Game is too short :(

[Kolousek001]

Seriously, this game is very good. But 60 euro for this? I complete the game, make every achievement, click on every item in game, listen every conversation and have 9,9 hours gameplay!
Life is strange 1 - 14,5 hours
Before the storm - 9,8 hours
Life is strange 2 - 19,7 hours!!

So many great characters in the game. So much potential. Some chapters are so short that you think, what?
Alex is a likable main character and I expected a lot more. :(

[rmsgrey]

Congratulations on getting so much better and faster at playing these games. It took me about 20 hours to play through the game and DLC, which would break down to around 15/5 at best (and the 5 hours for the DLC would only be because I ran into a bug and had to put time into attempting to get Steph out of the wall), making my time in True Colors proper close to my time in the original game.

[P1nkLem0n4d3]

rmsgrey původně napsal:

Congratulations on getting so much better and faster at playing these games. It took me about 20 hours to play through the game and DLC, which would break down to around 15/5 at best (and the 5 hours for the DLC would only be because I ran into a bug and had to put time into attempting to get Steph out of the wall), making my time in True Colors proper close to my time in the original game.

Same here. Took around 20 hours to 100 percent.

[red.heron]

First time for this game at 100% was 27 hours.

I'm now 40 hours in, and still exploring different options on my third play-through.

Advice: stop rushing. Explore. The purpose of this kind of game is to look at the options and make different choices. See how it shapes the outcomes.

[clcwinegeart]

I’m 9 hours in and just got to Chapter 2. I like to relax and listen to the music or play the mining arcade game lol. It’s nice to take things slow sometimes.

[br0kE]

I took 11 hrs to beat the game, Im buying the Deluxe Edition to see how much i need to ACTUALLY beat it

[Miathan]

It is a short game. I interacted with virtually every item in the game world and got most of the achievements for optional memories, and ended up with 10.2 hours played for the 5 episodes. And that even includes sitting down a few times and letting Alex process stuff for a minute, as well as a couple of attempts at setting a good score in the mining minigame.

So yeah, I agree. The other games were definitely longer. But I can also see how it's hard (or rather, expensive) to make a game like this long, because every extra 10 minutes of gameplay needs extra animation, voice acting, etc, and you can't sell the game for a higher price because of it.

[Jouchebag]

I agree with OP. I was glad to have played in on Gamepass because I didn't know the game was about 5-8 hours shorter than LiS1/2.

I have a bit of an issue with the price/gameplay ratio here, as well. I wouldn't have bought it full price, but the game is definitely closer to 10 hours than 20. My final times are very similar to OP.

There's no way to not rush the last 3 chapters of True Colors, they are short. The game feels, to me, like it's missing some kind of fluff in the middle. The LARP was basically an entire chapter and lasted like an hour and a half even talking to everyone and doing everything. I wasn't able to fully form attachments to any characters other than Gabe and Alex.

**This is likely intentional. The ending clearly makes it obvious that Alex isn't supposed to be 100% comfortable yet. You DO barely know these people, still. Etc. It still feels... a bit hollow.

[lenapetra]

It is really short. I think it's mainly because there are no puzzles. I remember that looking for the bottles in LIS1 took me some time, as well as the nightmare scenes, the train puzzle and many other little puzzles where you have to rewind. Also looking for the photos, reading the diary notes and rewinding whole scenes to see different outcomes... But there is nowhere to get really stuck in LIS3.

I wish it was longer. I would just like to spend more time with the characters and get to know them.

[Pablo Escatarri]

It's not too short. It's as long as it needs to be to tell its story. Would you have preferred it to drag on and on with no purpose like Life is Strange 2?

Seriously, can we stop judging a game based on how long it is?

[red.heron]

Nonbinary Finery původně napsal:

Seriously, can we stop judging a game based on how long it is?

Perhaps they're just used to measuring quality by length?

Quantity of a game's length or modules or even resolution is not directly related to its quality. These things CAN add to quality, but the overall quality of any game is how immersed we get into the game.

Nobody cares how many games you've beaten. They care about how good the gameplay is.

And this, I think, is excellent gameplay.

[rmsgrey]

red.heron původně napsal:

Nonbinary Finery původně napsal:

Seriously, can we stop judging a game based on how long it is?

Perhaps they're just used to measuring quality by length?

Quantity of a game's length or modules or even resolution is not directly related to its quality. These things CAN add to quality, but the overall quality of any game is how immersed we get into the game.

Nobody cares how many games you've beaten. They care about how good the gameplay is.

And this, I think, is excellent gameplay.

For a given quality, quantity is relevant - if it's a choice between buying one great game that lasts an hour, or, for the same price, buying ten great games that each last an hour, the latter is obviously better value.

If you have to trade off between quality and quantity, then that's a different matter - overall value will depend on how much you value each, but it's valid to feel that a 15 hour game should not be costing more than a 100 hour game of similar quality.

[spike86]

16 hours here.
good game, but glad I bought it half price.
having bought the deluxe, I still have to go through the Steph dlc, but I suppose it will last less than 4 hours