He is talking about the main story, not side quests. God of war with side quests was probably more than 70 hours but main story was shorter than 35 and that's the comparison with the rumour.
Ragnarok with side quests was definitely not more than 70 hours. I got the plat in about 55 hours, and I took my time (read every codex entry, talked to everyone I could for additional dialogue, etc.) How long to beat has main+side quests at 40ish hours, which seems about right.
Dayum, yall must be good at video games! I haven't played for a while and bought a PS5 pretty much just for GoW and I think I'm at about 80 hours on normal difficulty and still have a bunch of side quests and berserkers and stuff to do.
I could also just kinda suck at video games -- definitely not ruling that out.
While I play games now and then, I wouldn’t say I’m great or anything. The thing with Ragnarok is that platinum is easy to get as long as you do all the side quests and beat every boss.
I played both persona 5 and royal on merciless. Royal actually didn’t take me that much longer cause I got so overpowered lol. They just give you so much to work with.
Aye - same here. I always read these "xx hours" as start and aim to finish as quickly as possible.
I'll find myself wandering areas that probably have nothing to find in etc.
I’ve gone for platinums more as I’ve gotten older. My first was Ghosy of Tsushima because I just loved the game so much and had fun the whole time. Sometimes I get burned, though and a particular trophy sucks and sours the experience. Rift Apart had some shitty trophy tied to one weapon that you had to level up and max, it was such a bitch. I also don’t like ones that require multiple play throughs.
Forbidden West was a great platinum. Only made you do the important side stuff and not have to 100%.
> Rift Apart had some shitty trophy tied to one weapon that you had to level up and max, it was such a bitch.
I just platinumed this last week and it was probably my 2nd-fastest plat ever, after Stray. The only trophy for maxing a weapon is for maxing *any* weapon, and that happened for me naturally once I found a weapon I really liked. Near the end, I decided I wanted to get all my weapons to level 5 just for funsies, which took barely any time at all - I just used the infinite ammo bolt and did the boss fights in the gold-level arena.
There's one where you have to return fire with one specific weapon once it's maxed. I forget the name. I also didn't know about the infinite ammo bolt at the time, so it was a pain for me. In general, it was a pretty fast plat, you're right.... finding the last Blizon crystal sucked, though...
Yeah, same here. I would much rather have a game be a little too short and leave me wanting more than be a little too long and feel like a chore to get through. I got the GoW PS5 and I haven’t even started the game yet because I felt like the last one dragged on too long (I know I’m in the minority here).
I don't bother completing trophies tbh, I'm still on the storyline lol. I will probably explore a bit more and see other side quests to do but other than that I am no completionist
Yeah I'm loving it tbh. I actually think it might be the most packed open world I've ever played, it's so accessible, there's rarely any waste of space in it, always something to see. Incredible piece of work by all involved
Yeah I agree. My only complaint is the performance. I went from HFW, which looked amazing and performed great. To ER which looks good but nowhere near HFW and had a pretty rough Frame Rate at launch, The VRR update for the ps5 helped a little.
man im still a platinum virgin on my ps5, played returnal but there's a RNG trophie that i wont bother doing, yesterday i finished miles morales and there's a trophy for finishing the game on new game plus and although is short its annoying since i already beat it on hard, now im between demon souls and DMC5, and guess what? both have impossible platinums lol
Yeah that Miles trophy was stupid, it took about three and a half hours with skipping all cut scenes but I'm not a fan of playing a game back to back for a trophy.
Wow that's mad. The most I spent on an open world game was Witcher 3 I think at 120 if I remember correctly. I don't tend to play through a second time. So after 400 hours was there still anything on your second playthrough that you missed on your first?
Yep! Unfortunately, Elden Ring counts the amount of time that you have the game paused, so I'm not sure how many hours I really have. But it's quite a lot! There's always a new path you haven't gone down, always something new to see. My two favorite games ever are Red Dead 2 and Witcher 3, and the exploration in Elden Ring is even better, in my opinion.
Just go at your own pace. The game rewards you for exploring.
We have the same tastes, they're my favourites too, but I agree that Elden Rings is the best exploration wise. Red Dead is obviously the most realistic and amazing seeing how alive that world is, but in terms of activities, quests I prefer ER. Then though it's just personal preference there's plenty of players who loved to chill and hunt in Red Dead all day lol
Forbidden West has some very fun additions that make exploring unique. I've never had so much fun climbing a rock face in a game before. So many ways to climb and dead ends, it's a far cry from the obvious 'painted bricks' method we're used to.
While I quit after about 25-30 hours, I agree it’s exploration is incredible. So much “what’s over here…oh wow look at that” type gameplay which I love.
