I can understand 3 maybe 4 hundred hours per character then thats all... What do you even do in the game any more?

I always keep making new characters, can't stay on one for long

I think the high time characters and their players have passed through a barrier where the character is not really playing a game. They are living their life in Tamriel. This is not a good thing or a bad thing, it is simply what they do. As mirocu's poll clearly shows, it is not everyone's cup of Tamicka's. It is simply one way to enjoy this fabulous game.

Waterfalls keep running. The Legion still patrols the roads. Bandits still try to take what is yours. Necromancers still try to turn you into a dead plaything. Any dungeon you have cleared will soon enough fill with new inhabitants. You still need to hunt or buy food, have a place to sleep. Flowers and seeds grow back so you can pick them again. If you live there a long time, you may have friends spread from one end of Cyrodill to the other - they all need to be visited to stay up on the news. Who knows, perhaps one of them has recently seen a mud crab.

:wavey:

My character is getting near 500 hours. Poor guy still has no Idea which spell will send him home... Needs more research...

Yes that is certainly true. Also they may have seen a goblin too. Nasty creatures.

I don′t think that I in a hundred years could have answered it better than Acadian. Lothran most certainly lives his life in Cyrodiil as I said and somehow we don′t grow tired of wandering from one place to the next. Testing new spells, enchantments, raiding that cave or looting that ruin, fighting this bandit or that ogre.

There′s always something to do and friends to visit ^_^


Dang, bro! :mohawk:

I may have two characters that I play on a regular basis but I'm trying to write journal's for both and play them as sisters, hence why I play both. If I had deceded to not start Euisa's Journal then I could easily be up there with a few other people on the 1000 hours plus section. I travel for roughly an hour to and from work everyday in which time I play on Euisa now so that I can still have an hour or so when I get home on Sabarel. (Don't even ask when I get the chance to write!) Although I've spent the last week or so playing other games that I own I still try to get back to Cyrodil for a few hours a week. Mainly because I find it relaxing to go herb hunting for a few hours or to go dive back into an Aylied Ruin I have already explored trying to translate all the writings on the walls.

Basicly there is an endless amount that can be done, yes so you will run out of quests after roughly 100 hours played and maybe run out of places to explore after about 200. I just try to let my character live, instead of me telling them what to do I let my mind wander, if that means I go and chase a troll for half an hour through the woods when I should be running an urgent message to the Imperial City then so be.

I have a charachter with 120 hours level 39. I find that to be a lot, but you guys really seems to be dominating me!
Respect.

Ehm, thanks. But unfortunately it just means we have no life/girlfriends :sadvaultboy: :shakehead: :lmao:

I'm just slow. When I was six years old I had an invisible friend. It took me over half a century to find her again! :blush2:



QFT/LOL :twirl:

You should have had a choice for like 1-250 hours, not many people are going to put more than 500 hours on one character. My longest-running is at 320 hours and I'm Level 46. He's a battlemage who is literally invincible. After I realized I was invincible, it just started to get boring. It's still a lot of fun to explore and all, but with no possiblity of dying it's kind of like I'm just pi$$ing in the wind. You ever seen those Staples commercials with the Easy button?

bliviongate: + Level 20 magic-using character = :snoring: [EASY BUTTON]

0-500 as I always keep switching characters, seeing which one I want to continue and roleplay .

77 is the highest I have ever gone for one character. I just never want to stick with a single one for a super long time. Their stories get told, and then it is time to move on to the next "book". Teresa is the only one I have ever gone back to and played on after stopping. I want to explore every Ayleid ruin in the game with her, but sometimes I need a break from it, and want to play someone else in between.

With my current char, I've went though 94 hours of gameplay. And still he has a looooot to do....

...and here I thought I was done with Oblivion...

My longest is probably around 800 on my "main character", with my second and third most played characters with around 100-200.

:huh:

500 hour gap between options? This poll is seriously favoring the more hardcoe fellows.

Anyway, I have approximately 600 hours on my main, then another 200 on all my alternate characters combined. So that's a total of 800 hours on Oblivion plus tax.

Yep, that was my intention. Hope you′re not feeling discriminated but if you do, here′s an :icecream:

But hardcoe can mean so many things really. This one was only about hrs on a single character

I wonder how large your save games get after 1000+ hours. After 2613 hours? If you are on the PC, Wrye Bash can tell you, and so can Windows Explorer.

The most recent save from my current play-through, at just over 1000 hrs, is 10,862 kb. The final game-play session (as opposed to later experiments) from my previous, first play-through stood at 12,673 kb for roughly 928 hrs played. The discrepancy is likely the result in mod differences. That first play-through I had completed several large quest mods not yet installed this time 'round. "Windfall" and the two "Gates to Aesgaard" come to mind. Plus, I had finished both "Lost Spires" and "Cybiades" last time, which are now installed but not yet begun. I was also nearly done with "Ayleid Steps" last time, but only started in on it this past week and am not very far along. I'd categorize that first play-through as very "quest-centric" whereas this one, while still leaning heavily on quests, concentrates more on my avatar living his life in Cyrodiil, performing many mundane tasks (TEC road patrols, TEC tax collection, Wine deliveries for Tamika, Merchant Guild package deliveries) that don't increase save-game size all that quickly.

-Decrepit-

When the game was newer to me, and I was trying to do all the quests, join all the factions however little logical sense an assassin/hero makes, and so on, I got to around 200 hours on a character.

My Imperial has about 800 hours logged, and I play vanilla..

My highest played Oblivion character which I have had since around 2007 only has 153 hours, and has a filesize of around 7.3 MB. I make a bunch of characters and use them for testing mods and then delete.

The reason why I brought up filesize is because my main Morrowind character since around 2004-2005 has a filesize of around 9.4 MB. They both have around the same amount of mods so I'm thinking the MW one has to have at least around 250 hours. Shame there is no way to tell on those files.

My first save is on 639 kb and my latest is on 4866. It′s steady now however and it does not increase anymore, at least not as heavily as it did in the beginning. It actually goes up and down now according to my computer


Mundane tasks are the most fun for me and Lothran now. We′ve done so much at this point and feel no need to save the world or do stuff others tell us to do. It′s fun enough to go about our business and there is my explanation to my character′s high time count in this poll

Nearly 203 hours, I must admit it could have been more If i didn't restart playing World of Warcraft, or did have the ocassional save game bug ....

Not sure what my highest amount is did have a couple of computer crashes, and playing on my laptop now ...

I only have a mere 176hrs. with my mage I guess I'm doing a little too much fast travel. I will do more running around with my next character to build hrs. but too me beating the game in as few hrs. as possible was my goal.