It's an Elder Scrolls game, so yeah.

It looked awesome! I just installed Morrowind. :D

300+ bugs per hour

Yeh sure if you explore every single dialogue tree to the bottom and loot every shelf there is and so on you can easily spend 300+ hours in any TES game. Lets just hope they make it worthwile to spend that much time in their game this time. I dont wanna fight bugs, watch loadtimes and farm generic shitquests without any polish for 300hours. And then another 10 hours worth of this junk in their half assed DLCs

Ohh. Sounds good to me. Take me a year to finish that game then :)

I'm afraid I'll never finish this. I'll just start installing the inevitable 'Better Bodies' mods & go on a massive female slaughter spree.

@JacDG: Arachnophobia?

Yeah, but that's if you do every single little thing. I have all 1250 achievement points in Oblivion, and even I haven't done all the pithy side quests that can be found at like... random hamlets scattered throughout. Generally speaking, half of that content if not more probably isn't worthwhile anyways.

I'm not going to take that figure very literally.  I'm sure a very slow player could potentially spend that much time in the game if they did literally everything at a very measured pace, but I'm not going to let it influence my expectations.  I know how much content Bethesda games consistently have in them, and I'm expecting about the same from Skyrim.

My Oblviion character has 100+ hours logged when I stopped playing, and I only stopped because I red ringed. 300 seems absolutely fine.

i just bought morrowind and oblivion off steam... looks like i have to start on those before skyrim or i will be a sad panda since the graphics wont let me go back to them once skyrim comes out. 300 hours is nothing when i have months of my life wasted on wow, and over 200 hours on fallout 3 / vegas.

I have a dream, a dream that in 10 or so years there will be a game that takes 720 hours to complete. 

I just want to explore virtual forests, find a remote hidden house and loot it....I'm weird like that..

@BBQBram said:

@JacDG: Arachnophobia?

Sadly, big time Arachnophobia, yes, I fucking hate it.

I hope the next elder scrolls game will have machine guns and a 5 hour long campaign in it

I won't lie to you. I spent around three-hundred hours leveling up, completing the side quest narratives, leveling up some more, doing random fetch quests, finishing the main questline, and rolling through the expansions in Oblivion. That doesn't count the exploring I did for those Daedric shrines. Or curing my vampirism.

That sounds totally fine for a game of that scale.

300? is that all?

This is good. After Fallout 3 I was worried they would only be making small games.

@blacklabeldomm said:

I just want to explore virtual forests, find a remote hidden house and loot it....I'm weird like that..

Get as many cups as you can! Of course then as you're leaving the house with all of it's furnishings in tow, a fucking dragon is gonna come down and make you wish you left that extra loaf of bread behind.

Just so long as half of those 300 hours aren't busywork. But that's never really been a problem in Elder Scrolls games, since it's easy to choose what to do and what to skip. At 300 hours, though, I will never have a hope of completing everything. In Oblivion I got very close. Put in nearly 200 hours over two characters. Thinking back on it reminds me of how small some games have really become. Bethesda's games aren't always the most stable, but hell they spoil us with shit to do in them.

They mean clearing every single little side dungeon, which gets repetitive eventually. Still, I did that in Fallout 3 and most of Oblivion and still didn't make it near 300 hours on any one save.

That was probably the least surprising thing I heard about the game.

This is good. After Fallout 3 I was worried they would only be making small games.

Goodbye life.

Is that taking into account rerolling 17 times to get the character that's just right? I hope so, because I plan on doing just that.

@FreakAche said:

This is good. After Fallout 3 I was worried they would only be making small games.

Did you call fallout 3 small? I can understand there being fewer quests, but their are still plenty of dungeons.

300 hours, sounds good to me!

Just saw on a scroll line wile watching E3 on spike that the game is 300 hours to do everything. "The game is to big."      300 hours.......yes! I will have no life in that case.   (edit) : They stopped counting at 300, so the game content could be longer and probably is longer than 300 hours. 

Skyrim + Mods = Lifetime

If I had a dollar for every time some dev said their games took over the actual 30-40 hours to beat.  If that 300 hour clock time counts toward aimlessly wondering every fucking inch of the world it would  still only clock in at about 60 hours.  

@Badhands said:

I don't believe in the idea of an Elder Scrolls game that is too big. Lies.

Christ, I will never finish this game! It took be about a year of playing on and off to log about 150 hours in Oblivion.

Bethesda did say that Fallout 3 had 900 endings. So I would be cautious as to what they say about the length of the game.

I believe I could spend entire console generations just playing Bethesda games.

when people play an elder scrolls game they usually don't set out to clear everything. They try to do whatever they want and make the experience there own. I doubt i will get even close cause i usually can't hold a save for more than 100 hours or so before i make a new one. But that's just me. :3

to big or not to big 
 
that is the question 
 
also it'll be like 100 hours not 300

i usually can't hold a save for more than 100 hours or so before i make a new one. But that's just me. :3

Do any of you remember how long Morrowind was? I remember I was playing it for a loong time, can't remember how much exactly though.   
 
Somehow It's doubtful Skyrim will be THIS long. I remember they said similiar stuff about Fallout 3 (900 endings?) and it was all lies. Monyleux-like lies.

You had me at Skyrim...

I spent a crazy amount of time playing Oblivion last year. When I first started the game I thought it was shit (boring), then after a couple of months I put the disc back in, started doing the quests and somehow my opinion completely changed.

what? 300 hours? holly shit. it sounds like you have no life until you finish. I will never ever finish that game in my life. that's just extreme or insane. the reason that any game has some kind of prefer length because mostly people will give it up. too long. I bet that most people will just abandon it for the rest of their life.  

Oblivion was about 90 hours long for me and I completed almost every single quest in the game. So Im guessing Skyrim will be about the same. Of course the game might be longer if you explore every random dungeon there is and spend time doing things like alchemy, which I didnt do in oblivion. But I guess we will find out soon enough.

300 hours...that's it?

This game needs to come out faster.

I might give this game a shot. I couldn't deal with the jankiness of the gamebryo engine. 

As long as they keep things interesting and not put any repetitive fillers etc. I hate it when the interesting parts last only a few hours and then you get the remaining 280 hours of boring, same-old crap.

It all depends on the playstyle of the gamer. What might take a Jeff only 2 hours powering through something could take a Vinny 8 hours or more by exploring every nook and cranny.

I might give this game a shot. I couldn't deal with the jankiness of the gamebryo engine.