I would think I fall somwhere in the 200 to 300 range.

If there is a lot of good mods for it I can see my self going up to maybe 300 hours

I would say 250-300 range. Probably more toward 300. Which is really disturbing if you think about it.........

I'll need to study hard next year, so I voted 50 to 100.

I'm pretty picky on video games. And I can only play for around 3-5 hours tops for a day...

Yet I picked "800+". Go figure.

I usually have several characters. 1 main character so to speak and a few others to try out different play styles. I went with the 200-250 hours. My main OB has I think just shy of 200 and 3 or 4 others with various amounts from just a few hours to a dozen or so. If the game is as good as I think it is going to be though I could see myself spending even more time with it, not all on 1 character though.

I have played Oblivion the least of all elder scrolls games, and I have well over 1000 hours in that.

One character at end game in Oblivion for me usually has over 200 hours on it, and ive played half a dozen that far, plus many more that I quit before that.

So thousands of hours on Skyrim, yeah, I guess Ill get that easily.
I like the radiant AI and radiant quest thing. That potentially means a lot of replay value.

I need to study a lot too. But I think that the OP is asking about for the complete duration that you have Skyrim. (ex. 2yrs, 3yrs, etc.)

I still play Oblivion from time to time even after all these years. I don′t think i want to know how many hours i have played that game. When Skyrim hit the shelves i don′t think oblivion will be played again for me.

I have to take a grade exam for my master's degree next semester, and I MAY choose a date for it before Skyrim comes out, or maybe a week after it comes out, so I can do away with that and play it before, during, and after christmas everyday, all day long. In January Im supposed to start working on a thesis... so I'll have to divide my time better, probably not play more than 4 hours a day.

More than I should, less than I want to. :tes:

I said 500-600, just because I've put in 500 in Morrowind and probably like 600-700 into Oblivion.

I've been playing OB in periods the last 4 years and I had over 500 hours on one of my chars so I can safely say 800+
Not gonna spend over 1000 hours ond a single character though.
:tes:

I have no idea.

I've probably got something close to 1000 hours each in Morrowind and Oblivion, though it took me a good year or more before I could get past some of the incredibly irritating aspects of Oblivion (hand-holding journal, magic GPS, so on, so forth) to even play it at all.

If the game continues Beth's trend of consistently removing gameplay elements and replacing them with pretty pictures and gimmicks, it's entirely possible that I won't get more than a few hours into it before walking away in disgust. It's also possible that it will work out like Oblivion and I'll eventually be able to ignore and/or work around all the irritating aspects of it and figure out ways to gain satisfaction from it and end up investing many more hours into it. And it's just barely possible that it might be an exciting, engaging, challenging and rewarding game full of mystery, drama and danger and that I'll willingly, even gluttonously, pour hours upon hours into it. With the history of TES games though, I don't much expect that last possibility.

This^

Logged some 2000 hours on previous games according to Steam; I'm sure this will be no less.

All of them.

I think with oblivion I clocked 400 according to Xfire.

It depends on how TES it feels for me.
-If it turns out to be your average medieval fantasy game,no chance at all. (unlikely because *see below*)
-If it turns out to be your average medieval fantasy game with mod support (a la Oblivion),I'm likely to play it like a year.
-If it turns out to be a unique fantasy game like Morrowind,well,I'm still playing it so calculate.

The times I've given aren't non-stop one year of course.What I'm expecting of Skyrim is somewhere between Oblivion and Morrowind.We'll see.

800+

200 hours will be good

I would have said the last one but I spread it out between like 12 characters( 4 of them Aragonian)

/shrug I'm just the opposite I suppose. I've tried several times to play MW and never get more than a few hours in before I throw in the towel. The game play hasn't aged well and it is very slow starting (assuming it picks up at all). I'm hoping Skyrim doesn't draw too much inspiration from that. I do trust though that Beth knows how to evolve the game in exciting ways and expect to be completely svcked into the world of Skyrim. :tes:

I.... Have no idea... Probably alot though... :whistling:

i am gonna play it till another Elder Scrolls game comes out because then i will play that elder scrolls for a really long time