Fallout 4 731 hrs - 4 characters

Fallout NV 361 hrs - 5 characters

Skyrim 1444 hrs - 9 characters

Civilization V 405 hrs

Half Life 2 341 hrs

Call of Duty: Black Ops 404 hrs

Different amounts of playing time for different people - I played Borderlands 2 for nearly 1.5k hours over the course of several years, I doubt it was rated for that. Likewise, Fallout 4, (the game with which I replaced Borderlands 2) will undoubtedly provide many more hours of content than Bethesda stated at launch, spread over innumerable characters. Once I became bored with my first character, I started a second with the rule that I may never take the difficulty below VH and may never fire a gun (not including the MM flare gun). This has already provided me with many more hours of content, and I'm still only at level 16! There is always more content in well-made game, and Fallout 4 is certainly in that category.

Ah ok, my mistake.

Np. I'm a huge Fallout fan who just wishes FO4 would have been more. I am not claiming any kind of supremacy with this thinking nor am I saying that this is what it is. I started this on Survival mode and kept it all the way through. I was a huge hardcoe fan of NV and that I admit was disappointment #1 upon my first hour of play. My second disappointment was how rushed it felt from prewar to out of Vault 111 whereas I wish there would have been way more story to play in the middle of all this. Could you imagine had we met all the people of Vault 111 getting to know them with quests, story, etc... and then to wake up with all of them dead. Missed opportunity. On top of this Vault 111 felt like a closet compared to Vault 101, huge disappointment.

Then upon exiting Vault 111 I felt like ok, clear my mind of all disappointment so far and lets get to exploring. I explored for so long in those first few hours with the fear of what was out there slowly but assuredly dissipating until I felt like, huh nothin' out here (minus the staged Concord Deathclaw scene which I enjoyed but beat on my first time with no feel of a challenge). I dunno about you but I loved Cazadores from NV and there is still nothing as of yet in gaming that has made me feel so paranoid with exploring than those little stinging punks. Speaking of sting. I never died from a stingwing once. Never. Can't say the same about Bloodbugs but I thought I was in for a treat with these and that they would be the fo4 version of Cazadores, wow was I greatly mistaken. Anyways unfortunately this was my first experience in my 300 hours and I just feel more let down than cheering, that's all. Just my opinion.

327 hours on six different characters. All are above level 50, save for the newest two.

850 hours on Skyrim (7-8 characters)

So far on FO4 -

630 hours (3 characters...completed the game with only one of those).

Correction, Todd said he was still finding stuff after 400 hours.... which means anything and everything down to little teddy bear poses.

Despite my 575 hours, I think a lot of those hours have gone by with;

Going to location - Clear / Loot place - Go home - Break down weapons / Armour - sort out food, chems etc. - (insert possible building) - (insert possible going to a merchant) - Going out again.

While in FONV and FO3 (however much people hate it) breaking down gear for repairs on the road made you stay on mission much longer, before heading somewhere else. Lack of this in FO4 is the reason I've racked up so many hours already I think. A lot of management compared to previous titles. (I'm not advocating for this or that)

Fallout 4: 303 hours, about 7 chars, none of which started the MQ.

Skyrim: 1524 hrs, perhaps 20 chars

Fallout NV: 107 hours, 1 char

Fallout 3: 5 min on steam, about 200 hours from previous install (Windows Live) Don't ask how many toons.

I kind of laugh at 'rating' for an open world game like this. Excuse me what's the serving size and amount of servings in this container?

It's easy get hours into fallout 4 if you just settlement building. On my second MM play through(because [censored] the other factions that why) and I gotten caught up in settlement building.

I'm on my second character at about 520 hours. I recently finished the MQ on the Minuteman side and stopped playing. I probably won't return until the CK and the DLC's are released and better mods show up. Until then, I'm enjoying Stardew Valley.

There are a couple ways of avoiding Preston. Don't ever go into the Museum or just don't talk to him. Avoid the conversation while looting what you want from that room and head up to the roof to get the PA and Minigun.

The results of never ever rescuing Preston and company are there are no Minutemen roaming around the Commonwealth. Thus you can't get any MM quests. Your lose anything to do with the MM for that play through. I don't know if you can clear and claim the Castle without the MM or not. Never tried. But even if you can you won't have the radio or artillery. The biggest problem is that Codsworth is buggy if you leave Preston in the Museum. If you have him as a companion and then send him home he will go back to Sanctuary every time and no where else. The only way to fix this issue was to set Preston free.

