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Are you faster or slower than average at beating games?
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Faster than average, for sure. Playing games without a memory card for years will do that to you.
Always slower.
When compared to HLTB, it's usually slower than the average "Main + Extras". I'm not exactly going for completion either.
When compared to HLTB, it's usually slower than the average "Main + Extras". I'm not exactly going for completion either.
Faster but if its something I'm very excited for I'll do 2 playthroughs. One just doing story then another smelling the roses. Take Hitman for example. I've been dying to get my hands on it as its one of, if not my favorite series of all time now. I played each mission once and beat it in no time at all.
Now though I'm starting from the first game, redoing all story missions as they didn't carry over, while recording all my kills to make a montage at the end. This will now go on for months, if not years.
Now though I'm starting from the first game, redoing all story missions as they didn't carry over, while recording all my kills to make a montage at the end. This will now go on for months, if not years.
Pretty much always faster.
I never feel like I'm rushing at all but I always beat the HLTB time by like 10-20% *shrug*
I never feel like I'm rushing at all but I always beat the HLTB time by like 10-20% *shrug*
Depends on the game, I find I'm quicker at action/fast paced games and generally get through them faster than average playthrough times, but RPGs I take far far too long.
Way way way slower. I see threads where people have beaten a game in less than a week and I'm baffled. I mean I get it, but I just take forever. Years sometimes depending on the game.
Much slower. So much slower. It probably takes me 40-80% longer to finish games than most people. Not only do I take a long time to beat the game in terms of actual playtime; I also don't get so much playtime during the week so it can take me months to finish most games.
It's really shocking for me to see people just rush through 25-30 hour games in a weekend.
It's really shocking for me to see people just rush through 25-30 hour games in a weekend.
Faster to the point that HLTB is useless to me, so I end up searching for "game name + full playthrough" on youtube to get an approximate time.
I'm betting I've become progressively slower as I've gotten older. I tend to get distracted by mundane shit these days like Youtube videos.
Based on HLTB, I'm slightly slower. I usually fall into the Main+Extras time, even if I don't do too many extras.
Slower. I don't buy games to power through them, I buy them to enjoy them; to savor them like any fine consumable.
I don't feel any pressure to treat games like a race, in any fashion. And games that make FOMO and shit like that a driving focus of their game design are instantly unappealing.
I don't feel any pressure to treat games like a race, in any fashion. And games that make FOMO and shit like that a driving focus of their game design are instantly unappealing.
Just finished GoT that I got in August. Apparently I spent 140hrs completing the story and side missions. That's double what HLTB states.
Yep I'm slower. I saw that the average HLTB hours for the ending in Hades is 16 hours but I only got the ending 40 hours in.
I read this topic wrong. I read average as in do you being faster or slower than other people instead of the projective average time that it takes to beat the game so yeah I'm slower cause I take some time every now and then to explore.
Much slower... people seem to be able to smash out a large open world game in a week or two where as it takes me several months.
Every game on howlongtobeat.com I finish in an average of 2-3h faster than the reported playtimes.
Really depends which version of dq1 people mean. Battles are a lot faster in the remakes.
Did this with AC Odyssey after logging 12 hours game time. Just started skipping the cutscenes as the story was a bit shit. Still ended up putting 30-something hours into it.
I found myseld looking at 'How long to beat' during some of my playthroughs, I should probably just stop playing them at that point though since I know I'm already bored.
I definitely meet the average playthrough time though. I do some extra content but rarely take my time to accomplish everything. Doom Eternal being the recent exception.
I'm usually 50-100% slower than the hltb times and i have no idea why people are rushing through games like that (obviously just my subjective impression). The more i like a game the more time i take and the slower i progress to make the experience last longer. If i'm not feeling it i usually just bail and start a different game instead of trying to finish something i don't like as much.
I am very much the person who exists to frustrate the designers of adrenaline-rushed, single digit hour campaigns, because I will make sure to try to go everywhere except where the game is urging me to go, until I find dead ends.
As such, whatever time people cite as estimate to finish a game, I usually multiply by 1.5.
Needless to say, I don't play many open-world games, since I tend to try to 100% those.
As such, whatever time people cite as estimate to finish a game, I usually multiply by 1.5.
Needless to say, I don't play many open-world games, since I tend to try to 100% those.
I'm usually faster. I will skip through dialogue once I've read the subtitles if the scene isn't important, I generally will avoid side quests that feel like busy work, I don't pore over every detail when exploring or read every bit of lore, and I am just generally proficient and have played enough games to intuitively know where to go next more often than not.
Also I always run. Why walk when you can run?
Also I always run. Why walk when you can run?
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Me too. Four HUNDRED people in the granny lane with me? I feel less alone.
Nowadays, definitely slower. I really take my time when I play games and don't play a lot either, so it takes me forever to finish stuff.
I'm not a completionist but I like to dabble in side content, so I usually sit around the main + extra time on HowLongToBeat
I think people use in-game clock on all those sites like howlongtobeat.
Which isn't accurate when you die and have to re-play areas multiple times. So it takes me 20 real world hours to have a clock that says 10, matching the howlongtobeat number.
Or if you get lost which may or may not be on the clock if you power off without saving etc.
Which isn't accurate when you die and have to re-play areas multiple times. So it takes me 20 real world hours to have a clock that says 10, matching the howlongtobeat number.
Or if you get lost which may or may not be on the clock if you power off without saving etc.
I thought I was the only one who was so slow compared to average. Nice to know I'm not alone. I think I'm kinda decent at games too, so it's always puzzled me why it always takes me way longer than most people. I guess I just love hanging out in them and absorbing the atmosphere.
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Lemme think of some crazy times...
Almost 100 hours for Twilight Princess
70-100 for Skyward Sword (I can't remember)
140+rs Death Stranding (maybe normal)
140+ MGS V (add 30-40 more for Ground Zeroes)
60+ hours Dragon Quest 3 (only one class change)
240 hours on BOTW Wii U+Switch and I've never entered the bird village/beaten it (I never want it to end...til BOTW2 comes out)
none of these games were 100%'d, platinum'd or anything of the sort
Almost 100 hours for Twilight Princess
70-100 for Skyward Sword (I can't remember)
140+rs Death Stranding (maybe normal)
140+ MGS V (add 30-40 more for Ground Zeroes)
60+ hours Dragon Quest 3 (only one class change)
240 hours on BOTW Wii U+Switch and I've never entered the bird village/beaten it (I never want it to end...til BOTW2 comes out)
none of these games were 100%'d, platinum'd or anything of the sort
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Also, boy do I remember the days when GamersTM said Dishonored was a 6 hour game. It's a 20-30 hour game if you're a normal human