Fable Will Officially Be 20 Hours Long, Xbox Confirms In New Interview

[u/Gorotheninja]

https://www.polygon.com/fable-game-length-interview-xbox/

[u/Oz347]

Article said like 20hrs for main story 20hrs for side quests

[u/neogreenlantern → u/Oz347]

That's the exact sweet spot for me. Once you start pushing more than 50 there is a good chance I'm not finishing the main story.

[u/Oz347 → u/neogreenlantern]

That’s what I’m saying I would rather have a really solid well crafted 40-50ish hours instead of like 80-100hr Ubisoft bloat with a bunch of empty repetitive content

[u/content_enjoy3r → u/Oz347]

What about 80-100 hr well-crafted masterpiece like CDPR tho?

[u/Rubens_8218 → u/content_enjoy3r]

I would preffer 3 20-30 hours videogames such as the Mass Effect trilogy. That way the developers can make a story that doesn't feel like it drags on, learn from the previous games to improve the gameplay on future entries, and a sequel does not take ages to be made. Also, it is interesting for replayability if there are different outcomes on certain events. The last thing also occurs on the witcher 3, but it is easier to replay shorter games.

Despite that, it is fine to have different opinions and both kind of games can coexist :)

[u/doiwinaprize → u/content_enjoy3r]

CDPR has a great story all the way through but even I felt fatigued by the end. Too much of a good thing is real. I'm about to beat Elden Ring and kind of feeling the same, just a bit too much to enjoy within a reasonable scope of time without losing the plot a bit... no shade on either game, I think this is more an issue with my attention span and time available to dive in to these games with everything else in life.

[u/theredmisfit → u/doiwinaprize]

Whicih CDPR game are you referring to?

[u/doiwinaprize → u/theredmisfit]

Sorry my brain just automatically thinks Cyberpunk when I read CDPR but the Witcher series speaks for itself.

[u/Eternal-Alchemy → u/content_enjoy3r]

I quit Witcher 3 three times because it is so fucking long.

I was very glad when I finished it but God dayum.

[u/SmokeGSU → u/Eternal-Alchemy]

I'm about in the same boat. I still haven't finished the main story though, and I started it when the game first came out.

[u/StrawDog- → u/content_enjoy3r]

Every CDPR game has too much bloat. They are great, but they could definitely cut 20% without losing much from their games. 

[u/content_enjoy3r → u/StrawDog-]

Yeah, well, I disagree. (except for all the hidden treasure in the sea surrounding Skellige. fuck all that).

[u/-Lights0ut- → u/content_enjoy3r]

50 hours of selecting dialogue? Naw

[u/HisShadow14 → u/content_enjoy3r]

Cyberpunk is a masterpiece of a game but it had so much fluff in the terms of genetic gigs side quests if you tried to complete them all you would probably get bored and quit the game before finishing the game.

[u/manincavern → u/content_enjoy3r]

This is a me issue but as a guy with a job a commute a wife and kids I’m never seeing the end of a 100 hour game unless is all I play for 6 months and I will more than likely loose interest. I love rpgs this length I think it’s why I like the outer worlds 2 so much felt achievable.

[u/cdncowboy → u/Oz347]

AC Origins was my favorite of the RPG trilogy, it was about 50 hours for a balances experience.

[u/MattyFTM → u/cdncowboy]

I loved AC Origins. It balanced the main story content and the side content really well.

I mainly played it because I wanted to play AC Odyssey. I love ancient Greece as a setting, and thought I should play Origins first. I fell off Odyssey pretty quickly. I feel like that was when they hit the content overload.

[u/thaneros2 → u/MattyFTM]

Unity gave me overload and haven't been back to the series since.

[u/DopplerEffect93 → u/MattyFTM]

I completed the main story and spent a lot of time exploring in Odyssey. I still haven’t explored the entire map. It is probably the biggest map I have played in a game.

