Skyrim Beaten In Just Over Two Hours

[Lt. Vinciti]

Im glad I dont come back to these topics often to read how ignorant everyone is...


SPEEDRUN? MOAR LIEK HOW LONG THE GAME IS!

Also Im not sure how Skyrim and Dark Souls has anything in common...usually when games kill me Im not amused...

S p e e d r u n...meaning he beat the game without looking in every nook and cranny...body...peoples stuff (not yours now is) etc etc...So there could be "The Hand of Howard" the best weapon in the game that looks like Todd Howard's hand and he would never have it because he SPEEDRUN the damn MAIN QUEST





Also means he doesnt have a vast library lodged in a desk or a kickass house for all his cool stuff...

 

[newwiseman]

I played Morrowind for so long before I actually did a quest.

 

[blaqknoise]

He got a pie?

Best prize ever!

 

[Char-Nobyl]

So in exchange for a free pie and a small trophy, this poor guy ruined the entire Skyrim experience by racing through it as fast as humanly possible?

That's horrible. This guy clearly liked the series, or he wouldn't be in the contest, so why in the hell would he make his first playthrough an extreme speed run? Skipping all the dialogue, ignoring the scenery...it's just not worth it for so meager a prize. It cheapens the entire experience for him.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

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

Does a hour and a half count?

 

[jawakiller]

I really want pie now.

For some reason...

 

[vxicepickxv]

I just want to beat it before ME3 comes out.

 

[vxicepickxv]

So in exchange for a free pie and a small trophy, this poor guy ruined the entire Skyrim experience by racing through it as fast as humanly possible?

That's horrible. This guy clearly liked the series, or he wouldn't be in the contest, so why in the hell would he make his first playthrough an extreme speed run? Skipping all the dialogue, ignoring the scenery...it's just not worth it for so meager a prize. It cheapens the entire experience for him.

Why would a guy who beta tested Skyrim for a year do a speedrun? Beats me.

 

[Razorback0z]

I dont really care how long hes been playing it if you can finish it in 2 hours then geez... I couldnt beleive it when I finished FA3. Im not sure how long it took but it was a matter of days. I say this with no impirical evidence and extremely poor spelling but FA1 and 2 were EPICS. Thats the thing that upset me most about FA3 it was just a little thing, it was a FA1 or 2 side quest.

Why do we accept so little these days and yet still applaud like its been a linear progression of goodness from Pong to Skyrim when to me its been two steps forward and a big step back more often than not.

Could anyone have finished Deus Ex in 2 hours ? (note. I have no idea and I did google it)

I think we are lowering the bar with RPG's in a lot of ways.

 

[Fishyash]

Why would anyone try to beat the game that fast? Isn't the whole point of a Bethesda style game to explore the terrain, find hidden secret stories told through the environment and experience the rich expanse of side quests and adventures to be had that have nothing to do with the main quest? I put hundreds of hours into Oblivion, and I fully anticipate putting hundreds more into Skyrim. I mean I get the idea of a speed run, but with a game like this, that almost doesn't seem like an accomplishment.

EDIT: Or at the very least it defeats the purpose...

^This.

I don't understand Speed Runs in RPG's full stop. Something like a resi 2 in an hour or a sonic run in under 20 minutes, ok, but why would you want to dash through an RPG as quick as possible?

To my mind that's like sitting down in front of a glorious roast dinner, and stuffing your face so fast that you can't taste anything.

I know right, he has missed out so much stuff since he hasn't played the game before and this wasn't a competition to see if he could beat the game faster than a dev team rep.

On a more serious note, if you played the game several times (you know, like testers do) don't you think trying to speed run a game would be a nice way to test the game to its limits (that's one of the things I like about TAS runs on games for example)? Or just find another way to play the game to make it more interesting?

 

[Fishyash]

On a more serious note, if you played the game several times (you know, like testers do) don't you think trying to speed run a game would be a nice way to test the game to its limits (that's one of the things I like about TAS runs on games for example)? Or just find another way to play the game to make it more interesting?

You know what, fair enough actually. If you're a tester and have to play certain segments/games over and over again for hours and hours at a time, I can see why a speed run is a new level of play. But for general people, I think it's sad, straight up. The worst thing though is when they actually build shit into the games to deliberatly cater to speed runs... *GLARES at an otherwise brilliant FF9*

You are right, a non-score based game should not cater in any way to speed runners.

I think it makes speed running more fun that way.

I don't speed run in RPGs, but one thing that fascinates me is when someone tries to break a game in some way or abuse certain mechanics. Some people may be bored with playing 'the normal way' (normal depending on how you normally play an RPG) and want to try something different. Speed runs are a great way to test the game (unless you are following an already made strat) or your expertise/skills with that specific game. It's a certain type of hardcore gaming IMO, on the opposite end of roleplaying (which I would assume was your main argument), it's metagaming to the max, which defies roleplaying alltogether.

It's a love or hate thing I guess, but I wouldn't discourage such a way of playing.

 

[duchaked]

oh dear is that a challenge?

reminds me of the Ocarina of Time speedruns...and the Halo CE ones haha

oh and Portal, how could I forget

 

[Tien Shen]

I don't get the QQ over a speedrun by a QA tester who no doubt already knows all the methods and paths to completing the game, while ignoring all the side quests. If Bethesda wanted to they could have made the main quest even longer by cutting out a tonne of sidequests but then ppl would still QQ mainly due to the fact that having a tonne of side quests has been a staple of TES games.

 

[Machocruz]

Probably the same time it will take to find out the game is as shoddy as Oblivion.

 

[Zer_]

Why would anyone try to beat the game that fast? Isn't the whole point of a Bethesda style game to explore the terrain, find hidden secret stories told through the environment and experience the rich expanse of side quests and adventures to be had that have nothing to do with the main quest? I put hundreds of hours into Oblivion, and I fully anticipate putting hundreds more into Skyrim. I mean I get the idea of a speed run, but with a game like this, that almost doesn't seem like an accomplishment.

EDIT: Or at the very least it defeats the purpose...

He's a QA tester, he's played the game so much he's probably sick of it at this point... So yeah finding new ways to entertain yourself with the game is a natural reaction.

 

[snave]

"a pie of his choice"

See, that's a reward worth fighting for.