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Has anyone actually beat skyrim or any of the elder scrolls?
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Took me wanna say 70 hours? And I did all the main quests(Civil War, DLCs, guild quests). Game is truly one of the best.
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There's no way ESO takes 200 hours. It's gotta be around 500+
The vvardenfell chapter alone took .me 60 hours :0
It doesn't necessarily mean doing every single quest ever. Doing just the main quests it doesn't take that long.
The numbers are averaged out, as well.
I've finished Oblivion and Skyrim. Oblivion I was 90 hours in and decided I should just finish the story and then I kept playing. Skyrim I got about 15-20 hours in and wanted to get it over with so I finished it and never played it again. I want to make another attempt at playing some more of Skyrim, but I had way more fun with Oblivion.
Completionist is self reported but is meant to refer to collecting and completing all side content alongside the main missions. Skyrim can be well over that but it depends on play style and averages. So that site is just saying among people who claim to be completionists, they ended up around 200 hours.
Beat Morrowind, took m like 70 hours. Beat Oblivion, took me like 70 hours. Beat Skyrim, took me like 300 hours :) Well most of that time was spent just galavanting around the world. I didn't actually beat the game until the updated version came out. Buckled down and mainlined the story. Didn't take me that long, maybe 30 hours? and I did a little bit of side content.
No one has ever finished any of the Elder Scrolls games. It's impossible because there's so much content.
I beat Morrowind and Oblivion, as well as their expansions.
Skyrim just got so boring with the connect the dots style gameplay. Still haven't beat it.
Skyrim just got so boring with the connect the dots style gameplay. Still haven't beat it.
lol. I just realized the only mainline Elder Scrolls I did not beat is Morrowind.
The first one is really exploitable. Daggerfall required a bunch of guides, but I remember Monk being indestructible and OP (it's been a few years, I don't remember much tbh).
Daggerfall is a weird one because you can play it forever technically, but the main quest is rather short. You have this unreasonably huge world full of the same random quests. I love it as a sort of failed experiment.
I could never get into Morrowind and I tried a couple of time.
Oblivion and Skyrim are quite linear RPGs, they just have a lot of sidequests, but if you play them 10 times, character build aside, you will more or less do the same things.
The first one is really exploitable. Daggerfall required a bunch of guides, but I remember Monk being indestructible and OP (it's been a few years, I don't remember much tbh).
Daggerfall is a weird one because you can play it forever technically, but the main quest is rather short. You have this unreasonably huge world full of the same random quests. I love it as a sort of failed experiment.
I could never get into Morrowind and I tried a couple of time.
Oblivion and Skyrim are quite linear RPGs, they just have a lot of sidequests, but if you play them 10 times, character build aside, you will more or less do the same things.
Nah. Trying to beat Skyrim is like trying to get to Slaanesh's palace in his realm of chaos.
You start off with your goal in mind, but eventually you fall victim to the various distractions that are offered. You waste away for eternity while doing side quests.
You start off with your goal in mind, but eventually you fall victim to the various distractions that are offered. You waste away for eternity while doing side quests.
It's funny
but despite like a combined 1000 hours between Oblivion and Skyrim, I have never actually beaten either of their main story lines
Like Oblivion was so silly because I beat pretty much every single other major quest line and several large mods and never did anything for the main story
With Skyrim, I mostly avoided the story because I thought dragons spawning in the overworld would be annoying
but despite like a combined 1000 hours between Oblivion and Skyrim, I have never actually beaten either of their main story lines
Like Oblivion was so silly because I beat pretty much every single other major quest line and several large mods and never did anything for the main story
With Skyrim, I mostly avoided the story because I thought dragons spawning in the overworld would be annoying
I've beat Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.
Morrowind is the best btw.
You can complete the main storyline on each game in a week or so depending on how much you play. All elder scrolls games have so much content outside of the main quest that contribute to a 100 hr play through, but if you just do the main quests it doesn't take very long.
Morrowind is the best btw.
You can complete the main storyline on each game in a week or so depending on how much you play. All elder scrolls games have so much content outside of the main quest that contribute to a 100 hr play through, but if you just do the main quests it doesn't take very long.
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Big time. Beat Skyrim a couple of times (PC with hundreds of mods and 360 at launch) and got all 1,500 achievement points from Oblivion and the expansion. Amazing games.
They're meaty for sure but kinda as long as you want them to be. They're not too crazy if you just do the main quest but who does that? A lot of the best stuff is side content.
They're meaty for sure but kinda as long as you want them to be. They're not too crazy if you just do the main quest but who does that? A lot of the best stuff is side content.
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I have about 80 hours in ESO and I haven't even touched the 1st story quest lol
I have beaten every Elder Scrolls game and have hundreds of hours in each of them. It will take 100-200 hours to do everything noteworthy in these games but you could probably beat the main quest in like 20 hours if you just rush through it on a first playthrough. Most of the playtime in the long run will come from making new character builds and moving on to making other characters once you get bored playing as them. You don't have to 100% complete the game to enjoy it.
Done skyrim, oblivion and ESO. As others have said, the MSQ often is trash and the best content lies elsewhere. That said, ES games often have poorly written stories and don't really have fun quest design IMO. The draw has always been a sandbox for mods.
In the case of ESO the draw was the pvp if anything
In the case of ESO the draw was the pvp if anything
I've played Skyrim for over 1000 hours on all platforms but I've only ever beaten the main quest once. Not because it's difficult or overly long, but because there's just so many distractions and so much better side content. Also (I think?) clearing the main storyline will decrease the rate at which dragon encounters spawn, and I almost always need to unlock more shouts.
Also only ever beat Oblivion once, because all the gates to Dagon's realm are destroyed when you do, and those Sigil Stones are incredible for enchanting.
Also only ever beat Oblivion once, because all the gates to Dagon's realm are destroyed when you do, and those Sigil Stones are incredible for enchanting.
You can technically "beat" Oblivion or Skyrim's respective main quest arcs in a few hours if you critical path it.
Now, if you actually want to dive head-first into their settings and curated content, then you can spend hundreds of hours with them.
Now, if you actually want to dive head-first into their settings and curated content, then you can spend hundreds of hours with them.
I've played Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim until the credits.
Morrowind was probably the longest of the three games. Oblivion was the biggest grind ... all the quests start getting really samey towards the end. Skyrim had a nice pace, lots of fun sidequests, and it never got boring to me. No idea how long I spent on each game, 50 hours or more, certainly.
It took me about 30 hrs or so ...when I finally buckled down and did it . It is INSANELY easy to get side tracked from the main missions .
My thing with BGS games in general, but Skyrim in particular, is I inevitably spend ~100 hours downloading and curating hundreds of mods and figuring out how to get them to play nice together, and by them time I'm finally ready to play I'm already kinda burned out.
I don't even remember if i bothered with Oblivion and Skyrim but I've definitely beaten Morrowind at least two or three times, one time a nascent speedrun back in the days when I would try and sequence break the everlasting shit out of those types of games
I beat Oblivion and Skyrim.
I spent 108 hours on Skyrim and a couple years later when the VR version came out I beat it in exactly 108 hours again.
Not sure how long Oblivion took.
I spent 108 hours on Skyrim and a couple years later when the VR version came out I beat it in exactly 108 hours again.
Not sure how long Oblivion took.
I finished the main quest in Skyrim at around 80 hours, I think? And I eventually finished the main story in ESO, too.
Oblivion, I gave up on because I'm too much of a completionist for my own good and completely clearing out all the oblivion gates got so monotonous.
Oblivion, I gave up on because I'm too much of a completionist for my own good and completely clearing out all the oblivion gates got so monotonous.