Everyone knows that video games are quite expensive (especially these days), so it's always nice to play something packed with content that will take players hours to 100% complete. However, these types of games can be a double-edged sword as they can sometimes take too long to reach the end.
8 Open World Games That Don't Know When To Stop (In A Good Way)
Whenever players think the game is almost over, these titles find surprising ways to prove them wrong.
The truth is that there are many great games, including some of the best in the entire industry, that occupy forever to the endwhether due to their extensive length, as they belong to genres that usually don't take long to complete, or due to a peculiar pace that defies the player's initial expectations. Needless to say, the following ten games are notorious for falling into this unfortunate practice.
19 hours (although mostly cutscenes)
Every single game in Metal Gear series is quite long, especially when you consider that they all have complex stories with extensive cutscenes, but the fourth entry in the series, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriotsis the most egregious example. After all, the game is famous for holding the Guinness World Record for the longest video game cutscene ever filmed, with an epilogue clocking in at a whopping 71 minutes.
This doesn't just apply to his final hours, but to the entire game. Metal Gear Solid 4 it's 19 hours long, and its cutscenes take up around 9 hours of that time, leaving only around 10 hours of actual gameplay. Of course, it's still an emotional masterpiece that satisfactorily ties together every single plot thread in the series, but it can feel almost endless at times, especially on subsequent replays.
Eyes
Length 33 hours
With its beautiful hand-painted art style and unique game mechanics, Eyes is undoubtedly a masterpiece of the open world genre, one of the few games that can truly compete head to head with 3D The Legend of Zelda title. However, Capcom's dog simulator also suffers from a very clumsy story structure.
Eyes it starts with the premise that Amaterasu has to defeat Orochi and ends up doing it right in the middle of the game. As a result, the second half feels like it came out of nowhere, and it's made all the more strange by having the player complete a long boss rush level right before the final battle. Needless to say, the pace Eyes it's all over the place and getting to the end is much harder than it should be.
Yakuza 5
Duration 36 hours
The Yakuza/Like a Dragon the games are notorious for their breakneck pace, often providing players with hectic and over-the-top missions that can be enjoyed in quick bursts. However, some items in this series — especially those that were released earlier Yakuza 0 — are notorious for being surprisingly massive, p Yakuza 5 being the most blatant example.
Yakuza 5 is definitely the biggest and most ambitious game in the entire franchise, mainly because it boasts five playable characters, five explorable cities, around seventy different side quests and activities, and a main story that can take nearly forty hours to complete. All in all, it's still a great action-adventure game, but it may take a lot longer to complete than expected, especially compared to other installments in the series.
Ring Fit Adventure
Duration 36 hours
Ring Fit Adventure is another Nintendo exercise software in a similar vein to his Wii Fit series, so most people who buy it wouldn't really expect it to last that long. Strangely, however, they would be completely wrong, as the main campaign of this strange but effective title ends around 36 hours.
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actually Ring Fit Adventure is not just an exercise app, but also a full-fledged RPG with more than 23 worlds, multiple difficulty levels and plenty of boss fights. Since the gameplay is dictated by the player's physical movements, it's safe to say that completing just one part of this game is a challenging and lengthy achievement. This is ultimately a good thing because it means that those who are interested are using them Ring Fit adventure to improve their physical health they can play the game for a longer period of time.
NieR: Automata
37 hours (over 3 plays)
At first sight NieR: Automata ticks all the boxes of what one would expect from a PlatinumGames/Yoko Taro collaboration. It's an over-the-top hack-and-slash game with RPG elements that tells a strange but engaging narrative full of shocking plot twists. So when 2B and 9S defeat Eve at the 20 hour mark, it feels like a natural and decent conclusion.
However, this is only the end of A, meaning that players who have reached this point are still not technically done NieR: Automata. Those who wish to do so will have to play through the entire game twice more, once as 9S (which can feel tiresomely repetitive as it goes through most of the same levels as 2B) and a second time as A2. These two follow-ups push the actual game length to a whopping 37 hours, which is definitely a lot longer than newcomers usually expect.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey / Assassin's Creed Valhalla
45 hours long / 61 hours long
There was a time when Assassin's Creed the games were known as simple but effective stealth/action experiences that could be completed in around 20 hours. But everything changed with the release Assassin's Creed Originswhich was a full open world RPG packed with content that took the franchise in a completely different direction.
Origins it's still not that long, all things considered, but its two direct sequels, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Assassin's Creed Valhalla, are notorious among fans for their massive lengths. Of course, these are still high-quality historical adventures, but they're so packed with stuff that they feel bloated at times, not to mention that their additional content will take another 40-50 hours per game to complete. All of this explains why Ubisoft was eventually forced to downsize the following entries in the series, starting with Assassin's Creed Mirage.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Duration 50 hours
Judging a huge open world sandbox game as Red Dead Redemption 2 the length of its campaign alone can be an exercise in futility, as most players will naturally prefer to spend their time exploring the map and doing whatever they want instead of trying to finish the story in one go. Yet the game still presents a rich and cinematic narrative with a clear beginning and end that can take up to 50 hours to complete.
Players who have achieved Red Dead Redemption 2The ending can attest to how surprisingly time-consuming the whole experience is, as some of its missions aren't as fun as others (especially during the infamous Guarm chapter), and the epilogue even features a completely different playable character. Yes, I am trying to finish Red Dead Redemption 2 it may seem tedious at times, but it's worth it in the end.
Brave default
Duration 54 hours
Brave default is a turn-based JRPG, which means it belongs to a genre where extremely long games are accepted and expected. However, most players don't seem to have a problem with the duration of this title, but with how exactly that time is used, especially in its second half.
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Fans fell in love Brave defaultart style, music and turn-based gameplay that was reminiscent of the classics Final Fantasy titles, but everything changes when they reach their dreaded Chapter 5. From that point on, the game forces the player to go back in time and replay all the bosses over and over again. It has interesting story reasons, but it makes the whole experience feel repetitive and never ending, which is why many players unfortunately choose to quit. Brave default at that point completely.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Duration 60 hours
Assuming players aren't trying to do something crazy (like defeat the final boss as quickly as possible), they'll complete the main story The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a rather lengthy process that can take up to 50 hours in total. If that doesn't seem like enough, it's important to remember that its sequel is somehow even longer.
While The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom boasts a Hyrule map that is similar in size to the one that was shown Breath of the Wildalso introduced two other huge maps (The Deeps and Sky Islands) that Link is forced to explore at various points in the story. All of this adds up to a sixty-hour game that's only ten hours longer than its predecessor, yet still feels like double the overall length. However, this is not a problem at all because Tears of the Kingdom is a great action adventure game that gives players a lot of creative freedom to complete the story however they want.
Person 5
Length 97 hours
Similar to Brave default, Person 5 it's part of the turn-based JRPG genre, which means most people who buy it are very likely aware of its length. Still, its 97-hour campaign is still shockingly large, which is all the more impressive because most players don't seem to mind at all.
The main reason Person 5 it resonated with so many players that it mixed elements from the JRPG and life simulation genres. As a result, one half of the game boasts nine different dungeons that are full of enemies and bosses to defeat, while the other is focused on cozy everyday situations and interactions with other characters that are filled with long dialogue sequences. Reaching the end Person 5 is a monumental task, and yet some hardcore fans would love it to be even longer than it already is.
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