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Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

www.gamesradar.com Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

Sawyer says most players, including himself, aren't "concerned with finishing games" either

Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

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The thing about not finishing games is very true. Simply look at achievement stats. Most games have a huge drop off in achievements earned after the first 25-50% of the game, with any achievement for completing the story of the game having a super small number of players who earned it. Even games that are easy as fuck and practically play themselves!
- I absolutely want a game that I can sink 1000s of hours into. I do not want a game where I get bored half way tough because the dev clearly gave up or only the first 10 are fun.
  
  Same. That's why I don't really like The Witcher 3, but I keep coming back to Cyberpunk 2077. The Witcher 3 has a great story; but the game gets super boring and repetitive super quickly. Cyberpunk is setup more or less the same; tons of filler content that is ignorable, great main story, but I like the action more. I can skip through the story and still have fun blowing away gang bangers in a ton of different ways, as opposed to Witcher where there's not much variety in the action and every battle is just swinging swords and using the right spells on the appropriate enemy types.
  
  Sounds like the same issue I had with the Witcher, 2 hours of build up and fetch quest for a 10 minute fight get a a little old 40 hours in. I didn't even get to play the cool looking vampire DLC because I would have to keep grinding more boring stuff to level up.
  
  only the first 10 are fun.
  Or worse, a game where everyone keeps telling you that you need to put in 100 hours before it is fun.
  
  Not to mention if you do the 100 hours and it turns out the culture is more toxic than Warcraft raiding.
  
  Bg3 acts after 1?
  
  To be fair, I got bored at the start of act 3.
  
  Oof for me act 2 was the worst. I mean act 3 also kinda phoned it in but there's a lot more stuff to do that isn't gray.

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