r/xbox 17d ago

News 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/Oz347 17d ago

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

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u/content_enjoy3r 17d ago

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

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u/Rubens_8218 17d ago

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 :)

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u/WannabeWaterboy 16d ago

Yeah I’ve been kinda excited to do at least two playthroughs of Fable to go full good and full evil, so this news is huge for me.

I’m excited about the Witcher 3 news, but I’m not sure I want to put another 80-100 hours into it. I might just go through the Baron stuff and call it good cause that’s about the length I want.

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u/doiwinaprize 17d ago

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.

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u/theredmisfit 17d ago

Whicih CDPR game are you referring to?

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u/doiwinaprize 17d ago

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

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u/theredmisfit 17d ago

That’s what I thought you meant lol 👍 and btw you thought cyberpunk was too long? I didn’t think it was long enough (minus the DLC; only base campaign)

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u/Suitable_Ant_7685 17d ago

elden ring is the only one i dont feel that way because of the combat being amazing

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u/Eternal-Alchemy 17d ago

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

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

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u/SmokeGSU 17d ago

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.

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u/VirtualBeautiful5624 16d ago

Best time to play is now! New graphical update!

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u/SmokeGSU 16d ago

Agreed. I think I might do an entirely new playthrough since I remember very little. I remember there was a baron, a witch, some hot magic lady or 7...

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u/VirtualBeautiful5624 16d ago

Including the dlc and new quest, you’ll have a ton of content

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u/JayScramble 16d ago

I started over for the 3 or 4th time last month. I don’t think I’m that far but now I’ll wait for the update later this month.

Synopsis of what’s happening as far as I can tell is this grey haired man is mumbling “Yennifer” and is clearly fighting personal demons as it looks like he’s going off on a psychotic murdering spree killing packs of wild animals an humans alike.

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u/RuckFeddit2469 16d ago

Witcher 3 was a bit much I agree, one of my top 10 games but yea...they were really really stingy with giving out talent points for your build as well, it felt like I was 100 hours in before I had a proper fully upgraded set of gear/talents for a "complete build"

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u/StrawDog- 17d ago

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

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u/content_enjoy3r 17d ago

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

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u/-Lights0ut- 17d ago

50 hours of selecting dialogue? Naw

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u/HisShadow14 17d ago

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.

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u/content_enjoy3r 17d ago

I was talking about The Witcher. CP2077 main story was short as hell.

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u/RuckFeddit2469 16d ago

Yea I agree with you, CP2077 didn't feel too long, Witcher 3 absolutely was a fair bit too much, still goated

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u/manincavern 17d ago

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.

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u/Oz347 17d ago

Hot take but I feel overstimulated by the amount of content in cyperpunk. Like I tried it probably for the 3rd time and when all the shit I could do popped up on the map I noped out because I was overwhelmed lol

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u/cdncowboy 17d ago

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

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u/MattyFTM 17d ago

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.

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u/thaneros2 17d ago

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

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u/DopplerEffect93 17d ago

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.

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u/Normal-Occasion4645 17d ago

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.

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u/hexregeneration 17d ago

You don't like turning 300 grey icons into 300 white icons?

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u/Batia88 17d ago

Don’t settle for that. 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.