GTAIV: 20 Hours

I've had the Online Stopwatch (http://www.online-stopwatch.com/) running since I started, just to officially have a timer going. It says 19 Hours, 35 minutes. Yay!

I fell asleep around 8:30 am this morning, then woke up at noon. Alicia and I took an hour break for some dinner and fresh air, and now I'm right back at it. My current Game progress is 38.37%, which sounds awful, but I think it is actually quite far. The story mode only accounts for approximately 50 to 60%, so by all accounts I'm more than half over.

When I stop playing, I leave it on the pause menu, thus the game doesn't consider pause menu part of the official game time. Currently, Playing time is 12 Hours 39 minutes. The record is somewhere around 17 hours. I doubt I'll be that fast, as I've watched all the movies, and failed missions at least a few times.

So far, the story has been in the back seat. You lose a lot of the story by not taking side missions. Mostly, the story has been "Meet this character, do this and that for him."

I'll keep you posted!