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Fishbreaths excellent post reminded me its been a few weeks actually since I played Skyrim.

I’ve been busy with Starwars and of course, getting ready for the Holidays. Also, I want to wait until the expansion arrives and have some more fun! 100 hours so far, is a nice number of hours for a game these days.

So, are you still playing?

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How is this even a question for most people? :)

I’m close to 80 hours in and finally TRYING to focus on the core story missions. (Still often distracted by shiny objects…) I have so many other games I need to get back to, but I’m totally game-locked.

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I would if ToR hadn’t been released.

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Another great thing about Skyrim: it helped me resist the Bioware-love-fueled temptation to buy ToR. I remain MMO-free.

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I’m in the same boat. My play time started petering off after I reached 100 hours as well, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t played in at least a week. I know I’ll be back when the expansions start rolling in.

Also, I finally picked up Dark Souls, so I’m enjoying that while waiting for more Skyrim expansions.

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Haven’t played since the 15 hours I put in during the launch weekend. The texture bug on 360 forced me to put the game down until a patch fix…and then the 1.2 debacle occurred. I got the 1.3 fix, but haven’t dove back in yet.

I plan to fully invest over the holiday. That is unless the lure of Star Wars ToR gets to me…which it may.

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I haven’t started. Should I buy Skyrim?

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No. I got about 90 hours in and was still loving it, playing as much as I could. Then one day out of the blue I was just about to launch the game when I realized that I didn’t want to play anymore. I haven’t played it since. Weird.

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It’s still the game I’ve been playing the most, by far.

Steam stats:
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Recent: 33.1 hrs
Total: 219.4 hrs

The biggest breaks I’ve taken were from:
A) Waiting a few days for the resist fix after it was broken in a patch, and a caster was my main at the time
B) Playing Dark Souls, or games with the wife.

Even if I stopped playing forever, starting right NOW, I’d have more than gotten my money’s worth.

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Next thread: “Do you still start Skyrim threads?”

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When you do, be sure to post pics of your characters in the character thread. Our local Skyrim community will welcome all newcomers, with reckless abandon.

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No, i finished my game, after 95 hours.

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Still playing :)

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I was, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

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About 90 hours in now, and still only at about lvl 20 (but: about 6 chars at that lvl, all with different playstyles and following different questlines). Starwars allmost made me stop, but now I’ve decided to wait a bit, so I don’t have to deal with long queus and overflowing starter-area’s. Haven’t got the time to be a high-end MMOplayer anyway, so I don’t mind starting a few months after the first batch.

Then again, by that time we will have Mass Effect 3, and Diablo 3… Damn, I need more free time!

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How about Skyrim, sausage, Skyrim, Skyrim, bacon, Skyrim, tomato and Skyrim?

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I’m at 110 hours but I’m trying to wrap up the main story before Christmas. Not because I’m bored with the game, but rather because other games are starting to pile up and I expect even more by the time the Steam sale ends. That way I can always go back and do some more adventuring, but I will have the main story stuff out of the way in Skyrim.

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Honest answer time.

The Forsworn Conspiracy took a hit out of me in that in left me feeling pretty dreaded about the world. In a good way mind you, that kind that has me even mildly emotionally invested in the game. I decided to take a break there and continue my adventure another day, main storyline, civil war, and companion quests on hold. I had played about 60 hours. I was level 36.

And I haven’t been compelled to get back in.

I could blame it on the time I think I need to immerse myself in the world, time I think I do not have, but have since dropped another 20 hours on Anno 2070, almost epic hours at a time.

I can blame it on the combat, which I already find kinda of tedious in the sense that I load up Batman and Dark Souls once in a while to just knock things around for the sheer fun of it.

I can blame it on the writing, which is lacklustre for the most part, even if its far better than Bethsoft’s previous stuff. I’d rather read a book now to get a better sense of characters and plot and emotional investment in a world that feels like it has stakes.

I can, of course, blame it on other games, like Driver: San Fran, which I just got and haven’t booted up but have heard good things. Anno 2070, which is like a magical timesink. AC: Revelations, which I feel honor-bound to play because a lot of my friends worked on it and Rayman: Origins because I just wanna have fun.

It’s probably a combination of all the those reasons. I see the wizard behind the curtain in Skyrim’s design, and while the overall game is fantastic for its value, scope and ambition, the actual game design sometimes leaves me a little hollow.

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Then you need more humanity. Kill some rats.

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Why so soon!?