick-but-still-nice-to-replay or it'll be a trudge that I'm not gonna finish more than once or twice.
PS - have we had any word on whether that 3 hour timer thing that they showed in the Gamescon video was immutable real time?
150 hours.
So they are basically hyping the game to be very, very long... longer that The Witcher 3 as well.
Interesting.
The difference is that when CD Projekt Red says ''our game is 100 hours long" you know they are telling the truth.
But Bioware, with their 30+ ME3 endings...
I am not going to call them liars. Not yet.
I guess we shall see.
They claim one completionist playthrough in their office clocked around 150 hours.
They also said ME3 had more than three endings. Many more. We know how this turned out.
I would not give too much weight to this claim, but that's just me. I would be delighted it this turned out to be true.
They claim one completionist playthrough in their office clocked around 150 hours.
Yep. 150 hours by someone who knew what to do and where to go. So this is 150 hours of pure content. I'm excited.
they claim 150 hours to do everything. probably more like 100 hours on first playthrough, and by your third or fourth I imagine you can get it down to 70
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