CallanGTA Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 (edited) EDIT by Adriaan: Please see the updated and corrected statement on this over here: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?act=ST&f=239&t=533147 Original Post: Don't you think this is a bit short for a game? GTA IV was about 40 hours long and SA was 50, did the spend longer doing the map then the actual story? Source: Front Page of GTAV.net -S Edited November 13, 2012 by Adriaan Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoV Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 I was going to make a topic like this. Thank you!! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyfa Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Rockstar is doing a cop-out. Read the signature people. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestfor100Percent Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 I did the storyline of IV in 16 hours, wasn't even trying hard. 25 hours of the main story will be plenty. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackous666 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 GTA IV was not 40 hours of story man!! dont u remember trophy called Liberty City Minute - You finished the story in less than 30 hours ??? i have done that game in 1 day ... san andreas had the longest story so far Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash_735 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 GTA IV had a Trophy/Achievement for beating the game in under 30 Hours, which most of us have! My first time to 100% GTA IV was 96 Hours, which I consider a Healthy Amount and that included exploration time, but on average playthroughs after, it was always around 16 - 20 Hours to get the story and a good chunk of side stuff out the way. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_root Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Can i get the link of the article that gave out this info? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
5000 Staples Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 I repeat what i said to the other guy who made this topic. 25 hours for just going through the main story and nothing else is massive..... now take in to consideration of everything else in the side missions/free roam and online. Please complete this game (100%) in 25 hours take a picture and come back here and tell me the game is short. Thank you. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoV Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Assassins creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and i beat it in around 12 hours Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staten Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Assassins creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and i beat it in around 12 hours Assassins Creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and I'm still playing after 51 hours. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazy_fool_X Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Why do so many of you misunderstand what they mean by 25 hours? The WHOLE game isn't 25 hours, the main story arc is. You still have every side mission, each individual character's personal missions and not only that, but alternate story paths. You will be playing this game for hundreds of hours. Not to mention, I bet 90% of all of your game time is spent playing AFTER the story. Honestly, calm yourselves. This is the first GTA to have ACTUAL replay value without repetition. It also has R*s biggest map to date. So I'm sure you'll be f*cking around a lot between missions. This is a bloody big game, you're underappreciating it. A 25 hour long linear game, isn't great. A 25 hour long open world, GTA, motherf*cking Rockstar game.... Well... Whole new ballpark. Quoted from the thread in the News section, and he's right; it means just the main story, one mission after another. I did GTAIV's story in roughly this time just last week. So stop worrying/inciting sh*t - delete where applicable. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 There's no way they built a map that's up to 5x bigger to put a shorter story in it. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoise Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Isn't GTA usually less than that? I was hoping V would be no more than 10 hours. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghizzle Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 I was kind of underwhelmed when I first read it, but then I thought about how having 3 different perspectives may add diversity and replayability to the missions. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral_City Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 FYI: San Andreas took 50 hours total to get 100%. This includes f*cking around and getting Gold medals in Flight School. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack0711 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Ok bare in mind that the average time taken for the Story Mode on Black Ops two years ago was 6 - 12 hours. That's because Multiplayer was so important. But multiplayer is just as important in V by the sounds of it, and we have a 25 hour storyline. Maybe even longer if you drag it out a bit. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoV Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Assassins creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and i beat it in around 12 hours Assassins Creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and I'm still playing after 51 hours. What!?!?!? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazy_fool_X Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 I was kind of underwhelmed when I first read it, but then I thought about how having 3 different perspectives may add diversity and replayability to the missions. Exactly, rougly times it by 3 to represent everyone's perspective and the story can go up to 75 hours. I'm major excited and 25 hours is loads compared to most games these days; hell, in all of gaming history, bar RPG's. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatkush77 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 HORRIBLE f*ckING NEWS. This isnt supposed to be some plain old GTA. This is supposed to be the GTA revolutoin, where everything is bigger and better. f*ck. Excited. But dude. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyfa Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 There's no way they built a map that's up to 5x bigger to put a shorter story in it. Deal with it. Rockstar spent 5 years working on switchable characters and making an eye-candy LA - meanwhile lacking all the features, story depth and requests the community had. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmC12 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 It is 25 hours, mission after mission. If that's all you play GTA for then you have every right to be dissapointed for wasting a great game. But for the people who actually play GTA how it's supposed to be played, it will take much longer than 25 hours. Don't blame R*, the story all depends on how you play it. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich. Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Took me about 25 hours to beat the story in my first GTA IV play-through, sounds fine to me. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 As long as you do not rush. Exploring will take up most of your time, especially as the map will be open!! You will be too distracted. Gta IV took me a whole month for just the story. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoV Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 How many missions do you think it will have? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staten Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Assassins creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and i beat it in around 12 hours Assassins Creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and I'm still playing after 51 hours. What!?!?!? What can I say? There's a lot to do in that game. I reckon it'll take me another 4-5 hours to complete the game totally. I'm currently going back over those missions where I missed the optional objectives. It was the same with RDR: the story took me about 30 hours, but doing everything took me about 50. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfamster Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 you guys are game god.I beat gta4 more than 30 hours Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Luke Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Completing RDR took me longer than IV... and that took me around 30hrs. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoV Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Assassins creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and i beat it in around 12 hours Assassins Creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and I'm still playing after 51 hours. What!?!?!? What can I say? There's a lot to do in that game. I reckon it'll take me another 4-5 hours to complete the game totally. I'm currently going back over those missions where I missed the optional objectives. It was the same with RDR: the story took me about 30 hours, but doing everything took me about 50. Im gonna be playing gta v for years because of multiplayer! The mp in ac3 is so sh*t Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS 17 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 There's no way they built a map that's up to 5x bigger to put a shorter story in it. This. I'm just crying for all the missed mission possibilities with this location and this map. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
initium Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Assassins creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and i beat it in around 12 hours Assassins Creed 3 was apparently 25 hours long and I'm still playing after 51 hours. What!?!?!? Yes indeed... I've done everything, in less than 25 hours, and I will probably never play it again, what a dissapointment! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/532774-25-hours-long/?do=findComment&comment=1061913292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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