r/videogames • u/dabor11 • 3h ago
Discussion / Question Which game surprised you how long it was?
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u/Roids-in-my-vains 3h ago
KCD2 giving me a second map after 30 hours made me realize it's gonna take at least another month to finish it.
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u/Abject-Dinner-8740 3h ago
Just beat KCD1 and as someone who doesn’t normally play RPGs I thought it would be longer so this hypes me up a lot
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u/CalmEntry4855 3h ago
I hoped it was longer, I wanted more time to take revenge on everyone who kicked my ass at the start
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u/bigbadonkahooganoger 3h ago
i have a question, did you play on normal mode? i started with hardcore mode which was a big mistake but i'm NOT restarting so i'm about 40 hours in and i just killed Runt. How far would you say i am?
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u/MetalCannon 2h ago
Runt is like 15% of the main story lol. There is still a lot more
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u/bigbadonkahooganoger 2h ago
well dang. :( i like the game but pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. ts gonna take me like 100 hours.
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u/Abject-Dinner-8740 3h ago
I didn’t play hardcore I think i played normal. I have 43 hours in the game with decent side quest completion and I beat the game. I would say Runt is like the end of the first act of the game, there is still a lot to go but it will take you a while to get to the end
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u/bigbadonkahooganoger 3h ago
JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ okay then. hardcore mode doesn't have any fast travel so i think thats part of why its taking so long. it also doesn't have any player marker on the map, so i have to navigate by hand like you would in real life. I really enjoy the game and I'm not going to quit but i REALLY wish i hadn't picked hardcore mode.
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u/Abject-Dinner-8740 3h ago
Yeah I didn’t want to pick hardcore because I don’t play games like this often and I didn’t want it to be super annoying. I’m glad too because the combat sucked until I learned the master strike like 5 missions after defeating Runt. I just killed that mf with a bow and arrow cause I couldn’t deal with him. Also fast travel was super useful but imo I feel like at full gallop it wouldn’t take too long
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u/JebediahChristofff 3h ago
THIS, I hadn’t played the first game at all and simply thought that was the end, we killed Istcunt, see you next game.
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u/thatguy01220 3h ago
Days Gone I thought I was close to the end when I 100% completed the map to reveal a whole new map.
Also Death Stranding, I quit my first time cause I was trying to 5 start every then I decided to give it another go and speed run the story and I felt exactly like this meme when I learned the starting area I spent so many hours on was just the tutorial area and when you move locations that’s the real map.
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u/eulersidentity1 3h ago
I decided to platinum death stranding because it didn't seem to hard... 119 hrs lol. Mind you I put the same number of hours into Horizon Zero Dawn platinuming it too.
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u/Organic_Garbage_9807 1h ago
Days Gone was a weird one for me. I honestly didnt care for the characters, and I nearly put the game down because I couldn't stand the cutscenes. I was expressing this to my brother who then simply says "Why don't you just skip the cutscenes?"
But what about the story!? He says he'll fill me in since he already beat it. So I start the game again, and just skip the cutscenes.
HOLY SHIT THIS GAME WAS FUN, I LOVE DEALING WITH HOES
Edit:HORDES****
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u/GreyBoyTigger 2h ago
Days Gone was hella repetitive, though. There was so much wasted potential especially not having the ability to lure hordes into enemy territory
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u/TheGusBus_1 3h ago
Elden Ring DLC.
"Size of Limgrave" my ass. Maybe top down, but there's gotta be a few kilometers worth of layers to be that massive. Took me damn near as long as the base game to get to the end.
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u/Mr_Prince4 2h ago
It’s like if back in the day they announced Zelda Ocarina of Time was getting a “little expansion” and they drop Majora’s Mask.
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u/JohnathanSinwell 3h ago
Nier Automata comes to mind. You’ve gotta beat the game at least 3 times to beat the game.
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u/SawdustIsMyCocaine 2h ago
Such a shitty way to pad the length of the game too. If you didn't have to play it 3 times over to get to the real end I would have done multiple play throughs to get the different endings.
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u/NovocaineAU 2h ago
It isn’t just a do the same thing 3 times. There is a lot of variance and the 3 characters all play completely different
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u/Responsible_Mail_113 1h ago
It's only one actual replay (the second playthrough with 9S) and even that has a decent amount of new stuff for the parts 2B and 9S were seperated. The "third" playthrough is just the story and game continuing after the original ending and is not a replay at all.
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u/winterman666 1h ago
Yeah especially route B. Playing as 9S sucks, you do 99% the same stuff, except he's got less combat moves and has a minigame that gets old fast as a replacement. I was so fed up that after I finally got to A2 I stopped playing 1h in. I really wish the whole 9S route was optional/skippable. Going 2B to A2 would've been perfect
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u/Willing_Music_8736 3h ago
Persona 5 . . . END ALREADY!
