How long is the game?

[PizzaPete02]

I know the game isn't out yet but I'm curious to know what the playtime will be.

My worst nightmare would be that the demo was a 1/4 or even a 1/5 of the game (meaning the game would be around 15-20 hours long). I hope and expect the game to be around 30-40 hours long just like Greedfall.

I have been looking forward to this game since 2 years ago (not a 100% sure if it was announced 2 years ago so correct me if I'm wrong) and have been following it's development since. It would be depressing to only get 20 hours of fun for 2 years of waiting.

P.S

In the beta you can only play the first two levels, anyone know how many levels there are?

[Inquerion]

Publicado originalmente por Senki:

Publicado originalmente por Sword Steel:

This game should be at least 90-150 hours long. No way i am paying more for less hours of gameplay.

Outside of mmos I don't know of a single game that takes 90 hours to complete.

Maybe only elden ring if you do 100% with no guide and die a lot.

Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 2, Divinity Original Sin 2, Dragon Age 1 (all DLCs) etc.
There are many 100h+ games.

I personally prefer 50-80h long RPGs, 100h+ is usually to much.

If Steelrising is 15h, it's to short for me. Even for Souls clone.

[thee.alemaozinho]

I think it depends on what you consider as your playtime and playstyle. There are actually a lot of games I'd say whose main story is probably around 15 - 20 hours, but if you REALLY want to get everything (all achievements etc.) and without a guide, it can take you more than a hundred hours. And this not only for RPGs, but all kinds of games.

It took me way more than 100 hours to get everything in Sniper Elite 4, since the highest achievements were to beat each map on highest difficulty without saving. Unless you are an absolute pro in this, you really needed a lot of tries, optimize your path, learn all the save spots, and even then you could screw up. But it was about the most fun and challenging 100 hours I ever had with a game.

So game length for me, as it is in howlongtobeat, you should always separate in main story, 100% everything (and I mean everything) and so on. Otherwise the question does not make a lot of sense.

[Senki]

Publicado originalmente por Inquerion:

Publicado originalmente por Senki:

Outside of mmos I don't know of a single game that takes 90 hours to complete.

Maybe only elden ring if you do 100% with no guide and die a lot.

Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 2, Divinity Original Sin 2, Dragon Age 1 (all DLCs) etc.
There are many 100h+ games.

I personally prefer 50-80h long RPGs, 100h+ is usually to much.

If Steelrising is 15h, it's to short for me. Even for Souls clone.

Most of those games are only that long because of a lot of text to read. Divinity original sin 2 I can finish in about 30-40 hours without it.

There aren't many very long games where the actual content itself is that long. And let's not forget that ARPGs have much faster combat than turn based/rtwp games as well.

They could've made it a bit longer but as far as souls games go it's about the same length as the dark souls games without their dlcs.

[Not Known]

Publicado originalmente por Traumaturgy:

The shorter the better. I dont have time to play 40 hours of this BS.

IKR. The more we pay per hour the better!

[/sarcasm]

[Not Known]

Publicado originalmente por Senki:

Publicado originalmente por Inquerion:

Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 2, Divinity Original Sin 2, Dragon Age 1 (all DLCs) etc.
There are many 100h+ games.

I personally prefer 50-80h long RPGs, 100h+ is usually to much.

If Steelrising is 15h, it's to short for me. Even for Souls clone.

Most of those games are only that long because of a lot of text to read. Divinity original sin 2 I can finish in about 30-40 hours without it.

There aren't many very long games where the actual content itself is that long. And let's not forget that ARPGs have much faster combat than turn based/rtwp games as well.

They could've made it a bit longer but as far as souls games go it's about the same length as the dark souls games without their dlcs.

Souls games without their dlc's are not 15 hours.

DS1 30 hrs (68 hrs for completionist)
DS2 44 hrs (106 for completionist)
DS3 32 hrs (96 for completionist)
Demon's Souls 24 hrs (62 for completionist)
Bloodbourne 33.5 (75.5 for completionist)

[Traumaturgy]

Publicado originalmente por kristynagel:

Publicado originalmente por Traumaturgy:

The shorter the better. I dont have time to play 40 hours of this BS.

