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[Qun00]

I see people talking about 50 or 90 hours worth of gameplay, and I just can't imagine it.

In just 20 hours I've already done three quests out of the main five (The Circle, Redcliffe, the Dalish, Orzammar and Denerim) and I feel like everything will be wrapped up in the next 10 hours.

I wanted to take it slow, but the game is very straight forward about it. There is very little to do between a quest from the main story and the next.

The only location that seems to offer a little more to occupy your free time outside heroics is Denerim, and even that shouldn't take long.

[caradoc2000]

My first playthrough was just over 70 hours.

[Akkos]

With Return to Ostagar, Stone Prisoner, Warden's Keep.. DLC.  My first was 77 hours, 2nd almost 65 hours.....  3rd + 4th etc were like 50-51 hours...

 

 

I guess you rushed the game a bit.  At least the parts you already know about.

[Voxr]

Explore, talk to NPCs, do chantry board quests, or supply runs, read the codex entries. If you want to know what's what I suggest looking at the wiki. There's quite a bit to do. Talk to your peeps in camp. They'll give loyalty quests.

[Jedimaster88]

My first playthrough was about 100 hours if I remember right. Back then I didnt have the warden´s keep and return to ostagar DLC. Only the stone prisoner DLC.

 

I took my time. I was in no hurry. I did as much side quests as I could, talked to almost every single NPC I encountered and spent lots of time time at camp with my companions.

[sylvanaerie]

Geez and people bitched about Inquisition's fetch quests.  All games have them.

 

My Origins games usually averaged about 19 hours, but I often didn't do all the side quests, saving doing them to spread out over several playthroughs (so the game stays fresh for me).  My shortest (my last before my DA2-related hiatus) was just over 17 hours.

[Qun00]

With Return to Ostagar, Stone Prisoner, Warden's Keep.. DLC. My first was 77 hours, 2nd almost 65 hours..... 3rd + 4th etc were like 50-51 hours...


I guess you rushed the game a bit. At least the parts you already know about.

Trust me, I didn't.

I often found myself thinking "Isn't there anything I can do before moving to the next main quest?" But there was nowhere to go.

Not to mention that it's the only way to unlock new locations.

[Blazomancer]

Content related to actual combat is not really a lot. But exploring the dialogue trees and listening to rumors, stories as an example do eat up a fair bit of time.

[Qun00]

Content related to actual combat is not really a lot. But exploring the dialogue trees and listening to rumors, stories as an example do eat up a fair bit of time.

That reminds me, how do I go about leveling up until the highest lvls?

Can't just rely on main quests for that.

[caradoc2000]

That reminds me, how do I go about leveling up until the highest lvls?

Can't just rely on main quests for that.

If you also do the DLCs in addition to the side quests, you should get to the level cap (or at least near it) simply by playing the game.

[Blazomancer]

^This. XP can also be gained by donating to the agents in the camp; reward for Elfroot donation is apparently bugged providing higher bonus than the others.

Also consider doing the Crime Wave series of quests in case you are not aware of them.
http://dragonage.wik...wiki/Crime_Wave

[wudwaen]

For me it has been the longest ever for a PC game.  One MMO I spent six years to complete.  I have been attempting to go back through DAO since Inquisition came out with no ground gained.  Levi Dryden never ever shows up.  I have remade characters.  Taken out all the mods I used the first time.  Reinstalled the game and started over.  The online chat for help never works.  Levi Dryden never shows up either.  At this rate, I will never have a reason to play Inquisition because I am never going to be able to get to it.

[sylvanaerie]

For me it has been the longest ever for a PC game.  One MMO I spent six years to complete.  I have been attempting to go back through DAO since Inquisition came out with no ground gained.  Levi Dryden never ever shows up.  I have remade characters.  Taken out all the mods I used the first time.  Reinstalled the game and started over.  The online chat for help never works.  Levi Dryden never shows up either.  At this rate, I will never have a reason to play Inquisition because I am never going to be able to get to it.

