>Mike Mahardy completed his first Dark Souls III playthrough in 23 hours
23 H O U R S
SHORTER THAN BLOODBORNE
>>333541680
The game was beaten in around 3 hours without using any glitch or exploit. Only running.
>>333542616
link?
>>333541680
My first DeS playthrough was like 12 and my first DaS playthrough was around 20. I'm not seeing the problem.
>>333541680
DS1 and 2 took me around 25 hours
What's your point?
>>333542738
Sorry, 2 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32XOqluNZwU
>the rest of the hours are season pass dlc
>>333541680
>He plans on making a deprived run soon.
Is this some sort of achievement?
>>333541680
L I T E R A L L Y N O B O D Y C A R E S Y O U R T H R E A D I S S H I T E N J O Y Y O U R S A G E
>>333542871
Well, it is a speedrun, not a 100% playthrough
In comparison, doing 100% in Morrowind would take a year or two, whereas you can beat the game in 4 minutes if you do any%
>>333543705
>sage is a downvote
:^)
>>333541680
So what?
I've beaten DeS in 14 hours on my first playthrough, DaS in 20 and DaS2 in 28.
Souls series were never all that long and primarily aimed at replayability rather than a one off play through.
23 hours of probably no exploration or character side quests.
>>333544105
>I'm a retard
:^)
Okay I guess I will cancel my preorder and just shitpost on /v/ instead.
>>333541680
So your argument is that his first play through of the single player dictates the overall quality of the game?
>>333541680
I've beaten Demon's Souls in 7 hours.
Length is only a problem when the content that's there is too simple and streamlined to make the decisions per second ratio eat shit.
>redundant lategame bosses and areas
What did he mean by this?
23 hours? Sounds pretty long considering that guy probably rushed through the game to get his review out. Probably did as little exploring as possible, probably did as little PVP as possible.
>>333544954
If a video game "journalist" can beat the game in 23 hours then yes the game has a length problem.
>>333541680
Thats a little bit longer than my first run of BB, which was only 19-20 hours. That was with obsessive exploration.
>>333541680
23 hours is pretty fucking long compared to the 5-8 hour shit we get nowadays.
>>333545186
The game was made easier for review copies and chances are they probably ran through majority of the game with minimum exploration.
Didn't reviewers get a special build of the game?
An all bosses speedrun of Dark Souls 3 consists of 11 bosses while a Dark Souls 1 all boss speed run has almost double the amount.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOF5mMngbE
>>333545080
I guess he could mean they're too easy but I'm really not sure at all.
>>333544387
You're a retard for announcing sage. People will bump just to spite you.
>>333542871
But It took the speed runner a whole week to get to that level of experience, he already got more than $60 worth of fun, challenge and replay value
Bloodborne took me about 18 hours to beat and it was my first souls game. So I'm not worried
>>333543952
Nowhere in the OP image says anything about 100%
That's a good length though and sounds comparable to the others, I don't see the problem.
>>333545472
19 bosses, retard.
>>333545080
Dunno. Late game bosses are all great. It's the early ones that are all shit.
>>333545649
>help, I don't know how to read a reply chain!!
>>333545173
I thought there was no PvP in the review version
>>333545472
You're retarded, the list scrolls.
>>333543952
>a year or two
There is nowhere near that much content in Morrowind.
It'd be 150 hours. At 100 hours I had the whole map completed along with the DLCs. It'd be way less if I'd gone mage and spammed their broken systems.
We know that the game is ~20 hours ever since the game released on Japan m8, some jap finished it day 1 in 20 hours.
>>333545921
100%
Getting every item
Doing every possible quest
Visiting every possible area
It would take way more than 150 hours, at least 3k minimum
>>333541680
But Bloodborne was 20 hours with DLC.