IKR. The more we pay per hour the better![/sarcasm]

I will never understand why people calculate ratio how much game hour is worth. You buy a game as a whole, sometimes as a work of art, and you experience it. Just because some games are longer it doesnt mean they are better, these hours may be very boring or grindy, which means this is a waste of time. Condensed intense experience is imo way better than bloated and boring one. Id rather play 3 different shorter games, than 1 long.
When i think about lets say Pillars of eternity and Tyranny (which are very similar in gameplay), i dont think PoE is better because its longer, tbh i think the opposite. Tyranny is the same experience, but in a shorter package. Better play it 2 times and see different outcomes, than play PoE, which was way too long.
From what ive seen on YT Steelrising looks like another generic souls clone and we have many of these already on the market. So yea id prefer it to be short, lets say 8h, to play and forget, than waste 30 or 60 hours on a game other studios already made long time ago, and made it better.

[thee.alemaozinho]

Publicado originalmente por Traumaturgy:

Publicado originalmente por kristynagel:

IKR. The more we pay per hour the better![/sarcasm]

From what ive seen on YT Steelrising looks like another generic souls clone and we have many of these already on the market. So yea id prefer it to be short, lets say 8h, to play and forget, than waste 30 or 60 hours on a game other studios already made long time ago, and made it better.

Then why play it at all?

[Senki]

Publicado originalmente por kristynagel:

Publicado originalmente por Senki:

Most of those games are only that long because of a lot of text to read. Divinity original sin 2 I can finish in about 30-40 hours without it.

There aren't many very long games where the actual content itself is that long. And let's not forget that ARPGs have much faster combat than turn based/rtwp games as well.

They could've made it a bit longer but as far as souls games go it's about the same length as the dark souls games without their dlcs.

Souls games without their dlc's are not 15 hours.

DS1 30 hrs (68 hrs for completionist)
DS2 44 hrs (106 for completionist)
DS3 32 hrs (96 for completionist)
Demon's Souls 24 hrs (62 for completionist)
Bloodbourne 33.5 (75.5 for completionist)

If you die a billion times and get lost often yeah I guess they would be that long. In reality the content of DS1 is barely 15 hours. I replayed it and finished it under that time, not skipping any bosses either.

Same for the others.

When you replay them and don't die nearly as often as you did the first time you realize that the content itself isn't long at all.

[Traumaturgy]

Publicado originalmente por thee.alemaozinho:

Publicado originalmente por Traumaturgy:

From what ive seen on YT Steelrising looks like another generic souls clone and we have many of these already on the market. So yea id prefer it to be short, lets say 8h, to play and forget, than waste 30 or 60 hours on a game other studios already made long time ago, and made it better.

Then why play it at all?

Yea im still thinking about it. Im a fan of this genre, but i already feel market is oversaturated and im kinda tired of these games. So maybe ill try when its cheaper. Anyway, the shorter the better.

[Gabi]

Publicado originalmente por Senki:

Publicado originalmente por Sword Steel:

This game should be at least 90-150 hours long. No way i am paying more for less hours of gameplay.

Outside of mmos I don't know of a single game that takes 90 hours to complete.

Maybe only elden ring if you do 100% with no guide and die a lot.

Well, then you have not played many jrpgs. A fantastic 100+ game is Persona 5 Royal coming to pc next month. Though personally I don't get the obsession with game length. Yes some games benefit from it and really need the long run time (persona for example) but most that are long are just full of padding and busy work sadly (think of many ubisoft open world games).

Some games should be long others short, 15 hours is plenty long enough if the quality is there to back it up.

[thee.alemaozinho]

Publicado originalmente por Traumaturgy:

Publicado originalmente por thee.alemaozinho:

Then why play it at all?

Yea im still thinking about it. Im a fan of this genre, but i already feel market is oversaturated and im kinda tired of these games. So maybe ill try when its cheaper. Anyway, the shorter the better.

Not sure that would hold up for me. If I really like it, I can spend 100 hours without any problem with it, as long as it's really entertaining / challenging, and not just stupid grind for some 100% achievements.

So every time this kind of gamelength-discussion comes up, I wonder whether we talk about one (the first) playthrough, or 100% it all, or something else inbetween?

[Dark_D_Shadow]

Publicado originalmente por thee.alemaozinho:

Publicado originalmente por Traumaturgy:

Yea im still thinking about it. Im a fan of this genre, but i already feel market is oversaturated and im kinda tired of these games. So maybe ill try when its cheaper. Anyway, the shorter the better.

Not sure that would hold up for me. If I really like it, I can spend 100 hours without any problem with it, as long as it's really entertaining / challenging, and not just stupid grind for some 100% achievements.

So every time this kind of gamelength-discussion comes up, I wonder whether we talk about one (the first) playthrough, or 100% it all, or something else inbetween?

Honestly I've been thinking myself about my stance on it and since there is no ng+ on launch multiple playthroughs seem more likely because if it's fun I wanna try stuff. Just my 2cents.