Nioh's Game Director: The Game Will Take 70 Hours on Average, No Plans for PC Release Currently

Nioh's Game Director Fumihiko Yasuda talked about the game's length, difficulty, the likelihood of PC port and a lot more.

[Kashima]

Thats alot longer than any souls game if you don't die alot.

[Hoffmann]

I dunno..the directors of these "sooo difficult" games always say the game lenght will be xx hours and than 2 days later you read someting about the game being beaten in 5 hours by a one armed guy with a Power Glove.

It's so bad....

[Kashima]

No one will do that in first playthrough lol

[Alexious]

You don't have to worry too much about people just rushing to complete a game. That's certainly no way to enjoy something you've been waiting for a long time.

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

From my understanding you can't just run past enemies in this game like you can in the souls series. It was reported that the enemies will follow you and there will be a mini boss that you must beat to pass the next "check point" all those adds mixed with fighting the mini boss will make for some serious trouble.

[solideagle]

the only difference between this and DS is: Nioh blocks the area from moving forward until you defeat the enemy. DS doesn't do that, so the ratio you die is alot in Ni-oh compared to DS.

[C-H-E-F]

I think they take the full length including cutscenes and everything being played not actual gameplay time. Because GTA3 was like a 25-35 hour game but people can speed run it in like 5 hours or so.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

They do exaggerate a lot, but if they're saying 70 hours, then this is a much longer game in general anyway.

[kranker]

Thats actually what makes them great.

[sullynathan]

My souls playthroughs are generally shorter than that on the first time and that's without dying too much.

[TWB]

It depends who plays the Soulsborne games.

My first Dark Souls 1 playthrough took 80 hours IIRC, and Dark Souls 2 whopping 100 hours, both without their DLC packs.

I basicly played Bloodborne first, DaS1 seconds, and DaS2 last.

And when it comes to Nioh, in Alpha I didnt even finish the map during the whole Alpha period, while in Beta I cleared it relatively fast.

[ccgr]

Sounds like a good value as long as you don't rage quit over the difficulty ;)

[uth11]

I don't have time for that, I'll pass

[Kashima]

Gid Gud.

[Imp0ssibl3]

You can probably skip some side content and clear it much quicker if you want to.

[Elda]

I don't blame you if you don't have the patience which is something I don't have but I went for Bloodborne which I finished & loved,taking my time with DS3 & I'll think I'll try this one also...lol.

[uth11]

I've played both Bloodborne and DS3, but DS3 was taking too long, and that is shorter than 70hours I think

[JCW2005]

same here, too old for this souls bs anymore

[sullynathan]

I don't know know how they will do that. The level design of this game didn't seem all that good, and for an action game that just seems really long and a waste of time.

N4G dislike brigade is here. An action game that is going for 70+ hours is going to have a lot of bloat.

[Alexious]

Perhaps the game becomes more open than in the beta, allowing for some exploration?

[sullynathan]

the beta was a decent chunk of the game and it didn't show much enemy variation as you would think. Saying the game would take 70 hours on average to beat is pushing it because the games that directly influenced this game did not take anywhere near as long.

Ninja Gaiden is a relatively short action game that is paced well and Dark Souls while being long can be completed in the fraction of the time that this dev claims their game will take to beat while sporting far better level design and enemy variance.

[TWB]

@sullynathan

Beta wasnt a "decent chunk" of the game. It was pretty much 2 main levels and 1 optional, while the screen was littered with more locations, and it looked like there were 3 branching paths that led off screen to other parts of the land.

What Im worried about, are the amount of quality bosses the game will have. If every main level has a boss at the end (and most if not all side levels), how many of them will be throwaways? The first boss in the beta was okay, the second was pretty good. Optional was pretty much a challenge fight.

[sullynathan]

then you should understand what I'm saying. If you're going to make an action game this long, you'll have a lot of throw away bosses, a lot of extra long areas for no reason and so on ..

[game4funz]

I'm glad... Remind me of onimusha. Hope I does go to pc though controller is probably best for this game.

[sullynathan]

not probably, third person action games were made for controllers.

[KaiPow]

I still can't believe Dark Souls on PC lacked proper controller support at launch.

[game4funz]

I agree. For the most part controllers are better third person action games unless you have to aim a reticle... Then it evens out. As the mouse would give me more precision.