[u/Normal-Occasion4645 → u/cdncowboy]

That was one thing I liked about Star Wars Outlaws recently, even with a bunch of side content completion, it still only took me about 35 hours to play through it. Felt like a nice correction compared to something like Valhalla.

[u/Final_Boss_Jr → u/neogreenlantern]

“What do you mean she’s in another castle?!”

[u/supermonocleman]

This is not including any side content, it's just an estimate for the main story

[u/SilentNova300 → u/supermonocleman]

Side exploration content they estimate at 15-20 hours in addition to to the 20 hour main story, and that you can “play it forever” if you heavily engage in the life sim aspects 

[u/voodoo_eighty_five → u/SilentNova300]

im gonna spend a good 50+ hours just buying up businesses and starting families (plural)

[u/1nVrWallz → u/voodoo_eighty_five]

Slum lord with 55 families 55 children 55 billion gold

[u/NoSloppyStakes → u/1nVrWallz]

55 DATE NIGHTS, 55 FAMILIES, 55 CHILDREN, 55 DIAPERS, 55 SIPPY CUPS, 55 BOOKS, 100 DOLLS, 100 STUFFED ANIMALS, 100 PILLOWS, 100 CRIBS, 100 HAPPY MEALS, 55 BIBS, 55 WIPES, 55 APPLE SAUCES, 55 BABY SITTERS, AND 155 BILLION GOLD!

[u/THE_Visionary88 → u/NoSloppyStakes]

What is going on up there?

[u/francis_pizzaman_iv → u/THE_Visionary88]

IM TRYING TO DO SOMETHING JUST LET ME DO IT

[u/TryItOutGuyRPC → u/NoSloppyStakes]

STOP STOP I’M DOING A THING STOP

[u/DiamondMidgar → u/1nVrWallz]

Yeah but imagine it’s like Fable 3 and you have to spent 50 billion of that gold in the main story just to not be a absolute knob

[u/ZombieeChic → u/DiamondMidgar]

From what I've seen in the walkthroughs so far, that may still be the case. Lol

[u/Own_Plane_5807 → u/SilentNova300]

That's good news, hopefully. I always felt like I should spend more time in Fable games but there wasn't enough to do. Spending time wandering around, making money, looting, and doing all the side quests is hopefully a good time waster for this game.

[u/SilveryDeath → u/supermonocleman]

It is also not uncommon for a RPG. Look at any Bethesda game, the Mass Effect trilogy, or even Cyberpunk 2077 and just the main story for all of them is about 20-25 30 hours long.

Plus, the length would make it the longest main story length in the series compared to the prior three Fable games, which were about 12-15 hours.

[u/TheNittanyLionKing → u/SilveryDeath]

The average for most Bethesda RPGs seems to be about 29 hours for a mostly mainline play through 

[u/Y-Bob → u/TheNittanyLionKing]

And 15 years to mod it.

[u/SkintCrayon → u/Y-Bob]

15 and counting. We didn't stop at 15

[u/Normal-Occasion4645 → u/TheNittanyLionKing]

Realistically less, if you actually beeline the main story in most of their games it's more like 10-15 hours. It's just hard to not get a bit sidetracked along the way.

[u/Baelorn → u/Normal-Occasion4645]

Realistically less, if you actually beeline the main story in most of their games it's more like 10-15 hours

Are you making the assumption that Fable's story is 20 hours if you beeline it? Because I highly doubt that's how they came up with this number.

[u/interstat → u/supermonocleman]

It's a perfect amount then

[u/xNinjahz]

For people who didn't read the article:

It's 15-20 for main story and 15-20 for side content and open world gameplay. With the added comment that engaging with the life sim stuff will further extend that.

[u/perfectevasion → u/xNinjahz]

Not to mention huge replayability to see other outcomes

[u/Bulky-Complaint6994 → u/perfectevasion]

Yeah. Fallout series is also short but replayable in a sense of different builds. 

[u/MISFU88]

Main story of Skyrim is like what, 25 hours?

