Uncharted 3 Can Be Beaten in Three Hours

[Treblaine]

I wouldn't worry too much about this, considering you can complete Half Life in half-an-hour:


A feat of excellence for what is such a linear game. It's all about absolute mastery of the bunny-hop.

 

[Keith K]

That's what testers do.

 

[Deathninja19]

Speed runs give so many people the wrong impressions about games. From this, an uninformed gamer would think that both Uncharted and Skyrim are terribly short or that Skyrim will be shorter than Uncharted.

I kinda agree and disagree, yeah it's a speed run so it should be completed in a short amount of time but for a liner experience like Uncharted this probably means that the campaign can be done in about 6 hours by an average gamer which is disgusting for a game they want us to spend $60 or £40 in my case at least with Skyrim you are guarunteed to have side quests etc.

And yeah I'm ignoring the multiplayer aspect of Uncharted but that's because I really hate it, it feels so tacked on imo.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

And it's campaigne is still longer than MW2..

And there it is, there's always one isn't there...

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Easiest difficulty, plus the playtester had beaten Uncharted 3 how many times before?

Well, I just think of the Half-Life Half Hour Speedrun when the news of these speedruns come around.

 

[Lionsfan]

I feel like you should change the Headline, it's a bit misleading. Here I thought the game was all going to be multiplayer because of this, when in reality it's only a speed run

 

[duchaked]

now I'm tempted to go find some old games I love and just do a speed run since everyone's doing 'em these days (well okay not just recently)

 

[gphjr14]

Apparently the concept of a SPEED RUN alludes a lot of people. Really not that hard to conclude its a speed run considering the previous Uncharted games were not that short.

 

[MisterDyslexo]

Thats their job. Doesn't mean the game is necessarily very short, and besides, quality does not equal quantity. I'd rather have three hours of a totally kickass game that I'd play again over and over than twenty hours of a relatively "meh" game.

 

[6SteW6]

Hmmm with these numbers that means Uncharted 3 should be longer than Skyrim. Either Bethesda got really lazy or Naughty Dog got REALLY Ambitious.

 

[Madshadow]

One of the Few games I'll be play on hardest difficulty right away except for crushing you probably need to unlock first.

How fast can U2 be beaten? never looked into that is if U3 is shorter then I find that very disappointing.
Can't wait there where already rumors of early release where i live which is frustrating.

 

[Rawne1980]

So people think games with speed runs are then easy for a "normal" gamer to beat?

How many people have I seen on here claim Demons Souls was a hard game?

Come on, own up. None of you have managed it in a day....

Demons Souls speed run .... 54 minutes and 54 seconds.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/270351/demons-souls-speed-run-amazes/
http://kotaku.com/5666793/how-to-beat-demons-souls-in-under-an-hour
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/10/19/a-demons-souls-speed-run-you-have-to-see-to-believe/

Ta da....

So by that logic, Demons Souls is a short, easy game.

Dark Souls speed run. Another game escapists claim is "difficult"..

Dark Souls completed in 1 hour and 26 minutes.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/16/dark-souls-speed-run-is-a-tour-de-force-of-tolerance/
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/dark-souls-completed-1-hour-26-minute-speedrun

Speed runs mean nothing in regards to the actual game. The people that manage the speed runs have been playing those game constantly for a loooong time.

Plus they are usually damn good at what they do.

 

[Baresark]

I remember the hardest unlock in Super Metroid required you to beat the game in less than 4 hours. That was brutal because it was easy to get lost. I'm sure the speed runs for such games would clock in for just over an hour. My point: You could easily spend 4 times that amount of time beating the game. Though, there is that one time with Homefront. Which did turn out to be really short. Meh, you can never tell. I know you won't be able to beat Skyrim that fast unless you were really trying hard and doing nothing else but the main story. In Uncharted 3, there is only the main story, accentuated by puzzles and treasure hunting. To think some people believe they are comparable, that is just ridiculous. Bethesda said that in order to get all perks it would take a thousand hours.

 

[Vivi22]

that means that even on hard you can beat it in about 6-7 hours if your skilled enough.

More likely it means that on the hardest difficulty you could beat it in 6-7 hours if you're familiar with the game, know how to solve all of the puzzles beforehand, and skip every bit of story presented in the game.

I doubt it's half as bad as your brain seems to think it is. For the record, I beat Uncharted 2 on normal, hard, and the hardest difficulty back to back right after it came out. By the time I did the hardest difficulty playthrough, I was so used to the game that it didn't feel any harder than normal, and it took me less time as well. That doesn't mean that Uncharted 2 was a short game though.