30 hours or 75? Fans can't agree on the ideal story length
Sparked by the 75-hour leak, the community has split into camps — some want a tight, GTA V-style campaign, others want the longest Rockstar story ever. Here's the argument.
The talking points
- One camp wants a focused 30–40 hour story, closer to GTA V's pacing.
- Another wants a sprawling 60–75 hours in the Red Dead Redemption 2 mould.
- The debate was reignited by the unverified 75-hour campaign leak.
- It's a matter of taste — there's no 'correct' answer and nothing is confirmed.
Every big rumor spawns a debate, and the 75-hour story leak split the fandom cleanly in two. On one side are players who loved GTA V's relatively tight, propulsive campaign — roughly 30-plus hours — and worry a 75-hour story would sag under padding and filler.
On the other are fans who point to Red Dead Redemption 2 as proof Rockstar can sustain a much longer, slower-burning epic, and who'd happily sink 60–75 hours into Leonida if the quality holds. Both sides are really arguing about pacing philosophy as much as raw hours.
There's no resolving this one — it's a taste debate dressed up as a numbers debate, and it rests on a runtime Rockstar has never confirmed. But it's a great window into what people actually want from the game, which is half of why the wait is so loud.
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