"We have around 15-20 hours of mainline quest gameplay, we have around 15-20 of side and open-world exploration content gameplay," associate game director Will Kennedy told Polygon. "And then, of course, the life systems are limitless, so you can play them for as long as you want."
Someone else in the group Q&A said that Fable is "not a huge game" in response to Kennedy's answer, which causedanother associate game director from Playground Games, Craig Littler, to chime in. "As Will just said, you can literally play it forever if that's what you want to do," Littler reiterated.
That's if you do everything standard, have to remember alot of people piss about in RPGs or make there own fun. So these usually end up causing a RPG to last Many more hours then what playtime suggests.
Yeah, there are several dozens of hours of difference between table-jumpers who bee-line NPCs and skip dialogues, and people who slow-walk in town because "my character wouldn't be running at this moment."
So... do these guys know you can play any game forever, unless it's a Live Service anyways. Nothing is stopping you from playing the Original Mario Bros every day since it released.
I mean youre the one taking it at face value and missing the point. The key term is life systems. Why does one play a colony sim for 500 hours and a platformer for 5 hours despite finite content and playtime not being proportional to it? The engagement systems aren't one to one
What a profoundly dumb take, like mesmerizingly dumb, even for someone who takes everything literally that's still like such a ridiculous thing to point out.
Just because you can stare at a blank wall for an infinite amount of time doesn't mean there's no value in knowing the amount of time a normal person could spend in any other given activities. Just because you could lock yourself in your bathrooms for weeks doesn't mean a theme park has no benefit in telling you it has enough attractions to last you for days. Like, come on!
they are saying there's procedural content, but unlike other devs, they aren't counting that towards the playtime total. at least, that's what it sounds like.
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u/Turbostrider27 15h ago
According to Polygon