Length of HL2

[InZaneFlea]

According to PC Gamer WAAAAY back in June 2003, HL2 will be AT LEAST 36 hours long. Well, it's been a year+ since then. What do you think now? They could've added gameplay, levels, etc, or even cut some. What do you guys think?


Also, I found it funny in that same preview. They talked about how HL2 was coming out in less than 6 months. 'That's right, you'll be playing HL2 before Doom 3,'etc. Fun stuff.

 

[SFLUFAN]

It's probably the same length. Anything beyond 40 hours for a FPS tends to get tedious.

 

[N@Sc]

its longer than doom3 i know and hl1 was also pretty long so i guess it will be 1 hell of a sp game and dont forget the damn huge mp options and mods

 

[nutcrackr]

Well way back then that kind of estimate would have been most likely from Valve, and generally developers overestimate by quite a bit just how much is in there. Of course it depends on play style and difficuilty, but 2/3 of the dev's estimate is usually a more reasonable value for me. I'd think that value would be a guess as to the content they were adding, but who knows.

 

[Dalamari]

Length: Endless

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[coolkid]

i think they said it will be 36 hours long,
but i'm shure that you could play it 20 times over and it will be a unique experiance each time.

 

[Kristafon]

its 25 hours, thats the lastest estimate from valve.

 

[halflifeguy]

Ill probably play it 2 times the first week i get it anways

 

[Concept]

All these estimations tend to contradict each other, because in an interview with Gamespot back in 2003, Gabe Newell said the single-player game was about as long as Half-Life, up to around 40 hours.

Except my first time through Half-Life only held around 15 hours, and I took my time with the game too.

In my honest opinion that's about the right length for a game these days for me. Not too short and not too long. It bothers me when a title artifically overstays it's welcome with cheap trial and error gameplay tricks...

The one thing which I think will help give Half-Life 2 a stretching dynamic with regards to completion, will be the physics and the AI. Bar the inevitable scipted sequences, I imagine toying about with the game's environment for sandbox purposes is going to be dependant on how far the player wants to take it.

Which is a good thing in my book.

 

[LAYP]

a modest 7 inches long impressing all the ladies.

 

[Incitatus]

Well way back then that kind of estimate would have been most likely from Valve, and generally developers overestimate by quite a bit just how much is in there. Of course it depends on play style and difficuilty, but 2/3 of the dev's estimate is usually a more reasonable value for me. I'd think that value would be a guess as to the content they were adding, but who knows.

Very true,

in my case I always insist on seeing every little corner of the maps so it'll probably take me 2x as long as the devs estimate

 

[Xenon]

I recall reading Gabe telling us that the game would take about 48 hours(days) to complete, if you did not have any pauses, deaths or have to load a quicksave of some sort.

But it's ages since he said that i think :E

 

[coolkid]

48 hours with no dieing and no stops! that sound insainly too long woulnt it start to get boring after 50 hours+ of gaming one game (accounting for the dieing and pauses).

how long ago did you hear this?

 

[link84]

The problem with estimates. There is no real way to determine it because some like to rush through the story just for the main story; while others like to take their time and explore the area so there is reall no way to tell which is closest its all up to personal playing.

 

[Sulkdodds]

2/3 of the dev's estimate is usually a more reasonable value for me.

its 25 hours, thats the lastest estimate from valve.

Well, he was right.

 

[Octavian]

Just so long as it's longer than Fable. Jeez that was short.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

As long as it's longer than Blueshift. The best 2 hours of my life :E

 

[hl2paul]

probs still the same length, hl1 was long , has anyone seen the video of sum1 beating it in an hour? thats some crazy stuff.

 

[coolkid]

wow

a guy beat hl1 in 1 hour!!!!
i dont think that it it is posable, even if there where no enimes, how would you run fast enough though all the levels?
could you pleas post the site so i can look at the movie!?!?!!???!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!?!!

 

[loopy1]

a guy beat hl1 in 1 hour!!!!
i dont think that it it is posable, even if there where no enimes, how would you run fast enough though all the levels?
could you pleas post the site so i can look at the movie!?!?!!???!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!?!!

Yep no problem! Go here:

http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/halflife.html

The current fastest time is 45mins 45 secs by 'RandomEngy'.

You can d/l the video in three different formats:

Hi-res 640*480 (329MB)

Normal-res 320*240 (158MB)

Demo files (play within half life engine) (28.5MB)

Enjoy!

 

[rrm]

people who have the leak know that valve has cut a lot of content, due to poor planning