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I'm thinking this game will be close or near to 150+ hours. What do you think?
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base story? 150 hours? hell no. at max, 90.
with side quests and everything else added, over 200.
it's a blu-ray disc and ff12 (DVD) was around 95
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when i said "base story", i meant plowing through it just for that. no exploration and all that other crap. 12 could be beaten in like 60 hours.
it personally took me 85 to reach the last mission, but i had already done some side quests. in total though, i complete about 95% of the game at 170 hours.
i think 13's base story will max out at 90 though.
I also think that 95 hrs for 12 is pushing it. I could have had it beat in 60hr or so, easy if I hadn't done a crap-load of extra stuff. As for the length of 13, just because it's on a Blu-Ray disc doesn't mean that it will be sooo incredibly longer. You also have to take into account that 13 is on the PS3 this time instead of the PS2 which also means that the visual quality is WAY better than 12 was and thus requires more disc space.
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I also think that 95 hrs for 12 is pushing it. I could have had it beat in 60hr or so easy if I hadn't done a crap-load of extra stuff. As for the length of 13, just because it's on a Blu-Ray disc doesn't mean that it will be sooo incredibly longer. You also have to take into account that 13 is on the PS3 this time instead of the PS2 which also means that the visual quality is WAY better than 12 was and that requires more disc space.
This is true, but I doubt Square Enix would do something like that.
In my opinion it could be well over 90 hrs.
With side quests and other "activities" it would be maybe 150 or more
This is true, but I doubt Square Enix would do something like that.
In my opinion it could be well over 90 hrs.
With side quests and other "activities" it would be maybe 150 or more
I could agree with 90 or 100 hours but I do think that 150 hours (as stated by the original poster) to finish the main story is probably a bit high.
Square-Enix always adds a ton of extras though into their games and I also agree that it could be over 150 hours to complete everything (Hell, I think I was pushing that by the time I was completely done with 12, my first time around!).
To go straight through the game probably around 30/40/50 hours, depending on skill levels...to complete everything can vary greatly from player to player but hopefully will be over 100 in average. This is a basic expectation.
Looooooooooooong...
At least for me, I want to see and enjoy every little detail
I agree with you there especially on a New Final fantasy series. Have to scope out every bit and understand the story. I feel it will be pretty long at about 60.
just wondering your opinions. you say around 90-110 hours for basic storyline. now this wil have new stages and dialogue and cutscenes along the way. now the demo was 5gb in size for roughly 30-45 minutes of gameplay and its still lacking the finishing touches. even if you round that up to 5gb an hour it still puts the disc size required at... (calculates) 450gb with the average bluray covering 50gb, thats a 9 disc set. now i know that some blurays will hold more(some company made a 16 layer, 400gb bluray[just saw that while surfing]) but that would be financially impractical. the average 360 disc holds 4.7 gb (up to twice that if they dual layer) which would mean you would have to change discs every hour or two at a 90 disc set. that is impractical.
my questions are:
1. how will they shrink the size of the game (via bigger disks or a more efficient way to run the crystal tools engine)?
2. the 360 version, will they downgrade the game to fit or will microsoft bundle it with a dvd/book shelf for all the disc cases it would need?
3. is there something majorly wrong with the way i figured this?
4. would you prefer a multi disc set if it meant a better quality game(ie. story, gameplay, graphics, etc.)
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Just to get through the basic story could take about 60+/- hours
Now if you want to go over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house
then obviously it's going to end up being well over 90 hours of gameplay
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just wondering your opinions. you say around 90-110 hours for basic storyline. now this wil have new stages and dialogue and cutscenes along the way. now the demo was 5gb in size for roughly 30-45 minutes of gameplay and its still lacking the finishing touches. even if you round that up to 5gb an hour it still puts the disc size required at... (calculates) 450gb with the average bluray covering 50gb, thats a 9 disc set. now i know that some blurays will hold more(some company made a 16 layer, 400gb bluray[just saw that while surfing]) but that would be financially impractical. the average 360 disc holds 4.7 gb (up to twice that if they dual layer) which would mean you would have to change discs every hour or two at a 90 disc set. that is impractical.
my questions are:
1. how will they shrink the size of the game (via bigger disks or a more efficient way to run the crystal tools engine)?