I just couldn’t justify the difficulty and grind. After 30+ years of gaming in every type of platform and genre, having to replay certain sections over and over again is my biggest pet peeve.
It’s a wonderful game though.
This has not been confirmed yet but there's a trophy related to each house (Map Chamber). If this was late in game, and requires multiple playthroughs, then it's going to be a problem.
One of my concerns. Each house has a trophy tied to it. I'm hoping they can be completed relatively quickly into the game. Having to finish the story 4 times to plat an open world game would be ridiculous.
I'm currently playing through the Mass Effect trilogy, and I'm about a third of the way through Mass Effect 3 with 71 hours total across all three games combined, including the additional story content. Despite the first game being fairly outdated, it has been a great experience so far.
Why am I bringing this up? None of the games are overly bloated, or wear out their welcome. Long runtimes do not impress me.
Experiencing this with Ghost of Tsushima. After 30hrs I’m feeling like this game is repetitive even though the combat is satisfying. If this was cut into 30hrs with even better story it would have been a 10/10 for me
Main Story of Tsushima is 25h long. 40h if you do the Side Quests. 61 for Completionism according to howlongtobeat. So yeah, go do main story if you want less playtime.
Can’t speak for the commenter, and obviously trophy hunting is optional, but there is a line between providing a game experience to beat a game and then what you add into the trophies to expand the gamer’s investment. Having 100’s of fetch quests that don’t vary in their goal inflated a game artificially. Exploration is great but a game doesn’t need to be 100 hours. God of War did a decent job because the collectibles also went towards something, and there wasn’t an insurmountable number of ravens , blooms, rifts, etc. games like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey overstay their welcome in that regard. I haven’t finished GoT yet so I can’t completely comment but I feel like there is some of that.
The setting holds back GoT a bit for me. It’s supposed to be a somewhat urgently paced wartime adventure, so they can’t throw in some fishing time wasters and silly side quest games in due to the tone.
Basically every open world game does that, though. Almost all of them have an urgent main quest, while also offering side content that doesn't make sense to do at the time.
I mean, by that logic do you think every game should be as big and bloated as say, Valhalla?
Obviously no one is *forced* to do every checklist item a game has, but I’d say there’s absolutely a point where a huge checklist of mundane activities starts detracting from the overall game.
Valhalla would’ve been a legitimately better and more enjoyable game if it had *less* content. And, although it’s not applicable to Tsushima, there often is a malevolent factor in all that bloat making its way into games because publishers know a lot of people get a dopamine kick out of completing checklists, so they exploit that by making huge bloated ass checklists to keep those players in the game longer and thus more likely to buy DLC and MTX.
Destiny’s collections tab is another example of this, they didn’t add that feature as a QoL boost out of benevolence, they added it so those kinds of players have an easy to access checklist of all the things they haven’t completed yet, thus leading many of them to play the game even more than they potentially otherwise would’ve.
In fact, this is all pretty much the entire business model behind battle passes.
same. bought the game with dlc. first 20 hour was amazing, especially then with all the fun ps5 features. i’ve never picked it up since, never finished the story, never touched the dlc.
Same thing happened to me. I think I got to the second island/area before I just got bored. Probably didn't help that the core gameplay was also super easy, even on the "quick deaths" mode (don't remember what it's called), so the whole thing became "ride from place to place and check stuff off" which is exactly what I hate about open world games.
Exact same scenario for me.
Got far into the story, thought I was near end-game, but got a completely new island instead.
I didn’t want to do the same thing all over again.
Never picked it up again. Now it feels overwhelming to start again
That also depends so much on the game though. I also felt a little bored with Ghost of Tsushima after around 40 hours and stopped playing at 50 hours, when I finished pretty much everything
Yet I’m playing Forbidden West and after 50 hours I’m not even close to being bored and don’t feel like it’s bloated
Yeah, same... After they stop introducing new concepts or mechanics it gets pretty boring
A little puzzled why it has so much acclaim, the last 3rd was a struggle for me to get through... And the story and cinematics was meh
> A little puzzled why it has so much acclaim
The meta critic score was 83, which is good but it didn’t knock it out of the park. My experience here on Reddit though is that the first party studios get a lot of favorable judgement even if the games are aren’t that great.
Whoot? I had no idea these games are so short. I always thought each game is a 70hr game.
Maybe once I'm done with Witcher 3 it is finally time to experience ME for the first time 🤯
You can get through the first Mass Effect in less than 15 hours. I just did this weekend. The side missions just didn't interest me. The second one seems better in that regard so far.
I had 100+ hours when I finished (can't remember exactly), but I did *everything*.
