How many hours have you devoted to Skyrim?

[Trippy Turtle]

I'd say maybe 50? I played a lot more of oblivion, Skyrim just seems to bore me now that I beat the storyline and can one hit everything while sneaking.
I had fun for a few hours using a shield and my claws but even that lost its charm pretty quickly.
Also, whenever I start a new character I always end up using daggers and sneaking. Every other option just seems to take too long to kill things and the sneaking is so overpowered.

 

[hooblabla6262]

When Skyrim first came out, I dove in head first. Probably clocked 120 hours within the first 2 weeks. I was devoted.

Then I took a break up until they released Hearthfire, started a new character, and clocked another 120 hours. Still haven't completed Dawnguard, but I'm kinda bored of it now.
Oh well. I imagine I'll start again once Dragonborn comes out. Or maybe just wait for all the dlc to come out.

 

[jhoroz]

180 hours with my first character (high elf) on the PS3, and about 30 hours with my female redguard on the PC (mostly messing around with command prompts and cheats, and just massacring everything I see0

 

[Cody Hargreaves]

101 hrs did all of the main stuff then quit.

 

[BartyMae]

I have about fifteen minutes. *scratches head*

 

[gigastrike]

Only 210. I should really get back into that game. I'm not even close to done.

 

[deathzero021]

I honestly don't see that as being very surprising. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people on this website spend the majority of their free time playing video games. When I was in high school and didn't go out much, I would be in school from 830-3, be home by 4, and then play video games for most of the evening. If one stays up until 12 or 1, not counting time spent eating, that's potentially 6 hours of game time five days per week. Lets double that on the weekends, and we have 54 hours logged per week.

If you look at it this way, the larger figures people are throwing out shouldn't seem that unreasonable.

Jeez well, i always considered myself a gamer but i've never played games that much. i don't play games every day, it's something i only do occasionally. most games can't keep my attention anymore either. still i guess there's a difference between gamer and addict.

 

[Psycomantis777]

Erm... a lot... I think I really played Oblivion a shite load more, it hurts to look at it... But Skyrim, i find I can jump back on that a while later and still have my bearings... Think that's good.

 

[endtherapture]

110 then realised there was nothing to do and started Dark Souls.

That was 2 characters - a Breton warrior mage in heavy Armour and a Redguard dual wielding warrior with light armour.

110h for 2 characters? You didn't even scratched the surface, right?

I finished all the big questlines...I'm not sure what to do now... :/

 

[Fappy]

Probably between 300 and 400 hours. I have a lot of characters

 

[aguspal]

LOL at the multiple characters part


As much as I loved skyrim, why would I play the same game for no reason more than once...

Says the guy with a Mario avatar??

Glass houses, mate...

I dont see what Mario games have to do with what I just said.


And I honestly havent played a mario game since Gamecube, the avatar is really there simply fo rthe sake of having an avatar (That dosnt means I hate Mario or anything, thougt, I like his game and all... its cool).

 

[kortin]

ive logged about 12 hours into the game so far and its already getting boring. ive had the game for a week now . im playing as a female nord warrior mage combination. ive recently completed the talk to greybeards and learn new shouts quest in the main quest line while also killed kematu in the swindlers den side quest. i dont think ill be playing more than 50 hours total.
the quests are so boring and repetitive they become a chore more than being fun.
its difficult to imagine how some of you have put hundreds of hours into this game.

You think...you think the fun in skyrim is in the main quest...lmao. That hasn't been true for any Elder Scrolls game. The main quest in morrowind was meh. Oblivion's was impressive aesthetically, but that's pretty much it. I never finished Skyrim's main quest.

OT: Uh, probably 250~ hours or so on one character.

 

[SquidVicious]

I've put 87 hours into my first character and really haven't progressed the story that much. I've maxed out my sneak and one-handed skills so couple that with my Dark Brotherhood gloves, I can pretty much kill anything so long as it's a sneak attack. I want to create more characters, but I want to get a hard drive for my 360 first so I can cut down on the loading times, download the update patches, and get in on some of these DLC packs because they look interesting.

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

I've only logged ~85 hours with my one character. I've got my one-handed skill maxed, pair that with my ebony mace and my firebolt spell and I'm nearly unstoppable.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

209 hours, but I often just leave my computer on in game while I'm making food or something so figure closer to 195-200 range. One normal run through. Wiped my hard drive. And did a completionist run to do absolutely everything except the radial quests. I'm still never actually 'finished' everything still have like 1 or 2 of those dragon masks missing and only have like half of the houses, but apart from that I'm probably mostly done?

Oh god That's over 8 days of straight Skyrim, what am I doing with my life.

 

[Jaeke]

I call bulls*** all over this thread. 700 hours? you got to be kidding me. That's about a full month of 24/7 gaming. longest gameplay time i've ever had in a video game is 128 hours and that was over the course of at least 4 years of playing that game occasionally.

If we were to do some math, say Skyrim is 12 months old for simplicity. That means you spent about 1/12 of your life playing this game in the time it's existed. (assuming you got it day 1) That's 8% of your year. That's pretty damn huge. You sleep about 35% of the year, probably work/school 35%, that only leaves 30% left for free time. This includes eating, hanging out with friends (if you have any) and family, playing other games, watching movies, vacations and all the other things in life such as showering and scratching your a$$.

so in reality, since you only have 30% of the year for free time, and it's 8% of your total time for Skyrim, that's almost 1/3 of your free time in the whole year. Truly fascinating if it has actually happened before!

Only games i think could get that many hours of gameplay is MMO's that people get mentally addicted to. Such as a long-running game like WoW. These people can play the game for like 10 years and those hours are going to add up.

Well... you're wrong then I guess. I have about 400 hours on it, and I get a lot of things done. I haven't seriously had a real sit-down with Skyrim for about 5 months so for someone to say they have done less than double that in twice the amount of time makes sense to me.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

Probably around 300 hours spread across 11 characters with a highest level 66 Orc Warrior

 

[Kapri]

An unsettling amount that cannot be healthy. We'll leave it at that.

 

[MHR]

361 hours

1 character

I find collecting and/or selling everything of at least modest value to be fun, so that eats a lot of time. Also no fast travel, it's for suckers.