Are any of you guy's worried you'll finish skyrim within the : V - Skyrim

» Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:43 pm

I know that Skyrim is HUGE, and that it has 20+ hours of main story playing time and apparently over 300 hours of side quests, exploring etc..... But I worried that Skyrim will be so hard to put down because it is so good that I or many of you will finish it within the first week or two? (I am talking about the first play through of Skyrim)

I know that you can start another save as a mage, thief etc.. But I would at least want the first playthrough to take a bit longer than two weeks.

What do you guy's think??

Since I will wait with the main quest 'til after I've played 50-100 hours of sidequest and exploring, I don't think it will be possible to finish first playthrough within a week.

» Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:34 am

I know that Skyrim is HUGE, and that it has 20+ hours of main story playing time and apparently over 300 hours of side quests, exploring etc..... But I worried that Skyrim will be so hard to put down because it is so good that I or many of you will finish it within the first week or two? (I am talking about the first play through of Skyrim)

I know that you can start another save as a mage, thief etc.. But I would at least want the first playthrough to take a bit longer than two weeks.

What do you guy's think??

I imagine it will take at least 1-2 months to finish the first playthrough.

To compare other games with a similar engine, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas - each playthrough tends to last at least a few hundred hours, which takes me around 6 months to 1 year to complete.

I still haven't taken my characters to Shivering Isles yet in Oblivion. I will not have finished Skyrim yet when TES VI comes out, in 2016.

I've been playing Oblivion for a few years and still have not completed Shivering Isles, KOTN, Fighter's Guild, Thieves' Guild or Mage's Guild questlines. I haven't really progressed very far in the main quest, either, hoping to finish it some time next month before starting Skyrim.

» Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:33 pm

You don't finish Skyrim, Skyrim finishes you.

I've never seen the "In Communist Russia..." joke done better. Completely true.

I doubt another game will enter my Xbox between 11.11.11 and the release of Mass Effect 3. MAYBE Halo:Reach or FIFA 12 for multiplayer. But unlikely.

» Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:15 pm

I really doubt anyone could play for 300 hours almost flat out, even getting a few hours of sleep a day. But don't worry, you won't complete it in a week. Lol

Here's a picture of me after 300 hours of Oblivion - http://assets.smokingmeatforums.com/1/14/1451223a_skeleton-computer2.jpg

» Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:32 pm

A thing i use to do to not get bored and finished to quickly is to actually take unnecessary long breaks from playing. For like, a day.