How are people finishing in 20 hours?

[Alex]

I dont understand when people say they finish this game in 20 hours,im 15 hours in and have done 4 main quests which is barely the prologue,and discovered 25% of the map looking for seekers tokens and big monsters. They even tell you to search everywhere to find treasure and tokens for best gear but this map is so intricate and with basically no fast travel in the early game you just walk.

Im loving the game literally the atmosphere is insanely good and fights but one thing is annoying as hell,after each fight they pawns stop you to high 5 them like WTF ? im pressing shift to speed up my sorceress and use traversal with levitate and im stopped dead in my tracks to fist bump pawns,this is extremely annoying. Im guessing you cant stop this from happening until they patch it,if they ever will.

Otherwise no complains so far,im new to game obviously didnt play the first one but im loving the second one too much. i think this game can easily have 70+ hours for a first playthrough. Every time i see a griffin fly above me i chase it and kill it with fire.fights with big monsters are super awesome. Didnt kill any drakes yet,one kicked my ass too hard.

Im lvl 20 and i legit think ill get addicted to this,game is insanely good,just remove the f....kin fist bump COMMON...

[Arkady]

They rush the main quest with 0 reading, skipping everything and following guides to finally achieve the bad ending.

[Praesi]

They dont understand what the game is about and i wonder why they bother in the first place.

[Nik-Naks]

They just go for the main quest and nothing else. A way of playing the game which to me would get very boring quickly.

What devs really needs to fix is higher difficulty moving up in NG+.

And don't remove the fist bumps, cause it is funny.

[PozerWolf]

Originally posted by Nova:

Im lvl 20 and i legit think ill get addicted to this,game is insanely good,just remove the f....kin fist bump COMMON...

Funny enough, this becomes important later on as this help checks on your pawns "health". You'll understand the more you progress as to what that means.

[Aurelia]

Fun fact: DD1 only took 1~2 hours to complete.

[Alex]

Originally posted by PozerWolf:

Originally posted by Nova:

Im lvl 20 and i legit think ill get addicted to this,game is insanely good,just remove the f....kin fist bump COMMON...

Funny enough, this becomes important later on as this help checks on your pawns "health". You'll understand the more you progress as to what that means.

Oh really? i didnt know that,well like i said never played the first one and im only 15 hours in just exploring the world,but why do they have to do it almost every fight? sometimes i just leave them hanging with their fist out and walk away LOL

[saice]

Simple follow quest markers

That is really it so much of the extra quests are given by walking into, finding, or talking to some random NPCs. So I can see it being very possible to effectively ignore most of the exploration and just sort of bee line to the end. You can make a very functional build out of just one or two vocations and most of the difficulty speed bumps can be overcome with hiring high level pawns. Then if you never played the first game and did not learn about the "real" ending to that one you would not have any idea about the true ending in this one so you could get from start to throne ending the game without ever seeing the unmourned world

[Insanitor]

Originally posted by Aurelia:

Fun fact: DD1 only took 1~2 hours to complete.

Indeed. Especially on your second time around the Cycle, when you had all your Portcrystals in place. Longest part of that entire run was the walk from Waygate to Gran Soren, which would make up 30min of the 2 hours it took 🤣

[Dasty-Fox]

They dont iven know about other sdi of the world ))) LOLOS

[Dasty-Fox]

Just seat on trone ))))

[Razorblade]

The critical path is incredibly short. If you knew what you were doing, you could likely manage it in under 10 hours, just like the first game.

DD2 relies on the player being interested in side quests and exploring to get a lengthy playthrough out of it. If someone isn't fully engaging with side content like that, 20 hours is completely reasonable.

Not sure why people find this fact so controversial when it comes to DD2 specifically. DD1 was the same way, and The Elder Scrolls games have been doing the "5 hour main quest" for decades. People aren't automatically suggesting your favorite game is bad by saying it can be beaten in less than a day.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by Arkady:

They rush the main quest with 0 reading, skipping everything and following guides to finally achieve the bad ending.

this.

Pretty much inline with also skipping bakbattahl except for the 4 required missions, because the monsters there are not going to get beat up by level 25 characters or equipment.

Generic and volcanic Rockrattler are basically immune to slash damage period, no matter what level you are til like 55 or so where you have enough generic pierce to break the threshold, so "omg so easy level 25 and done"

You did not beat unmoored much less save everyone at level 25. not even kind of.

[El Macho]

This game was never made to be just doing quests, they entice you to explore, hell after completing the game already and on my new game +, i can assure you, there are people out there who can finish this game in less than 20 hrs.. but then again, those are people who just do main quests, skips the travel and basically just going to point A to point B.. no exploration whatsoever, I bet some of them dont know that some quests in the game offers different outcome only if you explore around..

[马文蕾不再爱我]

Most people are just dirty litlle liars.Point
Dont beleive what they write.

[Yaboze]

I finished it at level 50, about 46 hours, with some exploring and side quests. I didn't complete everything and didn't know the game would end abruptly after the last quest.

So, I can start a NG+ or load an Inn save before the last part to do more.

At this point, I'm not sure if I want to return to do more. Maybe if there are some changes to endgame or some of the tedious and frustrating mechanics.