400 hours of gameplay

[Barsik_The_CaT]

Are there really? My first walkthrough took me ~ 90 hours, I ended up with lvl 53, all settlements except Covenant, 50 sidequests achievement and ~50% of collectible stuff and university ending. What can I do in those 310 extra hours? Like, is there really something to do?

[$$Billionaire Trash$$]

Originally posted by Blackwing:

How do you people take so uselessly long ?
I completed the game 60~ hours in at level 62 with almost all the bells and whistles, whicin cludes finding all the bobbleheads AND locations...

Finding, or reading from a game guide...

[Chaz Kensington]

I have over 200 hours in it so far and am not even halfway through it. I have barely continued the main quest (didn't even finish reading the OP as there were kind of spoilers within it) and have a GREAT deal of the game to play yet as I'm still on the upper half of the map.

[Lee_Dassin]

It's possible they played through the game more than once? There are different character options or different strategies for playing and some people like going through each of them. I myself am a sneak based character and I will take as long as I need through an area to ensure I get a headshot on as many enemies as I can and check everything around me. I will play through again as a less sneaky character or even as melee which changes how quickly I get through some areas :)

[Aluminum Elite Master]

Originally posted by Omninull:

Originally posted by Blackwing:

How do you people take so uselessly long ?
I completed the game 60~ hours in at level 62 with almost all the bells and whistles, whicin cludes finding all the bobbleheads AND locations...

Finding, or reading from a game guide...

Totally agree with the person alluding to you having done that with a guide, for one.

60 hours to get to level 62? Really? You really gained a level for every hour you played? That sounds like never reading lore, and skipping through dialogue... you might think that stuff is useless and time-wasting, but it's unfair to assume others are taking 'uselessly long' when it sounds like you probably didn't really experience that side of the content very much.

And why I think you used a guide: without a guide, you might easily miss a bobblehead or two in certain areas (there are at least a couple of places I already know of where people sometimes miss one and have to back track. And even with a guide, you'd have to literally bee-line from one bobblehead to another, without every having to re-load because of dying, and without ever crafting, and without ever needing to re-stock supplies of any type, in order to have them all and also have leveled up that much. Otherwise, if you crafted and did side-stuff like build settlements, or even just died often enough, I doubt you'd have gotten that high a level *and* gotten every bobblehead in that amount of time. So, maybe you played this game like it's Silver Surfer and neglected dialogue and lore in order to try and play perfectly and as rapidly as possible in combat... but you still neglected stuff.

I seriously doubt you got even close to everything, explored everything, and experienced everything in 60 hours. Getting to level 62 I'm sure is quite do-able in 60 hours, but that would require enough combat and/or quest completion, that I find it less than probable that you got most of the bobbleheads, magazines, truly unique weapons, lore, and so forth.

[Tanchyon]

Originally posted by csgonoobsicle:

Originally posted by Sw!zZ.Pii:

Don't play on easy maybe? It's really simple, playing on survival you have to spam F5 and occasionally F9 every 2 minutes.

Playing on easy - you don't even know what those hotkeys are used for.
Enough said I guess.

Also, people complain about linear story, yet it's exactly how people force themselfes to play the game. You don't have to do main quests 24/7, that's definitly not the point of open-world games.

Thanks for reminding me to change my difficulty, I thought it was a bit easy.

Even Normal gets too easy when you level up enough... I'd recommend bumping the difficulty up constantly when you start dominating enemies a little too easily.

[Mr.Hmm]

Depends on Difficulty.

If you are on Survival you are going to save and reload alot of times.

[Ludus Aurea]

I love it, people are still blindly making ♥♥♥♥ up and being willfully ignorant and employing selective memory when comparing new vegas to FO4. Literally every thing you said about NV applies to FO4 also. Every single thing.

Originally posted by Blackwing:

How do you people take so uselessly long ?
I completed the game 60~ hours in at level 62 with almost all the bells and whistles, whicin cludes finding all the bobbleheads AND locations...

You either used a guide, or cheated, or both. There's no possible way you played 100% of the game in 60 hours and only made it to lvl 62, found all the bobbleheads, explored EVERY location, did all the sidequests, actually used the crafting and building systems, found all the lvl 4 merchants, and did all the companion quests. A solid hour of settlementing will easily give you 3 levels of XP on its own, so I know you're full of ♥♥♥♥.

Or you're just stupid. You "Found all the locations"? Did you actually go in them? You omitted basically everything in the game from your description.

In the first 150 hours I only found 12 of the 20 bobbleheads, and I explored every square inch of every building in the map that I decided to go in immediately. I still haven't found ALL the magazines, or all the wasteland survival guide issues. Or all the hair styles and tattoos.

[Spocks Toupee]

I have 244 hours, and have maybe 6 bobbleheads, and 17 magazines and have only been to the top half of the map and am level 31

Of course I'm playing a stealth/sneak character who cleared Trinity Tower with a silenced 10mm pistol

[cdarklock]

Are there really 400 hours of gameplay?

