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[SurfaceBeneath]

Considering half the game is spent listening to people talk and there's something like 20 hours of recorded dialogue in the game, I'm not surprised people are able to get such varied play times. Skipping all the dialogue and doing just the mission critical stuff would probably net you about 15 hours. Listening to all the dialogue, doing all the side quests, reading the codex, and spending time mining would net you 45 or so.

ME1 had some ridiculous range of play time too. I've seen videos online of the game being beaten in 5 hours. I've done it in 7, but that was rushing everything I could, skipping all dialogue, only doing the central missions and skipping every planet. ME1 could get some ridiculous long play times too though depending on how much you liked the Mako stuff and cruising around on uncharted planets. My last full completion of ME1 (which includes all quests done and listening to all the dialogue without skipping) was about 17 and a half hours.

54 hours does seem.... really long though. Maybe they spent a night dancing at Omega =P

Modifié par SurfaceBeneath, 11 février 2010 - 10:30 .

[Aradace]

Actually, my first playthrough...(Because I never skip any dialog for starters) I did all the side missions (DLC not withstanding) Loyalty missions, Had 150k in every resource except Eezo, every upgrade I could find, every weapon I could find and finished out finally at 46:17....Soooooo yea, those that finished out on their "First" run at 27 hours etc. you missed quite a bit and/or skipped some dialog lol

[Hoax86]

Complaining about a game that easily has 20+ hours of gameplay these days is really odd. Compare it with Modern Warfare 2, which is maybe five hours long? And add to this, the fact that Mass Effect 2 has much more replayability than most games with at least two major character choices (male/female, renegade/paragon), and I'm really not seeing the problem.

[Aradace]

Hoax86 wrote...

Complaining about a game that easily has 20+ hours of gameplay these days is really odd. Compare it with Modern Warfare 2, which is maybe five hours long? And add to this, the fact that Mass Effect 2 has much more replayability than most games with at least two major character choices (male/female, renegade/paragon), and I'm really not seeing the problem.

MW2 is about 5hrs long? Lol!!! Thanks, you actually made up my mind as to whether or not I wanted to put any of the MW games on my GameQ at gamefly...To which is a resounding NO.  I want WAY more than 5hrs of real gameplay lol.

[SurfaceBeneath]

Aradace wrote...

MW2 is about 5hrs long? Lol!!! Thanks, you actually made up my mind as to whether or not I wanted to put any of the MW games on my GameQ at gamefly...To which is a resounding NO.  I want WAY more than 5hrs of real gameplay lol.

5 hours is actually a long estimate. I played MW2 at a friends and it took us 3 and a half hours. We looked at each other and laughed.

EDIT : To be fair though, MW2 really is first and foremost a multiplayer game.

Modifié par SurfaceBeneath, 11 février 2010 - 10:38 .

[Sir Ulrich Von Lichenstien]

First playthroughs where you don't exactly know what you are doing, don't know how much resources you need and exploring and reading everything I could understand someone getting into the 50 hour+ mark. I finished the game on my first playthrough in 41 hours but didn't recruit tali or samara (thus didn't do their loyalty missions either) and sent Legion back to Cerberus. I didn't read every codex entry and whilst I did visit most of the planets, I didn't mine them all and those I did mine probably didn't mine all of them to depleted.



The thing people have to remember is if you then start a new game you get a minimum of 50k of each resource to begin with, when you think of how much time it would take to mine that, that is a fair bit of time already saved. So basically any playthrough after the initial one is always going to be shorter even if you still don't have much of a clue and play the same way, unless you ignore that you got those resources and still mine every planet like a crazy person hehe

[Guaritor]

Hellebore5000 wrote...

Is this a Xbox VS PC thing? I did all the things people are suggesting...IE. Listen to every crew dialogue, reach max level, hit 90k in resources each, and make 100% in each system,, and I'm no where near 50 hours. 

Everyone is telling me what I've done, apparently there is a ton of content I'm missing with this list.. I just want to know where all those hours are. I don't want to start a snotty nerdfest.


