I don't believe it has even close to 200 hours of content.
I am at 108 hours and have almost everything done except 5 mosaic pieces and 2 bottles.
Actual interesting content I would put at maybe 20 hours. The rest is just filler.
Well, to be fair, the number of hours each player registers can be deceptive. My brother finished it in about 50 hours and claims he did everything there is to do. Make of that what you will.
Really depends on how you play. I would say over 100 hours. I could certainly see it being stretched to 200 on higher difficulties (and less skill) though.
Quality content only - estimate of around 40 hours
Plus MMORPG-like quantity content - estimate of around 110 hours
Why are so many people saying they've completed the game, but are missing a dragon or two.
Are they really having trouble killing them, or are players just saying, F-it, I'm done with this game.
It's called Dragon Age. Wouldn't you want to kill the Dragons, and then say you've completed it?
It is kind of a silly question and near impossible to pin down with any accuracy. It takes as long as it takes. What is a 'complete' play through varies wildly from person to person and how they play varies also.
I play slow, read every scrap of lore that pops up on my screen, sit and listen to all the songs in the taverns, wander around very slowly listening to all the ambient vocals. To me that is content just as much a *ding* "quest completed".
114 hours. Missing some bottles, some mosiac pieces, and a landmark on some map. 100% everything else.
Why are so many people saying they've completed the game, but are missing a dragon or two.
Are they really having trouble killing them, or are players just saying, F-it, I'm done with this game.
It's called Dragon Age. Wouldn't you want to kill the Dragons, and then say you've completed it?
The Chantry calendar measures time in ages. The current one is called Dragon Age and the one before it was the Blessed age. Each age lasts for about 100 years and there've been 9 in recorded history thus far. The first age was the Divine Age and was basically when year 0 started and the Chantry was founded.
So the number of dragon kills carved on the side of your plane is irrelevant to the name of the game.
Plus once you've killed the first few dragons all the fights are slight variations of the same theme... so there isn't really "anything new." They are fun fights, but when you get to Emprise du Lion and have to fight three of them back to back it can get a bit tedious. Did they really need to put three there?
P.S. I did kill all 10 
My first playthrough was about 110 hours on casual difficulty. Didn't complete 2 zones and didn't do the treasure maps, have killed all the dragons, but not collected all the shards, bottles, or mosaics, neither did I close all rifts. No idea how people manage to do all that in 50 hours or so.
I finished in about 80 hours and I don't feel like I have THAT much left to do.
I don't understand the frenzy with RPGs having a vast majority of their content being side-quests. As far as I remember it has always been this way.
Hell, I still remember finishing absolute classic Fallout 2 in like 5 hours, with no sequence breaking even. I just did nothing but imporant quests, and if I waned to sequence break I could have finished it in 2 or 3 max. Get to San Francisco as a dumb character, speak to the Brotherhood guy, get to the oil rig, use mentats to pass speech checks, finish the Rig, persuade the squad to help, kill Horrigan, roll credits. Does it mean Fallout 2 has only 5 hours of ''real'' content?
Baldur's Gate 2 was also almost exclusively optional content. Things you had to do; Irenicus's dungeon, 2-3 side-quests for the thieves/vampires, Spellhold, a fraction of the Underdark, assaulting Bhodi's lair, elven city, kill Irenicus, roll credits. Does this mean that BG2 has only this as ''real'' content?
Dragon Age: Origins? People beat the game in under an hour by bypassing the treaty quests with a bug. If you power through only the main quests I'm positive you can finish it in less than 10 hours. Do the Origin, go straight for the treaties in the Wilds, do no side-rooms in Ishar, walk past Lothering, make a beeline for Irving/Witherfang/Connor etc.
Now, could Inquisition have cut down on the number of busywork content and delivered more quality side-quests like Still Waters or the haunted mansion in Emerald Graves? Yes, definitely, it would have improved the game. But it seems to me RPG players complaining about a game having the majority of its content in side-quests sounds like a FPS player complaining that there are too many guns in the game.
Besides, I'd take one well-done Inquisition-style main missions, with their custom locals, big amounts of banter and choices, rather than a hundred DAII-like ''main missions'' which were the same as any other ''go kill this guy'' quests in the same copy-pasted areas as everything else.
Baldur's Gate 2 was also almost exclusively optional content. Things you had to do; Irenicus's dungeon, 2-3 side-quests for the thieves/vampires, Spellhold, a fraction of the Underdark, assaulting Bhodi's lair, elven city, kill Irenicus, roll credits. Does this mean that BG2 has only this as ''real'' content?
Really not a good comparison at all since BG2 did NOT utilize MMORPG tactics such as stupid fetch quests with way too high requirements to complete, insanley annoying map design (mountains in the way, no spend 10-20 minutes finding the correct path that will bring you across) and way too long hallways etc.
BG2's side-quest WERE 95% of the time actual quality content.
My estimation is aprox. 200 hours for an ordinary playthrough.
The first game is only at test. You discover all the mistakes etc. Second you go for the 'perfect' result.
But then you also have the option to change gender, race and side with either templars or mages.
I have a feeling that RPG lovers would be able to spend 500 hours on the game.
BG2's side-quest WERE 95% of the time actual quality content.
DAO was the same, but since then... well.
Really not a good comparison at all since BG2 did NOT utilize MMORPG tactics such as stupid fetch quests with way too high requirements to complete, insanley annoying map design (mountains in the way, no spend 10-20 minutes finding the correct path that will bring you across) and way too long hallways etc.