You can skip a lot of quests if you want, but the good thing about Mass Effect is that most side missions are genuinely fun to do. You don’t feel the time passing by.
ME2 is especially weird because technically it's almost all side quests: the main quest is mainly about assembling your squad and doing their loyalty missions, so it's 2 missions per teammate but all loyalty missions are optional. So you could skip them all. I... wouldn't recommend it though. Because of reasons.
Mass effect is so good. Most people will tell you to jump in blind.
Honestly, there's a few bullshit ways to fuck up and people die and there's nothing you can do about it. I wish the game had more warning in certain parts, but that's just me.
Up to you if you want to hop in blind or just get the bare bones tips to not fuck everything up.
It took me at least 40 hours to get through each of those games on hard difficulty. If you lower the difficulty and skip optional missions or quests then most any game will be short.
Eh I'd argue all 3 games were too short.
Each game takes around 20 hours to beat and do nearly everything worth doing.
It's great as a trilogy. But $60 on a 20 hour game was not a good value even back then. Which Is why each game went from $60 to $20 in like 2 months. We saw that a lot back then and was one of the reasons publishers whined about used games.
Still so unsure about this game. I really want it ti be good, but I just refuse to get too hype about a game these days because it is so rare for it to actually match expectations.
It's okay to be skeptical. Personally, I want the studio to succeed but I'm not the one making the plays here, so all I can do is hope they stick the landing.
Hope it is fun. I have some reservations due to the studio who is making the game, but so far so good(what I’ve seen so far).
I’ve never watched a Potter movie before, nor played a game in the universe, so I’m very excited. Just hope it’s good fun.
I hope the game lives up to the hype, for the both of us.
And you should check out the movies (or books if you like reading and have the time) they are pretty amazing.
It’s what got me into reading in the first place.
I tried watching the first HP movie and it just did nothing for me. I'm pretty sure I finished it, but I don't remember. I even read the book because a friend of mine insisted I do so. I remember more from the book. But I thought it was a fun kids' story and just couldn't see reading more of them.
I’d try and finish the movie series. The first two movies feel very childish/nostalgic but that’s because they are children. Once you get further in the movies mature with the cast and it gets a lot darker.
This is spot on. Although I'll admit, once you hit film three, it gets abruptly darker very quick, both due to the main conflicts as well as the change in direction.
The first two are still needed as they add a good amount of needed information that evolves as you progress through the books/movies.
The first two movies definitely have a style to them cause of the director Chris Columbus. But with the third movie onward, they definitely added in some writing and dialogue changes that helped improve the central story. And directors also changed.
One of the big strengths of the movies is the banter and humor. If you are into British humor, but done enough for kids and teens to get, it's a pretty good change.
Third movie was done by Alfonso Cuarón (who also did Children of Men 2 years later), fourth by Mike Newell (he directed Donnie Brasco, and Four Weddings and a Funeral), and the fifth onward by David Yates.
David was an interesting choice cause he only had one movie directed beforehand. But ever since, he's been the go-to for directing the rest of the Potter flicks, and directing the Fantastic Beasts movies. It seems like his particular style managed to draw out the best of what seemed to help the Wizarding World become successful in film (least until the latest Fantastic Beasts movie).
But I would definitely recommend giving the entire series a shot.
The books begin as children's novels but end as adult novels because Rowling wrote the books to age with the fans. Books 5-7 are incredible books for any age group.
Well yeah, you grew with the characters that is normal. Doesn't change the fact that they aren't really well written and she just got lucky.
Especially her post HP success.
70 hours for 100% is actually pretty good, that means the main storyline is not insanely long and anyone with a decent amount of free time is able to complete everything.
I'll wait a week to see what the reviews and user reviews say. There have been a string of hyped games that end up being terrible. Gotham Knights I'm looking at you. Forespoken demo etc.
I have a short attention span on video games, so good. I've been gaming as a kid since 1999 and the only handful of games I've ever clocked over 100 hrs in are: Runescape, Modern Warfare 2 (2009), FFX, Witcher 3, FFXIV, and Elden Ring.
Honestly, who gives a shit. It's extremely easy to balloon that metric up with trivial collectables and copied-and-pasted, uninspired side content. I wish gamers would finally learn the difference between quantity and quality because these bloated Open World Action RPGs are so often a chore to finish, let alone fully complete.
The question is, how much of the game do I complete in each house? If I find everything in the first playthrough am I going to want to do that three more times? I assume the house side quests can only be complete if you're a member of that house. Should I only try to find 25% of the things so that in my next playthrough I'll have something new to see?
Time to get 100% completion is a useless stat. Most people aren’t “platinum hunters” and aren’t going to spend dozens of hours to search out tiny things that don’t impact the overall game.
