Start a new character for whatever reason? I ask this because I just put like 80 hours into a vampire character, and just deleted it almost instinctively like your immune system does viruses. I only keep one save so deleting my character for a new one is final. Just curious how the rest of you guys handle deleting high hour characters.

I'm on a PC, so I don't need to delete any characters. But I plan on starting a few new concept characters soon. An Altmer paladin, and some kind of sneak.

I typically move their saves into a sort of "Hall-of-Fame" folder in case I ever want to revisit them...

...and then promptly install a new batch of mods and remove enough old ones to make that a very dicey endeavor.

I've been doing this the past week.

Though only because I sort of just discovered the Skyrim blog for myself, so I bookmarked a bunch of builds I liked and now have a nice line-up of characters to use for them.

Of course all my spare characters are on a flash drive (xbox if you couldn't tell). I'm currently playing the Nemesis build, which is the only character I have on the hard drive.

A total of five times in 620 hours, not including my original character (my Dunmer) and a character who was accidentally deleted.

My first character is still there. Unfortunately it takes three minutes to go through a door what with the file size, but the back-story I had for her is the reason I bought this game in the first place (otherwise, I could have just stuck with Oblivion).

I get what you mean though, sometimes you put 10 hours in, and think "I am just not feeling this". Only happened to me once or twice. Tried to make a thief, got halfway through the guild quests, thought "why am I doing this?", went straight back to the style of play that enables me to write stories in my head that are actually worth writing. [Truly consigned to Oblivion.]

I only used one character since the release. and i still use it. besides that i recently made a nord character just to try and see the game from another perspective.

On the PS3 I just create a new User so I can just keep having new saves. Also, I have about two saves per character, because I tend to have a lot.

Yeah I know what you mean. I was feeding in castle volkihar and thought "wtf am I doing". After that I made this thread lol.

i dont delete them. ever. unless they got glitched and the game is unplayable and theres no working back up save...but thats the only reason and it rarely happens cuz i learned hard way years ago to keep double and even triple saves of each game i play. the hard way being of course that plenty of games i got halfway thru or almost done suddenly got corrupted or lost. try playing 200 hours of FF7 and the data decides to corrupt itself...

reason i do this is because im a collector of stories in all forms - books movies games - and i might want to take a walk thru them again whether to show it to someone or to ponder issues i had before or to become inspired.

in fact, even as far back as the ps one days, my neurosis for saving multiple saves for every game i ever played led me to buy upwards of no less than 20 ps one memory cards to hold it all...same for ps 2...of course thanks to the presence of children in the house that became a waste of money as most the cards got swiped by my son over the years but now with xbox 360 and ps3 finally having hardrive save slots instead of cards thats no longer a worry for me thank god! and financially it was hard on me too cuz even when they were still being made regularly the ps one and ps2 memory cards are NOT cheap!

I ''Retire'' my guys. Hearthfire was a great way to do it. Get a family, store all weapons, and finish go to the face sculptor to make me look a little older.

I always seem to delete my character when i lose an Unique item or my house gets to messy :S done this around 7 times.