"300 Hours of gameplay" : V - Skyrim

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:19 pm

There is certainly nothing wrong with that, and I must admit I've been tempted at times to lower the difficulty setting, but it is that much more satisfying when you finally defeat an enemy and get some revenge after dying and reloading many times.

Not everyone enjoys that kind of gameplay where you die frequently. I would suggest; however, it is fun to make a specialist sort of character and I've noticed that combat is a completely different experience playing first as a thief/archer type and then a 2-handed warrior. Very much looking forward to playing as a mage next.

I know, Im about 15 hours into my dunmer mage. Even though I'm done with my nord, Im not done with Skyrim

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:57 am

Well, i guess you CAN do the game quick if you wish. Beths own Dev Team speed run challenge took their best guy just over two hours for the MQ alone - But thats just done for a giggle and their in house trophy.

Looking at it the other way around. Skyrim has more content than Oblivion and I have well over 1000 hours on Oblivion !

Other thoughts - i bet you fast travelled all over the map, didn't you? c'mon admit it - how much did you take the time to really explore, on foot, like you really would have to. Fast travel is cheating (ha! can of worms! flame suit on) - walk it all (ok jog if you like) get into all those random fights and discoveries - if you can't be bothered, your not playing the game, just blitzing it.

Need more challenge????? Play like its for real. Like your really there (nah! don't dress up to play, ha!) i mean, in real life if a bear eats you - your dead - totally, thats it. Theres no re-set button in real life - so try the game playing 'dead is dead' if your character gets killed at any point you re-start from the very begining. Its a tough challenge, but belive me it gets the adrenaline pumping when you face off a bad ass creature and you've put 100+ hours of blood sweat and tears into that one character and can't afford to let them simply die. It really does make encounters exciting and scary - like for real..........

I'm not doing a Dead Is Dead walkthrough on my first run, maybe in the future, but I'd be insane to do it on my first character. Also, I only fast traveled later in the game. I did spend the first 20-30 on foot just exploring, but face it, eventually you start to run into the same place over and over again, and I don't consider that really exploring, or even new content. For example, if a companion quest has me travel to rorikstead and back, I might walk there, but I'd fast travel on the way back because it is just the same journey in reverse. But believe me, I have done quite a bit of exploring on my character

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:54 pm

im at 614 hours now. i really enjoy it still. im just taking a break atm cause i havent figured out what i want my next playthrough to be. there was a 40hp vampire assassin on master idea i think i might try. sounds fun with illusion and no daggers or bows and staying stage 4 for as much time as possible.

14.28 hours a day since release.

I have a friend who has somehow managed to play Skyrim about 700 hours since release date, 600 of which was his first character, and he did not even touch the civil war or main quest.

16.28 hours a day since release.

Clearly people with no lives... just saying...

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:16 pm

14.28 hours a day since release.

16.28 hours a day since release.

Clearly people with no lives... just saying...

maybe they just ran it overnight while they were sleeping or at work

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:39 am

@Keldrath, really, the game has been out for 6 weeks and you have 614 hours? That is 15 hours a day, somehow, I don't believe that.
@Lexandro, I was playing casually, on normal difficulty, at my own pace, I wasn't rushing or anything.
@Lotharofthehillpeople I have created a second character, (my first was a nord warrior, now im playing dunmer mage), but the 150 hour content I was talking about was on one character
@Bigk when I hit the 80 hour mark, I still thought there was a lot of content left, but when I hit the 120, I started to notice that quest where drying up (not including the randomly generated 'go kill at bandit at location x' inn quests, I only did about a dozen of those.' I also started to notice that uncleared dungeons where harder to find, and that my skill progression had come to a halt. Also, 150 hours is nothing to complain about, I got far more than my money's worth in the game.

no, 15 hours a day is about average for me. it says it on my steam account. it does seem a little inflated though. but not by much. im not sure where the inflation would come from though.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:56 am

14.28 hours a day since release.

16.28 hours a day since release.

Clearly people with no lives... just saying...

Or people who are on holiday. Not everyone works right through the xmas period.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:29 am

maybe they just ran it overnight while they were sleeping or at work

No, I'm pretty certain he has actually played around 700 hours.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:39 pm

maybe they just ran it overnight while they were sleeping or at work

I do that a lot on many game, but I have a hundred hours in Skyrim.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:52 am

Oh no, not an embellishment at all. In fact, I think it may have been a modest guess. I'm over 250 hours and haven't come close to doing most of the quests. I haven't even done the Diplomatic Immunity part of the Main Quest or the Civiil War quests. I still have a lot to do. If you didn't want to do a lot, that's fine but you really can't say there isn't 300 hours or more to do because there are people doing it. I've been steadily getting quests done too, not just sitting around. :smile:

Happy Holidays.

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» Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:39 am

I guess I am at more than 200 hours in (maybe slightly less) and I did not finish the mainquest once. Same for the guilds. Of course I did not stay on one character (I am playing DID, so I am at number...5 I think) and I have many many quests in some settlements before me (I did nothing in Rokirstead, almost nothing at Dawnstar, and there are some more I have unfinished business). I am a bit more than half way through the DB, started Companions twice (until I became you-know-what) and never gone as far as the fourth thieves guild quest. So I think I will get my 300 hours out of it.