 There is an issue with DLC installation.  This wiki page talks about it.  You will need to manually install it (instructions are near the bottom of the page).  I had a similar issue with Warden's keep in that half my games Levi never turns up even after I manually installed it, but half the time beats the no shows.  Shale's DLC worked fine though.  I didn't play RtO much, so I can't say as to whether that was affected at all.

 

http://dragonage.wik...ntent_(Origins)

[wudwaen]

 There is an issue with DLC installation.  This wiki page talks about it.  You will need to manually install it (instructions are near the bottom of the page).  I had a similar issue with Warden's keep in that half my games Levi never turns up even after I manually installed it, but half the time beats the no shows.  Shale's DLC worked fine though.  I didn't play RtO much, so I can't say as to whether that was affected at all.

 

http://dragonage.wik...ntent_(Origins)

Tried this to no avail.  They need to state in the wiki what makes this thing work.  I mean the exact triggers that will cause Levi to appear - game progression, level of character, specific event, whatever in the frack it is.  If it has bugs they need to fix them, years ago.  So far, all this is doing is making sure I never buy another program from them again.  EA already drove me out of Star Wars with the horrible treatment of people by caste.  If the standalone games won't work properly then I have no reason to buy them.

[Qun00]

Well, there's a certain good side to the game not being very long.

It won't be that hard to start over and do a proper canon PT without all the mistakes from the first experience.

Maybe I should do that right now, but this one still is useful for establishing the choices.

[Yaroub]

For my first playthrough it was +230 hours

The one with all the dlcs 250+

My latest playthroughs about 60 hours

[Qun00]

I can see how you could reach 60 hrs with all DLCS together. But the raw, main game is worth 40 hours tops.

Over 200 hrs, though? Please, reveal your secrets.

[Yaroub]

Nothing really, it's just the type of game that i like to take my time playing, so i was basically just wandering here and there.

[sylvanaerie]

Tried this to no avail.  They need to state in the wiki what makes this thing work.  I mean the exact triggers that will cause Levi to appear - game progression, level of character, specific event, whatever in the frack it is.  If it has bugs they need to fix them, years ago.  So far, all this is doing is making sure I never buy another program from them again.  EA already drove me out of Star Wars with the horrible treatment of people by caste.  If the standalone games won't work properly then I have no reason to buy them.

 

To get Levi Dryden to appear, you need to get to the party camp.  I am unsure if he pops up in the temporary camp you get right out of Lothering, or if you have to reach the permanent one (I think you need to get to the permanent one), but nothing else needs to be done beyond that to trigger him.  If your game is bugged so he doesn't appear at all even with the DLC and its corresponding offer file installed, not sure what you can do to fix that.  As i said, he showed up some of the time for me with the following fix.  It may be also you have to start a fresh game as the files may be corrupted in  your current (Levi-less) game, possibly keeping him from appearing for you.

 

As for the wiki, I am unsure if you just skimmed over the page I linked or missed it, but this is the part i was referring to that may be keeping him from showing up even if you have the DLC installed:

 

Be aware that a majority of the DLC requires an active internet connection and also requires you to be logged into your Bioware/EA Online account that you used to purchase or redeem the content. Otherwise you will get Unauthorized info in the Installed Content.

The Stone Prisoner, Warden's Keep, Return to Ostagar, The Darkspawn Chronicles, Leliana's Song, The Golems of Amgarrak, Feastday Gifts, Feastday Pranks and Witch Hunt require the corresponding offer files to work. The installation procedure for offers is the same as that for any other DLC.

• DAO_PRC_OCP_1 - Offer file for Return To Ostagar
• DAO_PRC_OCP_2 - Offer file for The Stone Prisoner
• DAO_PRC_ONRX_1 - Offer file for Warden's Keep
• DAO_PRC_DRK_O - Offer file for The Darkspawn Chronicles
• DAO_PRC_LEL_O - Offer file for Leliana's Song
• DAO_PRC_GIB_O - Offer file for The Golems of Amgarrak
• DAO_PRC_STR_O - Offer file for Witch Hunt
• DAO_PRC_OCP_3 - Offer file for Feastday Gifts
• DAO_PRC_OCP_7 - Offer file for Feastday Pranks
• DAO_PRC_OCP_13 - Offer file for Feastday Combo Pack

Make sure the offer file is really installed, by looking in C:\Users\%username%\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns, there should be a folder of the same name. If it is not there, unpack it from the dazip file (from inside Contents\Offers). It might also help to put the manifest.xml file from the dazip to its respective folder within AddIns for main file and Offer folder for offer files).