I'm not trolling, I just want to get the most out of my game like I did in ME1  It just took 15 playthroughs there to find it, and I don't have the luxury of doing that in ME2

Not just crew dialogue... there is an incredible amount of people in this game to talk to... during Tali's loyalty mission, after the first part of the trial, before you go to the ship, you can talk to like 6+ people who have fully fleshed out dialogue options, and a couple of things to talk about when you choose investigate, AND you can talk to them all when you get back too... I probably spent an hour alone talking to those people 

They're not necessary conversations, but they add to the game's and the character's depth.

Modifié par Guaritor, 11 février 2010 - 10:46 .

[Aradace]

Sir Ulrich Von Lichenstien wrote...

First playthroughs where you don't exactly know what you are doing, don't know how much resources you need and exploring and reading everything I could understand someone getting into the 50 hour+ mark. I finished the game on my first playthrough in 41 hours but didn't recruit tali or samara (thus didn't do their loyalty missions either) and sent Legion back to Cerberus. I didn't read every codex entry and whilst I did visit most of the planets, I didn't mine them all and those I did mine probably didn't mine all of them to depleted.

The thing people have to remember is if you then start a new game you get a minimum of 50k of each resource to begin with, when you think of how much time it would take to mine that, that is a fair bit of time already saved. So basically any playthrough after the initial one is always going to be shorter even if you still don't have much of a clue and play the same way, unless you ignore that you got those resources and still mine every planet like a crazy person hehe

Agreed, which is why none of my playthroughs now take longer than 33-35hrs (again because no matter what I dont skip dialog in this instance unless it's the shopkeepers lol).  And you can do ALL of your mining in the first 3-4hrs of the game and never have to mine again for the rest of the game, which is what Ive always done since my 2nd playthrough up to now. 

I basically run the beginning as normal, recruit Mordin, get the Advanced Mineral Scanner from Miranda, and then spend the next 3-4hrs mining the currently available Clusters which net me (remember at this point you have Long Service Medal) 220-250k of each resource more or less other than Eezo which 70k Eezo is MORE than you'll ever need unless you do tons of "advanced training" or "Respecing" your current class lol. 

[Fallensbane]

70 hours on first playthrough lol. But I searched every nook and cranny, listened to all dialogue, checked team after every mission or every few assignments, listened to news reports, adds, NPC banter. Depleted tons of planets. Also showed friends a few choice places.



Had a blast, was not bored during a moment of the game.

[Fallensbane]

70 hours on first playthrough lol. But I searched every nook and cranny, listened to all dialogue, checked team after every mission or every few assignments, listened to news reports, adds, NPC banter. Depleted tons of planets. Also showed friends a few choice places.



Had a blast, was not bored during a moment of the game.

[jaethos]

I clocked in 52 hours on my first play through. I did absolutely everything. I scanned less than half of the planets. I took my time and enjoyed the scenery, listened to every add and news feed (multiple times, since they would update as you went through completing missions). I talked to each squaddie after each mission and listened to what the crew had to say after each one too.  Oh, I also talked to every NPC at each opportunity, like all of the Quarians, and I listened to all of the "overheard" dialogue NPCs had too.  They generally each have 4 to 5 parts to their conversations.  Without listening to those you would never know just how prevalent cross-species romances are in the ME universe.

I'm in to RPGs for the story, world and atmosphere, the gameplay is just a means to that end for me. The fastest I was able to make myself go through ME1 was almost 30 hours. I can't skip all of the convos and cutscenes, they're the point of the game for me.

Modifié par jaethos, 11 février 2010 - 11:45 .

[Hellebore5000]

ZOMBO6F wrote...

Zalekanzer wrote...

ZOMBO6F wrote...

Good point that I havn 'nt seen explained properly before.A lot of posters complain about probing planets for minerals.In my game I needed something like 25000 Platinum for a weapons upgrade but only had something like 2000.while searching for the Platinum I came across 3 or 4 side missions.2 merc bases I could wipe out,1 crashed ship,with enemys of course,and another crashed ship that was a kind of maze thing,you had to get from one side to the other to retrieve the flight recorder thingy(I never figured that one out,had to reload a save and just bypassed it)

When you first land on the wreckage, walk forward a bit, then turn around and look a bit to your left, you should see a hanging piece of metal. Shoot that and it will fall down, allowing you to cross a gap that you would not have been able to before. 

