I beat the main quest in 40 hours taking it slow. I'm on day 22 now.

Play time for any game is HIGHLY variable. Especially when it comes to Bethesda's games...

So how are you liking it from here? I beat all side quests, explored all areas leaving Diamond City as my last location. Even though the dialogue inside Diamond City was slightly unfit for this type of play, it was still enjoyable this way and I feel I got out as much as I could (from this point), at 300 hours. Here's to hoping DLC/Mods bring some extraordinary gameplay or better yet, making this the game of all time.

405h according to Steam for playing four characters that finished with different factions

A little over 400 hours on 2 and 1/2 characters. I restarted after 50+ hours on the 1st one when I learned how do things. I'm really waiting on the dlcs and geck to come out before playing more.

397h. Feel so ripped off.

I'm at 312 and I haven't finish the main quest.I also have plenty of side mission and I need to find four more bobble heads. So yeah...a lot of hours!!

According to the game, I'm rocking in at over 4 days game time...Lemme do some internal math...

Roughly over a hundred hours. Give or take a few hours over 96.

Not bad.

I'm at 384 hours. Still a lot left to do, too. Many quests not finished. No radiant quests tackled yet. Settlements to build at Boston Airport and Egret Tours Marina (haven't found this location yet, actually). And I still want to tweak my older settlements, now that I've got the hang of the build function (I plan to 'sixy' them up). Also, hanging around, waiting for the DLC.

Todd Howard said he had "played for 400 hours and was still seeing new things." Apparently OP heard something different.


Even if Howard *had* flatly stated the game had 400 hours of content, how could anyone prove him wrong? It's an open world game. Content is content whether you're doing quests, building settlements, or staring at the sky.

LOL.

Steam says 630 hours (so far).
That's my total for two characters who did two endings each...
But plenty still to do!
Many areas yet unexplored - and the guy I'm playing now (level 54) has never even joined the Minutemen.

You guys who say you've "done everything" in like 200 hours, I call BS!
A player can spend DAYS just exploring the extreme south-west of the game map, all around Virgil's cave and the Glowing Sea.

200 hours to rush through one ending, I could see...
Then maybe 50 hours each for the other three endings!
So we're up to ~350 hours then, right there - with much of the game-world still unexplored.

Steam says 3000+ hours for me in Skyrim, heheh...
And I will EASILY hit 1000 hours in Fallout4.
I challenge anyone to do all four endings, explore every location, and do all the miscellaneous quests and sidequests in 'only' 400 hours.

My latest save is close to about 30 hours. I uninstalled the game and started reinstalling, due to an issue I was encountering that I originally thought was the fault of the game itself. Turns out I was wrong and I'm wasting almost a weeks (at least according to a download calculator I looked at) worth of downloading for absolutely nothing. I'm pretty mad at myself as I really want to play to increase that time, but it's only at 42% and started re-downloading night before yesterday (yes a slow 1.12mb's internet that is agonizing as it sounds, don't have much of a choice where I live though). I am an Xbox One user by the way.

I make my own fun, mostly eating specific npcs. That and farming legendaries, maintaining my slave farms and hunting provisioners for sport.

First character: 13 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes. I explored every location on the map, did all side quests I could and main quests. I only did each repeatable quest once just to do it but I wasn't going to continue doing those just for xp. I did nothing with companions except for the MacCready quest because i was trying to collect all the magazines... but I got the Rook House glitch so I ended up one magazine short. [place sad face here] If I had bothered with companions and tried for each of their perks, I easily would have hit the 400 mark since it takes so long to get your rep up with them.... but I can't stand the companion a.i. so nope. I also didn't do much with settlements so there's more hours there if I wanted. Instead I created a few secondary characters that might be fun and am just waiting for some DLC to drop to pick one of them to start a new game.

WHOA! Seriously? Dude, I thought I was the world's slowest Fallout immersive player but I can see I'm not even in the minor leagues compared to you. I have logged over 300 hours and now, completely covered every square inch, read the Survival Guide front to back, collected all, etc... and I felt I took this extremely slow as I spent so much time in the workshop with every settlement built up with nothing less than missile turrets. I have redone Radiant quests so many times.

