sweett310 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 (edited) Collected Estimated Platinum Length* Visit the Platinum Difficulty Thread for this game. Voting Guidelines Voted time should be based on your own personal time spent working towards platinum. Do not vote based on "fastest possible run", but rather your own experience in playing the game. Voted time should be in-game time spent, from first starting game to achieving platinum. Do not vote unless you have played the game. Do not vote until you have dedicated a substantial amount of time towards the game. Vote with honesty and integrity. Please feel free to elaborate on your own experiences by posting below. *Collected time compiled using base average for each range (i.e. a vote for 0-5 hours = 2.5, 36-50=42.5, etc) Edited January 17, 2023 by Viper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrubs Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Just about finished my first playthrough and I racked in about 24 hours (and I still have to clean up as I missed something) and if you have to do this 2 more times that makes 75 hours. Give 5 or so hours for Insanity and then a little longer for the Weapons and/or Ability trophies then you've got about 83 hours. Give or take a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty293 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 First playthrough took me around 35 hrs. That includes completing pretty much every mission to make sure I got the Asari, Quarian ally trophies. I did all of the collection trophies as well which took a fair amount of time and I don't think they even count towards the ally trophies. 2nd + 3rd playthrough around 20 hours each. Got the hang of the game after my first run and picked up the pace for my next two playthroughs. Only side missions I did were the ones on the citadel and the unc missions. Those plus the main story line missions were enough to pick up the rest of the ally trophies. Didn't need to complete the bring down the sky mission either. Cleanup for the engineer and adept based trophies around 10 hrs. Used the tips in the guide to spam the powers on the rapid transit stands. Used the save and reload method on fists turrets for my final 2 trophies. So in all around 85 hrs to platinum for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garter Windwood Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 If I hadn't speed ran my hardcore run I would of easily came in on 51-75 hours no problem. But missing Garrus and Wrex's ally trophies on my hardcore playthrough I've now got a 4th gameplay I'll have to do. Honestly though with barrier maxed out on insanity most of the side missions I just boost my shields run past the enemies and get to the story point then it counts as beat and then I just boost my shields and run right back out so I'm not wasting time killing anything after I hit level 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psfanboy123 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 It took close to 39 hrs for my first playthrough so it will take me close to 120 hrs most likely. I do ALL available missions and side quests which is why it took so long. I may do less in my second and third playthroughs. Still, it's less than Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garter Windwood Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Even bumping up the difficulty for each setting you'll save time playing the other two playthroughs as you know what to expect. Also once you reach level 60 there's the xp cap so you don't have to kill everything any longer so you can stun them and run past to the next checkpoint void of enemies. This method worked great and cut my second and third playthrough time by over half. After defeating saren I was sitting at just over 75 hours. Now I'm trudging through on my fourth playthrough because I messed up the ally trophies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psfanboy123 Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 In the end it took only 80 or so hours which is 40 less than my estimation. To account for this discrepancy I realize what added so much time. Conversations and planet exploration. To shave off hours use to skip through conversations and simply head straight to the mission location on planets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunlit Garden Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 It took me around 90-95 hours to plat (don't remember my exact final time). So I voted 76-100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2V89 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 It took me like 80-85 hours to platinum it & I voted 76-100 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullinavat Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Took me about 75 odd hours, since you have to do 3 playthroughs. It can be longer if you don't know what you are doing though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Beau Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Playthrough time really depends on how much extra stuff you do. With me my first playthrough 30 hours and my second playthrough on New Game+ took my 23 hours and I completed all side quests except for collections. I only need insane playthrough to Plat but since I already have top tier gear and lvl 60 I feel I can easily knock out a main quest only play through in 15. So for me will probably take a total of about 70 hours to plat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eris Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I finished around 55 hours. I skipped the some of the dialogue in the first playthrough, and then completely on the 2nd and 3rd ones. I had a list of the missions handy for the ally trophies, so I really wasted no time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Cash Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Took my time for the most part with my first playthrough and finished it in about 24 hours. Took a break, returned to the game, and just wanted to plat the damn thing so I used the Hardcore/Insanity glitch, which really sped up subsequent playthroughs, especially with not having to finish the 3rd one. Cleaning up the powers took a few hours longer than it needed to since I had issues with Stasis unlocking. So in total I ended up at about 58 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixfingers Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Took 88 hours in all. I missed an ally trophy on playthrough 1 so had to do a fourth. Plus around 5 hour cleanup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaoleDave Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Took around 105 hours for me... I may have done a lot of useless stuff, like the collection side-missions (hindsight, they were pretty useless since they don't even transfer over) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitmanSB07 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I ended up with just under 40 hours across the three playthroughs needed to get the plat (Infiltrator main, then adept and engineer for the trophies). I've played the game many many times on the 360 though so I knew where to go for pretty much everything. If I started as one of the two misc-trophy classes I could've shaved off about two hours too I'd say but I enjoyed it (again) either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy-TrainZ28 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 51-70 hours easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x410xDragon Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Depends if you want to actually enjoy the game or not. It took me several playthroughs back on 360 and probably could have finished it rather quick, but I actually liked it enough to play it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtimusPrime Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 It took me 92 hours. I did everything in my first playthrough (including reading about every planet) so that took about 37 hours. Three extra playthroughs plus grinding out the biotic powers added to the time. It probably would've been less if I'd followed the guide properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riaku Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I would say around the 70 hour mark. It also depends on your approach to the game, how you want to leave your character with Mass Effect 2 in mind and what class you want as your main one. A level 60 with a completionist playthrough for your third one would be the best but it takes more time than just going for the platinum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 (edited) If you want to count the 20 hours I played as an Engineer (I started the game as an Engineer and played for 11 hours straight before realizing I didn't like the class. The rest was getting enough point to get all the powers then using them to get the trophy), the 7 and a half hours as an Adept, and the 105 hours it took to on my official Soldier profile for all three runs...then it was a total of 132 hours to Plat this game. Edited July 6, 2014 by TheViper4Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furious Gargoyle Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 76-100. I don't use guides when I first play a game (at least ones that require multiple playthroughs) so I missed the ally trophies on the normal run and this added a fourth to my time taken. 25 hours per run is about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterGibraltar Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 76 - 100 hours for my 3 playthroughs, though my brother went through the adept run first so maybe it should be around 110 hours if count both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalAxel Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Easily over 100 hrs. I am at 102 hrs between my two characters and almost done with my insane playthrough. I still need to create a biotic character for all the biotic power trophies together with the weapon kill ones. I also still need to go to NG++ with my lvl 59 character to reach lvl 60. So I will be looking at 120+ hrs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcrunch061 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) It took me 120 hours, between glitches, freezes, and the fact that I didn't read any guides on my first playthrough and missed all of the buddy trophies. I think 75-100 is a fair estimate for people who pay attention to the trophy guide here, although I think it could be severely cut down by using the Soldier class to blaze through hardcore and insanity (or extra playthroughs if you use the glitch). If you get out of the Mako and kill turrets solo, you get double experience, and with a good shotgun (and the awesome Immunity), you'll actually do more damage to them in Insanity. I got to level 60 halfway through my second playthrough. Good advice on the biotic powers, though - I literally walked between two fast-travel terminals, counting to 15 when I reached one, and using all of my powers. I would tell people to get their specter status (for the experience), and boost their class specialty, which cuts down on recharge time. Also, having the Liara trophy cuts down on the time further (10% off of 60 seconds is nontrivial when you're spamming powers). Edited February 23, 2015 by starcrunch061 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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