The statement that you get more than 300 hours is true. MAybe you finish faster with one char that does everything, but I think they calculated with the replay value that most definitely is there. They could also have taken into account the CS, since it is/will be part of the game and gives endless hours of additional content thanks to the awesome modding community. I do not see one reason why the should have not taken this into account (at least for PC).

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:13 am

No one is ever 'finished' with Skyrim.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:38 am

I guess I am at more than 200 hours in (maybe slightly less) and I did not finish the mainquest once. Same for the guilds. Of course I did not stay on one character (I am playing DID, so I am at number...5 I think) and I have many many quests in some settlements before me (I did nothing in Rokirstead, almost nothing at Dawnstar, and there are some more I have unfinished business). I am a bit more than half way through the DB, started Companions twice (until I became you-know-what) and never gone as far as the fourth thieves guild quest. So I think I will get my 300 hours out of it.

The statement that you get more than 300 hours is true. MAybe you finish faster with one char that does everything, but I think they calculated with the replay value that most definitely is there. They could also have taken into account the CS, since it is/will be part of the game and gives endless hours of additional content thanks to the awesome modding community. I do not see one reason why the should have not taken this into account (at least for PC).

I'm only talking about one character, you have made five. I'm not disagreeing with the replayablility with multiple characters, I just thing that its hard to get more than 150-200+ hours without making up stuff to do (like I have a friend, who, in Morrowind, stole every pillow in the game and made a fort out of it that was bigger than any of Bethesdas forts, while that may have been fun, I really doubt Bethesda would have included things like that in their 300 hour count)

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:34 am

No one is ever 'finished' with Skyrim.

But Ive pretty much seen and done most of what the game has to offer on one playthrough, thats the closest defintion to finished for an elder scrolls game I can think of

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:29 pm

But Ive pretty much seen and done most of what the game has to offer on one playthrough, thats the closest defintion to finished for an elder scrolls game I can think of

But unless you try the game with other races, you havent yet. People react different to different races, the path you take in gaming is different. The actual content is secondary, its the journey through it thats the important bit. I love the fact that bandits scream at my khajiit " You will make a good rug when your dead cat!". It adds more to the experience when things like that happen.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:52 am

I know you're going to hate me for this, but I really think that the "300 hours of content" that was promised by Bethesda is a complete embellishment. To me, I got pretty much all I got out of the game at about 150 hours, not to mention, the last 30 hours felt like a grind rather than genuinely enjoying the game.

Have to disagree there.. I think all this highlights is how some people get bored a lot faster then others..
I'm at around 320 hours.. lvl 58 and have no intention of starting another character. Well not yet anyway

There's a major city I've never even been to and 3 others I've barely scratched the surface of.. in fact the western side of the entire map is quite barren compared to the east in terms of discovered locations.
The only quest lines I've finished are the mages guild and companions..
Feels like I'm approaching maybe a 3rd of what this game has to offer.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:39 am

But unless you try the game with other races, you havent yet. People react different to different races, the path you take in gaming is different. The actual content is secondary, its the journey through it thats the important bit. I love the fact that bandits scream at my khajiit " You will make a good rug when your dead cat!". It adds more to the experience when things like that happen.

That's different dialogue, not content, and I've stated this before, this is all on one character

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:15 am

Have to disagree there.. I think all this highlights is how some people get bored a lot faster then others..

Thats... that's actually a good point.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:30 am

my char atm is 450 in and hasn't killed a dragon his a farmer and a thief

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:04 am

That's different dialogue, not content, and I've stated this before, this is all on one character

well with that you could just say tat most of the content isnt really new content just rehashed content. which is still perfectly true. but you can experience the content varying ways with different playstyles. all of them are fun.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:07 pm

That's different dialogue, not content, and I've stated this before, this is all on one character

Sure the content is the content, but your path and playstyle of the content changes how it plays out with different races and skills.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:21 pm

first of all being lvl 81 isnt beating the game like you make it sound out to be

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:09 am

first of all being lvl 81 isnt beating the game like you make it sound out to be

Did I ever say I was level 81? At least read my post before you comment

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:33 pm

The difference in dialog/content from race to race is pretty minimal, I'd say Dragon Age: Origins did a much better job on that front. But the differences in combat you'll see with different skill emphasis/playstyle is huge. Dual wield, two handed and sword and shield all offer very different combat from one to the next, and require separate playthroughs to fully explore. Archery is obviously even more different, and magic has several routes that can be used creatively (although destruction is known to be a little lame.)

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:39 pm

Sure the content is the content, but your path and playstyle of the content changes how it plays out with different races and skills.

Thats where roleplaying comes in as I stated earlier in this thread.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:06 am

14.28 hours a day since release.

16.28 hours a day since release.

Clearly people with no lives... just saying...

You know that wasn't all at one time.