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[Dutch's Ghost]

I'm seeing this trend lately of games taking to long to complete. For example, DAI is a massive game filled with time sink moments and my first playthrough ended at 130hours, then Witcher 3 which took me about 106hours to complete with still plenty of content still not experienced and MGSV took me 81hours to complete. I ended each game being exhausted and unable to fire up a second playthrough immediately after.

Games are getting to long and I know that people have always wanted long games but AAA games like DAI and MGSV have too much filler content, Witcher 3 being a phenomenal game has filler as well but it's better disguised with cutscenes.

I hope MEA isn't a massive timesink but knowing that it will follow in the footsteps of DAI it will probably be, hopefully they look at Witcher 3 and how they disguised filler than DAI and MGSV.

[Mathias]

Well I wouldn't hold your breath on this, or your face will turn bluer than the average Bioware fan's balls.

[Lady Artifice]

You can probably count on it at least not being as big a time sink as your enduring investment in "I hate DAI" threads. 

[Mathias]

You can probably count on it at least not being as big a time sink as the time you've invested in "I hate DAI" threads. 

 

Oof. Harsh.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Bioware said Mass Effect: Andromeda is going to be about four times bigger than Mass Effect 3. 

[Sylvius the Mad]

Bioware said Mass Effect: Andromeda is going to be about four times bigger than Mass Effect 3.

ME3 took me about 35 hours. 4 times that would be 140 hours.

My first DAI playthrough took 151 hours.

[Sylvius the Mad]

I would deem 80-100 hours per playthrough to be the minimun acceptable for an RPG.

[FKA_Servo]

Well I wouldn't hold your breath on this, or your face will turn bluer than the average Bioware fan's balls.

 

I think this is good advice in this case.

[CronoDragoon]

Then learn to ignore content you don't like. DA:I is around 40 hours for a critical path play through plus character stuff.

[dreamgazer]

I hope MEA isn't a massive timesink but knowing that it will follow in the footsteps of DAI it will probably be

It'll be that way if they "follow in the footsteps" of ME1, too. At least collecting the polarizing shards had substantial payoffs.

And let's not pretend as if planet-scanning and gathering war assets weren't time-sinks, either.

[Dabrikishaw]

Metal Gear Solid V has timesink content as well. Most of the second chapter alone could be called a timesink.

[AlanC9]

Well, they were different in degree. Collecting all the WAs in ME3 takes something like two hours, plus time walking around the Citadel if you weren't doing that anyway. I think ME2 takes a bit longer, depending on whether you're going for all the N7s or for the million-mineral breakpoint.

[Kevinc62]

It always amazes me that people spend over 100 hours on 1 game. I'm not nearly as patient, usually the moment I can't stand a side quest, I say to hell with it, and finish the main quest and let it die. I think the longest I've been on a game is 50 hours.

I completed the whole ME trilogy in about 90-100 hours, only missing some quest on ME3 and I was getting angsty by the end. I hope ME:A has a lot of content, but please  let it be some cool long sidequest, instead of thousand of mining/scaning/mall trips.

[Zekka]

40 - 60 hours max for a playthrough is enough for me. ME1 was like that and some of my favorite open world games are like this too.

I would deem 80-100 hours per playthrough to be the minimun acceptable for an RPG.

Are you being serious?

[Ahglock]

Really depends on the game. 1 character in Skyrim has well over 500 hours in it and I haven't touched the main story beyond getting the dragons showing up. And that rocks.

More focussed or urgent story based games I'm happy with 40-60 hours.

[Sylvius the Mad]

40 - 60 hours max for a playthrough is enough for me. ME1 was like that and some of my favorite open world games are like this too.



Are you being serious?

Yes.

My first DAO playthrough was 87 hours. My DAI playthrough was 151 hours. Baldur's Gate was generally described as 80-100 hours.

[Iakus]

Bioware said Mass Effect: Andromeda is going to be about four times bigger than Mass Effect 3. 

So, twelve colors at the end?  

[Iakus]

 
I hope MEA isn't a massive timesink but knowing that it will follow in the footsteps of DAI it will probably be, hopefully they look at Witcher 3 and how they disguised filler than DAI and MGSV.

All games are time sinks.  The question is if it's a fun time sink.

[Lady Artifice]

Oof. Harsh.

 

I'm not sure my dig at OP was harsher than yours towards the fan base, but maybe. I think I've become a more aggressive person since I started posting in this section. 

[themikefest]

The time doesn't bother me.

[JeffZero]

I'm not sure my dig at OP was harsher than yours towards the fan base, but maybe. I think I've become a more aggressive person since I started posting in this section. 

 

Post selectively. Don't follow my lead at all; I've gotten harsher as well. D:

[RVallant]

It'll be that way if they "follow in the footsteps" of ME1, too. At least collecting the polarizing shards had substantial payoffs.

And let's not pretend as if planet-scanning and gathering war assets weren't time-sinks, either.

 

Yeah but war assets at least tied in and had a purpose, even if most of us expected it to be a bit more imaginative than how it was handled. Planet Scanning was a cinch if you had a guide at least.

 

I don't mind MEA being 150+ hours provided it is 150+ hours of a specific type of content, but not the type of content I don't like (a la DA:I sort of stuff). Though I'll be very surprised if they come anywhere near 40-50 hours of story. Each of the ME games were about 15-20 hours if you stuck to the core and did sidequests efficiently if I recall. 

[wolfsite]

Hi Dutch

[Killroy]

Bioware said Mass Effect: Andromeda is going to be about four times bigger than Mass Effect 3. 

 

Larger, but probably not longer. And ME3 really isn't that large of a game, all things considered. None of the maps are particularly large in comparison to what we're seeing in RPGs these days. One explorable planet in ME:A could be several times the size of the Citadel maps in ME3 and it wouldn't necessarily feel like a massive environment.

But even if they say ME:A is going to be 4x longer that won't really mean much considering how they always exaggerate game lengths.

[Suron]

Wow..you are a special kind of troll.

 

/makes thread about Kojima doing ME:A and says it would be great.

 

/makes thread about ME:A not being a "time sink" and being too long.

 

So you think ME:A would be great with kojima style cutscenes (45+minutes long) but somehow without the game being too long?

 

lmao....wow.  just.  wow.