I found it shocking (but not bad) that Pete Hines only played Oblivion for 300 hours while working on the game itself. I know that it's not necessarily playing, but that makes it all the more shocking. The amount of bugs pre-release must have been in the thousands, and to repeat play and fix them, I thought... Would have took much longer. I guess he's just that good of a developer, he can fix them and go to the next thing, accumilating in 300 hours of playtime.

For me I'm currently at 424 hours on one character, but then again at least 100 hours of that are modding time.

Have you beat the developers 300 hour time?

Edit: Oops it wasn't Hines, but it was someone in that podcast who said it.

I've got over a thousand hours put into Oblivion. You'll find many others who still inhabit this forum have way over 300.

After playing many characters, I have settled into a 'permacharacter'. She has 700 hours with no end in sight. Yet, mirocu and Decrepit each have a character with more than twice the hours of my Buffy. :foodndrink:

300 hrs??? You′ve barely gotten started by then! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

As http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1183763-how-many-hours-on-a-single-character/page__view__findpost__p__17563479__fromsearch__1 will tell you though, most people never get as far with one character as I have. By now Lothran has about 1540 hrs, and counting :wink_smile:

Pffft, I spend 300 hours just getting my character's face right.

My Steam profile says I've spent over 800 hours on the game, between three different characters and a lot of mod testing.

Too bad no one did that with me when I was born! :rofl:

I've been playing Oblivion since release. I've not been counting the hours but overall across all characters it's probably well into the thousands.

I have a good 500 or so to my name. They ought to make us testers instead.

Riften has 1324 Which is my main Character
Reaver has 467
And many other smaller characters would add up to 400+

So, 2191 such good times

Across all my characters I've got him beat, but my current character is at like 112 hours.

around 400+ hours for me :tes:

I have about one hundred hours. Beat that!

Hes at 400 hours........ :confused:


I think my main character is at around 157. I start new characters all the time so if I where to add it all up the number would be slightly on the large side. I have been playing since release so yaaaa...... Not with that main though.....

There are some great roleplayers in this thread right here 8)

Question... How do you guys play so long on just one character? Eventually I chose to progress on the various stories and when they are done, it is hard to stick around.

My longest character I have played is for about 170 some hours. The real only reason is because it was dagger/bow thief. It takes time to sneak around 8)

So how do you do it!! I wish I could afford a computer version of Oblivion, so I can play some of these mods 8). But I am saving up for Skyrim... Then Mass Effect 3.

Scared because want to get Skyrim for a computer, but my college laptop barely has enough umph to run WoW at minimum levels ha

My most played character had around 300 h of gameplay, but I'm sure that I've played more than 600 with all my characters combined. Vanilla

My current play-through stands at 1,455 hours with hopefully much life left in it. This is my second play-through. My first lasted over nine-hundred hours before being terminated prematurely due to technical issues. (I could solve those now, but wasn't as game-maintenance-savvy back then.) They both feature the same decrepit elderly Nord warrior. (Stock class, warrior birth-sign.) As stated many times before, he was originally conceived as a short-term throw-away character with which to learn game-play mechanics. We bonded and have been together since. If this play-through ever ends I envision at least one more thousand-hour-plus Oblivion play-through with the same avatar. I suppose that makes him something of a 'perma-character'.

As to what keeps me playing the same avatar so long I have no answer. Maybe it's simply my nature to do so. Certainly the game itself is good enough, warts and all, to sustain lengthy plays-through. Being on PC, with a wide variety of player-created mods available, helps. I seriously doubt that my plays-through would last as long as they do were I confined to solely vanilla resources.

Are long Oblivion plays-through even possible on consoles? Seems to me they would sooner or later succumb to the a-bomb if nothing else. We computer folk have several tools that fix it, but our console brethren are less fortunate.

-Decrepit-