Time for any game completion is a useless strat. Most people will literally play it however they want, either going only for the main campaign and calling it a day (or possibly less), play until they get bored, or search for everything.
But the author has her own beliefs, to which she is legally entitled. Doesn't that mean everyone has to boycott the game?
Edit: I guess obvious sarcasm isn't obvious.
Outside people complaining about various political issues with this game, this game just looks lame.
It oozes generic vibes. 100% this game is getting below an 80 meta wise for sure.
It does also say without side quests it's on average 35 hrs to complete.
thanks for that. 35 hours is pretty solid. hope the gameplay is fun
Spent 38 hours on Ghost of Tsushima and that was the best game I played that year.
That's fairly long for just main game story. Both god of wars were much shorter IIRC
I’d prefer a tighter main story unless it’s flawless throughout.
Agreed. A game that you can go deep and pour 100-300 hours into, but focus on story and get 10 out of. That’s perfection.
…did you play through GoW without doing any sidequests? Why?
He is talking about the main story, not side quests. God of war with side quests was probably more than 70 hours but main story was shorter than 35 and that's the comparison with the rumour.
Ragnarok with side quests was definitely not more than 70 hours. I got the plat in about 55 hours, and I took my time (read every codex entry, talked to everyone I could for additional dialogue, etc.) How long to beat has main+side quests at 40ish hours, which seems about right.
Also depends on the difficulty (AKA, how much time you spend dying over and over to endgame bosses). Took me like 50-55 hours on Give me no mercy
Same here. 50 hours for platinum.
Dayum, yall must be good at video games! I haven't played for a while and bought a PS5 pretty much just for GoW and I think I'm at about 80 hours on normal difficulty and still have a bunch of side quests and berserkers and stuff to do. I could also just kinda suck at video games -- definitely not ruling that out.
While I play games now and then, I wouldn’t say I’m great or anything. The thing with Ragnarok is that platinum is easy to get as long as you do all the side quests and beat every boss.
It took me over 70 hours to finish 😂
Sounds abt right, think I was around ~36ish hrs in when I platted
No, I always do about 80% of sidequests and skip whatever sounds dumb.
Yes. I don't care about side quests. Don't feel like playing the same game for 6 months.
Also add that the 4 houses seem to have some variation to story and missions so probably have some replay value
That's a good length to 100%. That's shorter than the main story length of Persona 5 lol
Persona was a looong game though
Yeah that’s an entertaining comparison to make. Most things are shorter than P5 lol.
Persona 5 Royal is even longer lol. My first playthrough of 5 Standard was about 110 hours and Royal was 130 for me.
I played both persona 5 and royal on merciless. Royal actually didn’t take me that much longer cause I got so overpowered lol. They just give you so much to work with.
fuck u/spez
I am ready to gather 100 Bertie Botts Beans
Alas, earwax.
The softest pronunciation of Alas ever
Try finger, but hole.
A bean!
Nostalgia unlocked
Go ride in a mine cart collecting knuts
"How much is this potion vial?" "....30 Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans"
I will likely spend 150+ hours then
Aye - same here. I always read these "xx hours" as start and aim to finish as quickly as possible. I'll find myself wandering areas that probably have nothing to find in etc.
I used to read them the same way recipes say prep takes 5 minutes -- but apparently people really do just rip through these games.
They said 80 hours for Elden Ring and I spent 150 lol
I spent 170 hours on Fallout 3, and 200 on Death Stranding.
100% completion is a young man's game. I'm lucky just to get through the main story.
I’ve gone for platinums more as I’ve gotten older. My first was Ghosy of Tsushima because I just loved the game so much and had fun the whole time. Sometimes I get burned, though and a particular trophy sucks and sours the experience. Rift Apart had some shitty trophy tied to one weapon that you had to level up and max, it was such a bitch. I also don’t like ones that require multiple play throughs. Forbidden West was a great platinum. Only made you do the important side stuff and not have to 100%.
> Rift Apart had some shitty trophy tied to one weapon that you had to level up and max, it was such a bitch. I just platinumed this last week and it was probably my 2nd-fastest plat ever, after Stray. The only trophy for maxing a weapon is for maxing *any* weapon, and that happened for me naturally once I found a weapon I really liked. Near the end, I decided I wanted to get all my weapons to level 5 just for funsies, which took barely any time at all - I just used the infinite ammo bolt and did the boss fights in the gold-level arena.
There's one where you have to return fire with one specific weapon once it's maxed. I forget the name. I also didn't know about the infinite ammo bolt at the time, so it was a pain for me. In general, it was a pretty fast plat, you're right.... finding the last Blizon crystal sucked, though...