>>333546174
>at least 3k minimum
>>333543579
It's a classic thing to do in any souls game, almost like a meme
>>333545080
>Areas with similar themes (fire, ice, sewers, destroyed city, etc)
>Later bosses have very similar gimmicks or movesets or themes
Who knows, it's people who don't even play videogames, it could be all sorts of retarded shit.
>>333546174
No, it wouldn't. The world map is empty, most quests are fetch quests, and most damning of all most random dungeons are 1-2 rooms large.
You speak like you haven't actually tried to do the majority of the content.
>>333541680
>Expert level design
>Redundant areas
?????
>>333546312
how many possible archetypes of 'places' can there be? You could argue that everything has been done before ergo Souls endgame content will be 'redundant' or stale...
I think what matters is the execution and presentation, as well as how fun it is to play through, overall.
>>333541680
>redundant bosses
what the fuck does this even mean?
>>333541680
So:
>20h to play through the game
>an additional 20 for optional content, exploration
>10 hours for a NG+ run
>10 hours for PVP/Co-Op
And with that, you've already reached the 1$/hour ratio - probably even way before that if you play on PC, where you can get the game for way cheaper.
> there are people who will pay $2.61 per hour for Dark Souls 3 ' s 23 hours of content
KEKS
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K
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>>333542871
>sword punches enemy to death
Is that seriously the best weapon in the game? an alternative attack with a long sword?
>>333542871
>GIANT ENEMY LEAPING ON TOP OF YOU?
>NO PROBLEM, JUST ROLL DIRECTLY UNDER THEM LOL
Iframes are such garbage.
>>333546543
>implying I'm going to do only 1 run
>implying I'm not going to do PvP
>implying I'm going to rush through the game with as little exploring as possible to get a review out
I think I'll get my money's worth
It's about quality, not quantity.
:^)
>>333546513
>people actually prematurely judge videogames based on how long they take to complete
I keep asking but no one tells me. Does anyone know what the moonlight blade equivalent in this game has as stat requirements? is it int/str?
>>333546707
>It's about quality, not quantity.
Soooo not buying the game i guess.
Not a bad thing. Dark souls and bb were full of stupid, half assed areas
>>333546509
Copy paste bosses.
>>333545186
Why would you correlate his first run game time length to the overall game quality are that retarded to miss my point. Also the review copies are -2 new game
>>333546920
But there are none in 3.
>>333546763
That's why you'll never be rich.
>>333546980
hehehe
>>333541680
Thats a months worth of gameplay for a normal person.
>>333541680
Dark Souls can be beaten in half hour
>>333547040
name them
>>333547001
ive got more NEETbux than you could ever want
>your enjoyment of the game ends when you get the credits sequence
Ebin simply ebin.
>>333541680
Seems pretty consistent with previous games OP.
DS1 took me 20
DS2 took me about 25
BB took 16
>>333545472
>Dark Souls 1 bosses
>Bed of Chaos
>3 Asylum Demons
>Discharge
Never has there been a game with more useless filer bosses than DS1.
>>333541680
I'm sure it'll be longer if I fight each boss 10 time each! They obviously weren't playing the game correctly!
F-fucking casuals!!
Don't worry everyone I brought the food analogy.
What would you rather have:
>10 packs of instant noodles
Or
>8 meal's worth of [significantly better food]
>>333547375
>WELP I READ ON /V/ THE GAME IS ONLY 20 HOURS, IT'S BEEN 20 HOURS NOW SO I HAVE TO STOP BECAUSE THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING MORE TO DO IN THE GAME APPARENTLY
All of the Souls games and Bloodborne took me on average 65 hours to finish the first time. My second time through is usually in the 20 hour range. I like to take my time and look around.
>>333547709
You're in the majority there. I spent well over 100 hours on bloodborne before I finished it for the first time. I made two characters though, full disclosure. I fucked up the first one by going dex/int. That was a huge mistake and I didn't know there weren't really spells in the traditional sense. I also fucked up the eileen questline so no blades of mercy so I REALLY fucked up.
