» Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:13 am I had had the one save on Skyrim for around 5 or 6 months after release. I only had roughly 302 hours of playtime but that was mainly due to the fact that I was waiting for patches to be released rather than playing it constantly. I'd done so much in the game, I'm the kind of gamer who enjoys just one playthrough, particularly in games like Skyrim, I prefer just living with the consequences of my mistakes rather than restarting and such. For example I'd chosen to fight for the Empire and ended up regretting it. I'd talked to nearly every NPC in the game, I'd completed over 300 miscallenous quests (might have been 400 actually) and nearly every side quest in the game. I'd completed the CW questline for the Imperials, I was over halfway through the Main Quest, I'd joined the College of Winterhold and done a few quests for them. I'd collected SO much loot in all my chests, thousands of books/skooma/unique items and quest rewards. I was level 53 and had my perks chosen perfectly, everything was in balance in that save, it took a long time to get there but it was perfect in many ways, as I'd spent 302 hours crafting it. I had over 700,000 gold which I was going to spend on trainers to fully level up to 81. I still had plans on completing the Companions questline and becoming a werewolf and completing the MQ and CoW questlines. I was itching to do these and then complete the Dawnguard DLC. Then the lockups became unbearable and I deleted my save, I regret it terribly, mostly because I still believe it could have been fixed by later patches (hopeless optimism perhaps) but also because I'd been given the offer to send my save games on a USB to Bethesda for them to take a look at the problems and try and fix them. Anyway I'd deleted it before I got the message confirming this was about to happen.
I started a muckabout save where I just killed loads of people after a few hours while waiting for patch 1.6 to be released then deleted it before 1.6 was released.
Now I've just recently started a new game. 10 hours into it now and I've just reached Whiterun. I find myself subconciously trying to walk completely in the footsteps of my original save but I'm just not really enjoying it as much sadly. I'll stick with it in the hopes of maybe growing at least slightly as attached to this save as I was to my original, but I'm pessismistic.
