Skyrim Beaten In Just Over Two Hours
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Grey Carter said:Skyrim Beaten In Just Over Two Hours
One of Bethesda's QA testers has beaten the highly anticipated RPG in an impressive two hours and sixteen minutes.
To a given value of "beaten," of course. Presumably QA tester Sam Bernstein didn't see too much of Skyrim's verdant scenery as he scuttled from quest to quest in a bid to beat development team rep Jeff Browne to the end credits. Bernstein's final time was a lightning-fast 2:16:10 - twenty seconds faster than Browne's effort. The speed run competition was held to celebrate Skyrim's imminent launch and cheats were not allowed. Bernstein, who can be seen basking in the august rays of victory above, received a small trophy for his troubles as well as a pie of his choice, baked by director Todd Howard. Bernstein also won the speed run competition for Fallout 3 back when it launched, finishing the post-apocalyptic RPG with a final completion time of 75 minutes. Not bad.
Of course, regular gamers who haven't been playing Skyrim non-stop for the past year - or designing it for that matter - probably won't get through the game quite that fast. Bethesda has claimed it will take players around 30 hours to beat the game's central quest, not including the time it takes them to father (or mother) a dynasty of lizard children.
You can take your best shot at Bernstein's record when Skyrim launches on November 11th.
Source: Bethesda Blog [http://www.bethblog.com/gate.php?referer=%2Findex.php%2F2011%2F10%2F13%2Fjeff-vs-sam-ii-the-skyrim-speedrun%2F]
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Let me see someone beat Dark Souls in two hours... then i'd be impressed
Or as a friend of mine once said: "Talking about how fast you beat a game is like talking about how fast you are in bed."Daaaah Whoosh said:
I understand their reasoning for it, but how can that possibly be any fun? Competitive or not? I would rather just enjoy my time with it.
The most interesting part about this for me is that Todd Howard actually baked a pie for the winner. He got to pick the flavour as well!
Speedruns tell nothing about the game, though they can be fun for the ones doing it. And this one is about double what Oblivion was, so that's good news.
Oh, and I love all the people comparing it to Dark Souls, forgetting that 1: It's a speedrun, and 2: Dark Souls is more of an action game than an RPG.
Speedruns tell nothing about the game, though they can be fun for the ones doing it. And this one is about double what Oblivion was, so that's good news.
Oh, and I love all the people comparing it to Dark Souls, forgetting that 1: It's a speedrun, and 2: Dark Souls is more of an action game than an RPG.
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At least it's longer/harder to sequence break than Morrowind. There are videos of it being completed in 10 minutes.
At least it's longer/harder to sequence break than Morrowind. There are videos of it being completed in 10 minutes.
why? pie. pie's why.moose49408 said:
but the point of the GAME is to see cool shit.
the point of this is to see how fast you can do it. also pie.
OT: well... good for him i s'pose.
What concerns me about this is it makes me suspect that once again the enemies abilities scale with your level. I'm not a fan of enemy scaling. I rather enjoy the feeling of grinding and eventually becoming a walking drizzt do'urden killing machine that fears nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWi6t8Psv9w
Demon's Souls can be beaten in less then an hour. Therefore, Skyrim will be better then Demon's Souls. Right?
Also, There is a one-on-one conversation between Todd Howard and Markus Persson. (AKA "Notch" Minecraft's creator) Todd mentions that the QA testers learn to speedrun the game so that they can get to certain parts of the game very quickly. They do this so that they can test weather certain bugs and glitches are still present in the newest iteration of the game.
Demon's Souls can be beaten in less then an hour. Therefore, Skyrim will be better then Demon's Souls. Right?
Also, There is a one-on-one conversation between Todd Howard and Markus Persson. (AKA "Notch" Minecraft's creator) Todd mentions that the QA testers learn to speedrun the game so that they can get to certain parts of the game very quickly. They do this so that they can test weather certain bugs and glitches are still present in the newest iteration of the game.
Ugh ... Speed running through a game always bothers me for some reason. Hopefully they're trying to see just how much core content they have as a dipstick for time investment for power gamers?
no, nevermind that would be silly
no, nevermind that would be silly
Exactly. Most of the content of RPGs is all in the miscellaneous side quests, sight seeing and just general screwing aroundxXxJessicaxXx said:
what? I know its damn short, but sitting through all the fast travel loading screens alone probably took that long.deth2munkies said:
Maybe I'm alone in this, but conclusively proving that the main content of your new epic RPG can be beaten in less than two and a quarter hours is NOT something you should be this proud of. What are they trying to tell people? "Yeah, if you're looking for a good story, this is basically not worth it?" Great marketing right there.
You run it at a certain speed that minimizes loading times, do a wall trick to skip some of the intro, fast travel to the cathedral as soon as you leave the tutorial, then use paintbrushes (or a jump bug like in the video) and wall glitches to jump over it, which automatically teleports you to the very end of the game.walrusaurus said:
video is here:
why advertise this?! this makes the game seem short! I WANT TO PRETEND THE GAME IS 400 HOURS LONG