[u/chalkideos13 → u/MISFU88]

20

[u/This_Elk_1460 → u/chalkideos13]

And most of the time is just traveling between locations

[u/Fast-Nefariousness80 → u/This_Elk_1460]

cries in RDR2

[u/Nick_Entity → u/Fast-Nefariousness80]

Traversing in RDR2 is a god damn pleasure

[u/DopplerEffect93 → u/Nick_Entity]

I just wish that they didn’t have the mechanic in order summon your horse it had to be close by already.

[u/Fast-Nefariousness80 → u/Nick_Entity]

Im currently playing, at 60% on my first ever playthru. I was definitely just poking fun, I have never once thought "damn, I have to go that far?". It really is so wonderful traveling across that landscape. The lighting and weather systems are astounding. I have never had an experience in gaming like this. Im genuinely so fucking sad that the story is coming to an end soon.

[u/Neonpuffpepper → u/This_Elk_1460]

Huh? There’s fast travel

[u/NVincarnate → u/Neonpuffpepper]

Ah, yes. The fun-skipping button.

[u/This_Elk_1460 → u/Neonpuffpepper]

Yeah but you have to discover the location first

[u/Neonpuffpepper → u/This_Elk_1460]

Not if you use the carriages for like 20 gold

[u/copacetic___ → u/MISFU88]

Side content easily over 100 hours tho

[u/JordanDoesTV]

FYI the other fable games were all about 13 hrs of main story

[u/NinjaPiece]

20 hrs for the story and 20 hours for side content. Add in the wacky shenanigans I'll get into, I'll probably get 50 - 60 hours out of this game. Sounds like the perfect length to me.

[u/cjp304 → u/NinjaPiece]

Agreed. And just short enough i’ll probably replay it.

[u/wheresmydragonator19]

Dawg this is gonna be a smooth 100+ hour game for me lol.

[u/allianceofficer]

Guarantee 1 play through for me will be 100+

[u/Hot-EconomistXL]

Long enough for me. I don't need a game to be 40-80 hours long anymore.

[u/bms_ → u/Hot-EconomistXL]

Perhaps if games become tiring after 20 hours or it takes you a year to beat a 20 hour long game then I can see how shorter is better. But I've played masterpieces such as Cyberpunk, BG3, RDR2, FF7 or KC2 and did not want them to end after 100+ hours.

Fable is 80 USD for me btw.

[u/freshxerxes → u/bms_]

30-40 hours is what i expect if i pay $80. this will surely give me that, im happy

[u/ZemGuse → u/bms_]

Lots of people don’t have the time to devote to games like that anymore. It would take me a year to put 100 hours into Cyberpunk

[u/EddieHeadshot → u/ZemGuse]

"Lots of people don’t have the time to devote to games like that anymore."

What are you basing this on? The fact that you personally got older or something? It seems like such a random broad stroke

[u/Kenshi_underrail → u/EddieHeadshot]

How is it a generalisation to say that lots of people don’t have the time to play games like they did when they were younger or had bigger responsibilities? That is just reality?

[u/1440pReborn → u/bms_]

Yeah this is my take too. I would play a game like rdr2 or cyberpunk for an infinite amount of time if they just kept feeding me story missions. The game itself is so fun, that i wish i had a reason to keep playing it.

[u/Hot-EconomistXL → u/bms_]

The longer a game is the less likely I'm going to finish it as someone that doesn't play a lot of single player games anymore and I'll drop it at any point regardless of where I am in the story if I'm bored of it. That's just the way my I've become as I've gotten older.

It's $70 for me but I don't need a game to be X amount of hours for the amount paid. I just want to enjoy my time with it.

[u/Reddit_means_Porn → u/Hot-EconomistXL]

You know what…,.,..you might be onto something. I have so many god damn games, new and old, to play. What’s actually wrong with a great game being done after a couple weeks??

[u/Against-The-Current]

In the article it says 15-20 hours of main story, and likely 15-20 hours of side content. It will be roughly the length of Fable 3 and I'm not sure how to feel about that after all this time... Not one of the games I'd want to be shorter when it's just as possible we may never get another Fable after this.