@kai
Dark souls 3 had perfectly fine controller support FYI... I played that one on pc and the elite Xbox controller worked perfectly fine with it.

[opinionated]

I love it! Come on February!

[theshredded]

Luv it!

[DillyDilly]

& a couple of months after release a PC Port gets announced based on how sales go. Or its just a timed exclusive

[SilverDemon]

This game was announced exclusive back in 2006 for ps3

I think sony have deal with koei tecmo

I highly doubt it will cone to pc

[Aurenar]

Why no plans for pc release? I can't understand. Everyone deserve to play Nioh!

[sullynathan]

seems to me that some people don't know what exclusivity means.

[SilverDemon]

Its not a matter of deserve or not

Its business

[majedx9]

dude
buy a ps4 pro the only thing you need this gen is PC+PS4 PRO

[Elda]

It'll probably take me longer but I'm going to go for it,I'm still in the early parts of DS3...played 40 hrs already though I play it once every 2 weeks & I die a lot but it's fun.

[C-H-E-F]

welp although I sucked in the Alpha/Beta/Demo test earlier this summer I will be buying this, it reminds me of Tenchu.

[opinionated]

Onimusha and tenchu, dead ass. Don't be discouraged, I was determined to get those beta dlcs and I got them.

I'm terrible at games like dark souls and bloodborne but they don't reward you for dying. As long as you can make it back to your spirit animal or whatever in nioh then you can grind. After a few levels the people who seemed impossible before are cut through like butter since they don't scale. It's a different kind of difficult and my most anticipated game. I'm kinda pissed at them for launching alongside for honor. I don't think it will get the sales it deserves.

[C-H-E-F]

Yeah, i sucked at the souls games and bloodbourne as well even skyrim to a point lOl..which i will be getting on Sunday. :D However i beat bloodbourne, i really do look forward to this game it really really reminds me of when games had grit. lOl

[Relientk77]

That's way longer for beating this game than I expected

[gustave154]

No PC plz

[NickAwesome]

Good news but i hope it will have more enemy variety in the final game, the two beta's had almost the same enemies

[Liqu1d]

Looking forward to it. Hopefully the Alpha/Beta marks give some cool DLC.

[medman]

That is exceptional....give me now, please!

[Imalwaysright]

70 hours!! Could this game get any better?

[Gamist2dot0]

Damn, think that's how long it took me to platinum Bloodborne. Guess this means it might take me 100hrs for this one. Curious about Pro features now.

[WildArmed]

The alpha and beta were so much fun, I can't wait.

I think most of my souls/borne games lasted me about 40-50 during my first run. So I'm not too worried about game length!

Can't wait for this, esp since it has a lot of rpg aspects that always lengthen a game (co-op, leveling, crafting, equipment levels, etc)

[Eiyuuou]

Challenge accepted.

[QUIMICOMORTAL]

Nice! A real exclusive! I hope it delivers!

[little-witch]

I liked the demo but was to hard for me. Was the second demo easier? I played Bloodborne although I died a lot.

[ReesesPuffs]

The second demo was much more convenient because they removed the durability system. They also added more weapons and even added a tutorial section to aid new players. As for difficulty, it was essentially the same. Nioh is a very difficult game, but once you get the mechanics down it's very rewarding as well.

[thegamefox93]

This game has "meh" written all over it. Team Ninja is not a very good video game developer right now IMO...the only good games they have created are Ninja Gaiden 1, 2, and Metroid: Other M...

Edit:
For those who disliked you know its true. Those are literally THE ONLY good games Team Ninja has made (out of the 20+ games they have). They aren't relevant anymore.

Plus this game does nothing new and doesn't look particulary impressive (considering its been in developmenet for 10+ years)

[Moe-Gunz]

One of my most anticipated. 70 hours how am I going to fit Ni-Oh, Horizon, Persona 5, and Nier all in the same month? :(

[Movefasta1993]

I'll be picking up Tekken and nioh and wait for the summer sale and pick up the rest

[DivineAssault]

Cant wait for this

[Master-H]

This game seems to have a lot of Souls games in its DNA so I'm definitely buying it.

[Germany7]

Wctech begging for an exclusive, no surprise here.

[mochachino]

Great story idea but I wish they toned down the creative freedom and kept zombies out of the game. The story of the first western samurai could have made for something magical, or just to story of any popular samurai.