Thief 4 - about 10 hours long?

Xiaopang on 12/11/2010 at 08:54

Thanks, I take that as a compliment :D

Koki on 13/11/2010 at 08:29

Quote Posted by Xiaopang

I have a DVD containing all cutscenes of Final Fantasy X

That's... horrifying

Sulphur on 13/11/2010 at 08:36

Clearly, you missed the part where he said he has a DVD of X-2's cutscenes as well.

Koki on 14/11/2010 at 18:17

I guess my brain just shut down after the FFX part.

Captain Spandex on 23/1/2011 at 07:39

Well... maybe this is a bit of good news for my fellow taffers...

(http://www.computerandvideogames.com/283769/news/deus-ex-human-revolution-is-25-hours-long/?attr=CVG-General-RSS) Deus Ex 3 is 'at least 25 Hours Long'

Still not sure if I buy the logic the project lead is using "Because my testers haven't beaten the game in four days, it must be over three days long"... well, yeah... but they're testers! Aren't they presumably opening every door in every level to make sure the game doesn't freeze?

ElizabethSterling on 23/1/2011 at 18:08

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Every jRPG made after year 2000

He said 'game', not sofa comfort benchmarking software.

Ahem, sorry, I'm just poking fun. Don't mob this post.

As for the 10 hours fiasco it sounds like a whole lot of nothing. First, I don't know about y'all but when ghosting I take a lot longer than I would just doing a by-the-book playthrough of a Thief game and secondly this really does seem to be a number pulled out of nowhere.

Besides, how long is a Thief game anyway? 1.5 hours for a complex mission, 30 minutes for a basic one? Let's say it averages at 1 hour a mission for a basic run-through just ticking the boxes - that's, what, 15 - 16 hours including about 45 minutes of cinematics and briefings? If anyone asked me for an honest evaluation of how long you could get in bare minimum gameplay out of Thief 2 I'd say perhaps 14 hours and a full ghosting play-through might give you 25 - 30 if you didn't have to restart missions too often.

jtr7 on 27/3/2013 at 02:24

(Necrotic Mutox!)

So, with some significant changes since 2010, I imagine this old info is obsolete, even if the numbers still add up to a similar total.

demagogue on 27/3/2013 at 03:17

The way they've been implying a lot of revision to the game over the years also makes me think that that article's information is pretty meaningless today.

jtr7 on 27/3/2013 at 23:34

Yeah. But what's really interesting is that, if it were based on fact at the time, EM had a all the maps developed and strung together one year after announcing the game was greenlit, and one year before Stephane Roy was brought in to re-direct the project. How much of that game design remains today, I wonder. If it was true then, why would anyone offer that info to a visitor, when it was way too early to say?

thiefessa on 28/3/2013 at 00:40

Hope someone updates the thread title, its misleading. :cheeky: