How did people take 150+hours to finish

[Reaps]

First off ill start by saying what an awesome game, one of the best i have played in years.

However i just completed everything in 90 hours on Death Match, did all side quests, all contracts, i am level 34 with full master crafted gear and got best ending, i also visited around 80% of the Question marks.

I can't help but think i missed something though as i see most people are taking 120-150hours to finish all, including my friends.

[GoulactiX]

yup . just now i finished the main game + HoS with over 150 hours

[[SLX] Tribo]

maybe they take a look at the view and don't just rush everything?

[OnlyOffensive]

People might not use quicktravel, run on foot more than use horse, trying different approaches to some quests, actually reading stuff, maybe a little roleplay. Combine that with complete exploration and it will be 200+ hours easy. It's not like RPG's are about checkmarks that u got "best ending" and best gear, that doesnt even matter anything lol, im pretty sure even mediocre player can beat last boss naked without taking single hit.

[Sleeper]

I'm 40 hrs in and just got past the Red Baron quest. Spent alot of time admiring the scenary, exploring, reading up the lore, character background, read up on contracts and notice boards. You only get to play this game for the first time once. no need to rush.

[Reaps]

I didn't rush, as i said i did everything i could find, i will go back though and explore the map more.

[OnlyOffensive]

Why do you even care? As long as you enjoyed the game it was worth playing, alot of people have different tastes in gameplay and those can easily add extra hours. You can explore everything by fast traveling and shifting on horse or you can walk around and do backtracks into many locations, trying to find dynamic quests. And judging from your post that you completed "all" sidequests you probably googled them, while alot of people try to discover them themselves. Both outcomes are the same, but different people prefer different gameplay.

[Living Broscillograph]

Exploring the world takes time.
For example, there is a mysterious location on Ard Skellig: there's a tent, a dead warrior, a campfire and a forktail circling above that you can't hit. No question marks lead there, no quests send there. What's it for? Who died there? Why does the forktail circling around? A mystery for those who manage to find it exploring the world :)

[Ñ]

Took me about 170 hours to do the main quest and many side quests, not all however. Just tried to avoid fast trave as much as possible and sometimes even slowly walk through village, forest or whatever it is to appreciate the view, the feel of the game world.

[Polyphemus]

Reaps, You are my hero. I look up to you sooo much.

Is that what you wanted?

[Mr. Snek]

There are many varibles that go into someone's clock time. It's never cut and dry; and I tend to be on the slower end of the average spectrum for completion of games because I like to take my time, I like to enjoy what the devs created and what my money bought me. It took me 286 hours to beat the main quest and HoS on Blood and Broken Bones. Why? Well, the game wasn't challening... the first 10 levels were, by the time I had reached level 17 I wasunstoppable with my combat/alchemy build that wrecked havoc. I was landing crits left and right. We each have our own pace to which we play. I myself spent a lot of time playing Gwent, so much so that it practically payed for the Runemaasters level 3 shop. I took my time with the epic tale, I roleplayed Geralt. As a someone with a heavily modified and incread metabolism, I ate ate a lot of food!! Just a roleplaying aspect. I visited wh0re houses often, as Geralt is prone to doing so. I enjoyed and basked in the detailed world, the side quests. I turned contracts into a bigger ordeal than they really were; as in prepartion and so forth. I vistited all POIs, or question marks! I made the greatest game that I've played since Metal Gear Solid 4 last as long as I could make it last! I personally got the "bad ending", except I don't view it as a bad ending. Not to mention I wasn't going to coddle Ciri everytime she threw a fit! I did what I thought Geralt would do, what any "parent" would do. It was an ending, and a fitting ending at that. Given how dark the world is. Radovid lived, and the world became even more bleak for it. I was satisfied with my choices, the one silver lining I guess was that I had helped make Cerys queen. Now, I have 311 hours clocked in because I begaan NG+ but haave stopped now that Blood and Wine is out five days. I may just use my original save and comeplete B&W then do an NG+....or who knows. I have aa lot of mods that I am really enjoying! Such as Ghost Mode for instance, so I may just transfer my NG+ files over to my GoG version of which I have 30 hours clocked, focusing purely on just the main story, with very little side questing or contracts. I'm hlafway through that and I'm playing on "Just the Story".


I am one of the biggest fans of this franciseHaving played The Witcher EE four times, and The Witcher 2 three times. I suspect I'll be playing this title for aa long, long time. I aimaing it'll take me around 60-80 hours to fully complete Blood and Wine, given it'll take the average gamer 30 hours.

[ᴼDAE]

These posts always make me laugh. They sound more like gloating than anything else. Who cares how other people managed to take however long to complete a game? They did what they did, it shouldn't have any bearing on what you do unless you're obsessed in comparing your 'achievements' with others.

[child of the girth]

i finished the game in 60 hours git gud scrub

But really I have started playing with no minimap. It's nice.

[Chief]

450+ hours for 1* medium and 1* hard + 1* HoS are no problem for me :) I love the game and have fun. The world are big and the locations are very nice. I´m playing lots of gwent and make no fast travel. Sometimes I only look for the environment and explore every house or place. It`s never boring for me and now the dlc are ready too. After this New Game+ are the next goal and do it again :-D

[fantaisie]

go achievement hunting/get all the different armors and weapons potions/decoctions/oils/etc and most importantly enjoy the sights, sounds, and feels of all the different places.

[WolfEisberg]

Took me 176 hours on my first play through. I don't know if I did all question marks or not because I had them turned off in the options, but I explored a lot in the game. I didn't explore the ocean areas around Skellige so I am pretty sure I missed the vast majority of those.