I've been playing close to 7hours already(installed it late yesterday). Only reason i'm not playing now is to start this topic.

I'm REALLY loving this game. I tried playing Oblivion countless times, but after a couple off hours(1-2hours in) I just ccouldn't continue playing it, it just seemed boring, but I did love Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Don't really know what the difference here is, cause the concept is the same, but this game I just can't get enough off. Last night... more like this morning 4am I had the "just one more quest feeling", I just didn't want to go to sleep. I'm lvl 10 or 11 and done a lot of quests and explored mostly around Whitrerun because I want to finish as many quests as I can around there before I go further. I joined "The Companions"(but not 100% yet, people who joined them should know what I mean..) I kinda regret this though, cause I didn't explore any off the other factions yet. Buy maybe because I haven't fully completed my joining(?) ritual I can still join some other faction if I want to. Also, I fought 3(!) dragons already, 2 random and the first you encounter during the beginning. Died fighting one off the random ones and when I tracked back to it, it wouldn't come and fight me for some reason... But anyways. This game is fucking awesome and I think it's going to hurt my time I should spend reading for the exams that i'm going to have in like 1month. But what the hell, it's not like I was going to read my ass off anyways.

...I didn't sleep last night because of Skyrim.

@Hypertreb said:

...I didn't sleep last night because of Skyrim.

Yeah it almost happened to me two last night. Put I was "strong" enough to go to bed at 5am, just so I could get enough sleep to wake up early today to play some more. I laid in bed from 11-12AM until 4pm just playing Skyrim.

I'm loving it too man.
 
It's a great experience to roam the wild aimlessly, admiring the great view.

@FancySoapsMan: Yeah I know what you mean, unfortunately for me i'm playing on my laptop(best PC I have at the moment..) so have to play on low settings, but still loving exploring the world of Skyrim.

One of the greatest games ever made. I can't say it enough.

I'm with you guys, this game is absolutely breathtaking, all the things you can do, all the things you can craft, the possibilities are literally endelss, collect herbs, mine, enchant, alchemy, smelthing, smithing, create hide. Game of the decade and i've only played some 17-18 hours.

It's awesome. I'm currently halfway to level 17.

^ So does that mean you're level 8.5? :P

got it yesterday morning, by 5pm today i had already played it for 16 and a half hours... i'm rather liking it

You'll want to venture below the college of winterhold....

i would play this non stop for 5 days but when i did that with GTA my x box crashed... this time i'll have to take breaks

Yeah, I didn't like Oblivion much at all, but I'm finding myself quite addicted to this. The few times I do put it down it's usually to ask my friends to play some multiplayer game and they'll say "NAH MAN ARE YOU CRAZY WE SKYRIM NOW" and I end up watching a stream of someone playing Skyrim for 5 minutes before starting it up myself.

*quits game*

"Well, that's enough for now. Don't want to burn out on it."

*goes to Giant Bomb and pokes around Skyrim forums*

"WHY AREN'T I PLAYING MORE SKYRIM!?"

*starts game*

I've been going through this loop since yesterday. And I thought my Fallout addiction was getting out of hand...

I can't go for more than 15 mins at a time. I'm seriously damaging my eyes, I can't go outside anymore.

I have to wait all weekend for this game to ship to my place. I fucking hate you guys.

@ShaggE: This is exactly what keeps happening to me...

And here we go again.

this game is gonna take forevver for me to finish. cant put it down and i have to go into every cave i see on the way to a quest. i think i have some kind of disease.

Got it at midnight on Friday and I'm about 21 hours in... I need other things to do.

I definitely not a fan of past Elder Scrolls games. This one though, it's just different.

I've already played 26 hours of it.

I think it is pretty damn good.

@ShaggE said:

*quits game*

"Well, that's enough for now. Don't want to burn out on it."

*goes to Giant Bomb and pokes around Skyrim forums*

"WHY AREN'T I PLAYING MORE SKYRIM!?"

*starts game*

I've been going through this loop since yesterday. And I thought my Fallout addiction was getting out of hand...

It's been a long while since I experienced this vicious loop, but I love it. So glad I'm on my holidays right now.

I hate coming to the GB forums in between Skyrim sessions, because even though I feel like i've done nothing but play Skyrim the past 2 days (and rightly so) there are people here who have literally doubled my playtime already.

I've slept about 10 hours since the game's launch and I've taken meals at weird times like 4pm and 1am.

You should be able to join multiple factions at once. You could in Oblivion. I recently joined the Imperial Legion and I was already a member of the Companions.

yeah I can't really play all things Bethesda yet Skyrim felt like 10 minutes and I look at the clock it's 6 hours. That's just all kinds of wrong.

The only thing I did all day long was play Skyrim. The thing is is that it didn't even feel like the day was slipping away. Just all of the sudden it was late.

...my productivity for everything is going to go down the toilet.

@ShaggE: Haha EXACTLY!

This game is just freaking awesomesauce. Even though I love my BF3 and Dark Souls, Skyrim is the one I want to play! :D

The crafting systems in this game are vastly improved over oblivion that foraging and hunting are actually useful tasks that you can do while going to a new place you can't fast travel to yet.

I played for 15 hours straight on Friday and it was awesome.