I know, I trying another character right now, althought the 150 hours I was talking about is on ONE CHARACTER, its hard to have different playstyles on one character, well I guess you can, but it is easier to specialize. Anyway, even though destruction has possibly the least interesting spells, I think they're the most useful, or at least easiest to use

On a single character I would agree to a certain extent. I found the immersion wore off at around 180 hours... at that point I had done all the guilds, was thane of every area, had beaten the Main quest and did the blades content. I also did more Misc quests than I could count and tried to clear every dungeon I came across. My map was littered with *cleared* areas. I absolutely know I didn't do every possible thing, or I missed book quests, misc quests.. etc.

At that point I had a lvl 50 some odd warrior, with 100 in all my main areas of focus and I started playing with magic/archery/ sneaking to continue to gain levels as I explored the world for anything I may have missed.

When it got too draggy for my liking and I lost immersion I started a new character which focused in different areas... immersion was back and I was happy.

I have over 200 hours between two characters, neither of which has done more than about a third of the available content. Some of that is for RP reasons: my first character will not be doing TG or DB, while the second will not do MG nor complete the MQ. In both cases I expect to get well over 300 hours out of each of them before they're done, however they're currently on hold and I'll be starting a third character soon, which I also expect to get hundreds of hours out of.

My first two characters have concentrated on quests, however in both cases their RP required I do so; the third will do a lot of wandering around, so it will probably take a long time to get anywhere on the MQ.

Theres only 24 hours in a day, if you include sleep and eating, there is very little time to do other things, meaning he would have to quit his job, and if he didn't play for even one day, it would be increadibly difficult to catch up

Wow, someone who kinda agrees with me, that was unexpected.

614 hours is nothing that's only 25 days of game play. I've played over 390 days of wow (7 hours per day at work) and I know guys that have over 2 years of game play. Lots of guys. 614 hours is nothing. Just too bad Skyrim doesn't have any pvp so he can show off his skills to others.

I do agree, I've done most things in 80 hours. All the quests that are left are absolute rubbish.

I'm 110 hours in and haven't started a SINGLE guild or beat the main quest. There is so much to do, so much terrain to explore, and so many awesome distractions that I don't understand how you get bored so quickly. Or maybe I just have ADHD so random shenanigans are more appealing.

p.s. Acolyte, your post was fantastic.

It's still too obsessive, and any game would get boring after a while

yeah but its better than playing WoW for now, even if its gotten repetitive im still finding "new" things i havent seen yet. im just hoping it holds my attention till Diablo 3 finally releases, and with the CK soon and mods im betting it will.

totally agree, waiting on Diablo 3.

Its impossible to get all the content out of one play through. Totally impossible.

Well stop playing Skyrim and do something else. bai.

I'm talking about getting as much as you can from one playthrough

I would say more like 200-230 max. My playtime is about 140 and cant see myself creating more than one more character unless they bring out an expansion. Maybe when they have release an expansion or two they could say with confidence 300+ hours and I would agree

I usually replay TES games a number of times, i'm guessing each one has seen near the number of hours for me.

I also think there probably IS that amount of content in the game, whether you end up doing it all or not.

i think i have quite a bit. i've tried to save complete armor sets i've aquired, but i sold linwies? armor and can't remember to whom. also, the amount of gems i find now is insane. literally. i can't sell them all.

Yeah..just terrible, because that's just what I want in my TES game, a thirteen year old following me around saying DULE ME UNUB.

I wholeheartedly agree, this game's content was incredibly lacking and got boring very quick. I don't play anymore, as I have done everything interesting there is to do.

I'm finding it extremely difficult to put time into this game and it makes me sad as I thought it was my favorite video game series.

I've made 3 characters:

- A warrior (who completed only the main quest and explored all the dungeons),
- A mage (who only completed the mages guild and all the eastern and central dungeons)
- A ranger (who only completed the Civil War quests and central dungeons.)


I've only clocked 80 hours between the 3 characters mentioned. I just can't play it...

250+ and I have 4 factions left to finish.

[deleted]

What exactly do you want from us? If you feel you've finished the game then you've finished the game. I'm sure we all will at some point.

I just wanted other people's thoughts, although I should've known it would make people mad instead. Never mess with a fan-boy

Has nothing to do with being a fan boy...

You basically posted a thread about how you only got 150 hours out of the game, as opposed to the 300 hours of content mentioned somewhere or other.

There is nothing on the box saying "you WILL play this for 300 hours", and holding that kind of expectation is ridiculous.

If you want to put out real criticism of the game, then do that..everything in this thread is rehashed whining and vague stuff about the game not being deep enough, being too repetitive, what have you. MOST of the criticism on this forum is useless, and a small percentage is actually valid, so yeah people get annoyed, fan boys or no.


That right there, is anyone supposed to take your criticism seriously? You played it for 150 hours dude, and now you're coming on here because Todd Howard or someone once said there was 300 hours of content..sheesh get a real complaint lol. Amazes me the absolute crap people will complain about on this forum...the sad thing is that if Bethesda actually does pay attention to forum rumblings, they have to sort through 20+ posts like this for every post that might actually have valid criticism of the game.

Well, that is fine that you talk about one character. Content though is about all the things that game has to offer, right? Now, if you played a warrior, you didn't use all the content since there are many spells left to use. So playing another character actually holds more content in stock. In my definition, "content" is about everything the game has to offer. That includes playing a different type of character as well als the construction set and everything that is possible with it. I don't really see your point. They said the game has more than 300 hours of content and as stated, the game offers that easily. Nobody ever talked about a singe character but the overall playtime you get from the product.

If you insist on your one character theory, this thread is pretty pointless if you ask me.