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Days Gone: Main story completion will take about 30 hours with 6 hours of cutscenes
- Thread starter Loudninja
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Horizon, Spider Man, God of War 4 and even The Last of Us were received just as this game. It only changed until we got near the release date for opinions to change. Happens everytime.
And yes expect Ghost of Tsushima to get hate when we hear more about it.
Man till this day MGS4 is one of my favorite games ever, loved how many cutscenes and.plot heavy the game was.
Hmm.. I'll wait for what the jury say about the game before jumping in... 6 hours is entering Kingdom Hearts territory ;P
That's 3 full feature movies crammed in to one 30 hour game.
I like cutscenes as much as the next guy but a 5th of the game sounds very much.
That's 3 full feature movies crammed in to one 30 hour game.
I like cutscenes as much as the next guy but a 5th of the game sounds very much.
If the game has multiple story branches and endings then it is unlikely that you will see all 6 hours of cutscenes in one play through.
Okay, not most but a lot of. Especially in story-focused games like this one, cutscene is one of the main ways to deliver story.
Skipping cutscenes in video games is like skipping a few pages when reading a book for no reason.
9.5 hours of cutscenes
6 hours of cutscenes.
can we stop this.
if you look in the links in my post, 6 hours is a perfectly standard length for an open world game in the current generation.
Everything we saw about the story looked boring af. I'll still get the game because I think it looks good from a Gameplay perspective. But I'm not too hot on the story stuff.
I mean Death Stranding is already getting it...(it's a walking simulator, too weird, too confusing, etc)
Thank you for this.
Also, as a poster just mentioned, the fact that there are branching paths means you won't see all of them in a single playthrough, making the point even more moot
You'll probably see those exact ones say the story is barebones or generic.
As someone who started playing God of War yesterday, if Days Gone has cutscenes of similar quality, I'll be watching every single second of them during my first play-through :)
Don't worry. Devs always inflate the length of their game pre release. We had a thread here about Capcon claiming Resi 2 was 10-12 hours for a single campaign and its closer to 6, for example.
Sounds like a meaty game.......I enjoy getting comfy in a nice long story heavy game.
Sony's first party totally in tune with what I want out of my video games....love it!
Sony's first party totally in tune with what I want out of my video games....love it!
The main story takes about 7.5 hours if you don't snoop around and clear all puzzles immediately. Stop the hyperbole.
What does "page activity" mean?
Plenty of peoples first play through of A was 10+ hours. Mine included.
30 Hours sounds really short for an open world game with vehicular traversal. Highly unlikely you can completely cover all things on the map in 30 hours. So yeah, I think it's 30 hours for the story.
I hope the previews tomorrow will be positive because every time I go into a days gone thread it's just very negative sadly.
But what's the point in playing a narrative driven single player and skipping the narrative ?
30 hours main story is a lot for a non-RPG game, i don't recall non-RPG Open World games to last 30 hours for the campaign alone.
Sounds too long for me. That's the kind of length where I actually need decent gameplay. Which I'm yet to be sold on with days gone.
back in game informer cover one year ago they said 30 hours is golden path, so mostly main story plus a few big side missions.
according to howlongtobeat.com in average it takes people 47 hours to beat the main quest of botw, and iirc days gone is supposed to have some lite rpg elements like crafting, choices, skill trees, etc.
It's really, really not.
Assuming you're talking about narrative books, then the comparison makes zero sense since those books not only have nothing but pages, they build off those pages in a way that you can't skip them whilst still actually engaging with the book. But games aren't made that way, a lot of games, even story focused ones, have a clear distinction between gameplay and story. Most games allow you to skip the story in a way that will not impact the gameplay section at all.
And the thing is that there is a comparison to be made with books here: books with disparate sections of information. Recipe books for example may come with little vignettes for each recipe you can read, giving you a little bit of background, but skipping over them in no way impacts a person's ability to use the recipe. Short story collections can be easily skimmed through, with the reader choosing which stories to read freely. Those are far better comparisons to make to games, since it is possible to extract out just the part you're interested in and excise the parts you aren't in many, which you can't really do with a narrative book. And yeah, games also exist where you can not seperate them out into independent parts, but often those do not give the player freedom to outright skip the story content. Visual Novels for example usually lock off the skip button until the player has already naturally seen a line, because separating the story out of a VN will actually take away most of the gameplay, due to the importance of the story to every part of those games. Similarly, most RPG's where you're constantly reacting to dialogue in a way that has an impact on the entire rest of the game don't offer skip buttons. You could technically just spam through all the dialogue, but that's a very different thing than actually skipping it.
But nothing about this game that I've seen implies that it has a need to force the player to engage with the story. Most of what has been shown off at E3's and stuff has focused on gameplay seperate from narrative, so you can not blame people for wanting an option to avoid something they aren't interested in.
Long story short: don't use disingenuous comparisons in an attempt to shame people for playing games the way they want.
Lol ik people can play how they want but skipping cut scenes is such a little annoyance of mine. Like why remove content and context for yourself. I like to absorb as much information about what im playing rather than just pressing buttons to make a cool thing happen then move on to the next game.
But anyways, 6 hours sound about right for a game like this ! Can't wait!
But anyways, 6 hours sound about right for a game like this ! Can't wait!
Yeah the 6 hours to me means seeing all of the game. Things like short scenes before things not in the main story and different outcomes are all included in it.
People seem to be missing that and going straight to 'concern' you'll be getting 40 minute MGS style info dumps in between 10 minutes of gameplay.
Hope the story is good. Also the length is just enough for me as a working adult with limited time nowadays. anything above 40 is not getting done / never gets completed.
Would you rather he covered up his face all the time rather than his bald spot?
i'd say the vast majority of people who play video games, unless it's something like a puzzle game or multiplayer-only game where story can be non-existent.
there's no rule saying games can't have good stories. there are many games where the story is really good, just like there are many books and films with complete garbage stories. in fact stories are often the thing we remember the most from old classic games we've played, even if we may forget what exactly the gameplay was like. you think someone's memory of an old RPG classic is how the battle system was and what item gave you the best stat boost, or mostly about the story and its epic or mem moments?
Most video game stories are simple and cliche, it's not like you would have no idea what's going on by skipping cut scenes
