Uncharted 3 Can Be Beaten in Three Hours

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Uncharted 3 Can Be Beaten in Three Hours



A game tester at Naughty Dog has guided Nathan Drake through countless enemies, a couple of continents, and at least one plane crash in only 188 minutes.

Uncharted 3 director Justin Richmond recently broke the news to Official PlayStation Magazine that one of his staffers (who, like a true ninja, has gone unnamed) took down the product of years of top-notch game development in less time than it would take to watch The Fellowship of the Ring. Reportedly, the speed run was completed on the game's easiest setting, and the tester was already more than familiar with the game and its puzzles, but you've still got to give John Doe some credit. Three hours. Nicely done.

This is the second lightning speed run announcement regarding one of the (too?) many amazing titles coming out in Q4 of this year. Earlier this month, a QA tester at Bethesda clocked an impressive two hour and sixteen minute run [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/113646-Skyrim-Beaten-In-Just-Over-Two-Hours] of Skyrim during an internal competition. As it's obvious that neither of these titles were designed for people to complete them in even close to these times, it just goes to show you how often testers must playing these games over and over, front-to-back.

It's hard to say what the final length of the campaign will be (what with the exploration, treasure hunting, quippy one-liners, and what not) but it's probably a safe bet that it will take the rest of us a hell of a lot longer to get Drake neck deep in trouble and pull him back out again than three hours. We'll all have our chance to either try and beat Naughty Dog's tester, or just, you know, enjoy the game soon enough, though. Uncharted 3 hits stores on November 1st.

Source: Official PlayStation Blog [http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2011/10/26/uncharted-3-ps3-finished-in-3-hours-by-naughty-dog-tester/]



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Omnific One

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Speed runs give so many people the wrong impressions about games. From this, an uninformed gamer would think that both Uncharted and Skyrim are terribly short or that Skyrim will be shorter than Uncharted.
 

ToastiestZombie

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This is actually pretty bad. If this was an open world game like Fallout then I would be fine since first, there will be a lot of side quests and second, there will probably be a way to get to a later point in the game without doing a few quests. But in a linear game like this, its not right. I dont care if its on the easiest settings, that means that even on hard you can beat it in about 6-7 hours if your skilled enough.
 

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ToastiestZombie said:
This is actually pretty bad. If this was an open world game like Fallout then I would be fine since first, there will be a lot of side quests and second, there will probably be a way to get to a later point in the game without doing a few quests. But in a linear game like this, its not right. I dont care if its on the easiest settings, that means that even on hard you can beat it in about 6-7 hours if your skilled enough.
Or that the tester was skilled enough to be able to rush through the game and solve all the puzzles quickly
 

Something Amyss

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Omnific One said:
Speed runs give so many people the wrong impressions about games. From this, an uninformed gamer would think that both Uncharted and Skyrim are terribly short or that Skyrim will be shorter than Uncharted.
Yeah, I thought from the headline this was going to be more a normal play. Speedruns only really matter in terms of bragging rights.
 

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Omnific One said:
Speed runs give so many people the wrong impressions about games. From this, an uninformed gamer would think that both Uncharted and Skyrim are terribly short or that Skyrim will be shorter than Uncharted.
Case in point: someone has already beaten Demon's Souls in less than 1 hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWi6t8Psv9w
And I doubt anyone in their right mind would say that game is short or, *gasp*, easy (saying that word next to Demon's Souls feels like profanity).
 

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And Skyrim can be beaten in two hours.

I guess that means Uncharted 3 is going to be a fucking long game.
 

ZeZZZZevy

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JoesshittyOs said:
And Skyrim can be beaten in two hours.

I guess that means Uncharted 3 is going to be a fucking long game.
You can't really compare the two. Since skyrim is an open world, you can just slam through the main quest and "beat" the game. I believe the Uncharted games are much more linear (feel free to correct me on this, I don't own a PS3) so it would make sense that the "main quest" would take longer, since that would be the bulk of the game.

OT: chalk another one up for epic speed runs. I guess this is a common thing to do for fun if you're a QA tester.
 

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JoesshittyOs said:
And Skyrim can be beaten in two hours.

I guess that means Uncharted 3 is going to be a fucking long game.
OutrageousEmu said:
So by simple math, apparently Uncharted 3 continas 36.764% more content than Skyrim.
You could not have missed the point any more than this.

The OP said:
As it's obvious that neither of these titles were designed for people to complete them in even close to these times, it just goes to show you how often testers must playing these games over and over, front-to-back.
 

JoesshittyOs

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Bolt Van Der Huge said:
JoesshittyOs said:
And Skyrim can be beaten in two hours.

I guess that means Uncharted 3 is going to be a fucking long game.
OutrageousEmu said:
So by simple math, apparently Uncharted 3 continas 36.764% more content than Skyrim.
You could not have missed the point any more than this.

The OP said:
As it's obvious that neither of these titles were designed for people to complete them in even close to these times, it just goes to show you how often testers must playing these games over and over, front-to-back.
I really wish I could make the irony of what you just re-posted to me even more clear than it already is.

I guess I'll just go with.

"Yeah, that was my point"
 

Bolt Van Der Huge

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Phew. For a moment I thought you were being deadly serious, which, let's face it, is not outside the realms of possibility here. Damn I wish there was an easier way to express sarcasm through text that isn't the word [sarcasm] round posts.
 

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Omnific One said:
Speed runs give so many people the wrong impressions about games. From this, an uninformed gamer would think that both Uncharted and Skyrim are terribly short or that Skyrim will be shorter than Uncharted.
Agreed. Take Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight for instance. It took me over half a year to finally finish that game, yet there's this speedrun that clocks in at less than half an hour:
 

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Naughty Dog: Challenge!
Us: Not now Naughty Dog, we're not taking challenges right now. Can't you see we're waiting?
Naughty Dog: No, we challenge you gamers.
Us: To what game?
Naughty Dog: A little Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception.
Us: That's great Naughty Dog. But we don't have Uncharted 3 so. You're dumb... /quote
 

dessertmonkeyjk

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So are they going to have a time trial mode where you have to beat this guy's time for a platinum relic?

With the whole Skyrim beaten at about 2 hours to the said 3 of Uncharted 3 (Odd number match there) it depends on the level choke points aka bottle necks you're forced to go through to progress. Add side quest/treasure collecting and this will be a different argument altogether.
 

Quellist

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This doesn't make me think about the length of the game, it makes me think of how joyless being a gamestester must be if you were originally a gamer.

Playing games like this for a living must suck most of the fun out of playing them for yourself.