Do you fast travel? Do you wait?

Thats because you Rush through/Fast travel isnt it? Mhm, it is. Thats whats wrong with you...But, hey, its not my loss, its yours.

I actually don't know my total hours. Because I don't let Steam connect other than offline....

But considering that I spend a good 8 hours or more a day in game, and have done since it came out.... so.... that's.... I'd estimate around 500 hours. I haven't seen anywhere close to the entire map. I haven't done half the quests. Probably I haven't done a third of them. So I figure this game will keep me very well occupied for the rest of 2012.

I suspect most people fast travel. Once you've seen every random encounter three times, there isn't much point running the same roads and fighting the same creatures. I've come across that couple escaping a dragon attack over a dozen times. I've probably given that traveling bard over a thousand gold with all of the songs that I've requested from him. It gets old after a while.

I have occasional crashes and freezes (and have had since less than 100 hours in). After some expirimentation I've found that I can minimize problems by only keeping 5 to 10 saves and making sure that I clean my recycle bin frequently. I'm running a ten year old P4 (dual P4 chips) at 3.2 GHz with an NVIDIA 9500GT an 4G RAM so not the best setup but the game is playable (medium graphics settings, no anti-aliasing). So I'm only running at minumum (or slightly below minimum) specs so I don't expect perfect perfomance. Oh, and I'm running the game off the external hard drive because the main drive is full.

You havent seen every random encounter 3 times, And that Bard attacked me once, So I killed him, dont see him any more. But what ever, like I said, its your loss, not mine.

Going to call BS on this...

There aren't that many random encounters. Believe what you want to believe, but after you see nobles on horses for the umpteenth time, or cows being sacrificed three times in a row, it loses its luster.

+1

I have 7 chars. 2 at around 100 hours each and 5 less than 100 so maybe all up 300-400hrs

Completed thieves guild completely on my first char, destroyed dark brotherhood on 1, 100 smithing another, halfway through college 2 different chars. Just start dark brotherhood with 1 char, done maybe 4 daedric quests all up. Got the elder scroll just yesterday, still looking to harvest high elf blood. A few random quests here and there when interesting ones pop up in-game.

Never joined companions, only just picked a side on civil war but not done any quests, never progressed past 1st dragon battle in MQ (And from then on I make sure not to do that, I fkn hate random dragon attacks)

And I do mostly fast travel when possible. But I think because I'm always starting new characters it's not killing my experience as it's usually only on the way home I can fast travel since the map is always pretty blank.

I'm sure there's LOTS more gameplay left for me. I appreciate this way of playing with more 'specialist' characters a lot more than Oblivion where I just smashed everything with 1 character and got bored really fast.

It's the same for me. I usually get bored with one character after 40 hours or so and start a new one that plays a completely different way.

Except that it's fun and feels like a more unique experience when you walk around

At first I thought you were going to complain, and I was going to be angry. But you aren't like the others. So I not angry I'm in the same boat. There is a ton of the world I haven't seen, and I'm about 160 hours in.

I don't know how many hours I've put in exactly I've completed the main story, civilwar, companion quests,college quests, working on darkbrother hood and a handful side quests. l last time I checked I had roughly 80 quests completed and more then 100 locations found my character is lvl 33 right now got a second one going thats around lvl 12 or 13..

+2

The ammount of content is really relative. Yes there is a lot of content but a lot of it is really cut and paste, and how many hours entirely on the player. I stopped playing around 60 hours due to the repeatetive, dull and shallow nature of the content and immersion. Now I am watching and waiting on mod development and then I'll probably sink in another 100 hours once there are enough mods to actually make this game fun beyond level 30

I find this completely amazing. I cannot fathom what it is you're doing wrong, and I can only think that you are "doing something wrong". I have played 100+ hours, only gotten to L32, and am still having a wealth of new experiences. Yes, there are some things that are similar (acquisition of houses; the minor, non-essential NPCs and even actual game engine mechanics) - but the actual thematics and story-lines are hellaciously different as you move through the tapestry of Skyrim. I just began the Boethiah line, and that really introduced a bit of a moral quandary for me (more as a 'player' than for any role-playing questions of alignment).

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps you never really immersed yourself in it, never really got invested in it. Oh well... different horses I guess.

I've been playing these games since Daggerfall. I've done everything in every game since Morrowind and I've never had a 200+ hour save. People have lives to live. You shouldn't expect people to walk every road and stop to look at bushes every five minutes. I'm at 80 hours right now, 344 locations discovered - 221 of them cleared - and a lot of those locations can't be cleared. I've completed 102 quests, 285 miscellaneous objectives, 18 main quests and 29 side quests. I've done every faction with this character except the Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves Guild, which I've opted not to do with this character but have done in the past. If I did those two factions - primarily due to the grind-fest of the thieves guild - I might have gotten another 20 hours out of them. But that's still nowhere near the 300 hour mark.

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My first character had 245 hours .
My second had 260ish . Between the 2 of them I got my platinum trophy .
I am about 40 hours into my 3rd character , just tooling around wandering the wilderness . I fast traveled everywhere on my first 2 , taking time to stop and smell the roses with this one . According to the guide , I have about 20 or so side quests / dungeon quests that I have yet to do , but I'm in no hurry . I don't plan on doing any of the main quest for a while cuz I don't want any dragons around right now .

I forget who asked , but my first save file was under 10 mb . It got way too glitchy to play , which is why I started #2 . Second file got up to 13 mb before it bugged out . Not sure where my 3rd one is .

Good for you, but that doesn't mean that somebody who does everything much faster is "bs". Not everybody plays the game the same way, and there is no "wrong" way to play it.

125 hours in and still things to do. I just now entered Blackreach and I still have a full quest log, both main and misc.

Being a role player, I've never finished a Bethesda game but I sure have lived them.

I forget how many hours I played Morrowind but it was months of play.

I hit 200 hours on one character in Oblivion without touching the main quest.

Daggerfall is too many years ago, I can't remember anymore.

That's the type of player I am. I love doing that. Heck, last night I go to the top of a mountain and just looked out at the sun rising over some ice bergs.

A Bethesda game is a dream come true for me.

I feel 300hrs is realistic if you don't rush through the world and complete all the possible quests and explore all the dungeons.

There's no way you've finished every side quest and explored every cave, ruin etc.

Meh I've done all of the factions and mq in around 80 hours... After finishing the mq I just felt my motivation to play the game plummet