I think after hearing repeatedly that each campaign (co-op and single player) were supposed to be twice the length of portal one I was expecting 8 - 10 hours each. This is a blatant lie (and not in that whole the cake is a lie thing hurp durp) it took me 9 hours to do both, and don't get me wrong the game very fun and enjoyable and I would recommend it. I just though I should let everyone know that it may not be as long as you were expecting it to be. But fuck the whole shop and buying hats shit that ruined TF2 don't let it ruin this game Valve!

You must be really good. It took me around 7 hours to go through the single player game so it's not the same for everybody. Also, I don't see how cosmetic items that don't effect gameplay can ruin a game.

And this is why I buy my games used or at bargain. I have a rule that if the game is under 20 hours I will not buy it for over 40 dollars. With this rule in mind you can imagine how excited I am to get Divinity 2: DKS for 40 bucks in a few days.

"But fuck the whole shop and buying hats shit that ruined TF2 don't let it ruin this game Valve! "

Interviews with Valve folks have said co-op would be half the length of singleplayer. So the game was 75% of what you thought it was going to be before you ever even played it.

I found the length to be quite adequate. I was completely gripped by it from start to finish, no slow points or anything that made me want it to be over sooner. It's totally worth the €30 I paid for the game, and I still have the co-op basically untouched.

" Interviews with Valve folks have said co-op would be half the length of singleplayer. So the game was 75% of what you thought it was going to be before you ever even played it.

Also, I can't believe people are surprised Portal 2 is short. It's Portal 2. What is wrong with you.

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" Also, I don't see how cosmetic items that don't effect gameplay can ruin a game. "

Does beating the game unlock challenge rooms?

" @Truant19: I'm talking about Portal 2. "

Barely longer than the first game, pretty disappointing. Portal 1 costs ~10$ at launch, Portal 2 costed 50$ (45$ counting preorder). Should have been at LEAST double the length. Took me under 4 hours to beat, explored everything. thought there was a lot more left when I got to the final room. Good game, but definitely should have been longer and significantly harder. Seriously, I thought the last few levels were supposed to be easy as a joke!

Also pretty funny how people are defending the ridiculous prices of the cosmetic items in the shop. Probably the same people who bitch about EA doing that, but will defend anything valve does. I'm a steam and valve fan too, but come on.

I just can't see how anyone could ever beat the game in less than 6 hours unless they solved every puzzle instantly and ran straight through every dialogue scene, and even then 6 hours seems too short; it feels like there's at least 7 or 8 hours of singleplayer content in there. If you're saying you finished it quickly from what Steam says about your total playtime, then bear in mind that Steam is totally wrong with that; the game was running pretty much all day yesterday between me and my brother playing, which ended up being far more than the 6.5 hours Steam recorded.

And while I agree that the cosmetic stuff is ridiculously expensive, but anyone who says the store ruins the game is really just looking for things to complain about. It's totally stupid, but it's just hats, c'mon.

Oh, and while I'm here:
@Truant19 said:

"the milkman set for scout is very powerful"

"its almost impossible to get the set without buying it"

" @mracoon said:

" @Truant19: I'm talking about Portal 2. "

Ya, I was just explaining how it "ruined" tf2, and how it could do the same for portal. I think if its instead of selling these cosmetic items if instead you could earn them through tasks in the game, it would be a much more compelling system.  "

"As for TF2, I think the game is well balanced enough that you can compete with original set of weapons. I don't have most of the newer weapons but I can still compete with those who do. "

" I think after hearing repeatedly that each campaign (co-op and single player) were supposed to be twice the length of portal one I was expecting 8 - 10 hours each. This is a blatant lie (and not in that whole the cake is a lie thing hurp durp) it took me 9 hours to do both, and don't get me wrong the game very fun and enjoyable and I would recommend it. I just though I should let everyone know that it may not be as long as you were expecting it to be. But fuck the whole shop and buying hats shit that ruined TF2 don't let it ruin this game Valve! "

It took me about 6 hours according to Steam and I stopped to soak up atmosphere. That said, it was a tight experience like the first and I don't know if adding another couple of hours would have made it a better or worse game.

Lolwut?

Portal 1 took me anywhere from 2.5-3hrs to beat on my first time through. I'm 7.6 hours into Portal 2 and in the middle of chapter 8. Even if the game just ended at the end of the chamber I'm currently in, it's still 2.67 times the length of Portal 1.

This is like getting mad at a sudoku book going too quickly.  If you never had to actually think about any of the puzzles of course you're going to get through the game in just a handful of hours.  If they were designing the game to be 8 hours for players who had the gameplay guide it would take the average user 16 hours at a minimum.  It took me 8 hours to get through the single player and I think there were only two tests I got "stuck" on (Read- Spent more than 10 minutes on).  If you beat the single player in 4 hours you're trying too hard, and you you're going to have the same opinion as any critic-on-commission who prioritizes writing about the game over playing it.