Game Length & Mafia III (Spoilers?)

A brief lament about game length and game pacing as I try to wrap up Mafia 3 for a video about it. I’m hoping this won’t be too contentious; I’m fully willing to concede that estimating game lengths is kind of arbitrary and hard. What does it mean, *really*, to estimate the length of a Fallout game? Are we talking a completionist playthrough? The main story line alone? The “average“ playthrough? What does it mean to estimate the length of a round of TF2? Should we measure by expected session length instead of time-to-win/loss? These are all super complicated questions, but my frustration isn’t that we don’t have answers but that we’re not even really asking them. I think How Long to Beat has a good rubric to start from, but even that’s got some built in assumptions - it doesn’t work as well for multiplayer games, for example. Maybe we can talk about what it means to measure the length of a game in the comments? It should also be noted that the sl