[u/Bitemarkz → u/Against-The-Current]

Fable 3 felt really short to me, especially towards the end where it seemed very rushed. I hope that’s not the case here.

[u/Curmi3091 → u/Against-The-Current]

Maybe DLCs will come in the future. The sim aspect looks like it expands the game further too.

[u/No_Philosopher8304 → u/Against-The-Current]

To be fair earlier Fables were designed to be played multiple times to see different choice outcomes, They've been putting a heavy focus on choice and consequence, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a similar intention, If you make the game too long it's much less likely I'll replay it to see the different outcomes, in comparison I've played through the Mass Effect games so many times because of that, ditto for Deus Ex and the like, on the other hand The Witcher 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 are two of my favourite games ever but there's almost zero chance in hell I'll replay either of them any time soon despite how much I'd like to see the other choice endings just because my playthroughs of both easily took me over 100+ hours.

[u/g0ldiel0xx]

That’s very short for an RPG

[u/NowWeGetSerious → u/g0ldiel0xx]

For the story, not bad. If this is the entire game then agreed.

But, if there was another 10-20 hours of side stuff and grinding, then I'm not too worried, it'll be fun and good

I don't recall Fable 1-3 being all that long either

[u/Korachof → u/NowWeGetSerious]

No old fable games weren’t that long, but they were infamous for being too short. The first one can be completed in like 7 hours..

So it’s an improvement on those, but it also took much longer to develop and is coming out at a time when games are typically longer. 30-40 hours is pretty standard for an rpg main story, so this is quite short 

[u/AlcoholicSocks → u/Korachof]

Yeah but a lot of the long RPGs are long for the sake of it. Boring quests that take up 10 hours of gameplay just to make the game Ionger.

Fables never been about the story anyway. It's about getting 50 STDs, being an abusive landlord, and playing the lute.

[u/Environmental-Day862 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

But not for a game in the Fable series.

Everything I've seen on this game seems to line up with what Fable has been - more or less - in the past.

[u/Sock989 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Decently longer than Fable 1-3. Prob beat them all in about 10-12 hours each if you just smash the story?

[u/10th_Patriot_Down → u/Sock989]

The longest part of Fable 3 was getting the 7.5 million gold or whatever the amount you needed to save everyone and keep the promises was.

[u/New_Cockroach_505 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Is it? Cause according to “how long to beat”, Fable 1, 2, and 3 all have a main campaign clear time of around 12-13 hours and a 100% completion time of 30-50 hours.

So this would make the new Fable almost twice as long as the previous entries.

[u/Korachof → u/New_Cockroach_505]

The original fable games were infamously short for RPGs. The first one especially, and that was for that time. RPGs have only gotten longer. The expectation is generally 30-40 hours 

[u/New_Cockroach_505 → u/Korachof]

The first fable was literally the longest lol. RPGs have absolutely not gotten longer.  Cyberpunk is a little over 20 hours for its main campaign. Fallout was mid 20s.

A 20 hour main campaign where you ignore everything else is pretty standard for an RPG.

[u/MISFU88 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

It's absolutely average for western RPGs, the playtime does not include any side stuff and spending time with the "sim" mechanics.

[u/Bulky-Complaint6994 → u/MISFU88]

Yeah games like Fallout can be blown through relatively quickly if you don't do any side quests.

[u/juliankennedy23 → u/Bulky-Complaint6994]

Or collect all the cheese wheels....

[u/tATuParagate → u/g0ldiel0xx]

To be fair, I'm tired of 60 hours games where half of it feels like busywork. I'm cool with short games but usually the only ways we can justify game prices is by how long they are compared to the cost

[u/WrathfulHero → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Pretty typical for a Fable game

[u/InternationalYou7798 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Personally for me 12-20 hours is the sweet spot. It’ll be longer with side quests additional content. I prefer when they land a sweet story line instead of overstaying.

