How many hours have you devoted to Skyrim?

[Product Placement]

bulls***

(not gonna requote you, since it's been done 100 times already)

Picture someone devoted enough to do a huge gaming binge, for the first few weeks (game first came out shortly before Christmas, so people had time off from school). It would be easy enough for that person to rack up a good chunk of those 700 hours in a short time like that.

Let's assume that this person then becomes active in the modding community and thus stays interested in the game.

Then consider that we might be talking about a child/teenager that doesn't have a summer job and thus has an awful amount of spare time, during his off-school season.

It's not a huge stretch for me. It's not that hard to rack up 100 hours in a month (3-4 hours a day, spread evenly) and that's assuming that someone would consistently play the game like that for 7 months. And like you said, it's been 12 months, so he didn't even had to play the game that intensely.

 

[Darmy647]

uhhh...Maybe a week? I fucking Raped skyrim. But the combat bored me to hell to be honest...so someone told me "Play dark souls" And i did, and i never looked back. I'm not displeased at all.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Nine.

And when I look over my save file, I've done nearly everything.

Ya, I'm gonna call BS on the nearly done everything part.

OT: Adding up the time from each of my save files I have played for 203 hours. Still going strong too.

 

[Coffeejack]

Steam says 369 hours, but I've been launching it through Nexus Mod Manager, so there's probably extra time stacked up. I've spent significantly longer than that fantasising about the game, too.

 

[WFox]

I'm at 200 give or take a few hours. 110 hours on one character and the rest spread across 4 or 5 more.

 

[putowtin]

1st character: Female Nord, completed main storyline, civil war quest, is the Companion's Harbinger, killed the vampires and has a lovely home 60+ hours
2nd Character: Male Dark Elf, completed Dark Brotherhood and Theives Guild, Sided with the vamps and has all the daedric toys 50+ hours
3rd Character Female Orc, Completed theives and Companions, civil war and daedric quests 40+ hours
4th Character: Level 50 Imperial completed hardly anything (my mucking around character) 40+ hours

200 hours give or take, and I'll be getting back into it when Dragonborn lands

 

[IamLEAM1983]

609 hours according to Steam.

It isn't enough. It's never enough. Too many awesome mods!

I'd say that's over five characters, only one of which has finished the main quest.

 

[machblast]

Around 9.

Once I realized how devoid of interesting things to do the game was, and that every single sidequest/dungeon was basically 'kill all the draugr', I gave up.

Well, I never really liked Elder Scrolls but yeah. (Also when the fuck are they going to hire competent animators? It's better than Oblivion's completely horrible animation suite but it's still subpar)

 

[herbortamus]

Since I play Skyrim on console I can't track how many hours I have played, but it is probably one of my most played game...ever. Atleast in such a short time, since it has only been out for a year I maybe have put 150-200 hours into it.

Not sure about on the PS3, but if you're on 360 it states how many hours you have played on the game save screen. Each individual save has it's own total. I'm at about 190. I finally got around to facing Alduin the other day

 

[everythingbeeps]

I think I finished the main game at like 140-150 hours. I haven't played much of the DLC yet.

 

[White_Lama]

I have played it about 500 hours. On Xbox 360 so no mods except the DLC.

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...


Either way, I dont have amagical hour counter and its been a while since I played this, but I am guessing roguhtly 80 hours? maybe a little less idk.

Got about 5-6 different characters. Why?

Because I don't mix the different playstyles, I have one warrior, one mage and one thief, then I've thrown in some other ones like a barbarian and an archer aswell. Keeps the game more interesting then having one character to do all things with.

 

[Mobax]

I would have to go add up all the time from my individual characters, but I'm going to guess... 500 hours

Whoa! Spooky, I totaled up all my character saves, 501 hours

 

[Roofstone]

112.

Just a scrub compared to many, but still an impressive amount of hours I like to think.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I stopped counting around 200 hours, with one main character (Northerner/Viking rogue), another 'more educated pick' main character (Kajit rogue) and an experimental build that was mainly just there to show me how the game would handle extreme min-maxing. Oh, and about 12 bonus hours after I figured out how to get a non-XBOX controller to work on my Windows install. I am symmetrical, the XBOX controller is not. It gives me aches and it insults my eyes.

Then there's quite some weekends playing Barbie's little pink dollhouse pony horsie pool party castle building, beautifying the game beyond postcard perfection. That was fun. So much fun I eventually lost interest in the actual game and only craved for more visual perfection until my eyes got sore and my brain exploded.

Not very interested in vampires (Thanks to Twilight's inanity and media presence overload), not interested in building my own home... with less options than the hackery/mod approach offered. As long as I cannot build my fairy princess tower of doom built entirely from High Elf skulls, I am plain not interested.

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

4 or 5 hundred. Too much for the console version.

 

[aguspal]

I have played it about 500 hours. On Xbox 360 so no mods except the DLC.

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...


Either way, I dont have amagical hour counter and its been a while since I played this, but I am guessing roguhtly 80 hours? maybe a little less idk.

Got about 5-6 different characters. Why?

Because I don't mix the different playstyles, I have one warrior, one mage and one thief, then I've thrown in some other ones like a barbarian and an archer aswell. Keeps the game more interesting then having one character to do all things with.

Opinons.

I rather prefer to have a godlike level 50 character that excells in everything and I get to see almost everything the game offers at me, and call it a day and move on to the next game.


Its not like I rushed or didnt enjoined it, either. I loved skyrim while it lasted (If a bit of a glitch fest), and damn it lasted pretty long all things considerated.

 

[Pandabearparade]

About 1200 hours, though a lot of that is likely when I left the game on in the background for days on end.

 

[Creator002]

Steam says 82 hours, though my sister created a save and played a little too, so it's probably more like 75. However, that 75 hours includes doing the main quest twice and doing all the side quests I encountered along the way. (On my second play through. The first I just did the main quest then deleted that character because I didn't like it.)

 

[Goofguy]

Up until a month ago, I was at 115 hours. Then I got Hearthfire and Dawnguard and I was excited to play again. I added an other twenty five hours with the DLC, finishing other side quests and just random venturing. Plus, I had become pretty committed to max levelling my Bosmer. Once I had completed all the stuff I wanted to though, I got bored and stopped playing.

All that to say, 140 hours with one lvl 78 character.