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God of War Ragnarok Will Take Over 50 Hours For 100% Completion

Draugoth

Gold Member
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Santa Monica Studio’s upcoming God of War Ragnarok will take well over 50 hours for 100% completion, which is roughly how long its 2018 predecessor took.

During a spoiler-free discussion between IGN’s Podcast Beyond crew regarding the upcoming God of War Ragnarok, it was revealed that a 100% completion run in the first playthrough can take well over 50 hours of playtime.
 

Hot5pur

Member
How much of that is fresh content vs. recycled quests and enemies. Recycling is fine if you add twists and your gameplay loop is good. The first game's combat got stale fast (luckily they gave you the blades), and the enemies were not varied and kinda meh. I might be spoiled by other character action games and the original gow games which I liked far better.
 

Puscifer

Gold Member
Quality > quantity.

I thought the original God of War had an appropriate length.

Worried this is going to be full of useless repeated shit like Spider-Man or Horizon.
The main story is still only around 20 hours. I mean if you really dig in the original GoW, side quest and collectables extra fights, etc you could hit 40-50hrs, I don't see 70 being a stretch at all.
 

G-Bus

Banned
So the main idea was a trilogy and barlog didn't want to make people wait that long so they wrap it all up in this second installment that clocks in at the same amount of time (roughly) to get through the story....

This must be jammed packed with shit going on.
 

Arachnid

Member
Quality > quantity.

I thought the original God of War had an appropriate length.

Worried this is going to be full of useless repeated shit like Spider-Man or Horizon.
Or get both like Elden Ring and other Souls likes. Those don't have to be mutually exclusive.

The first GOW was too short overall for me. This sounds more ideal.
 
So the main idea was a trilogy and barlog didn't want to make people wait that long so they wrap it all up in this second installment that clocks in at the same amount of time (roughly) to get through the story....

This must be jammed packed with shit going on.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Remember God of War III? Game only is around 8-12 hours and yet they were able to put in every major and a good number of more minor gods and kill them off while telling a gripping narrative in that time frame.

Sure, they are completely different devs at this point - but if they couldn't do the same thing in around 20 hours, then I question their quality as devs. Given how well the 2018 release was though? I don't think we have any need to worry.
 

Fbh

Member
Sounds about in line with the first one which also takes 50 hours to 100% according to howlongtobeat.
IMO the first one was a tad too long, the enemy variety in particular felt like it ran out way before the game was done. But this time they had the advantage of being able to build on top of what is already there so hopefully it's better in that regard

Early estimates is that it will take you 60 hours if you spend time hitting pause to complain about it being cross-gen online.

Ha joke is on you, there will be plenty of time to go online and complain as you wait for Kratos to finish crawling through the totally not Ps4 related tight places.
 
So the main idea was a trilogy and barlog didn't want to make people wait that long so they wrap it all up in this second installment that clocks in at the same amount of time (roughly) to get through the story....

This must be jammed packed with shit going on.
Yes this is what I was thinking about. I am not worried at all about repetitive content as this is basically 2 game stories condensed into one.

Also this is 4 years and an half after the first game so they had plenty of time to polish the game and the PS5 performance mode seems pretty good from the previews. Great image quality + very stable performance.
 

JaksGhost

Member
Now let’s average all reviewers and not just a single person’s experience 😀 These folks words are bible to some of you.
 

Perfo

Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
For games of this size the shortest the better. The sweet spot for me? 25-30 hrs for story, 45-50 for completition! Anything more it's usually a waste of my time, though by pride I can't escape it regardless. lol
 
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Haggard

Banned
Platinum for the first game was a journey. It'll be worth it.
run around listening for ravens.
such a journey......
Great game, but achievements like this are why I´ll never understand platinum trophy hunters. That just can`t be fun.
 
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Winter John

Member
I just finished GOW the other day. It was a real good game. The story length was about right. If it had been any longer it probably would've turned into a slog. I didn't do any of the side stuff but I might go back to it sometime.
 

Gaiff

Gold Member
Fine by me. I was expecting the game to be a trilogy and was quite disappointed that it'd end with the second game. I'm hoping that the side content will feature tons of information about the lore and the other gods we didn't get to meet.

The OG game remained fairly contained in terms of cast and number of characters. You only interact with a handful of gods and mythological figures when there are a dozen others mentioned.
 
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