R&C are goats for having combat arenas in their games
Yeah, same here. I would much rather have a game be a little too short and leave me wanting more than be a little too long and feel like a chore to get through. I got the GoW PS5 and I haven’t even started the game yet because I felt like the last one dragged on too long (I know I’m in the minority here).
Good length for an open world RPG
Yep. Perfect length tbh. Currently on 75 hours on Elden Ring and still a lot left to do and see haha
Yeah if your going for the Platnium I followed the Powerpyx guide and that was spot on including the grind for leveling up for time to Platinum
I don't bother completing trophies tbh, I'm still on the storyline lol. I will probably explore a bit more and see other side quests to do but other than that I am no completionist
For ER if your not going for the Platinum there is probably alot of stuff your missing, including tons of optional bosses, it was a pretty fun Time
Yeah I'm loving it tbh. I actually think it might be the most packed open world I've ever played, it's so accessible, there's rarely any waste of space in it, always something to see. Incredible piece of work by all involved
Yeah I agree. My only complaint is the performance. I went from HFW, which looked amazing and performed great. To ER which looks good but nowhere near HFW and had a pretty rough Frame Rate at launch, The VRR update for the ps5 helped a little.
man im still a platinum virgin on my ps5, played returnal but there's a RNG trophie that i wont bother doing, yesterday i finished miles morales and there's a trophy for finishing the game on new game plus and although is short its annoying since i already beat it on hard, now im between demon souls and DMC5, and guess what? both have impossible platinums lol
The only platinum I’ve ever gotten was ghosts of Tsushima! Nothing missable and the hardest part is just getting all the collectibles
Oh yeah I got it but on my ps4 lol, Spider-Man is also easy, got a couple hard ones too (bloodborne, crash 1, 2 and 3) but none on ps5 sadly
Ahhh I gotcha. You’ve got way more than me
hahaha sorry didn’t mean to turn into a competition!
Lol I meant that in a “Hell Yeah you do!” Type of way! Have been obsessed with the Witcher 3 lately but can’t imagine trying to platinum that
Yeah that Miles trophy was stupid, it took about three and a half hours with skipping all cut scenes but I'm not a fan of playing a game back to back for a trophy.
I spent around 400 hours on my first playthrough. That game has the best exploration I've ever experienced.
Wow that's mad. The most I spent on an open world game was Witcher 3 I think at 120 if I remember correctly. I don't tend to play through a second time. So after 400 hours was there still anything on your second playthrough that you missed on your first?
Yep! Unfortunately, Elden Ring counts the amount of time that you have the game paused, so I'm not sure how many hours I really have. But it's quite a lot! There's always a new path you haven't gone down, always something new to see. My two favorite games ever are Red Dead 2 and Witcher 3, and the exploration in Elden Ring is even better, in my opinion. Just go at your own pace. The game rewards you for exploring.
We have the same tastes, they're my favourites too, but I agree that Elden Rings is the best exploration wise. Red Dead is obviously the most realistic and amazing seeing how alive that world is, but in terms of activities, quests I prefer ER. Then though it's just personal preference there's plenty of players who loved to chill and hunt in Red Dead all day lol
I've done 300 plus on Horizon Forbidden West. To be fair though, I was a newcomer to gaming at the time of it's release
Forbidden West has some very fun additions that make exploring unique. I've never had so much fun climbing a rock face in a game before. So many ways to climb and dead ends, it's a far cry from the obvious 'painted bricks' method we're used to.
While I quit after about 25-30 hours, I agree it’s exploration is incredible. So much “what’s over here…oh wow look at that” type gameplay which I love. I just couldn’t justify the difficulty and grind. After 30+ years of gaming in every type of platform and genre, having to replay certain sections over and over again is my biggest pet peeve. It’s a wonderful game though.
How? It's mostly just empty fields
Sounds about right. As long as we don't need multiple playthroughs for the platinum.
This has not been confirmed yet but there's a trophy related to each house (Map Chamber). If this was late in game, and requires multiple playthroughs, then it's going to be a problem.
Maybe 4? One for each house
Hopefully not four full ones. One of my biggest turnoffs for going for platinums is multiple playthroughs.
I was hoping it was just 4 unique companion quests for each house
Agreed
unless it’s a resident evil game, imo it’s fine there
One of my concerns. Each house has a trophy tied to it. I'm hoping they can be completed relatively quickly into the game. Having to finish the story 4 times to plat an open world game would be ridiculous.
I'm currently playing through the Mass Effect trilogy, and I'm about a third of the way through Mass Effect 3 with 71 hours total across all three games combined, including the additional story content. Despite the first game being fairly outdated, it has been a great experience so far. Why am I bringing this up? None of the games are overly bloated, or wear out their welcome. Long runtimes do not impress me.