I can't tell if this is just one sarcastic joke of a post I am responding to but uh yah, kinda been there and done that. I feel I have soaked up 100% of the FO4 world as I have REslaughtered more gunners/super mutants/ghouls/raiders than I ever have in my life. Cmon, you can't be serious?

I really hope your having a blast, I'm still waiting for the siren.

I've got around 150 plus hours across four characters. Pretty good for a 60 dollar game. Hopefully with the release of Far harbor I'll be putting more time into the game. As of now though? Nah, I've done enough radiant quests to last me until Fallout 7.

As for how many hours DLC will bring....Idk. The little DLC's have some interesting things in them, but I'm only interested in the big ones like Far harbor.

Where do I look on the Playstation to see my hours?

I've done the main quest once.. I just don't want to do it again.

I have rolled out 8 to 10 different characters so far. One each for the various faction endings. The rest have been changing up when or if I did certain things on the first four characters. For example one character does not go to rescue Preston and his collection of misfits. Another never ever talks to the BOS. One is big into building settlements and another does not touch them at all. All this has gotten me 911 hours in FO4.

Keep in mind I had 1789 hours in Skyrim. Those kind of hour totals are thanks to mods that change things up and make things interesting again when I get to the point I feel like I have been there done that with the vanilla game. I will probably pass up the Skyrim 1789 total with FO4 simple because I have close to half that already and we have yet to see the Creation Kit/GECK yet.

I'm in awe at the...time factor here. Here's my question to you. Does it matter if you don't rescue Preston? I mean sure you avoid or ignore Concord right but he'll always be there. This is what I feel is so lacking in FO4. I wish that once he initiates the dialogue asking for help that you would have the choice to run away like a coward with the implication that doing so means a Raider Armageddon for that playthrough since Preston dies and there is no chance for a Minutemen path. You not rescuing Preston just means your avoiding the Concord museum and 200 in game years later he'll still be waiting for you to rescue him. I wish there were more dramatic consequences. Then I would be playing 100 different characters but for now, I'll stick with my 1.

Bethesda lied to us once again! 400 hours is complete BS. It's a severe underestimate!!!

If your trying to fully fortify 30 settlements (with a generals quarters, bar/restaurant, mall, and clinic, walls/defenses in each one). And equip all 600+ settlers in max BW, max modded guns and armors (if appropriate)

3 characters (2 playthroughs) and 575 hours so far. Fallout 4 takes considerable longer to finish, even if just going for the main quest compared to for example NV. NV I have finished in a little over 2 hours (I have some 700 hours or so in NV) Fallout 3 dunno how many hours I have there, but a good guess would be 650 hours.

In FO4 though, I feel overall there is more to explore, great thanks to all the small unmarked, and sometimes very unique, locations. I haven't done much in the settlement department (played up to Old Guns and that's it)

Absolutely. Best value for entertainment that I've yet found. It's also why I balk at those who complain about the price of the base game/DLCs, as I can't think of anything else that will provide hundreds of hours of entertainment for so little per hour.

Knowing right where to go to find everything and exactly what to do to overcome obstacles/puzzles will shorten your game time considerably.

Ok, thought I clarified this one but maybe not. After 250 hours of exploring all locations, doing all side quests, 2 playthroughs of Main quests, collecting all mags, bobbleheads (technically minus 3 at the time) and building every settlement I then read the survival guide. So this means after I felt like, "wow, I've done everything" then I checked to see if there was anything I missed. Again, FO4 lacks much in it's huge space. My first exploration consisted of 1 hour of finding nothing but a shack with 1 lockpick opportunity and the rest was nothing. This is not to say that I give it anything less than a B+. I believe it drops a letter for being as underwhelming when in comparison to FO3, Skyrim and the hype. Heck, maybe it would have been an A+ had I never had the previous games in my experience which it probably most certainly would have, but again, point of the post was not to complain. Maybe just to find hope that there may still be a Revolution in the DLC/mods coming that bring this game to the Epic greatness that I thought it would have already been.