Skyrim is electric crack

[LawyerScumGhost]

Who else is hopelessly addicted to the game regardless of the glitches and bad interface? I am estimating that I will put about 200 hours into my first run of Skyrim. How many hours do fellow addicts think they will end up playing? And be honest, we are all nerds here.

 

[Skin]

If your having fun, good for you. But to me its just polished shit.

 

[4RM3D]

If your having fun, good for you. But to me its just polished shit.

Same here, except it's unpolished shit. I dare you to find one polished feature about the gameplay.

Also, OP, mind telling me where some of you people manage to throw 200 hours away to? 60 hours is the most I've ever gotten out of these games.

Exploring every inch of the game world takes quite a lot of time.

 

[bobfish92]

If your having fun, good for you. But to me its just polished shit.

Same here, except it's unpolished shit. I dare you to find one polished feature about the gameplay.

Also, OP, mind telling me where some of you people manage to throw 200 hours away to? 60 hours is the most I've ever gotten out of these games.

... By doing all the things?

 

[Athinira]

Skyrim is electric crack

No, that would be Minecraft or WoW. Try again. ^_^

Actually, that would be multiplayer-games that can be played over and over again with no (or very little) content added, like say for example Counter-Strike. Minecraft also fits this category, but WoW doesn't given that it needs new content to keep people playing it.

Skyrim-fans will eventually also tire out of Skyrim at some point.

 

[SextusMaximus]

If your having fun, good for you. But to me its just polished shit.

Same here, except it's unpolished shit. I dare you to find one polished feature about the gameplay.

Also, OP, mind telling me where some of you people manage to throw 200 hours away to? 60 hours is the most I've ever gotten out of these games.

Hardest difficulty, no fast travel while exploring all the caves you see while simultaneously doing the dark brotherhood takes a massive amount of time.

I'm 138 hours in playing only on expert and fast travelling and I've still gotten that long out of it!

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

i was still playing obivion and fallout nv on and off untill skyrim came out

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

I guess the thing to take away from this is that I can beat games more than twice as fast as some others.

Skyrim isnt really a game you "beat"... i hate to be one of those guys that tells someone they're playing a game wrong but it really does sound like you have the wrong attitude.

For example i can complete most games usually in a day or two of playing them, for example every COD game since the first MW i've completed on the day that i got it.
Other action games like Batman and Assassins Creeds ive completed in 2-3 days.

But Skyrim and New Vegas ive put in 100+ Hours into each, and i havent "beaten" either. I havent even started the main quest or joined a faction in either of them.

Im not so arrogant as to suggest that everyone should play their games the same way i do, but if you've beaten Skyrim after 60 hours then i'd argue im getting alot more value from my game than you are.

 

[enzilewulf]

Ehh I never got past 30hrs. I was so hyped for KOTOR once I saw it that I fell out of liking the setting of the game. That and my rouge who was lv 35 and rich as hell got corrupted. So that kinda made me sad... Its good for a while but if your anything like me it eventually just gets to be a pain.

 

[HK_01]

Yeah, I put some 80 hours into it by now and I'm not really close to "finishing" my first run. And once the Creation Kit is released and the flood of mods begins there will be nigh endless content.

I'm guessing until the next Elder Scrolls game is released this game is going to be played quite a bit over the years (not constantly obviously, with long pauses) like Oblivion and will likely absorb roughly the same amount of time (something around 500 hours). But, as I said, that will happen over years, I'm not really someone who plays all that much.

 

[mikecoulter]

It does look quite fantastic, I'll be buying it eventually.

 

[Loonyyy]

Not addiction. Compulsion. It's enjoyable, and therefore you play. Addiction is a physical dependance. It's an important distinction, because the anti-game advocates just love saying that games are addictive. I'm probably addicted to caffiene. I'm compelled to play games.

 

[bobfish92]

If your having fun, good for you. But to me its just polished shit.

Same here, except it's unpolished shit. I dare you to find one polished feature about the gameplay.

Also, OP, mind telling me where some of you people manage to throw 200 hours away to? 60 hours is the most I've ever gotten out of these games.

... By doing all the things?

I can't get more than 60 hours out of it by doing pretty much everything there is to do is what I mean. Every location explored, every side quest done. On expert.

There will be more places for you to explore, I fast travel, have done main, companions, college, thieves guild and killed the DB instead of doing there missions, which would have probably given another hour or two, and since the 30-40 hour mark I've been an almost unkillable god, killing everything in a handful of hits on master (Though I started not on master, but I needed to increase the difficuty just so everything didn't die in 1 hit, now they die in 2.) And I'm 80 hours in. I've done 2 daedric quests, explored maybe 1/2 the dungeons with tons of content left, and thats when everything dies in 1 hit. So for people who are actually playing the game properly I'm sure there is easily 200 hours in, since a normal dungeon would take say 20-30 mins, where I just charge on through. So even if you're one hitting everything, there is still no way you've done /everything/.

Do you have all the dragon masks? Have you killed every named dragon? Do you have done the dwemer cog college arc, have you done every daedric quest? Expecially Sheo's? Have you found all the captured butterflies? I doubt you've done every single dungeon, etc.

 

[Joccaren]

Eh, I'm probably only going to do the one playthrough. I've gone from Single handed warrior into Jack of All Trades and am now on my way to finish the main story, the Civil war and the Dark Brotherhood. Other than that, I have done everything that hasn't glitched so that I can't, with the exception of those supposedly infinite radiant quests.

 

[Aprilgold]

If your having fun, good for you. But to me its just polished shit.

Same here, except it's unpolished shit. I dare you to find one polished feature about the gameplay.

Also, OP, mind telling me where some of you people manage to throw 200 hours away to? 60 hours is the most I've ever gotten out of these games.

Exploring every inch of the game world takes quite a lot of time.

That doesn't mean its a polished thing. I found as many glitches in every aspect of the game and = as many in the world. Try again.

Skyrim, wether you like it or not, will die out because it can only be played to completion once, okay, it can only be played through 2 dungeons before everything is basically the same as those two dungeons, but my point is that it will fall into boring and tedious at some point, because it can only be played to completion once. While multiplayer shooters can be played differently forever.