What would be the ideal length of DA4's critical path (i.e. primary story missions)

So to avoid any confusion I figure I might need to have a little clarification.

While the actual times may vary on what is what I think ideally the base game for DA 4 should be around 80 hours. This seems to be a good middle ground because games longer then this tends to become a bit too filler.

I'm defining the critical path for a bioware game as:

The main story.
All the companion content.

This will make up roughly half of the game.

The other half will be EVERYTHING else. The side questing, exploring, crafting, mini games, puzzles, random filler. The proviso of course that most of this is still high quality and can be used to actually flesh things out or have interesting moral conundrums of their own.

My personal preference for the Main Story (aka 'critical path') would be anywhere from 40 to 60 (like KOTOR I and II) and adding anywhere from 15 to an additional 25 hours in truly engaging, important and meaningful side-quests that actually have an impact (I hate grinding in these ridiculously huge open worlds, traversing empty expanses for over an hour....just to pick up some trinket for some poor schmuck whose wife died. And what is my reward for my time and effort....? 20 Gold, or something equally worthless and wasteful depending on the genre).

No, I much prefer the linear path of the ME OT; each world map, each 'sandbox' area was fairly large with room to navigate, but the destination was clear and the goal was certain: To get *here* do A, B and C.....then cross the *Finish Line* (I'm thinking of Purgatory where we found Jack in ME 2 as a good example, or even Liam's Loyaty Mission in Andromeda. I always enjoyed that one.). And sure, you could make the individual map area large and inviting enough to be moderately "explore-able"....., but I like to be able to see the path to my clear objective, instead and wandering around for seemingly endless hours wondering if I have enough of *object x* to go back and retrace my steps across the great void only to resume the path that I should have been on (Inquisition, Andromeda). Please use whatever space you create wisely and effectively.

I'm somewhat undecided. I guess between 30-40 hours for the main game, that can became more with sidequests and exploration, would be my favourite lenght. But I would be more than ok with more, surely not with less.

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