If you choose to do everything possible, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be a very long game. And as it turns out, even if you know how to minimize the time it takes to get through the core, you're still looking at a 25-hour experience just to complete the game's story.

That's according to CD Projekt Red, which revealed to Gamereactor that the quickest any of its testers could run through the RPG's story was 25 hours. If that causes you to worry about how quickly you'll be able to complete it, keep in mind that not only omits side quests, but also skips right through dialogue and takes the fastest-possible path, which you likely won't know when initially playing through the game.

As for a closer indication of how long you can expect a playthrough to last, the developer previously offered an estimate of about 100 hours, with half of that accounting for the main narrative, and the other half spent on side content. More recently, senior designer Damien Monnier said that it could take upwards of 200 hours to do absolutely everything.

Should you find yourself having completed everything in the main game, two DLC packs will be released that, combined, add roughly 30 hours of additional gameplay. The first of these, Hearts of Stone, launches in October, and will be followed by the second, Blood and Wine, in the first quarter of 2016.

The Witcher 3 launches on May 19 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Check out the latest trailer above.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-witcher-3-takes-dev-s-speedrunners-25-hours-to/1100-6426549/

Even if that number is true (not that I don't think the game can be that long, but I tend to not believe everything a dev saya that about their own games), I'm sure someone will find a way to slash at least a couple of hours.

That's pretty impressive really. Enough promotions and factoids already. I'm ready for the main event!

I know what you mean but they're being rather specific. I don't know of any developer who ever claimed a minimum time (to complete the main quest/campaign) while saying that whole dialogues would have to be skipped (and I assume cutscenes as well).

And in Witcher, like in quite a few RPGs, there can be a ton of dialogue.

If it's anything like the first two games, there will be quite a few dialogues and cutscenes. Still, I'm sure that those 25 hours will be beaten, by a lot.

But that doesn't bother me, this is not the kind of game that I want to play in a rush. I'll take my time to explore all of it and see everything that it has to offer.