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Borderlands 3 Will Be Around 35 Hours Long (Main Story and Minimal Side Content Only)

vestan

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Borderlands 3's Main Story Is About 35 Hours Long
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In an interview with GamesBeat at E3 2019, Creative Director Paul Sage revealed the game's length to be about 35 hours and that's without counting 'a lot of the side missions' available to players.
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I'd still say we were very ambitious. My tech team would say we were really ambitious sometimes. [laughs] There's so much to the game. We go to these different worlds. The length of the game being 35 hours, if you just go through the main story — that's not including doing too many side missions. I think there was a lot of ambition right at the beginning.
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Getting the multiplayer systems in — if you went through the booth, you saw us talk about some things where we have the guns populated from vending machines. They're just small things to a player, but again, they're introducing and reinforcing bigger things. All of these things that feel small take a lot of time and a lot of energy to get done and get done well. I'd say cutting it off, where you cut it off — I think you cut it off when you say, "Okay, we have to ship. We know we have to ship." Probably somewhere about a year before. I hate to set a timetable, but it's like that. We have what we need in the game, now let's finish making it.
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So it's around a few hours longer than Borderlands 2's main story. I recall that game's story took around 30 hours to complete which imo I felt was a bit too long but this game's emphasis on travelling to different planets and seeing widely different locales should help to avoid the fatigue I felt near the end of Borderlands 2.
 
TrafficCoen

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Sounds exactly as expected. Honestly any longer would probably be worse, especially grinding alts up
 
JakeNoseIt

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What about when you factor in my usual staring at the menu and clearing out my guns lol
 
8byte

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That's fine for me. I don't have 70 hours to do JUST the story stuff.
 
Mrflood

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To long.... I love the series, but would prefer a tighter 15-20 hour campaign. I am worried I'll burn out before finishing.
 
Raide

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So probably 100+ by the time I finish it with all the characters, find the loot I want etc.
 

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I mean 35 hours first time but by your 3rd or 4th character it should be less than half that (especially if they finally let us skip cinematics and intros)
 

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Bring it on! I just got into BL2 after getting caught in the BL3 hype during E3 and I'm at lvl 24 at the moment.
 
Silvergun-Blue

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That's about in line with previous games. One if the things I like about the series is that they don't treat the campaign as a disposable chore to be gotten out of the way to get the player to the "end game" as soon as possible. You're normally deep into NG+ before you even hit the level cap.
 
LordofPwn

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they previously said about 30 hours if you rush it. keep in mind 35 hours with the new fast travel system and not always needing to return to the quest giver for rewards cuts out a lot of time you couldn't cut in BL2.
 

Dodgerfan74

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That's fine. I really don't need a bunch of lazy grind bullshit that turns it into a second job. As long as what's there is great and they roll out solid expansions intermittently, I'm good.

I don't need this shit to be a lifestyle.
 
Moose

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I enjoyed my time with Borderlands 1+2 but by the time Assault on Dragon Keep came out the game overstayed its welcome. I got sick of the multiple wave monster closets and any waist high creature charging your feet. It got quite repetitive to the point that I might not even play BL3 because I'm still sick of it all these years later. 35 hours seems like a lot for this game, but if the variety is there then good on them.
 
Igniz12

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I wish they would use one core save file and then let you switch up characters whenever you feel like it. 4 character, 4 playthroughs, x number of times to complete the story mode and reset the game to go to the next tier of enemy difficulty/loot pool......shit takes too long. Even with twinking there is only so much you can speed up an entire run of a story campaign.
 
Imitation Of Life

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Probably 50 hours to hit the initial level cap on your first character.

WhiteRabbitEXE said:
The Tiny Tina BL2 DLC was like the perfect BL campaign. Just the right size.
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Not for a $60 RPG. It was amazing though.

Mrflood said:
To long.... I love the series, but would prefer a tighter 15-20 hour campaign. I am worried I'll burn out before finishing.
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It's a loot grind RPG. Not a linear story game. Sure you can play it get way, but that's not how it is designed. It's should be a time sink.
 
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SCB360

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Moose said:
I enjoyed my time with Borderlands 1+2 but by the time Assault on Dragon Keep came out the game overstayed its welcome. I got sick of the multiple wave monster closets and any waist high creature charging your feet. It got quite repetitive to the point that I might not even play BL3 because I'm still sick of it all these years later. 35 hours seems like a lot for this game, but if the variety is there then good on them.
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Have you seen Gameplay of 3? It seems to be less of that
 
AlexBasch

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It's gonna be 15+ if you play with randoms who will rush you with stuff and skip all cinematics, etc.
 
Segafreak

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Good to know it's still Borderlands and not changed to a Destiny clone.

Imitation Of Life said:
It's a loot grind RPG. Not a linear story game. Sure you can play it get way, but that's not how it is designed. It's should be a time sink.
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I didn't feel like I was doing much grinding work in BL2, I played it like a linear story game most of the time.

Mrflood said:
To long.... I love the series, but would prefer a tighter 15-20 hour campaign. I am worried I'll burn out before finishing.
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I mean if you've played it 30-35 hours is about the length of Borderlands 2 which had really good pacing.
 
J_Viper

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We need more games with tighter pacing. Even the ones I love that are over 50 hours like AC Odyssey and RDR2 have plenty of spots that could have been trimmed

Anything under 30 hours is music to my ears.
 
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