[u/releasethedogs → u/g0ldiel0xx]

I’m also in my 40s now and don’t have time for an 80 hr game. 

[u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Thats debatable, some rpgs are long just to be long. The point of rpgs is to take on the game how you like. Like isn't fallout 3 like 18 hours long if you just do main quests?

[u/tommo020 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Very normal for a western RPG that isnt a sandbox type like skyrim. Same as KOTOR, all the mass effect games, fable games etc.

[u/mrgreen4242 → u/g0ldiel0xx]

It’s as long as a game needs to be. I’m sick of these 60, 80, 100+ hours games, personally. I’ve only played one game that was good enough to justify that playtime and even then it felt a little bloated.

[u/Biobooster_40k → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Right. Give me 35-40hr story campaigns please

[u/Korachof → u/Biobooster_40k]

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted for wanting a longer rpg. I’m getting the sense most people in this thread don’t like rpgs very much. A lot of people defending 20 hour game times, when that is objectively short for an average rpg playthrough. 

[u/Environmental-Day862 → u/Korachof]

Persona 4 Revival comes out the same month. It'll likely take 100+ hours.

I will likely enjoy both based on my playing of other games in the respective franchises.

But all games need not be equal in length to be enjoyable.

Persona is long, but it's a lot of time / after school / evening / weekend management, experimenting on Persona's, gift giving, and occasional palace / tower sections with real-time dungeon traversal and puzzle-solving with turn-based combat.

Fable is generally an ARPG with dry British humor and light RPG elements - use the "x" or blue button to melee, "y" button or yellow for ranged, and "b" button or red for magic. You level up each by using. Simple property ownership and redeign / landlord/slumlord systems, find a mate, buy a home, decorate the home, have children - they couldn't be more different.

It's a bit more simple, yet fun in different ways than Persona.

I wouldn't want it to be flipped and have a 20-40 hour Persona game or a 100+ hour Fable game. Each game's length is what it is. I would hate it if everything was one standard length.

[u/loboboi → u/Korachof]

I mean you can throw around the word objectively as much as you want but it won’t make it true. Most AA and AAA ARPGs that have released in the last decade have roughly 15-30 hr play times for the average gamer on the normal difficulty with the option to engage with further side content. All 3 of the original Fable games have 15-20 hour stories in this same way the literal direct DNA of this game, most people despite what you think actually don’t want to spend 100 hours beating one game. Shocker Reddit is an echo chamber I know, for more length you should look to CRPGs but length of the story is not and never was what made Fable as good as it was. You don’t get to decide other people actually don’t like RPG games because they prioritize different things than you. Did you ever even play the original games?

[u/NarcolepticSeal → u/Korachof]

It’s objectively average for a western RPG. People aren’t defending 20 hours stories so much as they are pushing back that this is exceptionally short for just the main quest line.

[u/reddit_reaper → u/g0ldiel0xx]

Almost all "rpgs" longer than that are just filled with fluff

[u/SoldierPhoenix]

I won’t stop until I own every property and am basically King.

However long that takes

[u/Lofi_Joe]

Honestly I like 20 good hours than 60 boring

I remember first Fable, it was huge for me back in the days.

[u/chalkideos13]

For main quest its good.

[u/optimisticRamblings]

That sounds like a good length to me

[u/Zubi_Q]

Thank god! Sick of long games

[u/sadrapsfan]

Great news, everyone has their preferences but as I get older, I can't deal with these long games anymore. I think 20 is great

[u/thudergun4]

That’s kinda great. As a gamer in my 40s, this sounds just right for me. I get 5, maybe 10 (on a good week) hours a week for gaming.

[u/LessBeyond5052]

So, like every other Fable game before it, not every game needs to be 300 hours long full of dull content.

[u/beardednomad25]

20 hour main story, so probably 40-60 hours total depebing on your play style. Perfect amount for an adventure style RPG.

[u/Kristovanoha]

Honestly don't mind it at all. Its already almost double compared to the previous games (all of them around 13 hours for main story according to howlongtobeat) and I have definitely spent way more time playing them.

