Sanctuary
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He's talking about the main quests, not everything that's included in the game. Read it again.
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Is the Witcher 3 too short?
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He's talking about the main quests, not everything that's included in the game. Read it again.
toastyToast
Member
There's a fair chunk of story after where you are. I'd say half of it even.
My face when i saw the thread title.
Yup, people need to read the OP again.
Like I said before, I think you can finish the story missions in 25-30hrs, even less.
But game is large overall though, 100-200hrs+ gameplay at least.
But the main quests are the longest by far. Again, the main quest line is one of the longest in any game I've ever played. I just finished the main story yesterday and I got the game on launch day.
Sanctuary
Member
This.
Not sure this is really saying much. We don't know how many hours a day you've played, or if you've even played it every day since release. If you skip everything but the main quests, it would take less than fourty hours.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
You have not finished the game. You are basically coming to the end of Act 2.
The reason the warning pops up here is due to the pre-requisite quest beforehand: rallying allies for Kaer Morhen. As this quest intertwines several secondary characters and their quests (eg: Triss assisting the mages in Novigrad), by pushing the story past this point you'll be locking off their arcs. EG: Triss' quest in Novigrad is cancelled out if you decide to go to the Isle of Mists first, as she is required at Kaer Morhen.
Isle of Mists is the point of no return specifically for a handful of quests, but not the game entire. After the Kaer Morhen climax you'll be back in the world with more main questing to do.
Exactly.
JudgmentJay
Member
The answer would still be no.
RealityCheque
Banned
That's still pretty long. Much longer than Skyrim's main quest, for example.
CambriaRising
Member
You still have a LOT left to do, OP. Why even make a thread like this before you actually finish the main game?
Not to mention how many hours you've played already. I just can't understand.
Not to mention how many hours you've played already. I just can't understand.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Maybe YOU read it again, and maybe PLAY Witcher 3 again because the Main Quests are also very long.
And how does he know the Main Quest is long when he hasn't beaten it?
TheChundertaker
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nelsonroyale
Member
You got bored...Why are you projecting? That's poor communication.
I have ton quite a bit of the side content and feel it is much better done than pretty much any WRPG out there. Certainly far, far beyond Dragon Age and Skyrim.
Arjen
Member
Ooooh the main quest.
The one he hasn't finished and where the most epic and most important bits are still to come. That main quest?
Not saying I agree lol.
This has to be a joke. Even bum-rushing the main quest start to finish would take at least 24 hours, and by no definition can that be considered short. Also....
You must be living in some kinda time warp because I spent about FIVE HOURS there and I still didn't find all the treasures.
If you're saying this game is short, I'd be curious if any games have actually delivered what you consider a "long" experience.
And sorry if I seem defensive, but.... this is just crazy talk man.
You must be living in some kinda time warp because I spent about FIVE HOURS there and I still didn't find all the treasures.
If you're saying this game is short, I'd be curious if any games have actually delivered what you consider a "long" experience.
And sorry if I seem defensive, but.... this is just crazy talk man.
toastyToast
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Doesn't really matter anyway. However much you spend on the main quest and side quests, it's all just a prequel to GWENT.
Captain Zyrain
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I remember seeing the map before the game came out and thinking it was going to be massive.. then played through for a bit and was disappointed when Novigrad was actually part of the same map as Velen, I thought it'd be its own separate thing like White Orchid.
But there is sooooo much content (time wise) just in Novigrad that it made me forget about the issue.
I am playing it on regular difficulty (a few hours a night usually) and ended up out leveling most of the quests way too soon.
Curious how much playtime is left, I haven't gone to Skellige yet.
But there is sooooo much content (time wise) just in Novigrad that it made me forget about the issue.
I am playing it on regular difficulty (a few hours a night usually) and ended up out leveling most of the quests way too soon.
Curious how much playtime is left, I haven't gone to Skellige yet.
He literally says "I want more Witcher." What the hell do you think the sidequests, contracts, treasure hunts, points of interest, etc are?
CrispyGoomba
Member
Wow, some people saying that if the OP is just talking about the main quest, it would be short anyway. You can't be serious.
IchigoSharingan
Member
OP is a legit witcher 3 player. He is like all of us who have played over 80 hours of the witcher 3. We all have somehow thought to ourselves it's too short, having long lost any true grasp of time. We haven't even noticed or recalled the last time we looked at a calendar. We don't even realize our children ha e moved out of our homes and brethren married and divorced and remarried. We walk outside and our home town has long been a ghost town. We go back to our homes to do one more quest for a few more Oren's only to find out
. OP, the white frost has consumed you.
there has been no power for several years
Ok this is a paragraph in the OP
Again, i'm not saying that the overall game is short or that the developers didn't put enough content into it or aren't continuing to do so, i'm just speaking to the overall story. I just feel that there should have been some more stuff.
I wrote something sarcastic and snarky too as my first post in the thread. Give it a rest.
Again, i'm not saying that the overall game is short or that the developers didn't put enough content into it or aren't continuing to do so, i'm just speaking to the overall story. I just feel that there should have been some more stuff.
I wrote something sarcastic and snarky too as my first post in the thread. Give it a rest.
He didn't finish the game, though. There is a fairly substantial amount of story left.
Ah. I instinctively knew this was the case.
Interfectum
Gold Member
Still wouldn't work. Many of the sidequests fit directly in with the main questline.
DJ_Lae
Member
The game encompasses everything, though, not just the main story - and even that isn't short.
But I confess that I don't know how people are racking up 200+ hours with it. I finished it all at 81 hours, did every sidequest (barring the Gwent ones as I fucked up Roche's card and can't get it). I still have a bunch of points of interest to sail to in Skellige, but I gave up on them once I realized that they're all smuggler's caches, full of garbage.
I should probably have started on the highest difficulty but even then I can't see it taking so long. Maybe if I had forced myself to ride everywhere and never use fast travel?
But I confess that I don't know how people are racking up 200+ hours with it. I finished it all at 81 hours, did every sidequest (barring the Gwent ones as I fucked up Roche's card and can't get it). I still have a bunch of points of interest to sail to in Skellige, but I gave up on them once I realized that they're all smuggler's caches, full of garbage.
I should probably have started on the highest difficulty but even then I can't see it taking so long. Maybe if I had forced myself to ride everywhere and never use fast travel?
Well you haven't even finished act 1 so you are not even at 50% lol
This is the first game where I thought that it was a bit too long...but everything is so good so I cannot complain! Nothing feels like typical fetch rpg stuff
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Well he said spending 2 seconds at Kaer Mohren.
I spent like 2-3 hours there about.
Love Deterrence
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wild wild rice
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Witcher 2 was under 30 hours and the perfect length.
I sort of see where the OP is coming from though. You spend the first 2/3 of the game looking for Ciri, running around without much forward progress. I think what the OP is looking for is more of an overarching plot rather than the smaller subplots you get throughout (Red Baron, Keira Metz, the whole Skellige King issue). You really don't get that "epicness" until the very end of the game.
I don't know, it's just what I'm gathering from what the OP has said.
I don't know, it's just what I'm gathering from what the OP has said.
Ah yes he is.
Battle at KM, battle at Bald Eagle, Final random fetch quests, the final conflict, the pick your narrative ending.
Sanctuary
Member
It probably has to do with the fact that that isn't even his focus of the OP at all, and you're throwing irrelevant to this thread "content" into his subject matter.
Is it really time for the yellow marker?
It's like most of the posters just decide to ignore relevant points in the OP to automatically nerdrage when they see "TW3" and anything they don't agree with.