The Witcher 3 Main Storyline to Take Roughly 50 Hours to Complete

[Alex Co]

The Witcher 3 Main Storyline to Take Roughly 50 Hours to Complete

CD Projekt RED claims The Witcher 3 will take players 100-120 hours to complete the game entirely with side-quests, and will have 36 different endings.

Looking forward to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? If so, you'd better clear up your schedule as the game's main storyline will take "roughly" 50 hours to complete according to CD Projekt RED. Speaking to IGN [http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/23/the-witcher-3-new-details-to-blow-your-mind], studio co-founder Marcin Iwinski revealed that figure and added that if you want to finish every side-quest in the game, it will take you 100-120 hours of gameplay.

We're looking at roughly 50 hours for the main storyline depending on your gameplay style and the difficulty level. If you do most or all of the side quests, you're looking at anything between 100 to 120 hours of gameplay.

If that wasn't a daunting enough figure, Iwinski also that there are 36 different endings to Wild Hunt, and adds, "We have an internal debate if it's 36 or more, but I can tell you that there are many, MANY different endings. You will definitely want to play this game more than once."

Does that mean there are different variations to each ending or there will be 36 different end game cinematics? It's unclear at this point, but based on Iwinski's statement, you might need to allocate more than a few hundred hours if you want to see every ending Geralt's latest adventure has to offer.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is set for release later this year at a still unannounced date for the PC, Xbox One and PS4.

Source: IGN [http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/23/the-witcher-3-new-details-to-blow-your-mind]

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[spartandude]

Are you serious? 50 hours? Thats just.... just....

But seriously if they can pull this off then im going to be much less forgiving to people like Bioware who have massive budgets but make 15 hour games maximum

 

[Candidus]

Pillars of Eternity, Torment and The Witcher 3... Even if you're on the fence with regards to questionable-quality developers like Bioware and their upcoming Dragon Age 3, there's enough unambiguous greatness on the horizon to say with confidence: this is going to be a good year for RPG fans.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I love The Witcher and CD Project, but they repeat the same stories as news every few months. We've known about this since they announced the game.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

So how long with the kind of buggy crashing that plagued Witcher 2? I still haven't gotten out of the first town because of the random crashing. And I bought the game on it's release.

 

[kurupt87]

Seriously? Iwinski? Now there's a name made for multiplayer.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

50 hours eh,well I don't know if I'd even bother with the entirety of the storyline since I've not had the great pleasures of playing 1-2.

Still though it sucks for those few that got to play 2 on the 360 but won't get to play play 3 unless they have the one or 4 and can't play 1 unless they have a PC.

 

[omega 616]

If they sort out the inventory system, which just seems overly complicated for the sake of being overly complicated, I would give it my money.

I like long RPG's but I had a little play of witcher 2 and it was just horrible for the above reason and the combat was in the same vain (if I remember correctly). I watched a lets play and it seemed like a decent game bogged down by my perceived problems.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

This game is going to devour my life like Witcher 2 has (finished it 5 times) and I welcome it with open arms.

This game can't come soon enough. Since I already have my Witcher 2 saved games ready to be imported the only thing left for me to do is go and read the books and hope to finish them in time.

 

[EvilMaggot]

Honestly, I'm still waiting for news as to when Witcher 1 and 2 are being ported. I mean, that's got to be in the pipes, right?

Don't count on it.

The Witcher 1 had WOW style of combat. Except it takes it to the extremes. Controllers can't handle that.

Even the inventory system is impossible without a mouse and keyboard.

Its hot key city, or you will die when the game throws hard as hell fights at you.

Witcher 1 also takes 60 hours to beat. Counting me just giving up, and cheating through the final boss fights so it will finally be over.

The combat relies on potions, and those potions need ingredients that you need to grind for too. You need to maintain every potion for every situation or risk getting stuck on a boss.

It throws so much grind at you that you just want it to be over when you get to chapter III. You need this grind because everything is turned into a boss fight straight out of WOW. When you finally get to fight the antagonist, you need to have finished pretty much every single quest in the game up to that point.

At 60 hours, I still had multiple uncompleted quests.

When Yahtzee said the witcher 1 was an MMO single player game, he wasn't kidding.

The game also did not age well in terms of graphics, and the art style is all over the place as well as the story itself. Put this together with a control system ripped out of an MMO and you get a game that won't ever be ported without rebuilding the game from the ground up.

imo the Enhanced Edition of Witcher 1 has fairly nice graphics tho the non-enhanced version.. yuk!

Also i have Witcher 1 & 2 Enhanced Edition both of them, and ive never had problems with any of them crashing like some say further up, ive played through Witcher 2 3-4 times now, and ive modded it a bit now also love it. cant wait for openworld in Witcher 3 ^^

But crossing fingers, Witcher 3, Dragon Age 3, Dark Souls II, (maybe Cyberpunk 2077?) this year.. wauw ..

 

[ron1n]

Have they stated whether or not the decisions made in the previous game will have any impact Mass Effect style?

As much I enjoyed The Witcher 2, I felt the ending was a bit lackluster. In fact the whole final chapter felt a bit rushed.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Have they stated whether or not the decisions made in the previous game will have any impact Mass Effect style?

As much I enjoyed The Witcher 2, I felt the ending was a bit lackluster. In fact the whole final chapter felt a bit rushed.

Witcher 1 saves moved into the witcher 2. On consoles, that is not possible because the last game was never ported.

It is up in the air if saves could be moved from one to the other on a console. The consensus is no.

However, PC has been stated to get preferential treatment when it comes to save transfers. Devs have been very clear on that.

Well they started as a PC exclusive developer until the point where they actually took 1 year to port Witcher 2 properly to the X360.

Since Witcher 3 won't be on last gen consoles it's quite obvious that if you want to import your saves from 360 it won't happen, because they cant cross gen port the saves. So you are better off playing the game on the PC if you want to import the saves from both games.

 

[Falterfire]

I don't know how to feel about this. I mean, obviously more content is generally better, but there reaches a point where I don't necessarily have 50 hours to devote to playing through the main campaign of a game. How much story is really enough? Is Witcher 3 really going to have a story so epic it justifies spending 25 full length movies worth of time just getting through the main quest?

I'm just not a huge fan of game time length = game quality as a measurement. There is such a thing as too short, but once the main campaign gets to that 10-20 hour range, I feel like you probably are at about the right balance between being long enough to tell whatever story you want to tell without just being this endless slog where it feels like everything you do is just a reason why you need to do this other thing.

(Obviously some games do great with less time. Bastion and Portal are both fairly short and also amazing)