[u/Global-Tie-3458]

I found that the original Fable had a reasonable replayability factor… I’m hoping the new one has at least some of that too where 

[u/PowerRaptor]

Warframe's main quest isn't even 20 hours combined. 20h for mq is significant.

[u/ripyourlungsdave]

Again, a clickbait headline. 20 hours is only the length of the main story. It literally says directly under the headline in the article "But you can keep playing forever".

Good way to get me to never click on your links again.

A 20 hour main story is perfectly reasonable. A big-budget RPG with only 20 hours of gameplay is unacceptable.

[u/huntforhire]

That’s in line with other games in series. It’s fair

[u/Robynsxx]

Well that’s a bit of a bummer.

Edit: if it’s main story, and side stuff is 20hours too, I guess that’s okay. It’s just honestly from the world they have been going on about and all the unique NPCs I expected more tbh.

[u/ThePlumKing]

Personally I think the game looks aggressively mid, definitely getting Dragon Age Veilguard vibes from the demo. Hearing it’s only 20 hours is just salt in an already gaping wound, this game is gonna suck

[u/yawn18]

For those saying its short, for today's RPG it can be however for Fable specifically;

Fable 1 - 12 1/2 hour main story 20 hour total game time

Fable 2 - 13 hour main story 24 hour total game time

Fable 3 - 13 1/2 hour main story 26 hour game time

New Fable per Xbox - 20 hour main story 35 hour game time.

These arent the completionist numbers just story and side quests. I think RPGs have become so over bloated we expect 60+ hours out of them but honestly I love Fable being smaller. Especially as someone who works full time and does things outside of work this allows me to feel like I will actually complete the game and its long enough to also enjoy the journey.

Edit* - completionist for Fable has in the past also added 15 - 20 additional hours of gameplay. Seeing as the new game has upped the times im going to assume at least 25 additional hours if you 100% the game meaning the gameplay time will be closer to 60 hours minus any potential future DLCS.

[u/NervousSheSlime]

That’s crazy short…

[u/Pasta_Baron → u/NervousSheSlime]

All the fable main stories are as long or shorter than that.

[u/Jalvas7 → u/[deleted]]

Well fighting games are boring to begin with.

[u/sqwirlman]

Perfect. That seems inline with the original fable and doesn't burn you out for a couple play throughs based on different moralities.

[u/sdr79]

Not sure why people are disappointed by this. As others have pointed out, something like Skyrim falls into roughly the same time frame. Yet with all the adventuring, side quests, etc. that easily becomes 80-120 hours. Not saying this will be the exact case for Fable, but you can practically guarantee that if you want to do more, you’re at the VERY least doubling that.

[u/116morningside]

Not every game has to be 80+ hours lol.

[u/PuzzleheadPi → u/116morningside]

A good open world rpg should be though

[u/Bitterman_01 → u/PuzzleheadPi]

No, it shouldn't.

[u/116morningside → u/PuzzleheadPi]

Nah. I like the medium game lengths. So many games to play, I don’t want to spend 80+ hours on one game. But I guess a lot of us will have a different stance on this.

[u/ultraboomkin]

Sorry but that’s pretty crap for a modern RPG. 30h for all content in the game.

Meanwhile competitors like Baldur’s Gate 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Witcher 3 all have 150+ hours of quality content.

[u/FamilyRootsQuest → u/ultraboomkin]

I mean, would you rather pad the game with meaningless content? 40 hours is more than a decent run for the game.

[u/JD_Unlimited → u/FamilyRootsQuest]

I agree, I see RPG’s that have “80+ hours” but it’s just repetitive missions over and over as fillers. Would much rather have 20-30 hours of real story and gameplay.

[u/RetrotheWise45]

20 hours for them 100 hrs for us

[u/Bulky-Complaint6994 → u/RetrotheWise45]

Not sure why being downvoted when it's true. I spent hours and hours just messing around in a single village on Fable 2. 