If you leave Preston in the Museum he will stay there until you go get him, or not, your choice. I did one play through siding with the BOS and took it all the way through the main quest ending. I went back to the Museum afterwords and picked up Preston and did all his settlement quests just for something to do. He even wanted to clear the Castle out.

i've played the game since the day it came out, prob a couple hrs a day average at least and i haven't done every quest, i haven't been in every dungeon, i haven't marked every location, i do a lot of settlement building, arminig the settlers, and just visiting favorite locations for combat, i collect the bobbleheads, not everyone just plows thru the game, i could do all the quests if i wanted, i can run around marking all the locations, it is a big game content wise and its got enough going on to make a playthru last hundreds of hrs if thats how you wanted to play it, if a person just runs around marks locations and only does quests, its not gonna last as long.

I guess that's where I feel it lacks. What more other than what you just mentioned is there to do? Unless I read your post wrong I've done everything and I have played countless nights of just doing radiant quests or exploring some more...and this is where I feel it's like, okay now what. NPC's still say the same thing with nothing more to achieve at a little over 300 hours in 1 playthrough. So what do I do now? I've upgraded all guns, cleared out every single location picking up all junk possible...and?

I guess I was hoping for more to visit and want to be apart of. Was hoping for so many more random encounters and little "Kid in a fridge" quests than there were. I loved the potted meat quest and wish there was more suspense, thrill and mystery in the commonwealth.

You look at your most recent save and it gives the time in days, hours, minutes. Then you just need to do the math to figure out the total hours.

I am planing to get miles past 400 hours. At the moment I have played very little of the game (200 hours over 2 characters, so only 100h each) just to put my toe in the water and discover how things work. Most of my time is spent playing Far Cry 3 and I plan to get back to Fallout after some more added content is released by Beth.

But the main reason I am holding off is that I have had enough with Elder Scrolls. It would need a huge improvement from Beth for me to play another ES game. Fallout is where I am at and where I am happy. I plan to play this game for however many years it takes to release FO5. I am not concerned and have no rush to finish this one.

And with mods now coming to console I will probably get well over 1000 hours. Eventually.

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The OP asked about the amount of content in the vanilla game. I play these games slower than most people and could see a Fallout 4 ballpark number of 300-400 for me. Others say that they have finished Skyrim plus DLC in 80-100 hours, something I could not imagine doing.

I think I am around 160h, and have completed the game on a BOS faction.

But this was a playthough where I deliberately avoided a lot of locations, and quests. My plan is to start again and spend more time on Settlements and exploring, rather than the main quests. I also intend on installing some of the great mods that are out there and once the GECK gets released, there will be some amazing stuff being created by those talented modders.

Almost 1100 hours and not finish MQ. Just having fun doing quests and collecting misc bots.

Cheers,

-Klevs

How many characters have you used to get 1000h? One would be amazing...

I know I'm over 500 on FO4 and probably will play it another 500 to 1000 with DLC and mods.

Moreover, I have yet to finish ANY of the major questlines, and probably have only found about 75% of the "marked locations" in the vanilla map, maybe half or more of the various "unmarked content." It boggles my mind that someone could feel like there was nothing more to do after 300 or so hours. Granted, it does get repetitive but it is stuff to do. All games get repetitive.

You either love the game or you don't, and if you love it, you'll play it more and not rush through it. It has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with individual differences in tastes, playstyles, expecations, etc.

Anything over 100 hours is a damn good deal from an entertainment and consumer products standpoint.

Just one. I haven't restarted or anything like that. I just read about the quests before I did them so I knew where to stop because I want to be on friendly term of all major factions. I want to have so many quests (radiants) available as possible. I also collected almost all named npc you can have as shopkeepers. All bubbleheads and magazines done. No cheats or glitch is used, but spend most time questing and collecting.

Cheers,

-Klevs

That is amazing!

Considering that the game has been out 4 months. Nov-March. That is 120 days. 1100/120 is average play time of 9 hours per day.

I have kind of illness in mine nose, so I'm often home, but I'm better day for day so soon it will be less play games and rather rl stuffs

High pressure clean salt water and sesame oil do nice stuffs..... no strong medicine.

Cheers,

-Klevs

sometimes its fun to start all over again, my most fun is the first 20 or 30 levels, i like higher levels also but its more challenging at the beginning, finding different approaching to the game, its combat oriented so if you're not really into combat or settlement building it prob gets boring sooner, i do wish it had more quests, some more meaningful choices and decisions other than siding with different factions, the game isn't perfect but i find settlement building and combat fun, i like going in the different dungeons, some i like more that others but overall i find the game makes time pass pretty fast, its suprising how much time passes when i'm playing, i can be 7 pm and before i know it, its midnight or later, i think every game eventually gets repetitive unless you take breaks and do things different, i'm not bored with any bethesda game after 3 months, it takes longer than that for me to really do everythnig in a bethesda game, it will prob take a year from release till i actually finished the main quest.