I wasn't sure if it'd end up with a thousand spoilers as to why each person kept playing so its in General Discussion for now. Long after New Vegas' release but if there're big spoilers i'll contact a mod to move it.
Just curious, as I was looking through my save files and noticed I'd hit 500 Hours at some point, nearing 501.
playing it whenever it was fun and only having a 12MB save file i was a bit surprised.

By comparison, my Fallout 3 saves have trouble getting past 100.
Skyrim so far... same file size, level 36, 282 hours.

something about New Vegas seems to keep me playing every now and then. even if it's just shooting deathclaws, or doing a quest thing as even now i've got a few i never found or got around to doing.

and this is why people with creative minds who can look past the environment of Skyrim will see why it fails so hard. In New Vegas, the story, writing, NPCs, and just the atmosphere makes you feel "LETS DO THIS!!" while Skyrim or Fallout 3 is "LETS D-...oh hey a cookie! -picks it up, THE END-

I just have a lot of save files that are at about 100-150 hours each. My longest save is ~175 hours.

Most of my characters dont make it much past Lv. 30, because thats pretty much the point at which I get bored with that specific playstyle, so I go make another character with a different build :/. Farthest character ive gotten was around Lv. 43 with about 120 hours of gameplay, accidentally over wrote it though XD.

Current highest level character is Lv. 39 with 50 hours, second is Lv. 32 with 20 hours XD. I usually get to Lv. 20, do the DLC, do most of the main quest, and by then im so bored.. Also yes, I do explore a lot.

Current character is Lv. 9 Explosives/Melee on hardcoe build with 5 hours of gameplay.

Anywho... Until I get bored with this character ^^

I'm actually not playing New Vegas right now, but Steam tells me that I'm at 303 hours split between two characters. I'm pretty sure one of those characters only has about 30 hours.

My longest NV save is... I don't remember. 95 hours?
Longest overall save in any RPG was one of my Fallout 3 characters with 210 hours.

Roughly 50 hours.

142 hours.

That character completed everything.

First character 67 hours (unintentional Legion runthrough).
Second 62 (House run).

Both extended a bit due to later DLC runs, but not much (I've only completed Dead Money and Honest Hearts - both separately in different runthroughs).

Getting to rest of the DLC and NCR run once I get my new rig.

Level 49, 200 hours for NV

Cheers

150, or thereabouts.

I really don't want to count how many hours I've invested in playing daily/bidaily since release. :cryvaultboy:

This man speaks the truth.

I think the writing in FO3 was better than the writing in Skyrim though. But either way I have about twice as many hours invested in New Vegas as I do in FO3, and my time in Skyrim is limited. There is a big difference between a game that is fun to play and a game that is fun to play and has great writing. I think that is always what seperated Fallout from TES.

that's part of why i added the "with 1 character" bit, fallout tells you with 1 character every time you load the save whether you want to know or not, PC and PS3 at least.
edit: of course, if you've played all that time on one... well, no need to check if you don't want to.

About 105 hours. I explored quite a bit.