Does a 500-hour game sound like a good time to you? If the answer is yes, then you might want to check out Dying Light 2 next month. If your answer is no, then you'll be wondering what the heck developer Techland was thinking with this weekend tweet:
Yep, Dying Light 2 is apparently 500 hours long — but only if you want it to be. See, that's the important point that the developer kind of skipped across with the aforementioned tweet. It's since had to clarify, stating that 500 hours is the approximate amount of time that it would take players to "max out the game". We're talking a complete 100% run — seeing and doing everything that the title has to offer.
Techland made things a little clearer a couple of hours later: "500 hours is related to maxing out the game — finishing all the quests, endings, and exploring every part of the world, but a regular player should finish the story plus side quests and do quite a lot of exploring in less than 100 hours, so don't worry!"
Either way, the game sounds bloody huge. And based on previous information, it sounds like a healthy chunk of your time might be spent finding new equipment and beefing up your character.
Still, 500 hours? Obviously Techland wanted to make a point about just how much stuff is actually in Dying Light 2, but given the amount of clarification it's since had to dish out, this tweet will probably go down as a misfire.
What do you make of this? Could you see yourself playing Dying Light 2 for 500 hours? Raise an eyebrow or two in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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I don't think "our game is 500 hours long!" is quite the selling point that it used to be...
I can’t understand this desire for hours over quality. I can spend 500 hours eating horse *****, doesn’t mean I’m happy to pay £60 for the privilege.
I'll be pissed if one of the trophy requirements is to 100% the game...
W.... T.... F....
Seriously though that is one zero too many and especially if theres a trophy behind that 500 hours
Good luck with that platinum trophy
Don't worry though, you probably get a very special NFT after 500 hours
If it plays well then im in!
Much, much, much to much.
PSX 2 The 3 Is The Ones For Me.
So A LOT of boring collectibles then
Did they expect “wow great” reactions rather than “what the actual f” ones when tweeting this?
This sounds great for me if the game is good.
No way anybody could be arsed doing all of that.
That's a great sign, assuming that's all in one playthrough anyway, I like exploring but not starting again just for minor chnages
I cant wait to see the speed run vids for this one..
As long as it's not Ubisoft-style padding with mission types repeating over and over again, or uneccessarily hard, bullet-sponge, grindy content to encourage microtransaction to 'save time', then great!
500 to platinum or just 500 to see everything?
Ac Valhalla took me 350 hours to complete including all DLC and the bonus Kassandra DLC. With the upcoming major DLC for it in March it’s still 100 hours less than 500 hours lol. I wonder what they have that would take someone 500 hours to complete if it’s true?
How can you work in the gaming industry and be this clueless? Nobody wants a 500 hour game 🙄
Is this just a polite way of saying there's a 450 hour installation on the day one patch?
Stuff like this is due to all of the crying certain gamers do about wanting to get so much dollar value per hour.
I can’t stand these people.
Quality>Quantity
I’d rather pay 60 for a fantastic 10hr game than to pay 40 for a mediocre 100 game.
Um…. No thank you?
football manager is also 500 hours, plus infinity 😂
@Integrity I don’t see a game offering 500 hours of unique or differing content. It’s gonna be padding.
I never read it as 500 hours to complete the story 😂 can’t believe it needed clarifying tbh.
Still though, quality > quantity so lets hope the game is solid and an improvement of the first game which was great in itself
That's a lot of hours. That what turnt me off about AC Valhalla. And I still haven't bought it because of it.
Btw have they meanwhile shown console footage? The games out soon, isn't it? It's about time to showcase some console gameplay, instead flexing with length of the game.
@OmegaStriver I'm sure you're right.
Can't spend that much time with a game, way to many other games to play
I could complete God of war Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Forspoken, stranger of paradise, Elden Ring and Pokemon legends Arceus in that time.
Nobody actually believes this, right? You'll be able to see and do everything there is in the game inside 50 hours, I guarantee it.
Meanwhile people been playing FIFA and CoD for 700hrs without realizing. Dunno why people feel like they have a gun to their head to complete a game in a specified time. I mean unless you borrowed it, it's YOURS, you can take a break and go back later. Quantity or quality, a game could have both, what's your gripe!