Kudos

Well I was level 30 when I finished, I would be higher if that wasn't the cap. (Disapointing since level 60 in ME1 took 2 play throughs). As I said in my opening, I listened to every dialogue and 100%'ed every star system I could find. I also ended with 90k of resourses.

Given the responses, 10% of people responding found a good 5 hours of missions that the rest of us didn't. I'de like to play them, so if you remember the rare missions, please respond  Thanks!

[ownedbywitt]

40 hours on first playthrough, almost all side quest, all the tech i found, ended with lvl 26, Hardcore difficult, listening to all the conversations

[nitefyre410]

lltoon wrote...

G4 was playing with consoles. Consoles are for slow people....

 

I have it  on 360  first play through was at 37 hrs, Second and Third around 27 hours... G4  is smoking crack . 

[OH-UP-THIS!]

Atti Ito wrote...

lltoon wrote...

G4 was playing with consoles. Consoles are for slow people....

By your comment I can assume PC's are for c**kbites.

PC's the "way it's meant to be played", and yeah a few nibbles ............why? Jealous?

[MutantSpleen]

I did 54 hours on my first play, still on my second play. I despise rushing through games though. I don't skip any dialogue, listen to everything, sometimes watch the scenery and listen to background conversations, read the codex. To me games are an experience not something to be rushed through to clock the best speed. Though, it sounds as if I don't know the mining tricks because I spend a lot of time doing that.

[MerinTB]

Hellebore5000 wrote...

I was watching a video of G4's Xplay host and he said his playthrough of ME2 was 56 hours. I seem to have mised almost half the game? I capped out at level 30 infiltrator, made every star system 100% and had almost 90k resources in every catagory when I finished.  What the heck was the G4 guy doing differently? 

Such an exageration seems really unnessiscary .

Personally I'm tired of all the posts of people saying "Obilivion took you 200 hours to finish?  I beat it it ten, what's wrong with you, did you turn on you game and then go off to college?"  Exaggeration, yes, but...

Obilivion, with me putting on blinders and trying my best to only focus on the main quest, took me about 160 hours.
DAO, first playthrough, took me 128 hours.
Mass Effect 1 & 2 are shorter games in this sense, yes, but my first ME1 playthrough clocked in at about 56 hours.

My first ME2 playthrough (I've only done 1) was just over 60, but I did keep track of the times (I have a baby daughter and other responsibilities) where I had to step away from the game with it paused.  More often than not I had just saved it, so if I came back and like a half-hour or more had passed I would reload to not have that time "counted", but there were a handful of times I had it paused on a battle and didn't reload, so I figured I had about 2-3 hours of "paused" time in there, and would underestimate my playtime for ME2 to be just about the same as ME1, meaning just over 56 hours.

Because you can tear through a game in 20 hours that others take 50 hours to play (congratulations, are you looking for a medal or praise or any such that no-one is going to give you?) doesn't mean that the person who took 50 hours was leaving the game on or a moron, nor that you are some great player or very efficient.

If you have a significant number of people saying it took them 50+ hours, why not accept that for many players the game can take that long?
Just like those of us who take it longer just have to accept everyone who claims they beat "the entire game missing NOTHING" in 20 hours as speaking the truth?

How many times does this tired old debate have to happen?

[Fishy]

Darth_Trethon wrote...

I did EVERYTHING in 23 hours on Insanity. That means every last side quest, loyalty mission, ALL upgrades(including the scanning for needed materials) AND everyone survived. Absolute 100% completion....hell I even did the fish side quest on the citadel, bought all upgrades, model ships and armor parts from stores and I dropped by long enough to tell the council where to shove it.

I had absolutely nothing left to do.....all of everything in 23 hours on Insanity. There is NO way they took 56 hours.

Sten:No

[UBER GEEKZILLA]

i beat the game in 52 hours..in that 52 hours i did all side quests alll loyalty missions got about 90 percent upgrades talked to my crew about everything i could to know them better and i lived

[Fishy]

MerinTB wrote...