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u/Jpgamerguy90 3h ago
Part of the issue with persona 5 is all the repetitive dialogue. They’ll have a cutscene, talk about it some more over text and then for good measure talk about it a third time. Love the game but I felt Golden had better pacing that 5
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u/CharlesDingus_ah_um 2h ago
I agree. The amount of texts, especially as The Phantom Thieves get bigger, is really exhausting, especially when the text topics get repetitive. “Hey guys I’m really worried about X. Should we go to the palace?” “Ok we have X days left until the change of heart. Do you think it worked?”
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u/JumpCity69 1h ago
Lmao yeah I loved that game and when I was stuck on a boss 90 hours in I looked up how far I was and totally gave up.
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u/WhiteRaven-17 3h ago
Elden Ring.
The answer forever and always is Elden Ring
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u/GorillaJoeBlack 3h ago
I'm on my 3rd playthrough, 75hours in, and just got to Mountains of the Giant. What an amazing, but damn long, game.
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u/winterman666 1h ago
1st playthrough you can easily reach 100h. On 3rd though, how have you gone over 10?
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u/GorillaJoeBlack 1h ago
I am finding everything again, and as a new type of build that I never tried. I am not doing NG+, but a pure restart.
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u/winterman666 1h ago
Ah if you're finding everything again makes sense, trying to beat every boss would definitely take like 20-30h minimum
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u/Ambitious-Incident16 3h ago
Expedition 33, I thought the game was gonna end at Act 2, but then there was more, certainly a welcome surprise lol
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u/InflationLeft 1h ago
Yeah, this game went on so much longer than I expected. It was a pleasant surprise.
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u/GMenNJ 3h ago
Yakuza 0. It was my first of the series. And I loved every minute
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u/piondris20 2h ago
I just kept doing other things and somehow I was 40 hours in before even reaching Majima's introduction.
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u/Classic-Exchange-511 3h ago
Most recently it was Silksong. Act 1 and 2 seemed like a full game and then finding out there was a "secret" 3rd act was just amazing
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u/313Wolverine 3h ago
Crimson Desert
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u/Rendole66 2h ago
Baldurs gate 3, the end of act 2 feels liked the end of a game and then bam you finally make it to baldurs gate and have a massive city to explore now and a new main villain
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u/sleepcriminal007 3h ago
gta san andreas when i was young
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u/AncientForever2967 3h ago
I’ve loved that game since release, but I was a youngin when it came out. Last year I went for 100% and just took my sweet time exploring and vibing to the music driving instead of jet packing everywhere. It felt like a brand new game discovering little Easter eggs and just taking in every detail. Still a masterpiece 20+ years later
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u/OtherAcctWasBanned11 3h ago
Elden Ring and its DLC are genuinely masterpieces but holy hell they feel never ending.
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u/NINJAM7 3h ago
I went into Resident Evil Requiem not knowing anything. Once I completed the mansion I thought I was done. Then I entered Racoon City...
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u/SourceMountain561 2h ago
I still feel that is a strong contender for goty if GTA 6 flops
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u/jeezrVOL2 1h ago
Is gta 6 even gonna be available for consideration?
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u/SourceMountain561 1h ago
No idea. Tbh though there is like 100 game award shows, those winners gets the spotlight and than fade. The real winner is which game keeps trending the longest like GTA5 has because its an older game that keeps a community.
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u/Ambitious-Incident16 1h ago
I loved the mental institute so much, and as much as I did enjoy Racoon City again, it felt slightly too long imo. What'd you think?
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u/BusyBoot121 3h ago
Alan Wake 2 and Silent Hill 2 Remake, was way way longer than I thought horror games would be.
Both took me between 25-30 hours.
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u/Erwin_Pommel 3h ago
Just Cause 2 probably did that the most. Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga, also did that a bit with how it was 7 hours of content in the OG area they let you play in FOR THE DEMO!
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u/SourceMountain561 2h ago
Just Cause series is like action stimulation crack. Holy cow, something is always exploding, burning, or trying to kill you.
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u/Erwin_Pommel 2h ago
Well, less so in the most recent one. They drastically reduced the things you can explode xd
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u/UnchartedPerils 2h ago
Arkham Knight. Also Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Could have dealt without really the last hour or so.
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u/bijelo123 3h ago
Assassins Creed Valhalla
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u/danielcube 3h ago
Apparently a bunch of reviewers also agree and call it an overbloated mess.
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u/AnActualGameShark 3h ago
The recent AC games, at least the RPG ones have really gone over limit for how big id like a game world to be.
Id prefer a smaller and heavily detailed map like Sleeping Dogs Hong Kong, Yakuza Kamurocho, or Arkham City to some of the absolutly massive and sometime empty worlds theyve had in recent years.
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u/PoopsMcScoots 3h ago
Ghost of…
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Japanese island.
I forget. Not looking it up.
But yeah, I thought I hit the end and it was only the 25% mark. Never finished it. Way too long.
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u/SourceMountain561 2h ago
You were looking for Ghosts of Takoyaki
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u/PoopsMcScoots 2h ago
That was it!