That's open world games for you, they are taxing and take a lot of your time, idk if I reach that point but I will try to complete what I can I guess
I'm so sick and tired of this stupid mentality that a game's worth is tied to how long it is it's ridiculous
No buy, it should be at least 1000 hours lol.
But seriously, of the gameplay is awesome I'm fine with it.
Game length is a funny one. I sunk well over 100 hours into one playthrough of The Witcher 3 (dlc included), well over 100 into Persona 5 (and now playing Royal)... I was gutted when they ended as I could have played more.
Shorter games are also fine with me, Rift Apart took what, maybe 10-12 hours. Still a good game.
If the quality of the game is good, the length of time to complete is irrelevant to me
Please don’t let it be grindy, please don’t let it be grindy. When I see him using the term “max out”, it makes me really worried they have somehow padded the progression systems with an absolutely EPIC grind just to be able to write that tweet.
Considering that people are still playing the first game 7 years later, and it is still getting content. The developer probably figured that diehard Dying Light fans will be glad for 500 hr games. Everyone else... Not so much.
If most aaa games was 500 hours it will be amazing.but dying light the following is amazing .this one looks amazing also.and dont forget dying light 2 will have dlcs also.word up son
I don't see what the problem is. Those that will play for a long time, can do so. Those that won't, don't have to.
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Give me a 20-30 hour experience (or less) over unecessary padding. I never like it when devs boast about length. It shouldn't be the selling point.
However, i do think this game will be ace and so long as the content is entertaining, it doesnt matter. So long as the game doesnt feel like its stuffed with padding and busy work
I don't care if a game has 1000 hours of content. I do care however if they sacrifice quality for quantity. I guess we will have to see what their methodology is for generating hundreds of hours of content. Naturally they don't owe it to me to cater to my tastes haha. Hopefully the reviews will give a good taste of what all this side content is about. But yeah, not quite a selling point to me as I can get hundreds of hours of content from FIFA or COD or an MMO too.
I miss the days when you could 100% complete a game like this in 50-60 hours and move on feeling satisfied that you did and saw everything the game had to offer.
Now you can play a game for 150 hours and still have hundreds of hours of repetitive rubbish to do to 100% the game.
The collectibles become meaningless ...the outfits and weapons too. So you play until you’ve had enough and walk away feeling both burnt out and dissatisfied that you never actually finished it.
Devs keep talking about how game development is so expensive and how the cost of games needs to increase... well, here’s a thought... stop wasting time making 500 hour games and give us the 50-60 games we actually want. Preferably ones that work on release date and don’t require several patches too 👌
@BritneyfR_ee I could be wrong but I think some of these massive open world games are bland because it is cheaper to code out/generate hundreds of hours of samey content as opposed to something shorter but original. That's not to say Dying Light are going down this route as I have no clue there haha.
@TheArt Thats quite different with a story game. A game with 500 hours thats 150 hours more then Final Fantasy 7 with everything completed. FIFA or COD, BF is a total different im not jumping in and out a game with such a massive story over the course of weeks or months so i forget half the story.
For me its a skip i want to play other games besides this. I could get 5 different kind of adventures. With 60 hours 8 different games and i could play Rachet and Clank and have 10 hours left i dont have the time to do this anymore.
I don't see why people would complain about more content in a game, this is how it should be. Lots of optional content to maximize the value of your purchase, content that you don't have to get through if you don't want to. At least it beats paying $70 to 100% complete a game in 18 hours.
Sure trophy hunters will complain...but then they play literal garbage games you can beat in 10 minutes just to get a plat so they can pass on this one.
I'm expecting 15 minute speedruns then.
Well we can expect another game where the core mechanic is chasing icons on a map, yet the developers continue to use the word exploration. Lol...
This bloated game releasing weeks before edlen ring and hfw just seems crazy, even crazier to decide tweeting it's length would be a selling point with that release window.
Most will just now wait for a full package discount release for this one, just like I did with dying light, which is sadly collecting digital dust in my library
There’s absolutely no way this is true. This is most likely referring to all of the endings they’ve touted.