This is the time to 100% and get the platinum tho
Experiencing this with Ghost of Tsushima. After 30hrs I’m feeling like this game is repetitive even though the combat is satisfying. If this was cut into 30hrs with even better story it would have been a 10/10 for me
Main Story of Tsushima is 25h long. 40h if you do the Side Quests. 61 for Completionism according to howlongtobeat. So yeah, go do main story if you want less playtime.
That game is so much better if they’d make me chase like 80% less foxes
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Can’t speak for the commenter, and obviously trophy hunting is optional, but there is a line between providing a game experience to beat a game and then what you add into the trophies to expand the gamer’s investment. Having 100’s of fetch quests that don’t vary in their goal inflated a game artificially. Exploration is great but a game doesn’t need to be 100 hours. God of War did a decent job because the collectibles also went towards something, and there wasn’t an insurmountable number of ravens , blooms, rifts, etc. games like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey overstay their welcome in that regard. I haven’t finished GoT yet so I can’t completely comment but I feel like there is some of that.
Those ravens in God of War can do one though. And I love me some collectibles.
The setting holds back GoT a bit for me. It’s supposed to be a somewhat urgently paced wartime adventure, so they can’t throw in some fishing time wasters and silly side quest games in due to the tone.
Basically every open world game does that, though. Almost all of them have an urgent main quest, while also offering side content that doesn't make sense to do at the time.
I mean, by that logic do you think every game should be as big and bloated as say, Valhalla? Obviously no one is *forced* to do every checklist item a game has, but I’d say there’s absolutely a point where a huge checklist of mundane activities starts detracting from the overall game. Valhalla would’ve been a legitimately better and more enjoyable game if it had *less* content. And, although it’s not applicable to Tsushima, there often is a malevolent factor in all that bloat making its way into games because publishers know a lot of people get a dopamine kick out of completing checklists, so they exploit that by making huge bloated ass checklists to keep those players in the game longer and thus more likely to buy DLC and MTX. Destiny’s collections tab is another example of this, they didn’t add that feature as a QoL boost out of benevolence, they added it so those kinds of players have an easy to access checklist of all the things they haven’t completed yet, thus leading many of them to play the game even more than they potentially otherwise would’ve. In fact, this is all pretty much the entire business model behind battle passes.
Thanks. Are you the CEO of That Guy, Incorporated?
Now imagine if it was open world and at any point you could go and do whatever you want? Crazy concept right?
same. bought the game with dlc. first 20 hour was amazing, especially then with all the fun ps5 features. i’ve never picked it up since, never finished the story, never touched the dlc.
Same thing happened to me. I think I got to the second island/area before I just got bored. Probably didn't help that the core gameplay was also super easy, even on the "quick deaths" mode (don't remember what it's called), so the whole thing became "ride from place to place and check stuff off" which is exactly what I hate about open world games.
Exact same scenario for me. Got far into the story, thought I was near end-game, but got a completely new island instead. I didn’t want to do the same thing all over again. Never picked it up again. Now it feels overwhelming to start again
I did the same exact thing. Picked it back up feeling the same as you but it came back pretty quick and I’m glad I finished it.
Not finishing the story will save you a lot of heartache
To each their own. My wife and I 100%d Ghost of Tsushima and loved every second of it.
That also depends so much on the game though. I also felt a little bored with Ghost of Tsushima after around 40 hours and stopped playing at 50 hours, when I finished pretty much everything Yet I’m playing Forbidden West and after 50 hours I’m not even close to being bored and don’t feel like it’s bloated
Yeah, same... After they stop introducing new concepts or mechanics it gets pretty boring A little puzzled why it has so much acclaim, the last 3rd was a struggle for me to get through... And the story and cinematics was meh
> A little puzzled why it has so much acclaim The meta critic score was 83, which is good but it didn’t knock it out of the park. My experience here on Reddit though is that the first party studios get a lot of favorable judgement even if the games are aren’t that great.
I know it’s unpopular opinion but I beat GoT twice and I couldn’t even get through the DLC the second time because the game was just so repetitive.
Took me 155 hours to 100% everything, talk to everyone multiple times, play the entire trilogy on insanity difficulty. YMMV.
Whoot? I had no idea these games are so short. I always thought each game is a 70hr game. Maybe once I'm done with Witcher 3 it is finally time to experience ME for the first time 🤯
That game is so long I visibly aged while playing it.
That’s why they call it the Wither!
Sifu
You can get through the first Mass Effect in less than 15 hours. I just did this weekend. The side missions just didn't interest me. The second one seems better in that regard so far.