2. the 360 version, will they downgrade the game to fit or will microsoft bundle it with a dvd/book shelf for all the disc cases it would need?
3. is there something majorly wrong with the way i figured this?
4. would you prefer a multi disc set if it meant a better quality game(ie. story, gameplay, graphics, etc.)
First and foremost, it shouldn't determined incrementally by and based on the demo.Just because the demo was approximately 1 Hour and consumed 5 GB, doesn't nessecarily mean that you multiply it by the total number of hours were speculating. There plenty of reasons why it was 5 GB and could have been much less.
It will likely be on one double layer Blu-ray Disc. I've been thinking they'll alter the tools for the 360 Version, perhaps they'll have it be an installation on the XBOX HDD over 4 discs. Maybe it won't even be installation perchance.
My first paragraph already deals with this question about doing the math incorrectly.
I have a PS3 so I don't know if it will be multi-disc. It's likely it won't be multi-disc.
you guys are way off for XII, if you knew what you were doing and went as fast as you could you would probably beat it in 15-20 hours, most of your time in that game goes to hunts
anyways I think X13 will probably be about 60 hours on a normal playthrough without any exploration, and like 10 if you go to fastest possible, and about 160 after side quests, over 200 for maxing out all your characters
I believe the story of the game will take just about the same amount of time as the other Final Fantasys. Which is about a standard of 50 hours flat. I believe that if you try do everything, get all summons, weapons, magic, side quests, extra bosses, etc.. etc... I think it will be about 120-130 hours total.
BTW I hope they release a Collectors Edition like they did with FFXII. That metal case is awesome, beats the hell out of the NA Box Art one.
Wow, everyone seems to want a really long game. XD
I'd actually prefer the main quest to be highly focused and lacking in filler, and not overly long for the sake of being long. I'd much rather the gameplay in the main portion to be proportional to the story being told at the expense of a shorter main quest.
The extra material should be where the majority of the gameplay comes from - preferably set after the end of the main game rather than during it, so I don't have to stop going forward in the story to enjoy it. TWEWY is a good example of this - the whole game opens up after the ending, and there's tons of extra gameplay for those who want it.
So, my preference would be a fast-paced 25-30 hour main quest with 100+ hours of endgame material, at least some of which includes optional plot elements.
Wow, everyone seems to want a really long game. XD
I'd actually prefer the main quest to be highly focused and lacking in filler, and not overly long for the sake of being long. I'd much rather the gameplay in the main portion to be proportional to the story being told at the expense of a shorter main quest.
The extra material should be where the majority of the gameplay comes from - preferably set after the end of the main game rather than during it, so I don't have to stop going forward in the story to enjoy it. TWEWY is a good example of this - the whole game opens up after the ending, and there's tons of extra gameplay for those who want it.
So, my preference would be a fast-paced 25-30 hour main quest with 100+ hours of endgame material, at least some of which includes optional plot elements.
well I think we want more story clips then that, but at the same time I know what your saying, I think the best thing would be a short main story with side quests all over that you don't have to go that out of your way for, and with decent breaks in the story where you can fool around and not feel like your letting a ton of ppl die by doing nothing (FFVII, VIII, X were really bad at that) I really hated that, oh let's go kill sin were about to save the world, but we kinda just got the airship so I want to explore a bit
now the demo was 5gb in size for roughly 30-45 minutes of gameplay and its still lacking the finishing touches. even if you round that up to 5gb an hour it still puts the disc size required at... (calculates) 450gb with the average bluray covering 50gb, thats a 9 disc set.
That's not how it works, buddy. Every hour of the game will not equal 5GB.
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ff12 20hr if i speed play it 50 if u take it asually and 100 to finish the game completly
im really hoping that 13 will be atleast double the size of 12
and as for the multi disk ... i herd a rumor back at the start of the year that they were going to have it on 2 dual layer bluray disks for ps3 and for xbox 10000000000000000000000000000000000 disks xD(your screwed)
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