How many hours have you devoted to Skyrim?

[Psycomantis777]

Erm... a lot... I think I really played Oblivion a shite load more, it hurts to look at it... But Skyrim, i find I can jump back on that a while later and still have my bearings... Think that's good.

 

[endtherapture]

110 then realised there was nothing to do and started Dark Souls.

That was 2 characters - a Breton warrior mage in heavy Armour and a Redguard dual wielding warrior with light armour.

110h for 2 characters? You didn't even scratched the surface, right?

I finished all the big questlines...I'm not sure what to do now... :/

 

[Fappy]

Probably between 300 and 400 hours. I have a lot of characters

 

[aguspal]

LOL at the multiple characters part


As much as I loved skyrim, why would I play the same game for no reason more than once...

Says the guy with a Mario avatar??

Glass houses, mate...

I dont see what Mario games have to do with what I just said.


And I honestly havent played a mario game since Gamecube, the avatar is really there simply fo rthe sake of having an avatar (That dosnt means I hate Mario or anything, thougt, I like his game and all... its cool).

 

[kortin]

ive logged about 12 hours into the game so far and its already getting boring. ive had the game for a week now . im playing as a female nord warrior mage combination. ive recently completed the talk to greybeards and learn new shouts quest in the main quest line while also killed kematu in the swindlers den side quest. i dont think ill be playing more than 50 hours total.
the quests are so boring and repetitive they become a chore more than being fun.
its difficult to imagine how some of you have put hundreds of hours into this game.

You think...you think the fun in skyrim is in the main quest...lmao. That hasn't been true for any Elder Scrolls game. The main quest in morrowind was meh. Oblivion's was impressive aesthetically, but that's pretty much it. I never finished Skyrim's main quest.

OT: Uh, probably 250~ hours or so on one character.

 

[SquidVicious]

I've put 87 hours into my first character and really haven't progressed the story that much. I've maxed out my sneak and one-handed skills so couple that with my Dark Brotherhood gloves, I can pretty much kill anything so long as it's a sneak attack. I want to create more characters, but I want to get a hard drive for my 360 first so I can cut down on the loading times, download the update patches, and get in on some of these DLC packs because they look interesting.

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

I've only logged ~85 hours with my one character. I've got my one-handed skill maxed, pair that with my ebony mace and my firebolt spell and I'm nearly unstoppable.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

209 hours, but I often just leave my computer on in game while I'm making food or something so figure closer to 195-200 range. One normal run through. Wiped my hard drive. And did a completionist run to do absolutely everything except the radial quests. I'm still never actually 'finished' everything still have like 1 or 2 of those dragon masks missing and only have like half of the houses, but apart from that I'm probably mostly done?

Oh god That's over 8 days of straight Skyrim, what am I doing with my life.

 

[Jaeke]

I call bulls*** all over this thread. 700 hours? you got to be kidding me. That's about a full month of 24/7 gaming. longest gameplay time i've ever had in a video game is 128 hours and that was over the course of at least 4 years of playing that game occasionally.

If we were to do some math, say Skyrim is 12 months old for simplicity. That means you spent about 1/12 of your life playing this game in the time it's existed. (assuming you got it day 1) That's 8% of your year. That's pretty damn huge. You sleep about 35% of the year, probably work/school 35%, that only leaves 30% left for free time. This includes eating, hanging out with friends (if you have any) and family, playing other games, watching movies, vacations and all the other things in life such as showering and scratching your a$$.

so in reality, since you only have 30% of the year for free time, and it's 8% of your total time for Skyrim, that's almost 1/3 of your free time in the whole year. Truly fascinating if it has actually happened before!

Only games i think could get that many hours of gameplay is MMO's that people get mentally addicted to. Such as a long-running game like WoW. These people can play the game for like 10 years and those hours are going to add up.

Well... you're wrong then I guess. I have about 400 hours on it, and I get a lot of things done. I haven't seriously had a real sit-down with Skyrim for about 5 months so for someone to say they have done less than double that in twice the amount of time makes sense to me.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

Probably around 300 hours spread across 11 characters with a highest level 66 Orc Warrior

 

[Kapri]

An unsettling amount that cannot be healthy. We'll leave it at that.

 

[MHR]

361 hours

1 character

I find collecting and/or selling everything of at least modest value to be fun, so that eats a lot of time. Also no fast travel, it's for suckers.

 

[Product Placement]

bulls***

(not gonna requote you, since it's been done 100 times already)

Picture someone devoted enough to do a huge gaming binge, for the first few weeks (game first came out shortly before Christmas, so people had time off from school). It would be easy enough for that person to rack up a good chunk of those 700 hours in a short time like that.

Let's assume that this person then becomes active in the modding community and thus stays interested in the game.

Then consider that we might be talking about a child/teenager that doesn't have a summer job and thus has an awful amount of spare time, during his off-school season.

It's not a huge stretch for me. It's not that hard to rack up 100 hours in a month (3-4 hours a day, spread evenly) and that's assuming that someone would consistently play the game like that for 7 months. And like you said, it's been 12 months, so he didn't even had to play the game that intensely.

 

[Darmy647]

uhhh...Maybe a week? I fucking Raped skyrim. But the combat bored me to hell to be honest...so someone told me "Play dark souls" And i did, and i never looked back. I'm not displeased at all.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Nine.

And when I look over my save file, I've done nearly everything.

Ya, I'm gonna call BS on the nearly done everything part.

OT: Adding up the time from each of my save files I have played for 203 hours. Still going strong too.

 

[Coffeejack]

Steam says 369 hours, but I've been launching it through Nexus Mod Manager, so there's probably extra time stacked up. I've spent significantly longer than that fantasising about the game, too.

 

[WFox]

I'm at 200 give or take a few hours. 110 hours on one character and the rest spread across 4 or 5 more.

 

[putowtin]

1st character: Female Nord, completed main storyline, civil war quest, is the Companion's Harbinger, killed the vampires and has a lovely home 60+ hours
2nd Character: Male Dark Elf, completed Dark Brotherhood and Theives Guild, Sided with the vamps and has all the daedric toys 50+ hours
3rd Character Female Orc, Completed theives and Companions, civil war and daedric quests 40+ hours
4th Character: Level 50 Imperial completed hardly anything (my mucking around character) 40+ hours

200 hours give or take, and I'll be getting back into it when Dragonborn lands

 

[IamLEAM1983]

609 hours according to Steam.

It isn't enough. It's never enough. Too many awesome mods!

I'd say that's over five characters, only one of which has finished the main quest.

 

[machblast]

Around 9.

Once I realized how devoid of interesting things to do the game was, and that every single sidequest/dungeon was basically 'kill all the draugr', I gave up.

Well, I never really liked Elder Scrolls but yeah. (Also when the fuck are they going to hire competent animators? It's better than Oblivion's completely horrible animation suite but it's still subpar)