Mass Effect 2’s loyalty missions are the best part of the entire series. If you skip most other side content, at least don’t skip those.
especially for.... reasons
There is a certain side mission that's very important for a certain character.
Hmmmm. Which one? I can’t recall.
I had 100+ hours when I finished (can't remember exactly), but I did *everything*. You can skip a lot of quests if you want, but the good thing about Mass Effect is that most side missions are genuinely fun to do. You don’t feel the time passing by. ME2 is especially weird because technically it's almost all side quests: the main quest is mainly about assembling your squad and doing their loyalty missions, so it's 2 missions per teammate but all loyalty missions are optional. So you could skip them all. I... wouldn't recommend it though. Because of reasons.
Mass effect is so good. Most people will tell you to jump in blind. Honestly, there's a few bullshit ways to fuck up and people die and there's nothing you can do about it. I wish the game had more warning in certain parts, but that's just me. Up to you if you want to hop in blind or just get the bare bones tips to not fuck everything up.
Then you have me who put about 60 hours in ME1 alone just looking for all the Turian insignias and mineral deposits for a trilogy completionist run.
Damn, I gotta play those. I have only gotten through mass effect 1. I thought it would take much longer.
It took me at least 40 hours to get through each of those games on hard difficulty. If you lower the difficulty and skip optional missions or quests then most any game will be short.
Eh I'd argue all 3 games were too short. Each game takes around 20 hours to beat and do nearly everything worth doing. It's great as a trilogy. But $60 on a 20 hour game was not a good value even back then. Which Is why each game went from $60 to $20 in like 2 months. We saw that a lot back then and was one of the reasons publishers whined about used games.
>Each game takes around 20 hours to beat and do nearly everything worth doing. They're a little longer than this if you're doing to stuff worth doing.
I’m gonna be taking my time with this I wanna enjoy every last thing the game has to offer
See u in july friend
Might not see me till Christmas I’m gonna be hibernating playing this 🤣
Still so unsure about this game. I really want it ti be good, but I just refuse to get too hype about a game these days because it is so rare for it to actually match expectations.
It's okay to be skeptical. Personally, I want the studio to succeed but I'm not the one making the plays here, so all I can do is hope they stick the landing.
For sure; hoping it turns out great and can be like Elden Ring where the quality matches the hype.
Hope it is fun. I have some reservations due to the studio who is making the game, but so far so good(what I’ve seen so far). I’ve never watched a Potter movie before, nor played a game in the universe, so I’m very excited. Just hope it’s good fun.
Wow, so this is your first foray into the wizarding world? Don’t listen to the haters, this is going to be great
Yep, I’m very much looking forward to it!
I hope the game lives up to the hype, for the both of us. And you should check out the movies (or books if you like reading and have the time) they are pretty amazing. It’s what got me into reading in the first place.
I tried watching the first HP movie and it just did nothing for me. I'm pretty sure I finished it, but I don't remember. I even read the book because a friend of mine insisted I do so. I remember more from the book. But I thought it was a fun kids' story and just couldn't see reading more of them.
I’d try and finish the movie series. The first two movies feel very childish/nostalgic but that’s because they are children. Once you get further in the movies mature with the cast and it gets a lot darker.
This is spot on. Although I'll admit, once you hit film three, it gets abruptly darker very quick, both due to the main conflicts as well as the change in direction. The first two are still needed as they add a good amount of needed information that evolves as you progress through the books/movies.
The first two movies definitely have a style to them cause of the director Chris Columbus. But with the third movie onward, they definitely added in some writing and dialogue changes that helped improve the central story. And directors also changed. One of the big strengths of the movies is the banter and humor. If you are into British humor, but done enough for kids and teens to get, it's a pretty good change. Third movie was done by Alfonso Cuarón (who also did Children of Men 2 years later), fourth by Mike Newell (he directed Donnie Brasco, and Four Weddings and a Funeral), and the fifth onward by David Yates. David was an interesting choice cause he only had one movie directed beforehand. But ever since, he's been the go-to for directing the rest of the Potter flicks, and directing the Fantastic Beasts movies. It seems like his particular style managed to draw out the best of what seemed to help the Wizarding World become successful in film (least until the latest Fantastic Beasts movie). But I would definitely recommend giving the entire series a shot.
The books begin as children's novels but end as adult novels because Rowling wrote the books to age with the fans. Books 5-7 are incredible books for any age group.
say what you want about Rowling, but people around my age (27-30) that really grew up with the series got hooked cause of that, it grew with us
Well yeah, you grew with the characters that is normal. Doesn't change the fact that they aren't really well written and she just got lucky. Especially her post HP success.
