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[Qoojo]

I bought this at release, but have waited due to technical issues on how it ran my system, (well sort of, I did mess around with a couple of characters a little bit), to play till now. I have started a mage on hard, and I am clearing and doing everything in the first area, Hinterlands. I have like 6 hours played on this one mage (judging by the time in saves). It seems like I might be halfway done with stuff in the hinterlands.

 

I assume that there are many more areas like the Hinterlands based on that first map. I like completing everything that I find naturally, and I am obsessive about harvesting. I am kind of surprised at how much time I am spending in this one area only.

 

Will I out level other areas by completing one area at a time, and should I be moving on to other areas?

 

[SofaJockey]

Don't complete areas before moving on.

 

Once you have the power to open other areas, do so.

 

Once something in a new area kicks your butt, go back to a prior area and level up a bit more.

[DragonAgeLegend]

Yes it's been said that you should leave the Hinterlands whenever you can, I actually really love the hinterlands, it makes me feel like I'm playing a Dragon Age game. I think it's the setting, not necessarily the quests there.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

After "like 6 hours", (if you're a collector, as you say you are) you haven't done even a quarter of the Hinterlands. 

There's more, and more, and more... 

 

But as the others said, MOVE OUT!  The game is not designed for "clearing areas one-at-a-time". 

 

It's much better when played in a back-n-forth style, with far less of a feeling of "just grinding it out."

 

As for your subject question:  My first playthrough took me 250+ hours.  Finished as a Level-25 Rogue Assassin.

[JackPoint]

 

its as long as you make it

[Qoojo]

Thank you for the advice. I will head back and do some crafting, and open up other areas. Just seems like I am leaving a lot behind with so much more to do there. Every time I get to a new area in Hinterlands, there's like 5 new quests.

[Shinobu]

I spent 50 hours in the Hinterlands picking flowers. Don't make my mistake.

 

I didn't complete all the collections (but completed pretty much everything else) and scoured each map. It took me 160+ hours.

[Biotic Flash Kick]

the story you can run through in about 12-15 hours.

aka 2 call of duty campaigns 

 

I've had nightmare speedruns with minimal sidequesting and i've finished the game in under 30 hours. 

[MonkeyLungs]

One of the primary goals of the game was to create a game that could be played in 20 - 200 hours. I think they adhered to this philosophy very well and I personally really enjoy the flexibility.

 

I can go full blown no patience critical path or explore every square inch of every map or do (what I love best) tailor the experience to the character I am playing.

[Chuvvy]

More than any other BW game I'd say DAI will vary from player to player. Depending on how much questing you do, if you 100% it could easily take 70 hours, because picking up all the collectibles seems like it would be incredibly tedious. On average however, I'd say it would take you about 40.

[Xhaiden]

I'm at 60 some odd hours on Nightmare and have essentially cleared every zone, gotten every shard, dropped every dragon, etc and am at What Pride Has Wrought story wise.

 

But this is like my fourth char so I kind of have it down to artform. A terrible, terrible artform I can't escape because of my OCD.

[Unlucky 13]

I spent 90 hours on my first playthrough, and did a lot.  I'm 55 into my second, taking my time and trying to to everything.  Expecting that this one will likely take 120 or so.

[They call me a SpaceCowboy]

After "like 6 hours", (if you're a collector, as you say you are) you haven't done even a quarter of the Hinterlands. 

There's more, and more, and more... 

 

But as the others said, MOVE OUT!  The game is not designed for "clearing areas one-at-a-time". 

 

It's much better when played in a back-n-forth style, with far less of a feeling of "just grinding it out."

 

As for your subject question:  My first playthrough took me 250+ hours.  Finished as a Level-25 Rogue Assassin.

 

I finished the game in 108 hours. And here I thought I was a completionist.

[They call me a SpaceCowboy]

One of the primary goals of the game was to create a game that could be played in 20 - 200 hours. I think they adhered to this philosophy very well and I personally really enjoy the flexibility.

 

I can go full blown no patience critical path or explore every square inch of every map or do (what I love best) tailor the experience to the character I am playing.

 

Some of the operations alone take 10-20 hours to complete, real time. You must have to skip tons of content to finish in 20 hours.

[JackPoint]

Some of the operations alone take 10-20 hours to complete, real time. You must have to skip tons of content to finish in 20 hours.

Youu can just skip your clock to remove the timers on Ops, i mean whos gonna wait 20hrs when you can simply bi pass it with a click.

[SofaJockey]

Youu can just skip your clock to remove the timers on Ops, i mean whos gonna wait 20hrs when you can simply bi pass it with a click.

 

I've never done a play through more quickly than it would take for those timers to complete naturally.

Most are 15m-1hr...

[SirJoeofthePub]

I liked the way the wartable missions were done, granted it's easily explotible, but when you take a break from the game the mission timers still tick so for the 16-20 hour timers, I just unlocked those missions before I went to bed and by the time I got home from work it was done. I did find myself skipping the timers towards the end of the game though.

[Dragonzzilla]

All of them. All of the hours.

[TanithAeyrs]

First playthrough on  normal: 170 hours and still missing some collection stuff

Second playthrough on hard: at 130 hours and still haven't visited 2 areas yet, could progress story through "What Pride has Wrought" but I'll kill a few more dragons and explore a bit more first.  I expect total time will be similar to my first playthrough.

[TheJester000]

What the heck are people doing to hit 200 hours???? That's insane to me. I completed the game in 78 hours, having done all quests and table missions, clearing all zones, reading all codex entries, taking my time gathering materials and crafting, and I did it all by walking, having never used a mount. I can't even imagine what I would do for another 100 hours!?

[DameMagpie]

no other area has as much to do as hinterlands but all the others are equally fun. I have eight characters doing different things and switch around, I have found where high level plants and rocks can be taken at lower levels and such, this became a game to me. my level 12 team killed a great bear while snipping felandaris. I had to get a rez, but that was huge fun seeing him come for us

[Unlucky 13]

What the heck are people doing to hit 200 hours???? That's insane to me. I completed the game in 78 hours, having done all quests and table missions, clearing all zones, reading all codex entries, taking my time gathering materials and crafting, and I did it all by walking, having never used a mount. I can't even imagine what I would do for another 100 hours!?

 

I didn't do everything on my first 90 hour playthrough, but I thought the same thing.  My guess is that some people spend inordinate amounts of time reading codex entries?  Or leave the game paused and running while they do other things?  I tend to really take my time with things, and I won't come anywhere close to that.

[NauRava]

You can 'beat' the game within 10 hours in Casual/Normal if you're into speed running but you will miss A LOT of stuff and whole point of the open world by doing so. Complitionist Hard/Nightmare run, however, should take around 80-120h depending how much time you'll use crafting/goofing around but you can easily spend 200-ish hours or more just exploring and solving puzzles.

 

Short answer: it's as long as you make it to be.

A tip tho, I recommend to get out the Hinterlands as soon as you can. You can always return the area to do side quests once you have get little bit futher in the main story because trust me, the main missions are much more fun when you go in them lil' bit under powered. 

[Fiery Phoenix]

I doubt you can really beat the game in 10 hours when you have to grind power points to continue the story. That filler stuff does take time.

[Iakus]

Current playthrough's sitting on 52 hours doing little more than the "storyline" for each zone plus the various Inner Circle quests.

 

Still haven't unlocked any main story missions after reaching Skyhold.