How Long Is Subspace Emissary?

[Smash Investigator]

I know for now that Subspace Emissary is going to be quite long but what could happen is that we could be seeing at least 15-30 hours of Subspace Emissary but, what do you think?

 

[The Great Tama]

I've read around, articles and such, that it is around 10 hours. We'll know for sure when it comes out obviously.

 

[Weltunter]

Wow, 10 hours? Thats amazing

 

[Sensai]

Wow, the boards are acting up...

Ignore this post. Stupid...

 

[Sensai]

I think it'll be lower then that by quite a bit. If it's the mode that people are going to be continually playing to get characters (a la Adventure or Classic in Melee) then it's going to be a lot shorter. An hour tops.

My reasoning for this is because no one wants to play through a 10 hour session for one or two characters per runthrough.

Given, they could make it so you unlock characters as you go...

Or, even more likely, it's just a story mode that becomes more robust as you unlock characters; the characters are unlocked elsewhere.

(hint: I dunno.)

[Edit:]

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[Monkeyjr352]

I've read around, articles and such, that it is around 10 hours. We'll know for sure when it comes out obviously.

That is quite interesting...most fighting games have maybe an hour, if they have any kind of single player mode at all.

 

[Chasesin]

I believe they mean 10 hours with all of the characters to beat it through w/o trying to get characters

 

[DeuceBlade]

I think it will be a long story... cause Sakurai always wanted to make a story mode for Smash, and this will be his last chance for a while... I think he will put as much effort into it as he can..

not to mention the huge amount of development time brawl had.

 

[Blazer]

It'll be long almost undoubtedly, and I'd guess that you could unlock every character in one playthrough personally. They wouldn't make it an hour long thing that you have to do 15 times to get every character. That would be intolerable. And if it's longer there's more time to unlock characters, thus a long drawn out SSE would be perfect.

 

[S0crat3s]

It should last somewhere around 10-15 hours...This isn't going to be the Adventure/Classic mode we've had in Melee (in where you complete it in one sitting), but rather a mode that you play one bit at a time, unlocking things as you go...Sakurai himself said that SSE was going to be "robust" and "fleshed out," meaning it'll take as long to run through once as the average $50 dollar video game...

Which furthers my case of SSBB being one of the greatest accomplishments in human history...^_^

 

[Weltunter]

I believe they mean 10 hours with all of the characters to beat it through w/o trying to get characters

If there are about 40 characters in the game, that would be 15 minutes per character. NAH...

 

[OnyxVulpine]

Well I can't say for sure if its going to be short or long. Long would be both good and bad, meaning it should have a lot of characters unlocked and be entertaining. But short would be better for collecting coins as that would be a good way to get them all.

I want it to be short-medium. Keep it interesting but not like a HUGE story.

-Onyx

 

[E P I C]

10 hours combined for all characters is tolerable..
10 hours per character is funkin ridunculous (as in it's gheyer than my as.shole)..
Either way, Im just gonna copy someone's memory :_)..

 

[Kabyk-Greenmyst]

One leaker said 2-5 hours, but considering how much time is spent on video and cutscenes, including all the side-scrolling-ness, the game will be longer than that, even if the story technically isn't.

 

[SmashBro99]

I think it'll be lower then that by quite a bit. If it's the mode that people are going to be continually playing to get characters (a la Adventure or Classic in Melee) then it's going to be a lot shorter. An hour tops.

My reasoning for this is because no one wants to play through a 10 hour session for one or two characters per runthrough.

Given, they could make it so you unlock characters as you go...

Or, even more likely, it's just a story mode that becomes more robust as you unlock characters; the characters are unlocked elsewhere.

(hint: I dunno.)

I would sure as hell like to.

 

[jay~B]

Around ten hours, i'm hoping for 12

 

[Kabyk-Greenmyst]

whoever said they don't want to go through it multiple times for one or two characters, you sir, are ********.

Sakurai himself has stated THE MAJORITY OF CHARACTERS WILL BE UNLOCKED THROUGH SUBSPACE EMISSARY.
Someone pointed out there is some open-ness to the SSE, as at some point in the game, you can visit different "worlds" on your own choice. The "worlds" are probably the different game franchises like Mario and LoZ and such.

Either way, most characters are unlocked via SSE, and it looks to be hella fun anyway, considering there are some slight differences that you can choose which gives it some replay value.

 

[Cold Beans]

i aints gona be playin that **** **** anyway though.

 

[PKLucas13]

i'm pretty sure it will be 10-20 hours, don't worry though i'm pretty sure there wont be a character selection screen, different characters just join and leave at different times. Its not like your going to have to fight rayqaza with every character, only diddy or fox.

 

[Sensai]

whoever said they don't want to go through it multiple times for one or two characters, you sir, are ********.

Thanks.

You're telling me that you would, assuming there are 40 characters in the game, with 15 starters, that you would like to play 250 HOURS to unlock the rest of the characters? You'd rather do that then say...what Melee had and then get right onto the multiplayer? Really?

I may be '********,' but I seriously doubt anyone has that amount of free time.