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Joined: Sep 2023 Location: Indiana, USA Ecc2ca old hand | |
OP Ecc2ca old hand Joined: Sep 2023 Location: Indiana, USA | So, since I’ve been playing the game for the last several months, I’ve had a SEVERE case of restartitis. Basically, whenever I get to Act 3, I restart the game. Now I do this (as perhaps others do?) because I feel like the game is drawing to a close, and I don’t want the game to end. Because I love it so much and I love how I’ve developed my characters up to that point. (I had the same issue with DOS2...) So, to my question. How close IS the beginning of Act 3 to the end? This may be an old tired question, as I’ve seen it asked before on other forums, but I’m interested in people’s personal experiences on this forum. How long did Act 1 take you to finish? Act 2? And if you have finished the game, how long was Act 3, or if you haven’t, how long have you spent in Act 3 so far? Looking to reassure myself that just because it’s the last act, the adventure isn’t going to end right away, and I don’t need to restart yet again. For me, it took about 68 hours to get through Acts 1 and 2, exploring everything as thoroughly as I could. I looked back at my saves, and Act 1 took about 39 hours, and Act 2 took 29 hours. I did enough content to get to level 7.5 by the end of Act 1, and level 10 by the end of Act 2. Especially if anybody has had a similar playstyle as me, how long has Act 3 been for you? |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92895219/12/23 10:57 PM | |
Joined: Oct 2020 ldo58 addict | |
ldo58 addict Joined: Oct 2020 | I didn' time the acts. I have 2 PT's now. One ranger and one bard/warlock(durge). The first did almost all side quests, for about 155 hrs, the second was a durge run, and skipped a lot of of the quests from act 3 and came to about half that time. (I play on balanced mode, but have switched to explorer on the heaviest fights, and have avoided quite a few fights with RP options in the 2nd PT) Last edited by ldo58; 20/12/23 12:36 AM. |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92896020/12/23 02:48 AM | |
Joined: Nov 2023 T Taril enthusiast | |
Taril enthusiast T Joined: Nov 2023 | How long did Act 1 take me on my first playthrough? Or how long does Act 1 take now? Since that's some difference... Honestly, I haven't really got times for completing things. I haven't paid that much attention. I think my saves are around 24-26 hours to make it to Act 3 (Doing every side quest, killing every enemy etc). But a lot of that is my optimizing runs as I repeatedly played those acts while trying out different builds. Seeing what works, what items are useful and what are bait... I haven't done much in Act 3... Since when I was getting ready for it Patch 4 came out and broke it... By the time Patch 5 came around to fix it I'd kind of lost my will to play it and instead have been more into the games I was playing while Act 3 was broken... But yeah, I get how you feel. I technically never finished DOS2, as I got most of the way through the last area, was max level with every item for my builds and so it's hard to simply go through the motions of the last few fights just for the game to end... |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92897220/12/23 06:48 AM | |
Joined: Oct 2020 J Jones76 member | |
Jones76 member J Joined: Oct 2020 | I haven't finished a single playthrough yet for several reasons, some of them technical e.g. a patch killed all my saves, or abyssmal performance in act 3. With patch 5 everything runs good enough that I might actually finish the game. Yet I struggle, part of it is the length of act 3, which might be good news for you. I need around 45h for act 1 and act 2, because I'm a completionist. When I arrive in act 3, I'm already exhausted and from the way the quests start coming in, I assume, act 3 will be another 45h. Currently I'm sitting at around 60h and have only done sorcerous sundries, Shadowhearts quest, some exploration, digging a bit into Laezels quest. |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92897420/12/23 07:58 AM | |
Joined: Jan 2018 W Warlocke veteran | |
Warlocke veteran W Joined: Jan 2018 | I couldn’t put a number on it, but I feel I spent the most time in Act 3 in my ~85 hour playthrough of the game. Granted, I mostly just slaughtered my way through the forge, the Cresh, and most of Act 2, so I certainly missed a fair bit of story content. Act 3 is pretty packed with content, but at a certain point I became very comfortable with the idea of just not doing everything and enjoyed ending the game much more for it. I don’t understand you completionists. The way y’all play games sounds inevitably exhausting to me. XD |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92899020/12/23 10:46 AM | |
Joined: Nov 2023 Lillith member | |
Lillith member Joined: Nov 2023 | I completed three playthroughs. Act 2 is the shortest, and Act 1 and Act 3 were pretty equivalent. Percentage of time I spent per Act: If I were to guess how long it would take you in terms of hours, probably the higher end of this range: I felt Act 3's main map was more dense than the maps in Act 1. There was more to do, per square foot traveled. Last edited by Lillith; 20/12/23 10:54 AM. |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92899420/12/23 11:04 AM | |
Joined: Dec 2020 fylimar veteran | |
fylimar veteran Joined: Dec 2020 | Same as Lilith for me. I love doing some quests in act 3, but some I dread. I'm not a fan of the final quests, for reasons, I have posted in the main story quest thread. "We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one." Doctor Who |
Re: Restartitis and Length of Acts question Ecc2ca#92908220/12/23 07:12 PM | |
Joined: Sep 2023 Location: Indiana, USA Ecc2ca old hand | |
| OP Ecc2ca old hand Joined: Sep 2023 Location: Indiana, USA | Thanks for your input everybody! See, I had already played through act 1 about eight times by the time I got to this playthrough, so I was pretty efficient. I’m kind of clueless in Baldur’s Gate. So it’s good to know that Act 3 will be as long (or probably longer) than act 1, because I don’t have that same efficiency. Thanks! Last edited by Ecc2ca; 20/12/23 07:13 PM. |
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