I've played 407 hours and only have 32 of the achievements. While I'm sure I indeed COULD have gotten all fifty of them FASTER, this is what happened all by itself when I just played the game. Indeed, 48 of the achievements are going to happen all by themselves and I'm not going to have to do anything special to get them.

So it looks like there are about 600 hours in this game for me, and then it's a question of whether I'm bored yet after getting all the achievements. Which reminds me, I still have two more achievements to get in Skyrim one of these days... after 633 hours.

[Funken]

Originally posted by Cyril Figgis:

This game is 200 hours at most, no where near 400. End of story.

lol nice username and profile pic. Cracked me up.

about the topic at hand, I bet the 400 hours is if you take your time 100%ing the game and getting all of the settlements to max population/happiness. Getting every weapon in the game with several different loadouts, leveling up to ???? until you get all the perks. Crafting every mod known to man and having every type of power armor/ regular armor tricked out with several different loadouts.

I was pretty happy with how long it took for me to beat most of the quests and the main quest, i think around 100 hours, and I still have more stuff I can do. 400 hours i could see if you do a bunch of unreasonable and boring stuff. It's like getting to max blacksmithing or enchanting in Skyrim. Sure i can do it if i want to grind all of that stuff and rack up the playing hours, but why would I when the game is already easy enough with the unique style gear like thieves’ guild or mages guild stuff etc..

Buy hey some people like that kind of stuff. i have a buddy who said that he has multiple dudes with max blacksmithing in skyrim. Someone like that could easily find a way to make this game last 400 hours.

To each their own. RPGs are like that. I don't get all of the, "the way this game was meant to be played," balogna being spouted about. This is a sandbox-ish RPG; the whole point is that there is no right way.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by Cubertt:

Originally posted by Cyril Figgis:

This game is 200 hours at most, no where near 400. End of story.

lol nice username and profile pic. Cracked me up.

about the topic at hand, I bet the 400 hours is if you take your time 100%ing the game and getting all of the settlements to max population/happiness. Getting every weapon in the game with several different loadouts, leveling up to ???? until you get all the perks. Crafting every mod known to man and having every type of power armor/ regular armor tricked out with several different loadouts.

I was pretty happy with how long it took for me to beat most of the quests and the main quest, i think around 100 hours, and I still have more stuff I can do. 400 hours i could see if you do a bunch of unreasonable and boring stuff. It's like getting to max blacksmithing or enchanting in Skyrim. Sure i can do it if i want to grind all of that stuff and rack up the playing hours, but why would I when the game is already easy enough with the unique style gear like thieves’ guild or mages guild stuff etc..

Buy hey some people like that kind of stuff. i have a buddy who said that he has multiple dudes with max blacksmithing in skyrim. Someone like that could easily find a way to make this game last 400 hours.

To each their own. RPGs are like that. I don't get all of the, "the way this game was meant to be played," balogna being spouted about. This is a sandbox-ish RPG; the whole point is that there is no right way.

Ya but it's not that. I couldn't care less about any of that. Sure I'd like every bobblehead and magazine, but I'm not searching for them. I'm just playing the game and having fun.

I have over 100 hours and the only settlement I've done anything to, is Sanctuary. Even there I only have 40 food, 40 water, 40 defense, etc.

I'm literally just having fun in the game, playing how I want to. I have yet to take the castle with the minutemen. I have yet to do more than a couple quests with BoS. I have yet to meet anyone at the institute, though I've met a few synths along the way. Every time I go to do one of these quests I get side-tracked for hours doing other random stuff.

Take the other day for instance, I spent an hour seeing what it would be like if when you get to the Prydwen you turn the Vertibird's mini-gun on everyone outside. Then went and stole one of the power armors and gatling lazer's and just destroyed the BoS before they could wage war. It didn't go over real great, but it was fun. Good thing I saved the game on the way up to the Prydwen.

[Skeptik]

It's semantics, Todd Howard said this purely for marketing purposes, because technically, he didn't do the same thing twice, he thoroughly searched each area and every square inch of the map. So technically he's NOT lying when he said this, but the last 200 or so hours were most likely mind-numbing and repetitive.

[CadaveR]

Game like this could easily go on forever, starting from morrowind, i've ever played beth games for years, with or withoud mod.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by Splinter:

Game like this could easily go on forever, starting from morrowind, i've ever played beth games for years, with or withoud mod.

Ya really to be completely honest, these games with mods can easily allow 1000+ hours. I'd be embarassed for anyone to see how much time I put into vanilla Skyrim on Xbox 360 before I built my PC a few years ago.

[Ludus Aurea]

My roommate has lets see......991 hours on Skyrim. God knows how. My most played game ever is WoW and let's n ot even discuss that, but the next one is like CoH2 approaching 500 hours. Which is almost entirely due to multiplayer, waiting literally 15 minutes per match for matchmaking if not more, and then matches that last an hour or more, as well as the challenge missions and AI skirmishes grinding for achievements in games for like 2+ hours.

This is the same guy who has over 400 hours on Assassin's Creed 3 so I relinquish any pretense of understanding what criteria make a game last that long for him.