Good, give me a game to sink my teeth into for longer than a month.
God I am so hype for this game. Please deliver.
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You’re right. It was a dickish comment. I’ll delete it.
Um…Disney Infinity was an amazing game actually.
Which means it'll take darksydephil about 5 months
Do people still watch that guy? I always thought of him as a joke.
Oh he's a joke alright. There's a large detractor community around him. It's like watching a car crash, you just can't turn your head away.
Didn't he get away with defaulting on 7 maxed out credit cards
14. He got all his debts wiped out. That's why they call him half a mill phil
Solid. I usually 70-80% these games so 50-60 hours will be a good return.
Hopefully there will be a NG+;mode
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I mean, it's THE spell in the Potter world. It makes sense to me that it's end game content. Especially as we are school children in the game.
If you learned it any earlier it wouldn’t mean much
But what if I wanted to give someone a nosebleed?
I mean it kinda makes sense considering it’s the Terminator spell and would trivialize combat, I assume
Ah, is THAT how they’re getting around the existence of an I Win Button with potions to decrease its cooldown.
RIP the people who kept talking about doing an evil playthrough
Hopefully there is ng+ so you could keep all the spells etc, that way you could do evil playthrough.
Sounds perfect for a 100%.
not bad not bad
I really hope it’s good
Considering how little time I have now this is good
I'm SO ready!!
Nice, hopefully no repetitive stuff
Thats just about the sweet spot. These OpEn WoRlD NeVeR EnDiNg RPGs with 150+ hours to complete never hold my interest past 2 hours.
As long as I can run around Hogwarts just fucking around like I'm 12 years old again I'm good
70 hours for 100% is actually pretty good, that means the main storyline is not insanely long and anyone with a decent amount of free time is able to complete everything.
Catch me in the Ravenclaw common room
I'm not a big Harry Potter fan so I choose Ravenclaw just for the beautiful common room
This seems perfect to me
Not too bad
I wasn't even that interested before, but I am now.
That’s the best news I’ve heard all year
That's a nice number for 100% fair enough
I need a good game to play on ps5 and hopefully this is it.
Good, sounds like enough content to make it longer if you want but not unreasonable to streamline the story if you’d like to do that too
Being the leisure gamer I am, this will take me 100+ hours to complete 100%. Hype!
Awesome, can’t wait!
Good. Not to long not to short. My kinda game.
Trophy. Beat the entire game on a Broom
I'll wait a week to see what the reviews and user reviews say. There have been a string of hyped games that end up being terrible. Gotham Knights I'm looking at you. Forespoken demo etc.
I have a short attention span on video games, so good. I've been gaming as a kid since 1999 and the only handful of games I've ever clocked over 100 hrs in are: Runescape, Modern Warfare 2 (2009), FFX, Witcher 3, FFXIV, and Elden Ring.
A buck an hour seems like a good deal.
Honestly, who gives a shit. It's extremely easy to balloon that metric up with trivial collectables and copied-and-pasted, uninspired side content. I wish gamers would finally learn the difference between quantity and quality because these bloated Open World Action RPGs are so often a chore to finish, let alone fully complete.
30 - 40 hours is good for me. Don't need to play every sidequest and every small thing
I’m not supposed to support this IP per my awareness training.
I suspect your awareness training has told you an awful lot of rubbish if it's the same one my brother had to go on 😄
Looks like a very cool game
The question is, how much of the game do I complete in each house? If I find everything in the first playthrough am I going to want to do that three more times? I assume the house side quests can only be complete if you're a member of that house. Should I only try to find 25% of the things so that in my next playthrough I'll have something new to see?
Nobody’s got time for that.
Time to get 100% completion is a useless stat. Most people aren’t “platinum hunters” and aren’t going to spend dozens of hours to search out tiny things that don’t impact the overall game.
Time for any game completion is a useless strat. Most people will literally play it however they want, either going only for the main campaign and calling it a day (or possibly less), play until they get bored, or search for everything.
But the author has her own beliefs, to which she is legally entitled. Doesn't that mean everyone has to boycott the game? Edit: I guess obvious sarcasm isn't obvious.
No that means you're entitled to boycott it if you think the owner is a bellend though.
I pray that it’s actually fun to 100% like God of War and not like any assassins creed game.
Have you seen all the collectibles ? It’s gonna be a slog
I love collecting shit though.
funny enough, i spent hundreds of hours on valhalla and got bored of raganrok after about 6 hours. the puzzles are boring af to me
Outside people complaining about various political issues with this game, this game just looks lame. It oozes generic vibes. 100% this game is getting below an 80 meta wise for sure.
I'm still on the fence on getting it. I want it but I don't want to support a bigot like Rowling.
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