Equanimity
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Can I name a really long boss fight instead?
It took me around 20 minutes to defeat Adamantoise in FFXV.
It took me around 20 minutes to defeat Adamantoise in FFXV.
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Really long levels
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electroaffe
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Dragen Age: Origins is one of my favourite RPGs but I hate the long dungeons, especially the depths. All my reruns stopped there.
If you do that, then: The final boss in Persona 3. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of other Atlus RPGs are similar in that regard, too, although of those I've played, the last boss of P3 is the longest. I think I was fighting it for something like 40 minutes?
Can I nominate all the story dungeons in The Elder Scrolls: Arena? I don't mind a big dungeon, but these are insanely overlarge, they outstay their welcome in no time at all.
That's the first major story dungeon after the tutorial, of eighteen total. And the thing is, much of that isn't *interesting* content, either; there's not enough unique elements for the map to be populated with to make exploration in its own right particularly pleasurable.
Oh, yeah. And some have multiple floors to boot.
That's the first major story dungeon after the tutorial, of eighteen total. And the thing is, much of that isn't *interesting* content, either; there's not enough unique elements for the map to be populated with to make exploration in its own right particularly pleasurable.
Oh, yeah. And some have multiple floors to boot.
Imp the Dimp
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Definitely the longest MegaTen fight I know and I've played almost all of them. I guess some stages in Devil Survivor are longer but it's very different.
ShaggsMagoo
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Back in the ancient day of yore known as 2005, you had to go down this rather plain corridor:
To reach this loading screen:
And then kiss your entire afternoon/evening goodbye.
But remember, once you get to the end, DON'T KILL THIS LADY!
To reach this loading screen:
And then kiss your entire afternoon/evening goodbye.
But remember, once you get to the end, DON'T KILL THIS LADY!
For anyone wondering it's the Blackrock Depths instance in Vanilla World of Warcraft.
UnluckyKate
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sawayama castle in Nioh.
It's long, it loops, it all looks the same, it's narrow and filled with huge ass monsters, it's dark it's only corridors and main room are identicals... Its fucking long as shit.
But the boss on top is ace.
It's long, it loops, it all looks the same, it's narrow and filled with huge ass monsters, it's dark it's only corridors and main room are identicals... Its fucking long as shit.
But the boss on top is ace.
Hamster Plugin
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The original Grand Theft Auto is one of the worst.
In each level, you need a certain amount of points to advance to the next level. It starts at 1 million, which is already a pretty big task and can take an hour, but most levels require you to get 2-3 million points. The final one requires 5 million points!
There is no saving in the game at all, you have a limited amount of lives. You need to play a near perfect run and it will take you hours. Getting busted is worse than getting wasted, because that makes you lose half your score multiplier and will cost you at least half an hour or more as you only get multipliers for finishing missions.
In each level, you need a certain amount of points to advance to the next level. It starts at 1 million, which is already a pretty big task and can take an hour, but most levels require you to get 2-3 million points. The final one requires 5 million points!
There is no saving in the game at all, you have a limited amount of lives. You need to play a near perfect run and it will take you hours. Getting busted is worse than getting wasted, because that makes you lose half your score multiplier and will cost you at least half an hour or more as you only get multipliers for finishing missions.
AuthenticM
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The Halo levels were pretty long and I love them for it. Except for The Library, of course.
Theslammer
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Carnival Night, Act 2 in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
That's where dreams went to die, and that's as far as I got when I tried to play that game as a kid. I mean, Marble Gardens would kill me a lot as well, but Act 2 of Carnival Night was the maximum I could get to. And when I played it on the Mega Collection on the GC, it was the only act where I lost a life due to time expiring.
That's where dreams went to die, and that's as far as I got when I tried to play that game as a kid. I mean, Marble Gardens would kill me a lot as well, but Act 2 of Carnival Night was the maximum I could get to. And when I played it on the Mega Collection on the GC, it was the only act where I lost a life due to time expiring.
How About No
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Silent Hill Origins, the Sanitarium
Game's pretty short but it feels like a quarter of your overall time is spent here
Game's pretty short but it feels like a quarter of your overall time is spent here
Silent Hill Origins, the Sanitarium
Game's pretty short but it feels like a quarter of your overall time is spent here
Corridors are the long thin rooms between rooms. I'm not entirely sure they need a whole separate category on the key!
How About No
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Unrelated mini-rant but looking at that map sorta peevs me, in the good Silent Hill games locations looked like they were mapped from real buildings, but ones like this sanitarium from Origins and Homecoming look like fucking MMO dungeons
Like, why would you build a corridor that juts out to a room with nothing but a gap all around it. why the fuck
(Good maps)
Not that these were necessarily perfect either, but it made you feel like you were crawling a real-life space.
Monocle
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Two Betrayals is a great level too, and it plays completely differently with the addition of Banshees and new objectives.
Bungie made the very most out of their limited resources. A stroke of brilliance, really, retooling one of their best levels like that.
BKatastrophe
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Gotham Royal Hotel in Batman: Arkham Origins is probably the longest level in that game. I can't think of any others as long or as massive as it is. It's fun, but it's fucking long.