If you had to play through the entirety of the story and play side quests multiple times MAYBE it would make up this number but my guess is he’s talking about a standard play through times 6 or 7 to get that number.
@Flaming_Kaiser Naahh just try not to forget the story when you come back 😆
So thats about a 3rd of what Gran Turismo 5 took to platinum when it was doable 🤣
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@Flaming_Kaiser
I'd be fine with the length if these games were actually playable nowadays.
They lack in so many aspects compared to even PS2 games. Less interaction with the world, less quality exploring/ easter eggs, variety of stuff to do, less/ almost no physics, clunky gameplay that takes has no learning curve and play like literally anything else.
Although, 500 hours would be way too much for even good games with well built worlds and gameplay like RDR2, GTA and I wish I had other games to mention, but that's the painful reality of gaming today.
Too many typical Ubisoft filler games that are mindless fluff of quantity with zero quality. Spending that many hours in these games is torture and will leave me feeling like I'm wasting my time. Literally ruins the hobby for me
Predict 50 hours, unless they go;
🏆 Dropkick-and-fall-damage-kill 1500 burning enemies
@BoldAndBrash I just dont want to play one game over and over even if its good. I love to finish games and go on a new fresh adventure.
Just like with Horizon Zero Dawn i put over 100 hours in and i was happy to move on. It was a great adventure i loved Aloy, the gameplay and backstory told by collectibles and the main story but i still was happy to finish it and move on.
Even a great yourney deserves a ending so another developer gets a chance to blow me away with a great new game. Give me a fresh with a new game to start something new.
Because even with a great game with fantastic gameplay will bore me after 500 hours. And besides that after that amount of time with zombies i would probably never want to see a zombie ever again.
@TheArt That wont happen you think im going to remember a game after not playing it for weeks/months because i got sick of it.
That time has passed im not 16 years old with to much sparetime even without kids. Lets say i get in 10 hours every week even then it would almost take me a full year.
And with 100 hours i could play 5 games with more fun becauseof the new things in it. And probably even more with some shorter stories.
@ATaco it doesn’t really maximise the value though, it dilutes it.
It’s like if you had a really expensive bottle of liquor and someone suggested pouring it into an Olympic size swimming pool so you have ‘more’.
All that extra padding weakens the story, weakens levelling up and progression, weakens collectibles. Weakens the game.
@WCB This is the only sensible reaction. Providing a content filled world to get lost in (if you want) seems like a good thing.
@TheArt this makes so much sense . people should look at their playhours on the ps5 .
excellent comment
@ATaco exactly! Sometimes it's nice to just have a world that you can get lost in. And not like literally lost but, a virtual escape.
I don't even wanna know how many hours I spent in HZD, I just enjoyed being in that world and even after I completed everything there was to complete I still found myself running around, wishing there were more.
100 hours building and populating settlements in FO4.
50 hours farming the Turtle in Dying Light.
100+ hours killing zombies, free roam, in Dying Light.
400+ days streak doing RDO dailies.
500 hours or more GTA 5, off and online, since 2013.
500 hours is a lot for any game, but more so if that time is in just one playthrough. However i find that time flys when having fun.
I’m not overly surprised to be honest. People put THOUSANDS of hours into Dying Light 1.
500 hours… that’s advertising to an extremely niche market, isn’t it? Lol. I’m not part of that market. Only one game in my top 10 last year went over 10 hours for me and that’s Returnal. I’d honestly rather pay for a short, but really well polished piece of work. That said, I still hope this game turns out well. I’m not 100% sold on the game, but I’m still curious how good it’ll end up being.
500 hours....what a ridiculous claim. Plat in 50 or so
@BritneyfR_ee depends on the game. Something like Genshin Impact or a Ubisoft game where the grind becomes an integral part of the experience I'd agree with you. Something like a Breath of the Wild or a monster hunter where you can see credits in a reasonable amount of time or get lost in a world full of fun gameplay and exploration? As long as the length is optional then it shouldn't be a problem. That being said, 500 hours does seem a bit crazy, I know I've never played a single game for that long, except for maybe an MMO back in the day.
That's a lot of content.
