free roam or story? what's better?

[J★ker]

and how long does it take to finish content in free roaming?
thanks in advance

[miamew3]

Im at 130 hrs so far mixing free roaming and doing story when i start lacking side quests. Based on my bf's play-through of the game, i almost half way through the main story.

[psionyx]

Originally posted by miamew3:

Im at 130 hrs so far mixing free roaming and doing story when i start lacking side quests. Based on my bf's play-through of the game, i almost half way through the main story.

Technically the "main" story, if you actually just stuck to it and nothing else, would only be maybe....I dunno, 10 hours of gameplay? Maybe less. There is actually very little necessary for the ending. The bulk of the game is side content, even if some of it can brush up against the main story by opening up alternate endings.

[noys390]

You are supposed to do the gigs when you are waiting for phone calls in the main mission or side quests.

[Doom Sayer]

For context i have done almost 100% of the game for current character. No side stuff at all. Just DLC/base game final quest. All stuff has been looted and completed in base game and phantom liberty just not main quest in PL. This took 121 hours max difficulty only lowered for certain pre scripted sequences with bad max diff balance.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by J★ker:

and how long does it take to finish content in free roaming?
thanks in advance

Are you level 50 (*60 if doing PL?) I would personally do side jobs and farm levels.

[Lord Freedom]

You could probably speed run the campaign in 10-15 hours, skipping dialogue and collectibles.

I just hit 100 hours and only last night finished the main story + DLC. However I did play on Very Hard my first playthrough so that added a lot of hours due to dying. My map is still littered with stuff to do, which is great because I don't have to "look" for anything. If I just set a destination, I'm bound to run into things on the way.

Side note, I used to have a thing against games that didn't use procedural gen or endless replayable missions, but with how well done the hand crafting is with this game, you just get so much content it doesn't even matter. I don't have that impending sense of "once I do everything I'll be bored" feeling like I get with most games

[psionyx]

Originally posted by Doom Sayer:

For context i have done almost 100% of the game for current character. No side stuff at all. Just DLC/base game final quest. All stuff has been looted and completed in base game and phantom liberty just not main quest in PL. This took 121 hours max difficulty only lowered for certain pre scripted sequences with bad max diff balance.

....how could you have done "almost 100% of the game" and then say you've done no side stuff at all? When the game is literally 85% side stuff?

[Tokenn]

Free run _between_ story jobs. I cannot understand why anybody wants to 'speed run' such a great game. It's like paying for a 100-course, all-you-can-eat buffet...and then making a sandwich and a dessert and saying 'I'm not hungry any more, so why taste anything else'?

[J★ker]

Thanks a lot for all the Insights. Much appreciated... 👍 Storywise i ready That the dlc is way better then the original Story? Any comments on that?

[Tokenn]

Originally posted by J★ker:

Thanks a lot for all the Insights. Much appreciated... 👍 Storywise i ready That the dlc is way better then the original Story? Any comments on that?

I think the story in the Phantom Liberty EXPANSION (please don't call it DLC) is superior in its own way, there is nothing wrong with following the storyline of the main game. Note that there are some endings in the expansion that loop back _into_ the main game. . It's not either/or...the way the expansion connects to the main game enhances both parts of the game.

Once again, if you ignore big chunks of the game, either side content or parts of the main story, you are missing out on a lot of fun that the game devs created for you.

[Illtempered]

Well since the story is trash it's not saying much but, free-roam.