BG2's side-quest WERE 95% of the time actual quality content.
200 is the limit and sad truth because I have comb through every corner of every map, spend extra time farming and completed the game with no new place to go except waiting war table results.
I wish this game has some kind of skyrim's radiant quest that I can do but then again, there's a level cap.
200 is my 1 and only playthrough. it would be 400 if I start my 2nd run.
I heard it has a lot, Bioware said about 200hours but can anyone who has done a completionist run confirm that? I believe CDProjekt Red said that the Witcher 3 is supposed to have about 100hours which considering that is half the amount that Inquisition is supposed to have it means Inquisition is twice as good as Witcher 3 could ever hope to be which finally settles the argument over which series is better and confirms that Dragon Age is in fact the superior Dark Fantasy series. But that being said does anyone know exactly how long it takes to do a completionist run of Inquisition?
Now we know that the main story and companion quests account to roughly 15 hours of the game's total content but that is only if you are lazy and skip the rest of the side activities like shard collection and goat herding, but provided you do all that side content how long will a full playthrough take you?
It took me 80h to complete the game, but I still hadn't get all fragment pieces, and had a couple of dragons left. I suppose it takes like 90-100h to complete 100%. 200h is definetly an exageration.
Im completionist so Im 111 hrs of my first gameplay. I cleared Hinterlands, Storm Coast, Crestwood, Exalted Planes. Now Im in a half way in a Western Approach ( stuck with a Toth Gates). Also I done with Whicked Eyes and Whicked Hearts main mission ( and I will stop with main mission now). So game could be really long if You want to clear everything. I know that some players will be bored with side missions, and they can finish game earlier, but I want to discover everything I can so I take my time...and I have a lot of fun.
There is a lot of 'hidden' content that only becomes available if you talk to people/read certain notes and boards i completed all blatantly obvious stuff in 90 hours on normal i've spent more than 50 hours on Hard and i'm not even half way through yet discovered a great many thing i'd missed and have been doing astrariums and shards for gear and magical resistance, also trying to get the castle upgrades. If you wanted to complete absolutely everything im guessing about 140 hours on higher difficulty. But the devs have said the banter is meant to be spread out over 150 hours so there's your first clue at how long they think it should take.
20-25 hours for the main story. Anything up to 100 hours for meaningless fetch quests that are so numerous and boring that you'll want to blow your brains out.
So much time has been put into MMO sized "content" that the core basics or plot and characters that were the back bone of DAO have been largely ignored. As a result, choices or decisions don't matter or change the story in any way.
Oh, and Sera is hands down the most annoying character to be created since Jar Jar Binx in Star Wars.
Between 100 and 120 hours, which were mostly anywhere between quite enjoyable and utterly fantastic. Exception: Exalted Plains (northern part) and the Oasis, which were pretty much time sinks with little fun because it was such a PITA to get around and (in the case of the Exalted Plains) full of collection quests that didn't even let you use the search function.
Missed content: 7 dragons, 2 Hinterlands side quests (horse racing and Felandaris), 2 map puzzles in the Emerald Graves, a locked cave in the Oasis and I didn't deliver the last shards though I have them all. Also quite a few mosaic parts, some notes in the Hissing Wastes including a possible follow-up quest. Otherwide complete. I think.
Reading this thread leads to one conclusion : some people are really bad at jumping. Or unable to find alternate ways to get to a certain place.
I am generally a completionist and you could rush through this game at around 20 hours or if did everything and took your time doing so would be around 100-130 hours for most people. Only things I missed was one broken quest from Sola's, couple wall plaques and one region I think from game but that was glitch also which did not record me entering that region despite my doing so. I think I also missed couple coins in the winter palace. My play time after all that was around 115 hours but I took my time (plus including afk time periods while game was still running in background) and could of done it all much faster like under 60-70 hours yet still completing all of that without much problem.
I am level 23 and I have finished the main story, all 10 dragons and most of the quests. Playing on hard/nightmare.
Total hours played is 48 (but that includes around 5 hours idling I think)
I am missing a few quests, landmarks, shards and around half the mosaic pieces and bottles.
I would say you can complete 99 % of the game in maybe 70-80 hours.
If by completionist, you mean you find everything, read everything, talk to everyone, etc... Yes, it can be 200 hours. My guess is most people don't read everything they find or listen to most of the characters completely.
Reading this thread leads to one conclusion : some people are really bad at jumping. Or unable to find alternate ways to get to a certain place.
My experience in the Oasis: use an ocularium to find some shards. Go up the path to the hilltop and turn sharp left, go on to jump down to the place where you collect the first shard. Since you can't get up again, go down to the bottom run up the same path to the hilltops to jump down at another place with a shard. Repeat, then off to the next ocularium which reveals shards you could've collected on the way had you been able to use this ocularium earlier. Instead, Repeat "going up the path to jump down at the right place" another five times.
My experience in the Exalted Plains: chest-high slopes and palisades that look as if you should be able to climb or jump but can't, and where is no landscape feature behind them that would prevent you from reasonably being there except "the map designer doesn't want you to go there". I haven't banged my head against invisible walls nearly as much in any other game in the last three years.
Most maps are fun to explore, even the difficult to get-to parts because they appear naturally difficult. These two, not so much because they give you the impression that the map designer is trolling you.
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