If the game is really really long, Imma skip it because horizon and elden ring need 500 hours too lmao.
Thanks but no thanks. My backlog is screaming at me as is, and I don’t need another game where hundreds of hours of content is used as a bullet point.
Looks like players can play Dying Light until they receive their Hogwarts letter in the mail
Imagine releasing a 500 hour game when horizon is out a few weeks later.
Hard pass for me, will pick this game up when it's on sale for $15 or cheaper.
@Icey664 I hope there is one, just for people to stop obsessing over trophies.
@Voltan they expected a reaction and they got it. A different claim wouldn't have made much noise.
500 hours?!? … nucking futs !!!
@naruball
Who hurt you?
If anything it's just gonna make people skip this game and play something else instead.
Any game dev bragging about such thing is automatically red flagged by me and will undergo rigorous examination upon release through research on the internet.
@nessisonett I don’t know about that, I’ve got a friend who absolutely loved the first one and put in 1600 hours into it, and that number was about half a year ago, probably gone up even more by now.
@naruball I guess that’s fair, it certainly did get people’s attention. Not sure if in the way they wanted though.
I seen people crying that Kena was too short while being okay that R+C is the same length but double the price. I personally don’t have the time to sink 500 hours into a game but some people do and if this game claims to provide that much content fair play, whoever buys it and enjoys it will be getting their moneys worth that’s for sure.
As long as the content is enjoyable then by all means make your game 500 hours. I could have kept playing Persona 5 for hundreds more hours too by the time credits rolled and if you count repeat playthroughs plus a Royal playthrough then I did put about 500 hours into that game.
Not every game needs to be hundreds of hours long but if the devs can make all that content worth it then I see no issue. It's when a game has loads of uninteresting repeated stuff that causes a problem.
Instantly relegating this game to: I'll play it if it ever comes to GamePass, PS+ or PS Now. 500 hours... get outta here dude.
Assuming that the game is anywhere near as good as the first and given that I've spent well over 500 hours playing and repeating that game and its DLC, I couldn't be happier. This sounds like they made this game specifically to my exact requirements.
How often does anyone get to say that? It's made my week!
@Icey664 yes, people who have long missed the point of gaming and are slaves to trophies.
The better question is, who hurt you to attach such value to... trophies over gaming?
@Voltan we live in a strange world of viral marketing. The most bizarre things have helped video games and artists. Sometimes it works, sometimes it backfires.
I don't plan on playing this game any time soon as it's not my kind of thing but Techland seem like a nice bunch that I respect, so if they want to make a really long game that's their right. There is plenty of shorter zombie games to scratch that itch if you have it.
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@JAMes-BroWWWn no normal human has 500 hours just to dump into a game. This is the reason games are becoming too big and too boring for moderate gamers. Its a big turn off.. Why would any company make a campaign that big is beyond me. Like what are they trying to prove?
@Flaming_Kaiser
Yeah 500 is a ridiculous amount lmao!
I'd say 100 hours max and your Horizon example is perfect for that.
Less is often more
This feels like the end result of the comparing price to length discussion which has been present for years. Plenty of people saying for example that a 15 hour game isn't worth $60 because a different $60 game is 100 hours long so nowadays a game being extremely long is a massive bragging point.
@ShogunRok 20 hours base game and 35 with 100% works best for a busy adult life.
@Dudditz09 The Witcher 3 is amazing! I finished the Wild Hunt part twice and then Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine 3 times each. I like how the option to just play the DLC stories was there.
Hey there fellow gamers.
500 hours is a lot for a game, no doubt( great band, by the way)
But I do have 523 hours on the first Ni-Oh and 511 hours on Bloodborne..... And probably way more on Gran Turismo and Forza games. Oh, and PES when I used to be a big fan of it.
It will always depends on the game, the content and the player.
A friend of mine as 912 hours on Rocket League. Insane, right?
But then again, devs have to realize that Quantity does not mean Quality in any medium form.
Make an amazing gaming experience from begining to end and we, the players will enjoy it.
Cheers, stay safe, stay well and happy gaming to us all
@AstraeaV yeah very true.
