Horizon Forbidden West Already Sounds Too Long
Horizon Zero Dawn is a fantastic game. History seems to have re-evaluated the game, looking on one of the PS4's first big hits less kindly as the likes of God of War, Spider-Man, and The Last of Us Part 2 followed it, but it remains one of my favourites of the last generation, and its sequel my most anticipated game of the year. I've just found out it takes "several hundred hours" to 100 percent the game, so I guess that's a thing I'm never doing.
I'm not just writing this to complain. I'm not too naive to my own position to see how entitled it is to whine that a triple-A game that I'm getting for free is too long, and inconveniences my plans to play all the other triple-A games I'll get for free. Critics and players experience games differently, and if Horizon is the big game you're splurging for in February, then "several hundred hours" of fun probably sounds better to you than it does to me - and that's to say nothing of our guides team, who will need to trawl every inch of the game for all the collectible wotsits.
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But is it really several hundred hours of fun? Does anyone expect that Horizon, a series whose previous entry took around 23 hours to beat the story and around 45 hours to also up the side quests et cetera, to provide "several hundred hours" of fun? Even to 100 percent the original and its DLC, you'd need a little under 80 hours, and fun went out the window with around 35 hours left on the clock. Several. Hundred. Hours. To watch the entire MCU, you're looking at around 60 hours. To watch every MCU movie three times each, you're at 180, still a bit short of "several hundred." This is, quite simply, too long.
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