How long did it take you to "finish" Skyrim?

[AugustFall]

I thought the whole point was that you never really *finished* skyrim... =P

Personally, I'm 40-odd hours in, and I'm still faffing about playing with smithing and picking locks and stealing everything that isn't nailed down and killing random bandits.

Mostly because the 'main' storyline (I mean the civil war one) is so unutterably boring and bland that I can't motivate myself to go through it yet...not when there are more interesting things to do...like mine ore and hunt rabbits. ;-)

That's not the main storyline just so you know.

I consider Skyrim to have several 'main' storylines, of which this is one. Hence the use of inverted commas in my post.

I assume you're referring to the 'dragon' storyline, which, as plots go, is about as complex and inspiring as the civil war. It's better because it's not a direct copy-paste of Romans vs Barbarians, but it's still 'you are the chosen one, go fight dragons', which as fantasy plots go, is right up there with 'rescue the princess' for originality.

Don't get me wrong, I actually really enjoy Skyrim from the gameplay point of view. I just think that its storylines and characters are a bit on the weak side.

Ah I see. It's true the dragonborn storyline isn't great. I liked the varied settings and it made you do some stuff that sounds sweet on paper. It's just all those things weren't that interesting to do in terms of the game mechanics.

 

[kyogen]

I think it was about 30 hours to finish the main quest line and a few side/guild quests. I've got a different character going now, and I'm taking my time.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Main character finished the main quest after roughly 70 hours at level 61.

 

[GundamSentinel]

About 130 hours in at level 60. Yah, I just got too distracted by all the sidequests, and I loved every minute of it.

 

[onewheeled]

I've got about 40 hours into the game, I'm level 24, and I just finished the mission where you go out to kill the dragon out by Windhelm. Which is, like, the fifth one.

I'm dicking around a lot, haha.

 

[JET1971]

around 100 hours on my first play then felt like there just wasnt anything left to do on that character, second character i went and did it right off and now the messing about without having the main quest hanging over me.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

About 20 hours. Or rather, that's when I stopped playing.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

Finish Skyrim? Unlikely. I'm 65 hours in and have only finished the main quest, the College of Winterhold and the Dark Brotherhood quests. I've barely touched the Companions, and I still have whole swathes of the map I haven't visited.