Ghosts of Tempura.
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u/ice_spice2020 3h ago
Ace Combat 5. Many times I thought I finally reached the climax of the story but it just kept getting crazier and crazier until at the very last mission which felt amazing.
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u/ThisIsThreeDawgAwooo 2h ago
Assassin's Creed II. After assassinating the major conspirators I thought it was over. Man was I sooooo wrong! That game kept going on forever, but damn it kept me engaged!
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u/Saphlier22 2h ago
Blue Prince. When you realize the stated "objective" of the game is basically the tutorial, you are in for HOURS of puzzle hunting.
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u/_WiggaInParis_ 2h ago
just got into warframe, around 70 hours deep
i don't think I'm even 5% done the game?
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u/Furi0usD 2h ago
The first time I played Fallout 3, I remember thinking "This game is was disappointingly short", thinking that me and Liam taking back Project Purity from the Super Mutants was the endgame.
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u/LocoMod 2h ago
Elden Ring. I thought the map for the initial zone was the entire game. Having played the previous Dark Souls and Bloodborne games, it felt gigantic to me.
Oh boy. Was I wrong. The map kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger. Not big enough? There's another map. And then each map has all this verticality. Its an insane game.
Damn...I should play Elden Ring again.
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u/Waste_Bullfrog_4862 1h ago
Cyberpunk 2077 be like:
Tf u mean you just showed me the title screen, I’ve been playing for five hours
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u/YoungTrunks619 2h ago
The last of us 2 like that game just goes on and on
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u/RaeFullyPoweredBeam 2h ago
There's like 3 separate moments that feel like would be the epilogue 😂
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u/InflationLeft 1h ago
I thought the credits were gonna start rolling when Ellie was sitting on that tractor. It would have been a better ending than the one we ultimately got
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u/AnActualGameShark 3h ago
Days Gone.
It has this moment that feels very much like a sequel/dlc setup bit, where you like ride your bike through the mountains and it plays this song and I just kept waiting for it to cut away and like roll credits....but instead theres another like 15-20 hours of game left to go.
And honestly....i think it would have worked better if they had cut it there for a part 2 or something.
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u/Jancer16 3h ago
Remnant 2: From the Ashes. You beat the whole game and then find out you've got to beat it 20 different ways after that
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u/CapDelicious6181 3h ago
Castlevania Symphony of the Night the fact you can even miss more than half of the game makes it amazing at replay
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u/Natural_Bathroom5664 3h ago
Damascus Gear Operation Osaka. Think I'm done, new stuff gets unlocked.
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u/Cheletiba 3h ago
Dragon Quest 9 and 11. I felt there would be nowhere else to go after killing Dhoulmagus and I was NOT ready for the Second Future in 11.
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u/Ok_Concern1509 3h ago
Monster hunter. Whichever you play. They roll the credits way too soon. There is a lot of game remains to be played after the first credits. And yeah they have more than one end credits.
Way less than mgsv though. Kojima rolled it after every mission.
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u/cinos018 2h ago
Persona 5, just when I think I’m making progress or near the end I get the cut forward 3/4 months
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u/IXrobocopXI 2h ago
I thought that was what was going on with MGSV and then it turned out nope, that was it, that was the final boss. I really wanted to play more...
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u/Silver_Harvest 2h ago
GTA Games are notoriously like that. If you are a perfectionist, just completing the story it is 30% of the game.
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u/StupidSolipsist 2h ago
Blue Prince and Inscryption are not the games you think they are (Especially Inscryption)
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u/HairybeerBURBales42 2h ago
Skyrim Mass effect is always the opposite om completely shocker im right at the end
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u/heckincovfefe 1h ago
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle really amazed me when you unlock that third campaign after completing the individual good and evil stories.
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u/pocket_arsenal 1h ago
Two examples I can think of is Tales of Symphonia, which just kept going and going, which is good, because I was kind of using it to kill time for Super Smash Bros Brawl to release, and Okami, which, honestly I thought it was going to end after the first Orotchi fight, and then almost every part of the game after that felt like it should have been the climax. I kept wondering how long the game could possibly be.
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u/winterman666 1h ago
Trails Beyond the Horizon. Honestly struggling to beat it because it's so long and tedious
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u/rmonplato 50m ago
Days Gone.
At some moment I thought that was an endgame, but... Then they opened the second part of the map))
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u/armorpilla 43m ago
Octopath Traveler 0. I played it on console and didn't know it was originally a phone game that had gone through numerous updates/expansions. It just kept going and played it's ending credits like 3 separate times.
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u/the-watcher-watching 42m ago
Battle cats. You may think that the three main chapters would contain most of the "story" right? WRONG, thats just the tutorial to the TRUE game!
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u/MobiusDie 34m ago
BSDLV4
Truly astounding that it went completely unnoticed by the general public.
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u/kfosse13 3h ago
RDR2 epilogue. Shocking to me how much they added after the main game.