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I would say Nightmare of Mensis is actually the longest "level" in BB. Forbidden Woods seems long the first time because it's very easy to get confused and lost. Plus, there's a ton of hidden shit, so wandering around is a given, which helps add to the confusion and sense of loss. Nightmare of Mensis is straightforward, and actually just long. Plus, unless you are super leveled, Micolash is a lengthy fight. Nightmare of Mensis feels like two levels smashed into one. I would say Forbidden Woods matches Nightmare of Mensis' length if you add Byrgenwerth to it. Once you beat the Forbidden Woods once and you know your way around, it becomes much, much shorter on repeat playthroughs.
City of the Dead and on tend to be lengthy. The only one that actually irritated me was Blackrock.
Not really. The only dungeon that's really that long in the first game is the Tower, but considering it's the last true dungeon in the game, it's easy to see why.
It's because you go there twice. The second time is much shorter since you don't have as many boss fights and the puzzles are all solved, so it's just going from bottom to top and fighting a relatively easy, if not time-consuming, boss.
I'd count Twilight Town. Each world is basically a level. Let's ignore return visits (since in KH2 you visit each world twice, save for The World the Never Was). Twilight Town begins at the start of the game, and doesn't end until Sora, Donald, and Goofy leave the Mysterious Tower. That's a long fucking level. LONG AS FUCK.
Stonefang Tunnel and Boletaria Palace are both longer. I would say Latria is right in the middle. With the shortest levels being Valley of Defilement and Shrine of Storms.
Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order
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Battle for Mount Hyjal in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has to be the worst raid or dungeon ever put into the game, consisting entirely of wave based bland but (at the time) highly tuned trash encounters with a few bosses spread throughout. It's quite long but it feels 5 times longer than it is.
Yung Dolphin
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DarkConfidant
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My girlfriend is currently playing through Sony's Puppeteer for PS3 (great game, poor sales), and it has really long levels, due to tutorials and long cuteness that aren't stoppable because they occure live in the level around you.
She wanted to stop playing, and I had to rush her character through the level just to ensure that we could save.
She wanted to stop playing, and I had to rush her character through the level just to ensure that we could save.
YoRHa No.2 Type B
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Resident Evil 6, Leon campagin start. It isn't necessarily long but it is tedious as you are forced to walk slowly.
thecosmicfly
Banned
Goldeneye: Rogue Agent had horrendously long levels that, if I'm remembering correctly, didn't let you save midway through. It had checkpoints, but if you turned off the game you had to start from the beginning of that entire level. And we're talking about levels that lasted for an hour or two.
Berserking Guts
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God damn Hive of the Mantids in Turok 2never ever ever ends. It takes about an hour before you complete your first objective.
And the London levels in Tomb Raider 3. Good fucking god.
And the London levels in Tomb Raider 3. Good fucking god.
Plus maybe Sunken Temple, although a big chunk of that is just getting lost
BKatastrophe
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Check me if I'm wrong, but I remember the Time Traveler having the longest scenario in the entirety of The Cave. Barring maybe the final island sequence.
Bloodporne
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I don't know any specific level names right now, it's been a while, but:
Hotline Miami 2
Some of the later levels feel very long for the type of game it is. Multiple floors filled with miles of glass partitions and so on, fuck.
Hotline Miami 2
Some of the later levels feel very long for the type of game it is. Multiple floors filled with miles of glass partitions and so on, fuck.
NintendosBooger
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I hated every second of Blighttown. I don't know if it was technically the longest, but every minute felt like an eternity in that shithole.
I mentally blocked this piece of shit out of my mind.
Xenogears:
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The only issue with this was all the platforming. The actual answer is the final dungeon until you find out it was one of the small handful of dungeons that included a map. Solaris didn't have a map afaik, but the dungeon portion drug on for what felt like ages and went through several areas before you finally escaped.
In that case, I nominate the last boss of The Last Remnant.
Both my battle with him lasted around 1h IIRC, and I didn't even beat him!
TheListOfToddicho
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Chapter 17.
Day Breaks...so long...
Day Breaks...so long...
Only if you tried to kill everything instead of barreling through it, then it becomes a rush!
How About No
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Never got the hate for Babel Tower in Xengears, you're jumping on a sideways space city and that's cool as FUCK
Kislev Sewers can fuck off and die tho
The Chrysler building special dungeon in Parasite Eve was just beyond absurd. I couldn't finish it. Most "areas" in the game took about an hour if you were reading all the text and following the story.
The Chrysler building is probably around 10 hours, no text, just randomly generated hallways that all look the same with random chances for encounters. Everything else about the game is fantastic but that is not a fun way to give the players end game content.
The Chrysler building is probably around 10 hours, no text, just randomly generated hallways that all look the same with random chances for encounters. Everything else about the game is fantastic but that is not a fun way to give the players end game content.
It's a real awesome area with some crazy designs and a ton of cool tech. Again, I think it probably boiled down to platforming and a pretty bad encounter rate. Playing it again a few years ago, the sewers were fairly short as long as you knew where you were going. Also one of the areas with a map (thank god).
General Lee
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Not necessarily a single level, but Catherine felt like it had so many fluff levels between the story sections it was a massive slog to get through them all.
Deft Beck
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Kingdom Hearts 2's intro is meant to set up the larger universe of the setting and what one of the major villainous forces is willing to do to punish a traitor.
There's a reason why people grew so close to Roxas.
SatelliteOfLove
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"A dragon on your lunch break" has taken its toll on plastic memories of winged dungeons.