Hellebore5000 wrote...

I was watching a video of G4's Xplay host and he said his playthrough of ME2 was 56 hours. I seem to have mised almost half the game? I capped out at level 30 infiltrator, made every star system 100% and had almost 90k resources in every catagory when I finished.  What the heck was the G4 guy doing differently? 

Such an exageration seems really unnessiscary .

Personally I'm tired of all the posts of people saying "Obilivion took you 200 hours to finish?  I beat it it ten, what's wrong with you, did you turn on you game and then go off to college?"  Exaggeration, yes, but...

Obilivion, with me putting on blinders and trying my best to only focus on the main quest, took me about 160 hours.
DAO, first playthrough, took me 128 hours.
Mass Effect 1 & 2 are shorter games in this sense, yes, but my first ME1 playthrough clocked in at about 56 hours.

My first ME2 playthrough (I've only done 1) was just over 60, but I did keep track of the times (I have a baby daughter and other responsibilities) where I had to step away from the game with it paused.  More often than not I had just saved it, so if I came back and like a half-hour or more had passed I would reload to not have that time "counted", but there were a handful of times I had it paused on a battle and didn't reload, so I figured I had about 2-3 hours of "paused" time in there, and would underestimate my playtime for ME2 to be just about the same as ME1, meaning just over 56 hours.

Because you can tear through a game in 20 hours that others take 50 hours to play (congratulations, are you looking for a medal or praise or any such that no-one is going to give you?) doesn't mean that the person who took 50 hours was leaving the game on or a moron, nor that you are some great player or very efficient.

If you have a significant number of people saying it took them 50+ hours, why not accept that for many players the game can take that long?
Just like those of us who take it longer just have to accept everyone who claims they beat "the entire game missing NOTHING" in 20 hours as speaking the truth?

How many times does this tired old debate have to happen?

They're just troll .. Ignore them.

[NICKjnp]

Perhaps he took in the sights. If you go to different planets/stations during the game (even if there are no missions) then there are still new conversations that pop up. Also... perhaps they were playing it on Insanity.

[JRM01]

I read this topic and immidiatly had to register and reply!
My first game on veteran I also finished after about 56 hours, scanned all planets, talked to everybody with al possible options and listend to everything they had to say, did all quests, read everything, looked in every corner and found everything there was to find, oh and fed my fish and said hi to my hamster everytime I got back on the Normandy...Oh and didn't even get a relation with any of the crew members, so there even was room for more playtime. My second game on hardcore I finished in about 35 hours, full renegade, skipped most conversations, except the renegade ones, got the relation. And now on Insane I'm just running through the game skipping every conversation that isnt paragon related, still trying to unlock the last 3 achievements. This time I think the game is pretty challenging, even with my much beloved Geth-shield I had a critical mission failure a couple of times already and I'm only at the Grunt part.. And total playtime is probably even more than the total hours mentioned ingame, because of the times I forgot to save and had to start al over again because I didn't like the current situation I was in.. 

So to be short, yes 56 hours is very doable! 

Modifié par JRM01, 11 février 2010 - 05:14 .

[SidNitzerglobin]

Hellebore5000 wrote...

I was watching a video of G4's Xplay host and he said his playthrough of ME2 was 56 hours. I seem to have mised almost half the game? I capped out at level 30 infiltrator, made every star system 100% and had almost 90k resources in every catagory when I finished.  What the heck was the G4 guy doing differently? 

Such an exageration seems really unnessiscary .

First playthrough was an imported lvl 58 Infiltrator, level 28 at the end on Veteran.  Total time per save game was 57 hours.  You could probably knock around 7-10 hours off of that for bio breaks, eating, distractions like phone calls, work, etc. while the game was up however.

Did all the N7/side/loyalty missions and spent alot of time scanning, talking to team members, and reading the new codex entries.

Modifié par SidNitzerglobin, 11 février 2010 - 05:06 .

[Commdor]

My first playthrough was with an imported ME character, it took me 47H 28M to complete ME2 doing every mission and sidequest including the DLC. I only scanned 4 or 5 systems' worth of planets, though.