how long is the game?

[Nanners]

title says it all, is this a short game? Is it worth the full price?

[Rowley]

Depends on the kind of player you are and the difficulty setting you use. I'd say 20-40 hours for your first run, with a minimum of 12 hours per subsequent run. There are four distinct "routes" to the game's story that add replay value, so if you care about that it's a bit closer to 80-100 hours.

[Dorok]

There's already some thread about that, for example:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/362960/discussions/0/152393186502634235/

As I repeat again and again, one answer isn't significant because it depends a lot of player type. But it seems people dont care lol.

For me one play is about 50H which include time for digging spells, equipements, read a bit about rules. In practice it's more but it doesn't count.

Now for a CRPG with heavy story stuff, it allows 4 plays with a lot of differences perticulaly if you organize a bit your plays. I never saw any CRPG like that, it's quite more than the usual replay value.

So for me it's a 200H game, 120H (4x30H) if I count a quick play and planing most stuff out of game.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Cloaked Destiny:

...a minimum of 12 hours per subsequent run...

Lol are you serious? It's be curious to see that, ha well ok perhaps at easiest difficulty and choosing well the shorter path? :-)

[Rowley]

It isn't a difficult or long game when you know what you're doing, and even POTD is rather pathetic.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Cloaked Destiny:

It isn't a difficult or long game when you know what you're doing, and even POTD is rather pathetic.

Sure 12H, ok if you timed it seriously I believe you, but if you never timed it I don't.

[Metsakurat]

Normal difficulty took me 22h and it was my first run. The shortest RPG I've ever played.
Side quests are scarce so you're always on the quest for the main mission making the game kind of linear since it leaves no room for exploration and f'uckin' about.
However the choices you get to make are great and the story is super engaging. While the game itself certainly is quite short for an RPG it's still a very enjoyable one.

I'm on my 2nd playthrough now and I expect this one to be even quicker than the first.
Took me around 2h to finish the first chapter now.

[Ctrl Alt Elite]

14 hours just finished read everything carefully.
Story is magnifient !

[Hawke]

~25 hours, Normal difficulty, 1st playthrough.

There are 4 "main" story arcs and impressive amount of character builds.

[timitos]

First playthrough (normal) took me 40 hours (doing every quest there was and reading all the dailogue). Second playtrough (hard) took me 35 hours (skipping over some dialogue but putting more time in spell creation) and now on my third playtrough (PoTD).

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Metsakurat:

The shortest RPG I've ever played.

And you never played Fallout 1 nor Dragonfall that are (he he in my opinion) among the best CRPG ever released.

[hitem]

16-20 hours

[LastSamurai]

How the hell are people finishing this game so fast? I am 17h in, doing "Into the Maelstorm" quest. Highest level party member is lvl 6. I am playing on hard, exploring every nook and cranny of every map.

[Cujo]

Took me 50 hours. That two days. I think some people think a game needs to be a sprawling 100 hours, but quite frankly, if a game is that long, I usually willl have moved onto something else.

[T0AD]

Originally posted by LastSamurai:

How the hell are people finishing this game so fast? I am 17h in, doing "Into the Maelstorm" quest. Highest level party member is lvl 6. I am playing on hard, exploring every nook and cranny of every map.

Guess it depends on how slow you read. I did a scarlet playthrough, which I hear is the second longest playthrough you can do, and it took me a little over 30 hours. I did every sidequest and spent some time mixing spells.

I personally don't feel the game is worth full price in its current state.

[Asmodeus]

Sorry to come here to vent, but it is questions and opinions like the ones in this thread, which is why we cannot have good things.

I spent 41h on my first playthrough (Scarlet Chorus / PotD). Maybe if you play on normal and rush it you will be through in 20h. Now calling a 20h-40h game a short game is ridiculous!
EA makes billions selling 50€ / 6h games to kids, in cinema you pay 10€ / 2h and if you read a book you pay 20€ for 15h.
The developers have to live from something and it is no wonder Obsidian is always close to bankrupcy if fans of CRPGs are judging their games by such ludicrous standards. The game does not have repetitive fetch quests (actually no fetch quests at all). It also does not feature other prominent time sinks of the genre such as crafting.

I might do some people injustice here, but in my opinion this is where you vote with your wallet. You do not like the setting or the graphics or the gameplay - fine. But to expect 100h of non repetitive gameplay for 10€ which has some production value is just economically unsound. And if people continue to have this silly expectation this type of games will be fast gone again and we will play 50€ / 6h modern military shooters shooters for the next 50 years.