Really, it doesn't pick up? Darn.
Yeah, I would definitely prefer the story to be on par with 1 instead of 2 as well.
Hahahaha, I can't help but laugh. Everytime someone says a game takes 100 hours it's realistically like 25 hours
Some dude from Gamespot finished the story. Embargo ends tomorrow.
Kevin VanOrd is actually one of the few good reviewers out there. He said 85 hours for Dragon Age: Inquisition (non-completionist) and that's a pretty good estimate. My own DAI savegame was like 130-140 hours doing absolutely everything. I expect his Witcher 3 total will be fairly accurate for non-completionist as well.
Yeah they are pretty good. Some of the war/military interludes kinda boring but the rest is good. Though don't be surprised when you realize that ciri turns into the main protagonist of the series. It's a great tale nonetheless. If you can manage to read em before start W3 I think you will be even more excited for it. There are fan translations for the last books not officially translated and they are pretty decent.
After DAI I'm dubious of completion numbers. DAI was so full of fluff and people loved it like they've never played an MMO before and it was new to them. Meanwhile I felt like there was 50 hours of content stretched to 100 hours of game.
Well you do mention an accurate time. One of the devs did mention that they did a speed run to one of the endings at 25 hours. On the other spectrum, a full completion is apparently 200+ hours, and they have said that there are few to no fed ex quests. The ones that are in that category are tied to story (dev mentioned this in an interview saying that one of the few ones had you followed by an NPC giving backstory to that character while doing the quest).