I just checked my play times for the 1st time, 418 hours on it 😂
So yeah, if it's a good enough game apparently I am more than willing to put in close to 500 hours.
@BoldAndBrash The 500 hours is nice when you are a teen that only likes one kind of game great for the Fortnite generation maybe.
@Icey664 I really like trophies but with a lot of games its a timewaster.
@Flaming_Kaiser
Lol I take offense as only God knows how many hours I've put into Rocket League. Had to uninstall it though, because it became an obsession.
Though games like that and Apex Legends, which are extremely fun imo, are fine since you play a match here and there and it's filled with randomness
@Flaming_Kaiser
Oh yea, some games make the trophies ridiculous and then I just don't bother. Unless it's a game I really love
I hope 100% gives out the platinum trophy for this one. Maybe that will help cure the addiction for some people.
I know a few people that stopped enjoying games after getting this obsession. They rush trough great games with a guide, not giving a damn about anything but the trophy. Looking up trophies to decide if they are buying the game or not. Quality of the game does not matter.
Yes, they are allowed to do what they want, but that can be said about people eating snot as well. haha
500 hours may seem a lot, but in my bachelor days I could drop 60-70 hours a week into a game. 2 kids now, will be lucky if I get 500 hours to my self in the next 10 years.
@Icey664 Trophies should be fun and i dont even mind a challenge.
@RaZieLDaNtE
Please stop being reasonable. This is the internet.
Hi there friend.
Can´t stop being reasonable, sorry 😜
I have existed and been reasonable, more or less, since before the internet was even a thing that people could actualy use.
Man, I sound old and I´m only 37.... Wich means I´m quite young 😉
Anyway, Internet is particular place where I hope more people will get along together and discuss things in a passionate but respectul way. But what do I know, I´m just an old fashion guy.
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one
@BoldAndBrash I had the same with Overwatch and the bloody costumes. At first i could get them during event but after a while i just could not make it and started buying boxes so i said screw it i selling my game.
500h play time ≠ value
@Ashpip exactly my point, in my situation it's a social life lol
@get2sammyb I created an account just to reply to this and some of the negativity I see in the comments.
I've easily played Dying Light 1 for 1000s of hours, including all the DLCs and played it on PS4 and Xbox.
I continue to play it to this day because my best friend and I like the challenges and like to have a couple of beers and chat while killing zombies.
Dying light was easily my GOTY when it came out, I was even there for the patch that accidentally deleted the profiles and Techland gave everyone free DLC to compensate.
Dying Light 2 promising 500 hours is GREAT news and I cannot wait.
I would also say that plenty of games in life exceed the 500 hour mark, especially sports games, MMOs or those which have been played several times like Skyrim or Witcher 3.
I don't care how long this game is, this is a zombie game, my favorite types of games, Dying Light 2 is the type of game I know I'll find myself replaying on a yearly basis, just like I already do with the first Dying Light, Days Gone & The Last of Us.
February just can't come soon enough!
That's nothing. I've put 7520 hours in to FFXIV Online.
Mgs v gave me 200.
Digimon cyber sleuth 130 (and then another 100 for hackers memory).
Got 600 out of pokemon x back in the day.
Absolutely loved the first DL but there is no way in hell that i could have got anywhere near that. The only thing I can think of is if this has a real time farming sim built in to the mechanics for the survival.
Wow, that's a bad selling point.
I put over 800 hours into Star Wars Battlefront 2 but that was over 2 1/2 years!
I've played RDR2 twice and that's over 500 hours.
Football Manager back in the day? 5,000 hours most likely!
All the extra content is optional, nobody's forcing you to buy it let alone play it for that duration. Some on here might think shorter games are better but depends on the game. Every great game I've finished, I've bee glad when I did but also still left wanting more.
Some people seem to just want to play as many games as they can, probably to just keep up with what's trending or seen as the latest IN thing. One day they'll grow up and just want to play what they want, when they want/can and for however long it takes.
so surprised so many here believe it means 500 hours of story 🤦♀️ saying that I have 0 issues with long games I prefer them!
That sounds about 450 hours too long for me.
@Icey664 keep up that hatred and personal attacks. See where that takes you.
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