-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Cyberpunk 2077 is shorter than Witcher 3, but more replayable
- Thread starter modiz
- Start date
Not when I'm playing it
But really, not bad news to me. Complexity in outcomes is a great thing and I'll probably spend forever just exploring and screwing around. Even as a HUGE fan of The Witcher III, I'd say it could be a little shorter and lose nothing, and if that comes with expanded options in the gameplay and quest design, all the better.
But really, not bad news to me. Complexity in outcomes is a great thing and I'll probably spend forever just exploring and screwing around. Even as a HUGE fan of The Witcher III, I'd say it could be a little shorter and lose nothing, and if that comes with expanded options in the gameplay and quest design, all the better.
The game world will also be smaller than Witcher 3,wont it? I recall them saying that, but also more dense.
Considering I spent 90+ hours in my initial run only doing the main story and monster contracts and skipping most of the other sidequests, this is fine.
Witcher 3 was so long that "shorter" doesn't mean the story won't drag :P
OP
OP
agreed, I'd much rather have a shroter and focused game over a bloated mess.
This is great news for me! I loved the Witcher 3, but I still haven't replayed it due to the length. I'd rather have a 40-50 hour experience though I'm sure it'll still clock in longer than that.
Which is quite sad when you read about how much cool story shit they had to cut. A lot of stuff with Eredin and world travel.
I never want to read what they had planned for my boy Iorveth. It'd hurt.
More vertical and more dense. I think including verticality it might be a similar size, in terms of sheer area.
I disagree. The Witcher 3 was long and that was great and many were glad they could even extend the story with the two excellent expansions.
Witcher games were also long because of the clunky combat system, and from what we've seen so far Cyberpunk's gameplay seems smoother, so I guess that also factors in a great amount.
I thought so, as well. Some of my friends loved it top to bottom, but near the end, I was ready for the story to wrap up.
Seriously. 2077 is still going to be fairly lengthy I'm sure.
Witcher 3 was a 120-125 hour game for me, without getting into the expansions. If instead of 120 is a 85 hour game, it will be still pretty damn meaty.
For sure. I'm at the point where some moderation in length goes a long way for me. I have very little time and patience for endless open world games of a whole lot of nothing.
It speaks to the game's quality that Witcher 3 was one of the few games of its kind where its length didn't even feel noticeable while playing it and its two expansions. If CDPR matched CP2077's game length with that of Witcher 3, I wouldn't be at all concerned.
I do just wonder what this shorter length translates to now in terms of game time
I do just wonder what this shorter length translates to now in terms of game time