Im at 80 hours and the only put notables ive done are:

Main Quest
Dark Brotherhood
Civil War

So i still have alot of stuff to do in game. I just came off of a fairly long vacation that covered mid november and now that i'm back to work, i have no time to play. I think people play games very differently and because Skyrim is as open as it is, the degrees of what you'll get out of it can vary sharply. Like what was said about the main quest you can fly through in no time, but if you really don't want to burn yourself out you have to refrain from blazing through the EPIC guild quests back to back. Thats just the way it seems like for me anyway. I'm still enjoying the game because i know theres a large amount of things i havent done yet.

dungeons? tons of dungeons to discover...

160 hours, all major quests/misc quests not counting the repetitive ones , whats the point? every location discovered, every house bought and pimped out, going on 40 dragon souls but already have all words of power maxed.my second character will only be doing Empire side of the civil war.I love skyrim, but it is shallow, ill concieved and a shameless cash in.Yes ill get the dlc, because im stupid that way. but i think im done with bethesda games. sticking to bioware from here on out..they bring the shiny as well as depth to titles, although not fully "sandbox" thats ok.. goodbye Bethesda, the last 15 years have been great but i think its time we see other people.

I'm kind of surprised some of you have played for so long and accomplished very little.

I've played for about 150 hours, and I've completed the main quest, every guild, every quest in sight, and every dungeon in sight. I have seen a huge portion of the entire game, and, like the OP, I am running out of things to do. In Oblivion, I did this as well, except I know for certain I completed every single Oblivion quest. In Skyrim, I know there are still a few here and there that I have not completed.

Regardless, this is not a bad thing. Completing Skyrim just means I get to start a bunch of new characters and do some hardcoe roleplaying! I did all I could do, learned a whole bunch, and now it's time to live in Skyrim, and that's why I started playing in the first place.

But most of them are pretty much the same.

There's what, 200 dungeons in the game? And how many of them have interesting loot? With the exception of the Daedric artifacts, most of the unique loot that I've come across isn't worth having. Hell, you can craft stuff that's better. The best you can hope to find in a random dungeon is a dragon priest or a word wall.

There's definitely something about Skyrim that makes it feel bland and shallow in comparison with its predecessors.

a lot of people simply "live" in the world from the very beginning. i know people that didnt leave the riverwood/whiterun area till they were 50 hours into the game. theres lots to do if u look for it.

as for me, i play this game to roleplay, but i roleplay a character that actually achieves things. to me, "living" in this world means going out and exploring the cities, and accomplishing things. usually that means finishing the main quest lines and other important things then gradually moving on to lesser quests

I couldn't do that. I'm far too curious and far too impatient to just wait around doing essentially nothing while I wonder what the main quest holds and what there is to learn about the Dwemer and how the Dark Brotherhood will fare this time around and their take on Sithis and how interesting the College of Winterhold is and if Markarth is really as awesome as it sounds and how difficult dragons really are and why the hell am I sitting here in Riverwood LET'S GO GO GO.

Only now, after my curiosity is sated, can I actually roleplay living a life in Skyrim.

i find it hard to "live" in the world after i've accomplished so much in it. as a roleplayer, it would be odd to go from arch mage and alduin-defeater who also happens to have his own pet dragon to a simple life of small favors for local townsfolk. it would feel...wrong.

this is also probably why i prefer to wait for mods to come out with new and exciting quests instead of doing all the little misc quests like killing fort or bandit leaders and clearing all the tiny dungeons that have no purpose to them. i finish quests that r worthy of my characters status in the game. if i feel like my character has TOO much status, i reroll.

That's why I make new characters. I complete everything possible with one character, kinda like a test run of the game itself, then I make new characters, all of whom have done little-to-nothing in Skyrim when I begin playing. One character might become Arch-Mage. One character will eventually defeat Alduin as the Dragonborn. Others will have no claim to fame, and they'll just try to get by and survive in the harsh environment of Skyrim. But never again will one character lead all the guilds and save the world in such a way as the first, because I didn't roleplay much at all with that character, because that character wasn't real to the world of Tamriel. It was just me playing a game. The "real" canonical characters come after, and that's when I start the hardcoe roleplaying.

It's probably also worth mentioning at this point that I don't roleplay as myself or anything like that.

over-exagerating much? I don't know you but 160 hours for 60$ is kinda of a good deal. As for bioware...they had their epic fail too with dragon age 2, so comments there

you know there is more then jsut thieves guild darkbhood mages guild and fighters guild other ones like bards colege etc and proper quests not radiant ones to do that you get randomly unless you played 200 hours you havent completed anything also

i think people expect to much so many thread ppl go o i played 150 hours now im bored try playing any other offline game other then a tes game more then 20 hours see how fing bored u are i did everything in sonic generations includeing supersonic and batman arkham city in like 2 or 3 days of a weekend and asasins creed brotherhod and i expect revelations can be completed in about 1 day 5 - 8 hours lol its just the same as morrowind and oblivion size jsut that skyrims so much better it keeps u interested even at 100 hours where as oblivion and morrowid i was pretty unimpressed after the first 50 hours honestly only fail by bethesda is that vampires are [censored]

I'm not sure how you could exhaust Skyrim more quickly than Oblivion. If I took the approach of "do a guild questline, start a new character, and do another" in Oblivion, I think I would exhaust the game just as fast as I would in Skyrim.

When I'm doing a major questline, I tend to do a quest (if that) and then get distracted by another misc quest or location on my map during my travels that takes me on a fairly wide diversion (say, I do the main quest up to Alftand and then decide to take up Hermaeus Mora's quest, and then I find several new locations as I scour Skyrim looking for the blood of various races). I do think that I would exhaust the game quickly if I did the questlines singly and exclusively.

The addition of radiant guild quests that can be ignored in favor of just shooting to the top by doing the main quests seems to work to some people's advantage and others' disadvantage. Interspersed, they can divert you and make the questlines take a very long time. But if you just go for the high-profile quests, the questlines are very short.

I kind of have to agree with this. When I did the Companions quest line and all of a sudden after 3 quests I was already being groomed as the new Harbinger I thought "WTF? that was a little quick, surely the other guilds have a more developed plotline"

Except the same thing happened with DB and mage's college. A few quests and all of a sudden I'm the de facto leader?

Thieves guild was a bit more developed, but I feel like that should have been the norm, instead of the exception

I am disappointed with the depth and content. 100hr in and everywhere on the map is white (I like exploring), just completed the main quest (with a terribly easy final battle), am enchanting better gear than I can find from dungeon crawling. Yes I have some quests to do but I find I am not really interest. The game is finished to me (just started a new character but can't muster any interest tbh).

Now hear is the rub.

100hrs of playing time is actually pretty good for ￡29.99. It's only 30p an hour. There aren't many activities I can get so much enjoyment out of for 30p an hour.

Bethesda are a company and their main purpose is to make money, return investment for shareholders and pay their staff's wages.

What good does it do them to create another Morrowind or Daggerfell? Pack a game with 1,000 hours content, possibly building a game so deep and complex that the average player wouldn't even see a 1/3rd of it before they lost interest and moved on. Yes there are a minority of us who would love that game, put it a place in our hearts to be immortalised forever........ but all that would provide Bethesada with nothing but a warm feeling in their hearts.

Why has nobody mentioned finding and reading all the books in the game? I love finding books, and completing full series. Mind you, i'm having trouble finding some, and I only collect the books for the right character, for example, my Orc can't read good, so he picks them up to see if he can learn something, then throws them away.

Also, there are the treasure maps. I don't know how many, but that's something else, trying to find those

This is one of my favorite things to do. But it's really annoying that my book collection has to be in a chest!! Decorating my house usually provides me with endless hours of amusemant, but on Skyrim my stuff keeps vanishing...

While it may not be a short game compared to all other games on the current market, it is a short game compared to other TES titles =]

Collect all the dragon priest masks. I found it very satisfying

Game doesn't end

By definition, without an ending, you never complete it. Really no argument.

Whether or not you continue to enjoy it is completely a different topic. But 'finished' it? No, it's not possible since there's no ending.

Know what I hate about people like you.

Your the same people that play MMO's to the extent of running out of things to do fast.

Example : When and expansion comes out after waiting so long for it they rush through all the content in less than a week and then complain that there is nothing to do untill the next conetnt is released.

Do us a favor go outside get some air and do other things besides play this game.

To me, the map makes the world look very large, however traversing it by foot or on horseback the world really isn't as large as it looks on the map. Just taking a few minutes walk from one capital towards anywhere on the map and then opening the map you see just how far you've actually traversed on the map - A lot further distance on the map then the amount of time you actually spent moving on the landscape -.

Although I'm only into the game for about 50 or 60 hours now, I'm nowhere near done with the game, I've barely touched on two cities thus far, it's a huge game even if the map makes it look even larger than it really is.

And who is happier, you and me or him?

I also prefer Bioware (superior dialogue, characters and voice acting if less content) but I will say that Skyrim obviously gives players the freedom to play the game the way they want so everyone may have differing experiences. For instance, you've gotten most of it done in 160 hours and the OP did so in 180 hrs. My current character is 80 hours in (your halfway point) but probably has all of 6 dragon souls, I've only completed the Thieves Guild. My char just joined the Dark Brotherhood and has her first "hit", haven't gotten too far into the main quest (maybe 1 quest past rounding out my "fus roh da"). Have not picked a side in the civil war (not sure I can without breaking the story. My char is a selfish sneak thief assassin. Why the hell would she care about the war?). I'm at level 37 with sneak maxed out, archery in the 80's and light armor and one handed somewhere in the 50's. Lockpick and pickpocket probaly in the 40's.

Doesn't seem like I'm on pace to finish this particular playthrough in less than 300 hours.

I still haven't "finished" the game and I've been playing it for about 200 hours, I finished the main story at about 70 hours in and so far just been exploring and doing sidequests, all the unmarked locations on the game and random dragon attacks are what keep me interested though, and everytime I seem to be getting bored I discover something interesting.

If it wasn't for glitches i would have finished it in 200hours. Can't finish the Thieves Guild dues to glitch, can't get 1 daedric weapon, and a few little bits.

Everywhere else seems dead, noone asking for help.