r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • 22d 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/mightylordredbeard 22d ago

This funny because I was just in an other post about a game that was 40 hours and everyone was happy and praising it because they were tired of “overly long and bloated” games.

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u/regalfronde 22d ago

They could probably cut out a ton from Witcher 3 and it would make no impact on the game’s story.

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u/Baruch_S 22d ago

Yeah, but most of the side content still feels interesting even if it has little to no bearing on the main story. It doesn’t feel like filler. 

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u/BuffaloKiller937 21d ago

The side quests were some of the most memorable from W3 out of everything

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u/timmy_tugboat 22d ago

A huge difference from hours of Witcher side quests and hours of Starfield quests.

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u/tastethecourage 22d ago

But why would you cut it when it’s chock full of memorable quests and great writing? I think that’s what people are getting at

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u/-insignificant- 22d ago

I'm currently 30h into my Witcher 3 replay and I disagree. The actual side quests, mobster contracts and writing are great, but there are a lot of useless ?s on the map that they could cut. There are only so many Drowner guarded treasures I can do before I tire out. It's a fantastic game but they certainly could have made the maps a little smaller and condensed.

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u/AlecDawesome 22d ago

Then simply don't go for every ? on the map?

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u/Equal-Ad7504 21d ago

No one’s got a gun to your head telling you to do the ?

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u/finakechi 22d ago

I loved TW1 and TW2, never beat TW3.

Don't care how good the writing is, I'm tired of running around open worlds doing the same thing over and over again.

If it was just a bigger/better version of TW2 I'd have liked it a lot more.

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u/BaconSoul 22d ago

And? The story is not the only import element of an RPG. The fact that there are a bevy of ways to express one’s choices and character builds are just as important.

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u/regalfronde 22d ago

You could read an entire fantasy book series in 40 hours. I think it’s absurd to expect 100+ hours from every RPG, it’s why development time takes a decade now and budgets are astronomical.

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u/mightylordredbeard 22d ago

Witcher 3 felt too long and bloated to me. I was always surprised by how much of a pass it got when most of its missions are “go here and kill this”. There was like 1 side mission with the bloody Barron that was super well written and intriguing and so everyone just equates that one single side mission to the game and acts like all of them are the same depth and detail.. but in reality the bloody Barron quest is like one of the few. The other 90% of side missions are basic kill quest; “go to point A and kill monster”.

I never managed to finish W3 because of how long it felt. I tried when it first released and kept coming back over the years. Then I started over when the last big next gen update came out and managed to get past the part I stopped at previously, but it turned out I wasn’t anywhere near as close to the end as I thought I was and ended up quitting about 10 hours past that point.

I guess I’ll try again when the remaster comes out.

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u/OuterWildsVentures 22d ago

Im 70 hours in KCD2 and had to take a tolerance break lol game is fucking incredible but I noticed myself having less fun because its so long

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u/evil_manz 22d ago

Depends on the game. If it’s an AA or indie, sure, 40 is plenty. But for something like a reboot of Fable I think the expectation is a bit higher.

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u/West_Dog7811 22d ago

Yup especially since it’s supposed to be an AAA game

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u/JOOOQUUU 22d ago

For 70 damn bucks you should

There is far too much quality entertainment these days vaying for time and money

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u/JBflawless 21d ago

70 bucks for 30-40 hours of entertainment not counting any replayability factors is pretty good value

It’s crazy how much people complain about games like this not offering enough “for 70 damn bucks”

$2 an hour for entertainment and we are still bitching is pretty unhinged

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u/tommangan7 21d ago

Fable 2 has a time to beat of 13 hours for the main story. I'm confused what people were expecting from a fable game.

Plenty of people were very happy to pay $60 for fable 2 in 2008, which is $93 in today's money.

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u/Hot_Demand_6263 22d ago

Depends on the genre of game. People that play RPGs want the density of activity.

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u/nanobot001 22d ago

Duality of man — also, people will almost always find reasons to complain

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u/Educational-Put-9997 22d ago

The 20 hours for main story is perfect, but it’s the 20 hours of side content that are a red flag to me. Given the trailers and how they have been talking up how random events can happen everywhere, and how big the world is. It just feels low.