>>333547001
>He only see the explicit qualities
What you buy owns you retard
>>333547709
Pretty much. Most people's first time through in other games was like 50-60 hours because they kept getting stuck in some areas or did stuff like co-op, invasions, checking weapons out, etc. stuff that doesn't advance you through the game.
For a reviewer who has played other souls games and probably rushed through the game to get the review out, 23 hours seems pretty good.
>>333546770
>Str/Int
Nope
>>333541680
but 20-60 hours is the norm for your first SoulsBorne playthrough,
Both DaS1+DLC and DaS2-DLC took me 30 hours. I haven't beaten Bloodborne yet but I'm around 11 hours and I'm about to slap up Rom.
>>333548256
What is it then? I've always used it, but I don't have the time for a bunch of builds and I haven't heard of a build reset item like in dks2 so I want to get set up properly.
>>333547709
You're a moron if you don't take your time anyway. The first Xenoblade took me 106 hours to beat. I'd say 100 of them were me taking the game in.
>>333547678
>Implying there is 8 meal's worth of food in Dog Shit 3
>>333548393
One of the covenants lets you reset your build
>>333541680
Just beat the game, 38 hours and the only area I missed was smouldering lake, haven't fully explored areas like Cathedral of the Deep completely either. It also has better pace than any other Souls.
I've learned that every game /v/ hates is good, and meme shit that gets spammed and shilled (undertale) is absolute garbage up until release when they praise previously 'bad' games and hate games that were spammed and praised.
>>333541680
Bloodborne took me like 20 hours you tard
Nice shitposting thread
>>333548485
Do you feel like you fit in yet?
>>333548426
Haha yeah if I drop $60 on a game I'm not gonna rush through it as fast as possible.
I'm at 100 hours in xenoblade x and I'm only on chapter 9. Once I got flying skells I just spent hours exploring and doing side quests.
23 hours isnt short though mong
The level design in this game is perfect. The best from has ever done. Fight me
>>333548510
sweet. I'd still like to know what the reqs are for moonlight blade.
>there's still a fucking way of the blue covenant
god DAMN IT
did they not fucking learn?
For a Souls game that's not very long at all. I can beat DeS in like 5 hours without even trying to speedrun. DaS1 is longer but not THAT much.
You could always just mongoloid and run through Dark Souls you fucking nig.
That's not the goddamn point. The games take longer as you soak it in and appreciate it and try to breakthrough lore and trigger certain dialogues and unmask the secrets.
>>333546174
>It would take way more than 150 hours, at least 3k minimum
I can't imagine to be that retarded
>>333548716
>brown
>brown
>brown
>brown
>brown
>brown at night
I cant say I am fan of the washed out colors the game had going since DaS 2.
>>333548836
>there's still covenants, once again reducing the online portion of their game to an easter-egg novelty that never FUCKING WORKS instead of a main attraction
No, they will never learn.
>>333549175
Are you color blind?
>>333541680
And this is the easy mode review copy, right?
>>333541680
HOLY SHIT A GAME THAT ISN'T 80 HOURS
BLUNDER OF THE EON
>>333544256
No pvp or summon signing either
>>333549212
covenants are fine, gimmicky but fine. It's reducing the use of one covenant to the use of ANOTHER covenant that's ridiculous. It effectively makes sentinels AND way of the blue useless. you should auto-warp to anyone wearing sentinel OR way of the blue signs, instead of one or the other, with a preference in summoning to way of the blue. People were bitching about this day 1 in dks2, and it's still not fucking fixed. fucks sake.
>>333541680
>inconsistent camera
No no I can't do it
Camera issues are my worst peeve
daily reminder
BB > DeS > DaS2 > DaS3 > DaS
>>333549387
>covenants are fine
I heavily disagree.
You know what summons and, arguably more importantly invades, were in Demon's Souls? Just stones. No covenant bullshit. Use them to your heart's content.
