Who else is hopelessly addicted to the game regardless of the glitches and bad interface? I am estimating that I will put about 200 hours into my first run of Skyrim. How many hours do fellow addicts think they will end up playing? And be honest, we are all nerds here.
Actually, that would be multiplayer-games that can be played over and over again with no (or very little) content added, like say for example Counter-Strike. Minecraft also fits this category, but WoW doesn't given that it needs new content to keep people playing it.
Skyrim-fans will eventually also tire out of Skyrim at some point.
Hardest difficulty, no fast travel while exploring all the caves you see while simultaneously doing the dark brotherhood takes a massive amount of time.
I'm 138 hours in playing only on expert and fast travelling and I've still gotten that long out of it!
Skyrim isnt really a game you "beat"... i hate to be one of those guys that tells someone they're playing a game wrong but it really does sound like you have the wrong attitude.
For example i can complete most games usually in a day or two of playing them, for example every COD game since the first MW i've completed on the day that i got it.
Other action games like Batman and Assassins Creeds ive completed in 2-3 days.
But Skyrim and New Vegas ive put in 100+ Hours into each, and i havent "beaten" either. I havent even started the main quest or joined a faction in either of them.
Im not so arrogant as to suggest that everyone should play their games the same way i do, but if you've beaten Skyrim after 60 hours then i'd argue im getting alot more value from my game than you are.
Ehh I never got past 30hrs. I was so hyped for KOTOR once I saw it that I fell out of liking the setting of the game. That and my rouge who was lv 35 and rich as hell got corrupted. So that kinda made me sad... Its good for a while but if your anything like me it eventually just gets to be a pain.
Yeah, I put some 80 hours into it by now and I'm not really close to "finishing" my first run. And once the Creation Kit is released and the flood of mods begins there will be nigh endless content.
I'm guessing until the next Elder Scrolls game is released this game is going to be played quite a bit over the years (not constantly obviously, with long pauses) like Oblivion and will likely absorb roughly the same amount of time (something around 500 hours). But, as I said, that will happen over years, I'm not really someone who plays all that much.
Not addiction. Compulsion. It's enjoyable, and therefore you play. Addiction is a physical dependance. It's an important distinction, because the anti-game advocates just love saying that games are addictive. I'm probably addicted to caffiene. I'm compelled to play games.
I can't get more than 60 hours out of it by doing pretty much everything there is to do is what I mean. Every location explored, every side quest done. On expert.
There will be more places for you to explore, I fast travel, have done main, companions, college, thieves guild and killed the DB instead of doing there missions, which would have probably given another hour or two, and since the 30-40 hour mark I've been an almost unkillable god, killing everything in a handful of hits on master (Though I started not on master, but I needed to increase the difficuty just so everything didn't die in 1 hit, now they die in 2.) And I'm 80 hours in. I've done 2 daedric quests, explored maybe 1/2 the dungeons with tons of content left, and thats when everything dies in 1 hit. So for people who are actually playing the game properly I'm sure there is easily 200 hours in, since a normal dungeon would take say 20-30 mins, where I just charge on through. So even if you're one hitting everything, there is still no way you've done /everything/.
Do you have all the dragon masks? Have you killed every named dragon? Do you have done the dwemer cog college arc, have you done every daedric quest? Expecially Sheo's? Have you found all the captured butterflies? I doubt you've done every single dungeon, etc.
Eh, I'm probably only going to do the one playthrough. I've gone from Single handed warrior into Jack of All Trades and am now on my way to finish the main story, the Civil war and the Dark Brotherhood. Other than that, I have done everything that hasn't glitched so that I can't, with the exception of those supposedly infinite radiant quests.
That doesn't mean its a polished thing. I found as many glitches in every aspect of the game and = as many in the world. Try again.
Skyrim, wether you like it or not, will die out because it can only be played to completion once, okay, it can only be played through 2 dungeons before everything is basically the same as those two dungeons, but my point is that it will fall into boring and tedious at some point, because it can only be played to completion once. While multiplayer shooters can be played differently forever.
I'm posting to tell you sir, that I will be stealing "electric crack" in future.
On topic, I don't have the time to invest that much in Skyrim, though I am racking close to 100 hours if not a 100 right now.
Also got distracted over the holidays, cleaning up my ME2 saves in preparation for 3. Think I've nailed down what Shep to bring through to final game...I hope...
I'm forcing myself NOT to play it today; I need to go to bed prompt tonight as I have a long journey to undertake tomorrow and I need to get some sleep beforehand.
I'm hooked at the moment and despite having put a good 100 hours (maybe) so far into it, I've not finished the Winterhold College, Thieves Guild, Companions and main story quest archs and I've still to explore most of the towns thoroughly as well as even visit most of the western areas of Skyrim.
I can't seem to grasp the combat and/or stealth, which makes me wonder if I should've focused on being a magic dealer, instead. You don't have to worry about everyone "blocking" your flamethrower. (Also, I couldn't hit a target with the bow 'n arrow to save my life, even though I'm normally rather good with that in other games. I consider myself to be a fine sniper, even with arrows that need adjustment for drop and distance.)
Anyway, yeah, I see how it could be really fun, but I haven't gotten to the point where I'm confident I like the game, yet.
I still don't see what's wrong with the interface. I played it for a full 3 days after release with that never being an issue beyond that lack of container categorisations and then I discovered that other people seemed to have issues.
I've hit the 140 hour mark and I am now bored. I'm the master of every guild, quite a few 100 skills, level 54 and I've completed every major quest I could find.
I think they focused far too much on this damn "infinite story" thing the radiant story can do. Yes, it's clever. I can now do minor thieves guild, dark brotherhood and so on quests for ever! Shame they're all entirely inconsequential and take up space that could've been used to pad the story itself out more. Becoming the master of the thieves guild in under an hour is just...unforgivable. There is no excuse for such poor levels of detail in the main quests, it just seems rushed.
As a comparison, I put over 500 total hours into playing Oblivion, on multiple playthroughs and different play styles because to join the guilds was actually time consuming in a fun way, steadily raising through the ranks and getting perks for it, instead of being like:
"welcome apprentice, to the mages guild! Oh, the archmage died, guess you're our new archmage because you found a staff in a dungeon!"
Enormous let down. Worth getting, but a let down nonetheless. But I digress.
In answer to the original question, I doubt I'm going to get much further than the current 140 hours unless I leave it and come back in a year or so. Although I'd much rather Elder Scrolls VI: Elsweyr rather than a replay of Skyrim..go on Bethesda, you know you want to.
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