Ive played Skyrim for over 350hours and I still love every minute of it just as much as when I first played it.

Ive been playing games since I was 7 years old, now 28. Ive played countless games on all consoles and the PC both. My favorite games of all time are:

Fallout 2
Final fantasy 7
Soul reaver
Planescape torment
Knights of the old republic
Fallout: New vegas
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Zelda: A link to the past
ES:Morrowind
Baldurs gate.
Icewind dale
Diablo 2
Mass effect 1-2
Dragon age
Max payne
Resident evil 2

To name A FEW of my favorites, and yet, Skyrim has probably trippled the game time of any of these while still keeping me entertained.

I just wanted to thank Bethesda for this great achievement of a game. It truly is a masterpiece

You just realized you loved the game?

i am completely in love with this game as well. over 400 or 450 hours in. 4th character (sorta. i lost my 2nd due to bad mods).
but the huge enjoyment i am having with the game is also due to the mods i cant play without ("deadly combat", first and foremost. "DFB random encounters" second. just wont agree to play without these two).

it's a huge game that even now, after 450 hours roughly i still discover new locations and new quests. pretty amazing.

That's a great list and I've played most of them.

You seem to like some classics, but if you really want to play the classic games that set the tempo for all of those (console and PC even though it was only a console game). A great game that was first released in Dec of 1987. No, not Final Fantasy...

Phantasy Star. All time classic and imo still one of the top5 RPG's of all time based alone that when it was released it was so fricking awesome and the successful RPG's that followed typically used a style that imitated Phantasy Star in one way or another.

I've got roughly 1000 hours so far spread across 3 characters in Skyrim. I love the game too, but I'm not in love with Bethesda at the moment.

Shouldve made that one clearer

I just realized how much of a masterpiece skyrim is. I always considered it great. But not among my best games. However, if the discovery of my playtime is any indication - Skyrim deserve more credit than I originally thought.

@Darksun: Is phantasy star for the PC? Thanks for the tip I'll give it a try!

I started with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasy_Trip in high school way back in the 1980s, which was a tabletop sort of game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. For those unfamiliar, each player takes turns (as well as NPCs) rolling dice, consulting books, doing math. It's very slow. From those days, I have always wanted to see all of this happening in real-time. It would take until 2008 when I discovered Oblivion to find what I was looking for, since I have never had a gaming PC.

Anyways, here is my "list" of games I've been involved with ... these sorts of games being in the same vein as those tabletop RPGs we used to play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%28Atari_2600%29 - Atari 2600. Early to mid 80s. We used to play this silly game over and over again as kids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda - original Nintento. Late '80s. We all know about Zelda ... I hope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faxanadu - original Nintendo: late '80s, early '90s. Basically a side-scrolling 2D game.

From the early 90s until the New Millenium, this would be my gaming Dark Ages. I wasn't gaming at all.

Tomb Raider - Playstation 1. early 2000. Although TR is not an RPG by any sense of the meaning, the original Tomb Raider is what captured my attention, and got me gaming again. I bought Tomb Raider and a PS1, both were impulse buys made after I spent way too many hours playing my friend's PS1 when he was off to work at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Dragoon - PS1 2002-ish. This is your typical JRPG type of game, where PCs and NPCs take turns. I remember enjoying this one a lot at the time, but probably would find it tedious nowadays (too used to OB and Skyrim)

Various Final Fantasy games - throughout the 2000s. I don't remember exactly which ones I have at home. Doesn't really matter, though. FF games contain a LOT of content. I've never been able to finish (if that's an appropriate word) one of these.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakengard - PS2, mid 2000s. I remember being so disappointed with Drakengard that I took it back to GameStop. Lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_%282004_video_game%29 - PS2, mid 2000s. I rented this one weekend when I was mega-depressed. I remember BT was so funny, it actually cheered me out of my depression. But I never bought this one. ...still looking for that ultimate RPG...the one I wanted to find since the 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_of_Norrath:_Return_to_Arms - PS2. mid 2000s. This is a top-view Action RPG, I like this one. Every time you play it, the game changes the landscape a bit; it's pretty neat in this respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate:_Dark_Alliance - PS2. mid 2000s. Similar to CoN above, except the landscape stays static. I got an area of BG: DA in which I kept dying over and over, and my previous gamesave would have put me way back in the beginning. At this moment I dropped BG and never picked it up again, even though I enjoyed it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Tactics - PSP 2007-ish. This is a typical turn-based RPG, and one of the only videogames I've ever finished to the very end.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - PS3 2008-current. I read a review for TES: IV at www.gamerevolution.com , or .... I started to. After reading maybe half this review, I rushed to the closest mall to buy this game AND a PS3 on-the-spot. Finally found the game I had been looking for (literally) most of my life. After starting TES: IV, I've found that I play other games less and less.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - PS3 & Xbox 360, 11/11/11-current. TES 4 and 5 have poisoned my desire to explore other videogames. I am curious about Dark Souls, Fable, and several other RPGs or Action RPGs; problem is I don't have time for any of these others.

Long post...but it was worth it to me.