darkwoof: Nope, I did mainly the main quest and took up some of the side quests, but did not finish a number of them. I'm usually the kind that will focus on side quests on subsequent run, but focus on the main during the first run cos I'm impatient getting to the end of the story.

I'm estimating that if I only do the main plot I'll run roughly about 25 hours or so. Since I'm only doing one of the main branch according to the game guide, taking both branches into consideration (from the game guide it seems like both will lead to quite different situations) I think it'd yield pretty close to the 40hr mark.

In comparison Steam says I played 47hrs on Witcher 1, and that's including completion of some of the mods included and a partial replay of the original campaign.

Seipherwood: I think the first DLC they need to release is a tiny epilogue extender that explains even a tiny bit of what your overall choices did.

Seipherwood: I think Wild Hunt is going to be its own game or a massive expansion, i mean its got alot you can do with it.

chalonverse: I heard that the whole parallel worlds thing is also in the book, so that's where the inspiration came from.

Also, while I agree that Chapter 3 was short, I think the ending did resolve the whole assassination story thread. You catch Letho, and you can either let him go or kill him, but either way you mostly found out who's behind the assassination. Yeah, you didn't go to the South and kill the Emperor or whatever, but I'm guessing that's going to be either in the expansion or TW3.

Compared to some abrupt cliffhangers in games (Halo 2 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood come to mind), I didn't find the ending to be nearly as frustrating. Yes, we don't know where Geralt is going, but we have a pretty good idea that he's going to go after The Wild Hunt and try to find Yennifer, which will involve going to Nilfgaard.

It took me probably ~30 hours to beat it on first playthrough. Which isn't the longest game ever, but it's still a satisfying length.

riddleofsteel: Just how long in hours is this game? I read one review saying it was long.

mojoman69: 40-120 hours depending if you do all the side quests. That is what one of the devs said. Can't remember where I read it though.

Hawat: Now here is the quote from there rep. And match it with your description. Still think that there was no exaggeration ?
"The Witcher ‎@Sarvesh: we're estimating around 40h playthrough for main storyline. But that SHOULD be doubled or tippled... for the non-linearity. :) "