How do people get so many hours of gameplay?

[Cu11en]

In the base game i finished the game in 60 hours will doing all the sidequests that I saw. After the expansions, I got 100 hours. How do people get over 300 hours in one playthrough?

[Stormsong]

Well, I can only speak for myself. I don't have 300h in any one playthrough, but I've played through 4x and have 643h. Roughly 160h per playthrough.

So then...

In general I play very slowly, I guess. I turned off the question marks, wanting to find stuff on my own. I don't fast travel unless I can't get to a place otherwise. I don't skip dialogue/cutscenes, even if I've seen them already. Also, I'd say I probably spent ~ 30-40h, all told, just goofing off: picking flowers beyond what I need to any recipe, screenshots, listening to ambient dialogue from insignificant NPCs, reading every scrap of paper/book that crossed my path. I know I spent one particular 1 hour stretch just sitting in a boat in the middle of the sea listening to Skellige's music

[lamacra]

My best guess? They play a lot ;)
But to be serious not every one has the same play speed, There are people wo loot every chest
or clean the map of all ? ....
I have over 1000 hours in witcher :)

[Bobino]

Originally posted by Cu11en:

In the base game i finished the game in 60 hours will doing all the sidequests that I saw. After the expansions, I got 100 hours. How do people get over 300 hours in one playthrough?

For me I just play the trilogy annually. For me, doing every quest in the base game and finding every POI took 100 hours. The expansions add about an additional 80 hours.

[meddler0idz]

does this imbecile not realized great games are played more than once? another room temp. IQ z gen'er

[ihoujin.]

Originally posted by meddler0idz:

does this imbecile not realized great games are played more than once? another room temp. IQ z gen'er

I don't see the need to be so mean, OP just asked a question he seemed generally interested in knowing how people tend to play the game.

[Jon The Necromancer]

Different playthroughts, different choices, different mods, new game +.

[Akemua]

Personally, the fact it's a single-player game means I can take my time and enjoy it and not simply just do quests, & story-lines. I 100% Skate 1 just recently again for like the 5th time since 2006 and have well over 1000 hours on the game; despite you only needing a maximum of 12 hours to 100% and only 5ish hours max to beat it.

[Salander]

Clearing all the "?" in Velen, Novigrad, Oxenfurt and Toussaint take a while. Also doing every sidequest or contract that pop-up in the path.

But the most were spend exploring, getting lost and found things, thinking what options were best to choose... And some idle time in between because real life.

I have the opposite reaction when someone says that it only took 60 hs to do main + some sidequests because, to me, at that point I was only halfway trough it lol
I don't know if Im slow or other rushed it.

[The Commendatore]

Too much free time.

[Human Guy]

it took me 360 hours the first time to beat kept in mind i was doing all the side quests and all the markers on the map this was before the 2 main dlcs came out

[-Шasтe|Мanageмenт-]

Originally posted by human_guy:

it took me 360 hours the first time to beat kept in mind i was doing all the side quests and all the markers on the map this was before the 2 main dlcs came out

Keep in mind? weird, back in early 2016 I only need around 160 hours the first time around, all side quest, all question marks, and empress ending on hard difficulty.

[every1hasnames]

people have tendencies when they play video games. These tendencies often shorten or lengthen total play time.


Often these tendences go unnoticed. They do this because of habit and thus do it without thinking about it. Or theres tendencies they know about but choose to do anyways. Do them on purpose.

Some examples of tendencies i am talking about. Always sprinting and or always riding the horse when traveling. The speed at which they read subtitles often finishing sentences before the voice of charcter speaking thus speeding up the dialoge by pressing space. Not talking to npcs that obviously have no quest or important things to say. Amount of times you go to npcs to sell things. NOt picking up anything and everything and only picking up what you consider would be worth selling which can vary from person to person. For example I pick up anything and everything to sell. This means i usually have more money then i could possibly use. but also means theres times where im overburden which means i move slower. Some people use very little sprinting, very little horse use. Searching every square meter of the map for things to do or secrets even areas of the game where its quite obvious there would be nothing there but go there anyways just in case. Playing mini games(gwent).


theres many upon many tendencies that gamers pick up and do regardless of what game they are playing or specifically because of the the type of game they are playing.


These tendencies generally serve to lessen total play time or lengthen total play time.


It doesnt just revolve around how much content is in said game. It very much also and most often total play time actually relies more on these types of tendencies then how much content is in the game.

[VaJoR]

The answer is simple. They are not playing the game, they are living the game :)

[𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛]

Completing every nook and corner of the map because I want to finish everything. I didn't like doing it, but I did. And then I proceed to side quests, treaure & scavenger hunts, contracts, etc.

[Cu11en]

Originally posted by meddler0idz:

does this imbecile not realized great games are played more than once? another room temp. IQ z gen'er

I said in one playthrough you tard