Opinion Red Dead Redemption 2 - campaign length.

[hanmik]

So during an interview with Vulture.com Houser told them some interesting stuff about the new game.

- Game started production in 2010
- Game script is about 2000 pages long.
- 2200 days was used for motion capture.
- 1200 actors. 700 have lines in the game.
- 300.000 animations, 500.000 lines of dialogue.
- The game will be 65 hours long.
and more..

The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2

I noticed the quote:

The acting for Red Dead Redemption 2’s story mode is now complete, but as release day approaches, five hours of the 65-hour game are dumped. At one point, protagonist Arthur Morgan had two love interests, but “we decided one of them didn’t work,” says Dan. And whole missions were removed because “they were never going to work technically or be quite slick enough, or they felt superfluous. We removed a mission on a train where you had to deal with bounty hunters, because it was fun at first, but then it wasn’t. This part of the process is always about compromise and horse trading. Everyone always loses bits of the game they love.”

65 hours.. which sounds like the time needed for the main story..

I personally feel that is WAY to many hours.. I just can't keep interest for so long in a game.. especially since I only can play max 2 hours a day (a bit more in the weekend).

So what do you guys think..? is 65 hours fine or not..?

 

[lashman]

much, much, much too long imho .... it basically guarantees i won't finish it for YEARS, if ever (whenever it finally comes to PC)

 

[hanmik]

I even forgot the quote here:

The polishing, rewrites, and reedits Rockstar does are immense. “We were working 100-hour weeks” several times in 2018

100 hour weeks.. fuck me sideways... and I am 100% sure that does not relate to the Houser's...

I have worked some 80 hour weeks.. (when I was single and young).. and fuck me those weeks were killers.. I really hope they are paid well, and they did it out of free will, and not forced to do it..

 

[lashman]

too late we already have a separate thread for that (it REALLY needs one)

News - Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2

and yes, it's fucking INSANE!!! there are literally only 168h in a 7 day week ...