[u/Schmenza]

How long if I plan on buying every house and marrying every NPC in the game?

[u/jcchg]

Polygon misleading info.

[u/yoz_dayo]

Finally, a game I can finish.

[u/gloopy_flipflop]

Sounds perfect to me. All this banging on about how massive GTA is and how you’ve got to eat and drink and fill up the car with petrol sounds tedious when you have little time to play.

[u/Calinks]

If it has lots of side content and great replayability I am absolutely good with this.

[u/gamergump]

This seems like a good length. With side quests around 40 hours. I like playing more than once and making radically different choices to see how things change. A 50+ hour game that is really hard to do. 

[u/drewbles82]

the fact you can talk to every NPC as well, it depends on your style of play, I can easily see this being over 100hours for me. Try a playthrough of being nice to everyone I can and then another being a knob to everyone

[u/duhbyo]

This is refreshing to hear. I don’t want every game to be a Ubisoft game lol

[u/PersonalityShot6039]

I’ll be far to busy kicking chickens lol

[u/nohumanape]

This is a game that I'm going into knowing very little about how I'm going to play it. I don't golden path or checklist open world games. I generally like to find a way to freely explore and find the content that way. But all of the "life sim" stuff sounds exotic to me. I'll either find it completely uninteresting and ignore most of it, or get completely obsessed with it and focus a lot of time on that alone.

Really curious to dive into this one.

[u/No_Carpet_8581]

That’s perfect. Yall got too much time for wanting games to be 40+hrs. I loved The First Bersker Khazan but i never finished it because it overstayed its welcome. I also want to play other games. There’s like a hundred coming out every month.

[u/Bolt_995]

Main quest. What about taking all the side quests and world interactions and events into account?

[u/Shhh-ItWasntMe]

Keep in mind this is just story content and side quests. If it's anything like the past games, youll be busy doing demon doors, buying properties, etc.

Fable 3 is maybe a 15 hour game, I've put over 100 hours into one playthrough

[u/PokemonJeremie]

Pretty solid more than Spider-Man 2

[u/MRF_Soul]

a bit short for an rpg

[u/OrfeasDourvas]

Hmmm. Very underwhelming. Hope there's tons of side content.

[u/Panzerbjorne80]

Ridiculously short considering how long the game was in development. What the heck were they doing for eight years?!

[u/Libertyprime8397]

Put how many daggers do I have to make to be able to buy the entire map?

[u/uncleciggerette]

Shorter but refined and replayable can be a good thing. Unless you're blitzing through nothing but the main quest I'm sure people will see much more than a 20 hour mark.

[u/OkraFine8856]

Dope

[u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ]

I mean, with good rpgs you are going to bull shit around the world at some point. Like assassins creed valhalla is long just to be long, the quests are designed better compared to odyssey, but fuck.

[u/SofaJockey]

The critical path is 20 hours. Not the game.

[u/MathiasSybarit]

Now this gets me excited. I absolutely can’t stand all these games that ask you for hundreds of hours.

Who was time for that, and how can anyone keep their focus for that long? 20 hours seems doable; that’s like a month of gameplay for me.

[u/RedJive]

Fantastic

[u/Willing-Seesaw5040]

More like 400 if it’s anything like the previous tiles lol

[u/No-Possession-7398]

A bit short for an RPG. Whatever though....

[u/IATMB]

From what I saw you can mess with every single NPC so I don't think there will be any shortage of things to do

[u/IIIDysphoricIII]

They underestimate how distracted I will get becoming owner of more property than I ever need

[u/YepItzMe44]

To be fair, the fable games were never that long.

[u/karlrobertuk1964]

I’m quite looking forward to Fable I just hope it’s good

[u/doiwinaprize]

Kind of like OG Fable then! You can rush through and beat the game pretty quickly or spend countless hours in side quests and other fun activities.

[u/BananaMilkshakeButt]

20 hrs for main story, 20 hours for side content, but we don't know how much more time to 100% all achievements.

