If there was a magic ratio between the amount of time that a game is in development and the length of the final product, many of us would assume that the first installment in Silicon Knight's Norse-inspired trilogy, Too Human, would take roughly ten months to complete. However, Silicon founder Denis Dyack has expressed his concerns with lengthy games in the past, so it should come as no surprise that in a recent interview with gaming site Kikizo, Dyack explained that your first playthrough of his upcoming action/RPG hybrid should take "around fifteen hours".
Dyack goes on to explain that in order to hit level fifty (the game's level cap) might take between fifty and eighty hours, and searching for the game's "epic loot" will tack even more time to the title. If the length of Silicon's quickly approaching title doesn't interest you, perhaps Dyack's mad vision of a one-console future, discussed in the same interview, might catch your attention -- if only to make you furiously wonder what a console civil war would look like.
Reader Comments (55)
Posted: Aug 10th 2008 4:44PM NutMan said
I played the demo and really enjoyed it. I'm gonna wait for a couple reviews to be sure, but I think Im gonna pick this up.
Posted: Aug 10th 2008 6:41PM (Unverified) said
The guy is a serious, needs-medication, frigging fruit-loop.
I fully expect to find a story about him taking a bunch of game reviewers hostage, while naked and brandishing a sword, on the news soon.
I'm not even joking.
I fully expect to find a story about him taking a bunch of game reviewers hostage, while naked and brandishing a sword, on the news soon.
I'm not even joking.
Posted: Aug 10th 2008 7:32PM codemunki said
15 hours is about right for Too Human, maybe a little long. Mass Effect took me 16 hours to get through, so this'll be about the same.
I played through the demo twice and enjoyed both. There's a surprising mount of depth in the "simple" control scheme, and the skill trees and itemization will feed my loot collecting addiction quite well.
I played through the demo twice and enjoyed both. There's a surprising mount of depth in the "simple" control scheme, and the skill trees and itemization will feed my loot collecting addiction quite well.
Posted: Aug 11th 2008 12:26AM Wubbytoes said
15 hours is fine with me. I can't stand games that are longer than that. I'm old and I don't have the time to spend 40+ hours on one game.
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