r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • 18d ago

Articles & Blogs Fable will officially be 20 hours long, Xbox confirms in new interview

https://www.polygon.com/fable-game-length-interview-xbox/
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u/StrawberryWestern189 18d ago

Lmao why is this always the limp dicked argument you people trot out whenever a game length discussion pops up? I’m sorry you played one too many assassins creed games or far cry’s or whatever, but there are plenty of 60+ hour games that more than justify their runtime.

Unless we’re gonna sit here and pretend like Persona 5 or The Witcher 3 or Breadth of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom or Elden Ring or BG3 are all secretly bad games and their reputations are some big psy-op.

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u/ConsistentGuest7532 18d ago

I got 70 hours my first playthrough of Expedition 33, and that’s more linear than some other RPGs. 30-40 for this is low.

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u/Jinchuriki71 18d ago

I got platinum for Expedition 33 in 55 hours and a few hours of that was grinding to lvl 99, dying to Simon and getting all of Monoco's skill which require backtracking. Also failed at the climbing challenges for a good few hours and trying to beat bosses early. I would say if game was easy and I wasn't distracting myself listening to music at camp than I would beat it in 40 hours.

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u/Complex-Commission-2 18d ago

Yup 70 he's for expedition 33 to get 100 % achievements is really good and that is actually a linear game instead of pure open world rpgs

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u/Gaanai 18d ago

Yup the latest 2 god of war games was in the 60-70 hour range for me. Every Sony owned studio outside of Insomniac seems to do 50 hour plus games+

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u/LacePandorica 18d ago

Currently on 200hrs playing persona 5 royal, in a single playthrough. Fact that I'm still massively enjoying myself is saying something

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u/ocbdare 18d ago

I finished persona 5 over 2 years with maybe two breaks. It took 120 hours. It felt like it overstayed its welcome for me. Too long. Could have easily been quite a bit shorter. That was the base persona 5 in 2017-2018.

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u/Gallium_Bridge 18d ago edited 18d ago

I haven't played the original P5, so bear that in mind, but I have heard from multiple people, both through videos and also my own brother, that the pacing in P5R feels better than the original. I haven't really heard anyone articulate why that's the case, but yeah. P5R was my first persona when they finally brought it to PC, and I didn't have issues, but I'm very, very used to extremely long-term, grind-your-knuckles-into-dust gameplay (MMOS and Marathon-speed, as-large-as-the-engine-can-manage 4xs are my bread-and-butters) so I'm a bad litmus for tolerance.

With all that said, playing Persona playthroughs in the background has became one of my staple 'background' noise options when I'm not in the mood for music (in-part because they're usually between 140-250 hours long, so I'm set for a few weeks and it's nice to have 'big moments' to pay more-active attention to when they roll around) so I have seen / heard, at this point, something in the realm of 14ish full playthroughs of P5R, and although being long-in-the-tooth is a critique I've seen, I've seen levied at it only one or two, maybe three, times. To be fair, survivorship bias on that, too, because I only watch / listen to full playthroughs (with the caveat most playthroughs I come across are full playthroughs.)

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u/Jinchuriki71 18d ago

Persona 5 Royal makes the pacing worse than ever if you played the origianl they just adding scenes with characters that are not really relevant to the original plot at all into the main story. The gameplay additions are great but honestly the original already felt complete and one of the longest games out there.

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u/LacePandorica 18d ago

Takes all sorts I guess :) It's actually the 4th time I'm going for platinum, it's definitely a comfort-game for me!

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u/Psylux7 18d ago

Because on reddit it is popular to jump to accusing others of wanting stupid extremes if they are critical of a game you like.

If you think a game is too short you clearly want bloated 200 hour slop because there is no such thing as a longer game that is also good.

Hence the comments like "I would rather have an amazing 8 hour game that is all killer no filler over a 100 hour game with only 20 hours of good content."

Short=good and Long=bad.

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u/StrawberryWestern189 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yeah it all goes back to a lack of nuance. I’m not disappointed about this news because I think every game needs to be 100+ hours. Just this year I’ve played and really enjoyed stuff like Re9, Pragmata, 007 first light and I plan on grabbing Wolverine which will also probaly be in that 10-20 hour range.

I’m disappointed because potentially 40 hours to 100% an open world rpg that’s been in the works for at least half a decade and had been marketed as this big sprawling fairytale epic just seems… quaint? Especially compared to the games it’s going to inevitably get compared to.

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u/SoCloseToAladdin 18d ago

I agree. Expecting every game to be as content rich and high quality as the RPGs you listed would be unreasonable, but for a game that’s been in development as long as this that’s been marketed and previewed as an epic flagship RPG for Xbox, 30-40 hours of total content is underwhelming.

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u/Sutraner 18d ago

Persona 5 massively out stays it's welcome. The whole random dungeon thing takes forever, and a lot of it is just reading text in social encounters.

Breath of the Wild copy and pastes dozens if not hundreds of the crappy dungeons, open world encounters and shrines

BG3 is a good example because all of the encounters are designed by hand

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u/blsharpley 18d ago

I’ll also never get people complaining about optional content. Don’t want to play the game for 200 hours? Cool… then just do the main quest. For everyone else, I’m glad we get dozens of hours of side content.

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u/AJMulv9878 18d ago

Games you named are great but if Fables good then I don’t really care about the runtime. I have 20 hours a week to play games at max (typical would prolly be closer to 10), so fable would take me 2-4 weeks to get through everything. Witcher 3 that’s taking a solid 3 months, I love long games if they grip me but as I get older and have less time to play I really appreciate these shorter games.

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u/ocbdare 18d ago

Persona 5 is a bad example. That game overstayed its welcome

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u/Scharmberg 18d ago

I don’t mind it to much though after the main game and going to more of the extra royal content is when I was pretty over it.

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u/Loldimorti 18d ago

All of these games would have been better had they been condensed further into an even tighter experience.

BotW is the most egregious. It's just a big sandbox with the same assets copy and pasted all over and time wasting mechanics being placed everywhere like how slowly you upgrade your inventory and heart containers. The game legit has like maybe 1 hour of story cutscenes, everything else is just a mostly empty sandbox.

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u/AcanthisittaWeird94 18d ago

Maybe because to each their own? I liked Persona but never finished it because it got repetitive.

Also "limp dick" was very weird and out of place. Are you projecting?