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Not terribly long if you skip all the side quests and DLC. And the side quests are actually SIDE quests--with only a few exceptions, you have to seek them out (such as the Mages' Collective, Well Connected Bartender, etc). The bare minimum time I think it takes is as follows:
Origin and Prologue: 2-2.5 hours
Arl Eamon's quests: 1.5-2 hours
Each of three treaties: 3-6 hours (1-2 each)
Landsmeet: 1-2 hours
Final Battle: 2-3 hours
TOTAL: 9.5 to 15.5
Aside from the Origin, Landsmeet, and Final Battle, you can complete any of the content at any time you want, so if you want to do Arl Eamon's quests after the three treaties and/or any side quests, you're more than able to. (Actually, that's how I normally do it because there's an optional boss on Arl Eamon's quests that I always try to level up to kill, and always fail.) The shorter times would be for additional play-throughs, after you've learned the layout of each dungeon and are just rushing through to get alternate-decision trophies & achievements. Add between five and ten hours to the "first timer" 15.5 estimate if you want to complete everything, including recruiting, romances, side quests, and DLC.
Also, this doesn't include any parts to complete DA: Awakenings, since I haven't started that yet. (I have a certain character I want to import to that expansion for my 1st playthrough of it, and he isn't ready yet.)
Friday, July 9, 2010
How long will a playthrough of Dragon Age take (average guesstimate)?
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Meanwhile, my first play through came in right at 100 hours :-P Love that game.
ReplyDeleteHaha yeah, I think I was somewhere around there, also. I didn't want to scare anyone by saying the maxes, though, so I went with the average minimums. I mean, you say 100 hours on Oblivion and people shrug, but anything else and I think they get a little wide-eyed. :p
ReplyDeleteWow...that's actually a super short game for an RPG! I was surprised. That's how I play 'em though. I don't like side quests lol
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the 15 hour estimate, it's not that bad... most decent RPGs anymore run around 20 hours once you know what you're doing, and that's excluding all but the BARE MINIMUM tasks. In comparison FFVI could run anywhere from 40 hours to 100 (if you're compulsive like I was my first thousand play-throughs) but it can be--and I have--finished it, credits and all, in less than 12 hours.
ReplyDeleteAnd like I replied to dmmagic, my actual totals were higher, but it's not because the game took that long itself. I took that long with the game. Also, it occurred to me that those are easy-mode times. Even on normal it's damn near impossible to get through Arl Eamon's 1st quest without getting your ass kicked. I can't imagine playing on hard (or expert, I think there's an expert mode) and having to worry about friendly fire as well.