>>333549273
>makes consolewar trashpost
>about a multiplat
When will the Depraved meme end, there's nothing difficult about it
>>333546174
>at least 3k minimum
I played Dota 2 for 4 years and I have 2880 hours dude.
>>333549258
>>333546543
better than $15 for every other AAA games 4 hours of single player.
multiplayer focus games are cancer
>A guy who is paid to play games beat a game on a reduced difficulty for the very purpose of not being to hard for reviewers in 23 hours
>This is supposed to imply this game is bad
>To top it off, a PS4 exclusive is tossed in to attract consolewar shitposting, the cancer that makes this place a constant bitchfest
>The entire OP is either really obvious b8, or someone who has a biased opinion and is just being bitter about things they know nothing about
>Regardless of everything stated above, there are still tons of replys
I just don't know anymore, /v/. It's just getting tiresome, and not enjoyable
>>333549827
sand grey
khaki terracotta
yellowstone navy
Get recked scrub
mmm mmm mmm
>>333542871
Bloodborne and Dark Souls are an hour long that way, so what?
>>333549827
hey, that's a neat trick how do you do that
>>333541680
>Guy beat an easier version a game without doing any exploring in 23 hours
SOULSFAGS BTFO XD
>>333549545
sorry your PS4 was still a bad purchase
>>333550883
You blur the fuck out of it then pick that color. Also I fucked up. I used Gaussian blur instead of average. Average returns one color.
>>333550903
where is the source saying journalists got an easier version
>>333549387
I was a blue sentinel in 2 and I got summoned all the time, enough to get to rank 2 of the covenant.
The idea I was coming to the aid of people who'd literally chosen a "I don't want to PVP just leave me alone" covenant, forgoing other bonuses, was fantastic.
Some of the best times I've had in any Souls game honestly
>>333550989
Don't fall for the bait, m8
That shit is so dates it's not even worth a reply.
>>333551080
The only thing wrong with DaS system was the fucking ring. No way people will sacrifice a ring slot for that. Now you just have to be in the covenant for it to work. Gonna join the police.
>>333541680
>DARK SOULS 3 BEATEN IN 23 HOURS
*90 minutes
Fixed that one for you. Casual playthroughs that ten fold the actual playtime don't count nigger
>>333551301
>Casual playthroughs don't count
>Speedruns do
Literally fucking retarded.
So the best burial gift is the fire gem right?
Literally none of that other shit besides maybe the soul is worth a single fuck
>>333548716
Since when did level design mean skyboxes you fucking moron?
This is high level trolling.
>>333551021
>>333549827
>>333549175
>>333550989
Sorry you're only 3 for 5 on Souls games.
>>333552360
Nice opinions, friend. Cant argue color numbers though.
>>333546667
I like them, it actually feels like you narrowly dodge the attack. unlike witcher/lords of the Fallen souls where you feel like a massive neon target when you dodge.
>>333541680
Took me 24 hours to beat Dark Souls 1. What's the issue here?
>>333547232
Champion Gundyr
>>333551065
I've got no source but the review version is easier, and is the same version Xboners got early.
>>333546174
oh come on you shill, just because you can't remember video games means you should pander
>just over 3 days left
fuck i'm so excited
I want to do one last dks2 run. I just finished dks1 and des, don't think i'll have time for bloodborne though.
this is it fellas.
this is the end.
till the DLC comes out and sucks ass.
>>333546770
25 or 26 int and maybe 14-16 str and 12-14 dex or so. Sorry, not at home and my int ended at 9 sooooo, yeah.
>>333555708
I'll just hit all those points for safety. Thanks anon. I'm so fucking happy to have moonlight blade in hand, waves of pure crescent energy flying forth and cutting niggas in twain.
>>333555816
Yeah, I converted the boss soul knowing I couldn't use the damn thing until NG+. Bittersweet.
Does anyone know if there's a matchmaking disparity for ng and ng+? Like can ng be matched with ng+?