[Aren]

My canon DAO playthrough was about 300 hours

 

extra time 100 hours to create a decent character with the toolset and the various mods ,(i swear the CC is horrible 4 days i lost 4 days to create my canon character XD)

 

DAO with improved atmosphere of course,the vanilla game is kinda shallow

-main quest 35 hours more or less (i'm slow because my noble warden is fanatic of cleaning,after every battle i lose time to change dress and wash him either with the brecilian waterfall or with the help of mages (ice spell)+the balsam of course)

-side quests 15 hours

-fetch quests 25 hours

-additional content 15 hours (return to ostagar,warden keep,shale)

-mod quest (like tomb of undead,dark times ,ser gilmore,additional companions and bla bla ecc..) 60 hours (some of them were even more impressive than the main game,dark times and tomb of the undead especially ,oh the boss of tomb of the undead....better than the stupid Archdemon)

 

-DAA and post origins dlc 50 hours

 

-custom campaigns created with the toolset post WH to continue the Warden adventure(or others character adventure)

like trouble in rainsphere(Bann tegan lands),Shadow over telia (like a tour into the black city for the Warden),gladiator,tower of destiny,rose of the eternity,fragment of ferelden,craggy island and many many others the only reason of why this game is still installed,they are pesonal and beautiful adventure,the next that i will try would be the scar of war still in development.

[sylvanaerie]

My canon DAO playthrough was about 300 hours

 

extra time 100 hour to create a decent character with the toolset and the various mods ,(i swear the CC is horrible XD)

 

-main quest 35 hours more or less (i'm slow)

-side quests 15 hours

-fetch quests 25 hours

-additional content 15 hours (return to ostagar,warden keep,shale)

-mod quest (like tomb of undead,dark times,ser gilmore,additional companions and bla bla ecc..) 60 hours (some of them were even more impressive than the main game,dark times especially it was like  a post awakening find the cure to the calling)

DAA and post origins dlc 50 hours

-custom campaigns created with the toolset post WH to continue the Warden adventure, the only reason of why this game is still installed,they are pesonal adventure,the next that i will try would be the scar of war.

 

Save yourself a few hours and DL the character creation program from the original website (you can create and save multiple characters and reuse them as often as you like).  Alternately, I learned to create and insert character .mops via the toolset to the chargenmorphcfg to create fantastic looking humans, elves and dwarves without having to monkey around in the CC at all.

 

I can see 40 hours, I don't know how some of ya'll got over 100...were you just wandering around from point to point (and there are no zones worth 'exploring' except Denerim and the Deep Roads since nearly all the others are linear and pretty small).  Or did you put on the game, walk away to fix lunch and eat, get sidetracked by this or that in the interim, only coming back to the computer/PS/Xbox after you remembered you left it on and running?

 

I think the longest game I had didn't exceed 30 hours and involved the Slim Couldry quests.

[Qun00]

Denerim is late game stuff.

Before that point you will find little to do inbetween especially in the first hours after leaving Lothering. And the very few side quests available later on can be finished quickly.

Finding the lost boy in Redcliffe? Reuniting Wynne with her apprentice? It doesn't take more than 10 minutes.

I'd say the one who claims to have 200 hours probably spent most of it messing with PC content.

[caradoc2000]

Denerim is late game stuff.

Before that point you will find very little to do inbetween.

Only Alienage and related quests is late game. Everything else, such as the back alley stuff can be done as soon as you leave Lothering. At the very least one should pick up the job board quests - there are four sets of those (five if you count Crime Wave).