How much time do you reckon it will take you to completely finish skyrim ? and how much did it take you to completely finish , Oblivion , Morrowind and Fallout 3 , and by that I mean Complete all quests , discover all locations and acquire all equipment (weapons , armor , special jewelery etc ...) Without any content mods and only on one Playthrough .

I personally played Oblivion for more than 350 hours on one playthrough and I haven't finished it completely .
I completely finished Fallout 3 however in about 85 hours .



Note : I didn't use the same choices for fallout 3 because I do believe it's a lot shorter than Oblivion or Morrowind .

EDIT : added a new question ....
I personally think fallout 3 new Vegas to be the shortest game of the series , possibly because it wasn't developed by Bethesda Game Studios ....

Vanilla? I bet between 100 and 300 hours.

Modded? Several years. If there's even a time limit you can put.

It's no exageration to say that I've invested thousands of hours into Morrowind. And I still haven't found everything.

Who says I'll ever finish it?

Yeah ... I pretty much think so ...

Not enough.

You mean you haven't found all locations ?! that's impossible ....

Not at all. I've played thousand of hours to Oblivion, and I'll surely have explored only about 40% of Vanilla dungeons...

100%'ing an Elder Scrolls game?

Surely you jest.

I agree that I cant really say I will stop until a new game comes out. I just recently stopped playing Modded Oblivion for a few reasons 1. Skyrim is soon to be released, 2. I have spent time working on my modding skills, 3. Real life activities. On top of all that I like to start over and play as new characters.

not exactly 100%ing , just finding all locations , completing all quests and acquiring all legendary/epic gear .

After seeing the Quakecon footage and how absolutely DETAILED the environments are... I wouldn't be surprised if I spent over 400 hours just exploring, hunting, etc. And that's vanilla. I imagine I will put in around 2000 hours on my 4+ characters i have mapped out. And that's still on vanilla. Next year when I get my pc I'm sure I will be playing til TES:VI.

Skyrim seems to have a much greater replay value than Oblivion and Morrowind considering the following:

• *280 perks to choose from, making the second, third, fourth playthroughs more fun
  
• *20+ dragon shouts with 3 different levels for 60+ shout effects, making it more fun to play pure warrior or pure stealth characters who don't use magic
  
• *10 races with revamped character designs, making it a bit more fun to play new races
  
• *deep and quite different crafting systems for warrior, stealth or mage playthroughs
  
• *Radiant Story feature which alters each playthrough
  
• *Joinable Rebel faction, suggesting different outcomes for the Civil War
  
• *Many more features in the vanilla game allows for some truly ambitious mods!

Based on this info, I'm estimating (personally) 5-10 playthroughs of around 300-500 hours each, spread out over a period of several years. The first playthrough, I imagine probably 300 - 500 hours.

Well, I finally 100'ed Oblivion after 4 years. Or I though so, when some new cool questmods were released and forced me to create a new char . Now I'm again at 100% (no new interesting questmods as far as I know), and with http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/229639-1308736266.jpg already deceased, I doubt I'll return. Anytime soon, at least.

Besides, i'm reserving myself for Skyrim

Well the poll is mainly about single playthroughs , if you count all playthroughs you can easily play the game for infinity ....

Yeah I agree I think a single playthrough wouldn't take more than 500 hours .

Really !? Oblivion is shorter than Fallout : New Vegas ?! That's impossible !

I think people must be mis-reading that as "what is the longest game" :tongue:

that's the only explanation I can think of.

IMO New Vegas was much longer than FO3 and Oblivion was much longer than New Vegas.

I completely finished New vegas in about 70 hours .. that's shorter than Fallout 3 which took me more than 80 , without any mods of course .
How much did it take you to finish New Vegas and FO3 ?

fo3 i did everything and it took 54 hrs and new vegas im on 103 hrs

My first playthrough of New Vegas (vanilla, no DLC) took just under 200 hours. (hardcoe mode + Very Hard) I didn't finish exploring all the locations or completing all the quests.

My first playthrough of FO3, including some DLC, took around 140 hours.

EDIT: actually, my New Vegas playthrough wasn't vanilla - I forgot that I had installed Expensive Wasteland (increases all merchant prices by 5x) and Harder hardcoe Rates (gives hardcoe Mode some teeth, so you actually run out of food and water frequently).

Vanilla - under 100 hours - even if I don't see absolutely everything I'll see majority of the world, and likely get bored with it - dungeon crawling for the sake of the dungeon crawling is not my thing.
With mods? Can be up to a 1000 hours - mods add enough "spice" and verity for me to be kept interested.

Did you play FO3 on very hard as well ?
It was probably the hardcoe mode that slowed you down in FONV .
I personally think FO3 has a bit more content than FONV . Because FO3 definitely felt longer to me .

Oblivion: I've been playing since 2007, I'm maybe 55~65% done. Skyrim should take long enough for Elder Scrolls VI to come out.
But in reality, I'll probably never finish every single thing there is to do.

I doubt I'll ever 'completely' finish Skyrim. I don't generally play evil characters and so don't complete content designed for them. In Oblivion I never completed the thieves guild or assassins guild quest lines, for example. In Fallout 3, I never blew up Megaton. In New Vegas, I never played a game where I didn't kill (or try to kill) Caesar's Legion on sight.