Anyone ever time these games?

[Herschie]

I decided to time two different games I played. I did one with quick counts, and one with traditional counts. The one with quick counts clocked in at 34 minutes, and was a full 9 innings with the road team winning 6-4. The one with traditional counts clocked in at 56 minutes in 8 and a half innings with the home team winning 10-2. I had to pause a couple times, but I stopped the clock when I did and resumed it again when I unpaused. And for both games I used broadcast presentation, I didn't use fast play, though sometimes I did hit X to fast forward through the cutscenes.

It'd be interesting to see if anyone else out there has ever tried this and what the results were. I had fun with working the count and all, but 56 minutes is quite awhile to sit through a game.

[Steven78]

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I just cant do quick counts. It takes away the essence of the pitcher/batter chess match imo. Glad there's those that enjoy it tho, options for everyone.

[My993C2]

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Every game will be different because the number of hits and walks influences the number of batter appearances at the plate and the more batter appearances the longer the game. But yeah you're numbers are that much off the averages I have seen for games. An average CPU vs CPU Quick Counts game with Fast Play enabled usually takes about 35-40 minutes, while an average CPU vs CPU game with only Fast Play enabled takes about 60 minutes.

[tjhamstar]

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Games for me average around 35-45 minutes without quick counts. Just depends on the pace of the game.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Fast play QC, 20-25 minutes on average, for me, for a low scoring game.
30-35 minutes for high scoring game, in my experiences.

[CaseIH]

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I decided to time two different games I played. I did one with quick counts, and one with traditional counts. The one with quick counts clocked in at 34 minutes, and was a full 9 innings with the road team winning 6-4. The one with traditional counts clocked in at 56 minutes in 8 and a half innings with the home team winning 10-2. I had to pause a couple times, but I stopped the clock when I did and resumed it again when I unpaused. And for both games I used broadcast presentation, I didn't use fast play, though sometimes I did hit X to fast forward through the cutscenes.

It'd be interesting to see if anyone else out there has ever tried this and what the results were. I had fun with working the count and all, but 56 minutes is quite awhile to sit through a game.

I never X thru any scenes, and I use QC's and seems the average games is around hr 45 minutes for me, without QC games would be around 2hr's and 50 minutes on average.


Just never been 1 to X thru cut scenes, but since they added QC's shoting the game some has been nice, but I mainly use QC's so I get the right amount of walks, and K's on average, IM very OCD about stats, and QC's has made it so all muy stats are accurate now.

[My993C2]

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I never X thru any scenes, and I use QC's and seems the average games is around hr 45 minutes for me, without QC games would be around 2hr's and 50 minutes on average.

2 hours and 50 minutes? You must be taking breaks between innings and/or taking a long time between pitches to decide on what you want to do. Setup a CPU vs CPU game with full Broadcast presentation turned on and as long as the game does not go into extra innings and is your average number of hits and walks for both teams, the game will be in the 2 hour time frame. Definitely not 3 hours. The games in the real world take on average about 3 hours to play because of all the TV commercial breaks between innings as well as TV breaks whenever a new pitcher comes into the game.

[sitio]

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i usually 30-35 minutes for a low scoring game.
40-45 minutes for high scoring game.

[@legendm0de]

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but 56 minutes is quite awhile to sit through a game.

If you played NBA games with full 12 minute quarters which is a reasonable thing to suggest, that's already a guaranteed 48 minutes you're going to sit through a game for. Assuming there was never a break in play, free throw or timeout you are already certain to spend over 50 minutes to playout the game no matter what. You can automatically assume you're going to spend 60 minutes in front of you're tv to play out the full game, even if you fast forward break in play. I find it absurd that a nine inning baseball game with broadcast presentation (or lack thereof), is that short

[Bobhead]

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My games are about 90 minutes. But that's including time where I pause, usually because I'm looking into stats and ratings, pitcher analyses screens, etc...

Plus I'm usually on Facebook on my computer at the same time and we all know how THAT goes...

[Heroesandvillains]

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If you played NBA games with full 12 minute quarters which is a reasonable thing to suggest, that's already a guaranteed 48 minutes you're going to sit through a game for. Assuming there was never a break in play, free throw or timeout you are already certain to spend over 50 minutes to playout the game no matter what. You can automatically assume you're going to spend 60 minutes in front of you're tv to play out the full game, even if you fast forward break in play. I find it absurd that a nine inning baseball game with broadcast presentation (or lack thereof), is that short

Good point about NBA 2K. Though I can't pretend to know how much of its player base uses full length quarters or even if SCEA even pays attention to how long other sports game take.

Even my QC games take over an hour on average but I take my time. I'm sure I'm on the extreme end of the scale though.

[Heroesandvillains]

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Has SCEA ever shared the average full length game times publicly (prior to 15)?

I have to wonder how long games were taking people before cutting a massive amount of the presentations and what they're averaging now (and what their target is)?

[Bobhead]

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Baseball video games aren't necessarily longer than basketball video games though. It seems that way in real life because a baseball game has like 3x as many commercial breaks, PLUS all the non-commercial delays (challenges, catcher visits, manager visits, etc...).

If you took out all the interruptions and breaks in both sports I'm sure they'd come out to about an equal length, if not baseball as the shorter one.

[Herschie]

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If you played NBA games with full 12 minute quarters which is a reasonable thing to suggest, that's already a guaranteed 48 minutes you're going to sit through a game for. Assuming there was never a break in play, free throw or timeout you are already certain to spend over 50 minutes to playout the game no matter what. You can automatically assume you're going to spend 60 minutes in front of you're tv to play out the full game, even if you fast forward break in play. I find it absurd that a nine inning baseball game with broadcast presentation (or lack thereof), is that short

I usually don't play full 12 minute quarters, nor do I have the patience for 15 minute Madden quarters. Especially if I want to play a full season of The Show, I like how SCEA figured out how to drastically shorten games without sacrificing the presentation.

[Smallville102001]

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Baseball video games aren't necessarily longer than basketball video games though. It seems that way in real life because a baseball game has like 3x as many commercial breaks, PLUS all the non-commercial delays (challenges, catcher visits, manager visits, etc...).

If you took out all the interruptions and breaks in both sports I'm sure they'd come out to about an equal length, if not baseball as the shorter one.

I disagree with that big time. Baseball games are a lot longer then NBA games even with out stops. I record a lot of games being a sports nut and on average a NBA game takes 1 hour and 50 minutes to watch on a recording with fast forwarding breaks and ever thing. A baseball game on the other hand is 2 hours and 20 minutes so that is 30 minutes longer for baseball. NFL is about the same as MLB though. There are not really that many challenges in baseball and there are not really that many times that the catch will come out to talk to the pitcher either.

I decided to time two different games I played. I did one with quick counts, and one with traditional counts. The one with quick counts clocked in at 34 minutes, and was a full 9 innings with the road team winning 6-4. The one with traditional counts clocked in at 56 minutes in 8 and a half innings with the home team winning 10-2. I had to pause a couple times, but I stopped the clock when I did and resumed it again when I unpaused. And for both games I used broadcast presentation, I didn't use fast play, though sometimes I did hit X to fast forward through the cutscenes.

It'd be interesting to see if anyone else out there has ever tried this and what the results were. I had fun with working the count and all, but 56 minutes is quite awhile to sit through a game.

56 minutes Is really really short I think. I don't ever play with QC and I would say my average game is about 2 hours. When I play NBA 2k games average like 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes.