So when Skyrim comes around and we have Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc...Will you be doing anything special in Skyrim to celebrate? I'm definitely going to plan to do something for the holidays in Skyrim. Not sure what yet, though. :celebration:

I am going to probably make a save file and go on a killing spree for Thanksgiving (so the survivors can be thankful for life and mercy), and for Christmas I shall wear a fancy hat.

No. My character will not be American or Christian. The traditional Nordic holidays for that time of the year involve ale-chugging and skull-bashing!

I might be playing Daggerfall/Morrowind because I finished Skyrim 100% including all the secret quests within a day or two like it happened with cheapass Oblivion.

Right....trying to set a speed record? You must have played 48 hours straight, without stopping whatsoever, without doing anything but quests, without sneaking, and you and your character must have been on crack. Even then, I don't think that could happen.

Otherwise, you're just exaggerating and complaining in the same sentence.

Which is more likely.....? :whistling:

I just did it this weekend and it took maybe ~24 hours to complete everything including Shivering Isles, I read/listened all dialogues, did a bunch of other things in that time like murdered people with poisoned apples, played with daedric reward staffs etc. Played on default difficulty, each guild took 1-2h to finish. I had ~20k already at lvl 4 and when I had finished my quests I had over 100k gold. What record, I'm pretty sure people have done it within like 10 hours or less since everything was so ridiculous. For instance I hadn't done mages guild before at all and I finished it within an hour. Played a full mage. Even did all the daedric shrines. I don't understand what's so special about it.
Thank the traveling system and map markers..

Ladies and gentlemen...THE FLASH :facepalm:

The side quests!? I played OB for about 8 months and never even started the main quest!

The dialogue alone would have taken about that long.

Hah, I was thinking the same thing.

First time I did the fighters guild took me 12 hours. I started from out of the sewers and became the Master of the Guild. So just that questline alone (if you've already done it), could probably be done within 6-7 hours.

I think on Christmas I'll create a new character, coming into the world as mankind's saviour from the dragon apocalypse. See what I did there?

I'm not sure I understand: what does that have to do with eating too much, over-indulgence and feeling ill? :hehe:

People usually tend to include their idle time, doing other stuff in game, doing alchemy, gathering plants, looking at the environment, looking what skills do, trying some random irrelevant things etc to the times they actually spent properly doing the quests. Plus all the slow stealth movement on places where it isn't actually needed, slow fights because of stupid items, bad usage of spells, using useless skills etc. Of course I did the 100% runthrough within ~24 hours because I had already done almost everything of those already before years ago and when I couldn't find some item required etc I just looked up Oblivion's wiki. When I first played Oblivion I also did a lot of idling, exploring etc but still the game was finished less than a week at least and then I was a very slow gamer.

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=28776 even tho the video isn't up anymore, seems this guy did the whole 100% walkthrough within 15 hours in 2007.
I don't understand why you don't understand that it takes so little time to finish all the quests.

Near Christmas I'll check if there are any Santa mods available in TesNexus. And a mod to enable a character like M'aiq the Liar (if he is in game) to follow my Argonian around. Then we'll go from house to house giving coal to everyone.

Yeah, now for the rest of the story- how long did your first ever playthrough take, not your speedrun after knowing where everything is?

I don't know how you could possibly have listened to all the dialogue and done it. A speedrun in that time is plausible, but then again, they tend to involve finishing at level one and killing almost no enemies whatsoever, and skipping through all the dialogue and knowing exactly where absolutely everything is and the exact most efficient way to get to it because of countless hours of planning prior to starting.

If you've done everything before, and you skip the dialogue, and look up walkthroughs I wouldn't have a hard time believe it.

But you've said you would have Skyrim completed 100% in a day or two. Playing the game blind is a lot different than knowing what to do, skipping dialogue, and looking up walkthroughs. Unless you don't ever intend to play it blind, in which case I have a hard time understanding why you would even play the game.

Going back to the original quote, you see here that you clearly implied that you completed Oblivion in 2 days initially (what you said you would do with Skyrim), not after having it for years and knowing the location of everything and the instructions for every quest and the perfect way to level every skill and doing a speedrun. The main quest for Morrowind has been completed in about 4:30 seconds if I recall correctly, so Morrowind is hardly different in this respect, which makes me wonder why you would go back to playing that after the incredible easiness of cheapass Oblivion.

Guzzling beer by the gallon and get into a bar fight.

Sounds like you just power gamed through using guides etc. I play Oblivion for MONTHS with each character i`ve created :whistling:

Must have been a lot of fun. I doubt Skyrim will give you much lasting fun though either, as no doubt it will be able to be completed quickly enough on Power Gamer mode :rolleyes:

Lol, just reinstall Oblivion and play it yourself without doing any stupid idling. Doing mages guild already only took an hour. All the other random [censored] like leveling skills for daedric shrines or Shivering Isles took the rest of the time, which I was playing the first time and spent like 4-5 hours to do it and that was playing normally without any guides and exploring. You are simply full of nostalgia and don't realize how small the game actually is. I mean,
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Quests
There are only ~200 quests in Oblivion. Each town has only like 5-15 quests which include the guild/main quests. Most of these 200 quests have only like 2-4 lines of actual quest dialogue. Don't forget that the majority of dialogue is optional. Like rumors, listening to npc's talk, etc. For instance in Shivering Isles every NPC has like 10 lines of [censored] they only say when they talk to eachother, depending on the part of the main quest you're in. I said only that I completed all quests within ~24 hours not that I eavesdropped every conversation, read the every book through, cleared every poorly made dungeon in game, looted every fork in game etc.

Maybe you misunderstood me, I didn't do a speedrun. The guy I linked who did it in 15 hours did a speedrun. I played the name normally with fast pace. I just decided to do all the quests in the game, a bunch of them which I had skipped or missed in the earlier playthroughs and I actually finished everything surprisingly fast.
About the Morrowind's 4 minute main quest, anologic - Oblivion's main quest was also done in 11 minutes. From the start of the character creation to the Martin's death.
Morrowind has 2-3x more quests, a lot more cities/villages/traveling and has no [censored] traveling system, plus MUCH more difficult gameplay mechanics.

Yes, and that was the tutorial and then exploiting a glitch in the temple of the one to get in and end the main quest immediately.

But my point, still, is that you did this run of Oblvion's quests with a whole heap of prior knowledge and understanding of the game. You will not complete Skyrim in 24 hours when you first get it.

As I recall, Morrowinds 4 minute playthrough was done using an exploit as well.

Was it? I've never seen it, though I saw a 7 minute one. I've never played the main quest in Morrowind so I don't know how it goes, but supposedly they were using levitation and teleports to get things done quickly, but no going through glitchy objects to skip right to the end.