I decided to add a poll to get a quick general idea where people are in this question.

I currently have 1512 hrs on my Dunmer Lothran and more is to come. Feel free to change your poll answer as you increase your amount of hrs on a single character.

Edit: Yes, this poll is mainly for high-time characters. Thereof the big gap between the choices

i can't stay with one character for a long time. i always keep making new ones.

With my current character Venera just a mere 40 hours

You can still vote. 0-500 on every character perhaps?

I've invested 147 hours in my dark elf warwitch. That's a tremendous amount of time for me, since I only get to play for a couple hours a week.

I think the poll might be more interesting if it had finer grading on the lower ranges: 0-20, 20-40, 40-80, 80-160, 160-320, etc. There are a lot of people (I'm looking at you, modders!) who don't necessarily play a lot even though they spend a lot of time modding.

Yes, that could have made it more interesting. But then I would have to add so many more answers to cover most people and I only wanted a few answers to keep it simple. Even though my choices were too blunt, I think I will stick with it as I′m sure there are more out there with many hrs on one character :dance:

I think it would have been better to go in increments of 50. I doubt you're going to see a single person pass your 1512 hours on a single character. For me, that would just be boring. The longest I've ever put into a single character was about 250 hours. It was my first character where I did all the quests and a bunch of other stuff.

My total time across all TES games is probably around 1500 hours. I can't even imagine all of it spent on Oblivion and on one character. How have you not gotten extremely bored?

Hmm, perhaps. My idea with this poll was to see big numbers, but if it fails to spark interest (because of its blunt choices) maybe I′ll remake it.


I like my character, and the idea he′s really living his life in Cyrodiil. I may be a bit odd, but making characters all the time when I′ve already discovered most of the game has no point. That′s what made all but my first playthrough with most games boring; I already knew what was gonna happen. In this open game I can just as well continue with the one character I have

My current decrepit avatar is at Level 41, Day 441, 1015hrs. Oddly, my previous just-as-decrepit avatar ended his productive life at Level 41, Day 765, 928hrs. The Day-Hours discrepancy between the two is due, I supposed, to my having set Timescale to "10" (as opposed to vanilla "30") from the get-go this time 'round, whereas I didn't alter it during my previous play-through until much later.

-Decrepit-

I played several characters up to 100-300 hours each. Then in April 2009, I met Buffy. She is at about 600 hours with no end in sight. I say 'about' on her hours because we often save before a quest, play it through and delete the save.

I've answered for my current character Euisa. Although I have played Sabarel for a greater time I'm currently trying to write Euisa's Journal as a personal project so she is getting my full attention. Sabarel is roughly 900 hours, I actually had to boot her up to check and I'll continue to do stuff on her and pick her journal back up at some point soon. So if you combine them both Mirocu I've played them just as much as you have.

I may actually start playing Sabarel again on my way to work and just leave Euisa for home, I can have more fun with them both then.

On my current character I have 157 hours and It would be alot more if I could find more things to do.

I think your poll is fine, but most of us are going to fall into the 0-500 bracket. I do.

My thing with the characters is the characters. Like you, I already know so much about the game that I rarely find anything new (although the AI sometimes still does something to knock me off my chair! ) So my interest is in throwing different people at different situations in the game, and seeing what happens. I don't keep making the same character over again and again (I know that some people do, but I don't.) My characters are people; they are different from one another, and they have different likes and dislikes. Some of them fit in and actually "live in Cyrodiil" like your character does. Some of them struggle and fight it all the way, and wind up in a Skooma Den. A couple of my characters couldn't take it, and committed suicide. Cyrodiil can be tough.

Mostly my characters tend to come into the world, and do whatever suits them. Sometimes that takes a character all the way through the MQ, or they become Archmage, or Arena Champion. A few have become little gods.

I just go along for the ride.

Current character a mighty one and a half hours!

Seriously, though my longest has been about 500 hours on a Wood Elf and about 200 on a Nord battlemage. I've had many characters but they rarely go beyond level 20 now.

I can't remember how many and I can't be asses to turn my xbox on but I know its 500+

My previous character had 1600 ish hours. He was an Altmer Mage. Current character who is a mage/archer is at about 300 hours.

284 hours, 22 minutes, 59 seconds on Dex, my first character, a sneaky Nord assassin. That's the longest.

Current character, the bonny Breton Apprentice Eileen, 187:35:08 according to the last non-quick/autosave. This puts her in next to last place for total playtime, but her story isn't finished yet. She's also been restarted a couple of times.

I don't know the longest, but I know it's less than 500. I must average about 30-50 hours on each character. I have restartitis

Edit: Just checked, My longest is currently 131 hours, 34 minutes and 45 seconds.

Curious thing.....

I knew I didn't have any characters anywhere even close to the 500 hour mark - I've been playing three different characters this week alone. But I didn't know what the exact numbers were for any of them, so I just checked. The three longest-played clock in at 140 hours, 139 hours and 137 hours. I have no idea why that seems to be a threshold, but....

I've got a couple of others over 100 and a whole bunch somewhere between 50 and 100. And another whole bunch somewhere between 0 and 50.

WEll, that's an easy one for me to answer, since the A-bomb has destroyed two of my games so far. :confused: Both wound up dying around 350-360 hours. I've had several other chars which I didn't continue their games, or their game is on pause, or whatever. So I'm definitely 0-500 here.

The characetr I had longest had about 530 hours. Normally I play around 50-150.

I voted 0-500, as my current character is on roughly 40 hours (I had to restart Helena). However, in Morrowind I reached 700 hours with one character.

Just checked on my ps3, Jericho has 154 hours and Tobias has 100.

I am probably posing as an ignorant by asking this, but how can I see the exact ammount of hours I've played on PC? (not using steam or xfire or any other exterior program).

All in all, bettween my characters I might have surpassed the 500 hours mark, but I'm not sure even of that eheh I don't spend much time on them usually, I jumped through a lot of chars... till now, that is.

2613? :/