10 Video Games You Play For HOURS Before Starting

10. Assassin's Creed III

Assassin's Creed III pissed a lot of people off simply because the marketing wasn't honest about what the game actually was - at least in its opening hours.

Though the trailers implied we'd be playing as Native American assassin Connor from the jump, the opening hours instead force the player to take control of British Templar Haytham Kenway - who also happens to be Connor's father.

It takes about three hours for players to play as Connor, and even then, he's still a child when we're first able to control him.

On top of this, it's about another two hours before Connor gains his awesome assassin garb featured in the marketing, ensuring that Assassin's Creed III doesn't feel like it really starts until around the five-hour mark.

For this reason the prologue proved wildly divisive with players, enough that when a remaster was announced in 2018, game director Alex Hutchinson even admitted that the start was "too slow," and that if he made the game now, the Haytham section would've been interspersed throughout the whole game.