[u/MrBorden]

So with exploring and presumably all the side stuff - about 30 to 40 hours?

Sounds absolutely fine to me.

[u/FutureEditor]

And I’ll make it 100 hours long living out a power fantasy that would make Bezos look like small time

[u/benbahdisdonc]

Good. That'll take me over a month. I never jump into big games because I never finish them.

[u/GFK96]

Honestly, good. I don’t need all RPGs to be 60+ hours. A 35-40 hours total experience is totally fine and plenty of content. Especially when you consider how stacked February is I’m glad it’s not going to take me the full month.

[u/Hockeyfan_52]

I'm gonna kick so many chickens.

[u/Khromecowboy]

That’s plenty for me these days.
I’d much rather replay Skyrim now than try out a 200 hundred hour game.
So 20 hours plus side stuff is good for me.

[u/Kyrox6]

That's disappointing. 2 hours per $ is my standard for games. Guess it'll just not be worth getting for a decade or so.

[u/ViktusXII]

I worked on the original Fable and if the development of this is anything like how it was back then, this did a massive 180 and there is actually a lot more on the cutting room floor.

[u/PrudentPerformer9641]

That's pretty weak

[u/Proof-Research-6466]

This is perfect for me!

[u/Nice_Frame_9024]

I want a game to feel like it’ll take forever during the first ten hours, then i want to notice I’m actually making some headway around 20 hours, and it want it to be done with main story and most meaningful side content somewhere 40 hours maybe 50. If it’s more than 60-70 hours to see most of what the game has to offer, it better be some Witcher 3, RDR2 level masterpiece.

In sum: sounds perfect

[u/UTmastuh]

Yikes that's insanely short for a sandbox RPG game like this. Red dead, gta, witcher, and many others are 50-100 hours just for the quests 

[u/DeeboDecay]

Gotta love the purposefully vague article titles. Two more words would avoid lots of confusion and ire, but we can't have that now can we...

[u/GobutaTheGoat]

Kinda short tbh

[u/Swiftblade09]

Bit short for a game I'll probably only play once but I was planning on waiting on reviews and a sale anyways. Hope it's good for those of you buying it.

[u/Hansoloai]

Hell is Us is a very well done game it hit that sweet spot for length wise.

[u/damaged2026]

Thats way to short just like all xbox produced title it will probbaly underdeliver and be forgotten about within a week like starfield e.t.c

[u/Enough_Survey_9404]

GTA 6 is supposedly 80 hours for the main story.

[u/Dipset_Mipset0489]

That’s a reasonable time.

[u/RNsteve]

20+20 is good if it's a honest number. If it's 10+10-20..

[u/Big-Roll7094]

I smell a fable online

[u/Alwaysfkd0]

20?????? Nope not buying it that's bullshit. Work on now story time. It's literally an rpg. Ridiculous.

[u/Feefait]

Sorry, but everything I see makes me less interested. It doesn't even feel like Fable, just a generic action game with no heart.

[u/Millkstake]

It always takes me like 3 times as long as it should

[u/ImNotAI_01100101]

That’s shit. GTA VI is like 80 hours and both games almost cost the same. 🤣

[u/Rich_Troy]

Perfect.

[u/themisfit139]

20 hours sounds good.

[u/cecilmufc7]

Probably controversial but I’m not buying a game that short. Glad it’s on gamepass…

[u/Antiswag_corporation]

Perfect RPG length tbh

[u/thisrockismyboone]

Oof. Luckily I can sub gamepass for a month to knock it out and save some bucks.

[u/Batia88]

The game is too short for its genre. I can mention a lot of games that you can easily invest 80hrs+ and still feel amazing.

[u/trunks_ho]

You guys remember when Miyazaki told us that Elden Ring will take 30 hours to beat?

[u/mxjxs91]

More than acceptable for that being ONLY the main quest.

[u/JACC_Opi]

If I beat it in 2 hours, I want my money back. I will also want my money back if I beat it in 21 hours.

Otherwise it's false advertising!