Current Events > How do people rack up 1K+ hours in Skyrim

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There's only so much content there and a lot of questlines aren't conducive to RP
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Mods
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DarthAragorn posted...

Mods

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*installs recommended mods in Oblivion*
*Game runs like shit*

*Try content-adding mods for various games*
*The quality difference is obvious and immersion-breaking*

I just don't get the appeal. They're great in GMod or something but in stuff like Skyrim the only tolerable ones I've tried add balance/placement/etc changes and cosmetic updates. But that just improves QoL not increase replayability
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By playing the game for over 1000 hours. This isn't complicated
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I agree wholeheartedly. Skyrim's base is so fucking weak and repetitive, and mods are generally awkward and much worse than the original somehow. I can see it being fun for people who don't play a lot of rpgs
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Different folks different strokes.
I cannot understand why people 10th prestige in COD but evidently some people love reset grinding levels.
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There's also mods that add in new lands that come with quests too.

If you don't fast travel, then you could probably rack up 1000 hours easily.
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Mods
multiple characters and builds
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I can't break 100 on an account without getting bored :/.
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Some gamers just like to wander. Hell, I love open world games because they provide nice, mindless time sinks while looking around at places.

That being said, a thousand plus hours is a tad much for essentially any open world game. Think the most I've ever put into one was 250ish combined in Fallout 3.
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Mods aren't the reason, my cousin has a 600+ hour save on 360 in skyrim.

The game is just fun.
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I've played nearly 60 days on Modern Warfare 2

It's not that hard
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Yeah, in Skyrim I found myself actually walking / running from place to place instead of fast travelling most of the time. Wandering around in that game is pretty amazing.
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DarthAragorn posted...

Mods

Pretty much this.

I have 650 hours myself, and the grand bulk of that was just from fiddling around with different mods, and I didn't even get to try out everything I had my eye on before Skyrim Special Edition came out. (To which I fully plan on replacing Oldrim with SSE and continue fucking around.)

Of all the mods I've installed, I'd say "Alternate Start - Live Another Life" by Arthmoor had the biggest impact on my willingness to start the game over and over so many times, even if it was for limited bursts where I didn't completely finish the run per say but rather I just spent hours (dozens at a time even) playing up whatever alternate start I went with and carving a path with various little rules in mind to create my own fun.
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Doe posted...

*installs recommended mods in Oblivion*
*Game runs like shit*

*Try content-adding mods for various games*
*The quality difference is obvious and immersion-breaking*

I just don't get the appeal. They're great in GMod or something but in stuff like Skyrim the only tolerable ones I've tried add balance/placement/etc changes and cosmetic updates. But that just improves QoL not increase replayability

So.. you only tried mods for oblivion not skyrim?
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youngfossil posted...

Doe posted...

*installs recommended mods in Oblivion*
*Game runs like shit*

*Try content-adding mods for various games*
*The quality difference is obvious and immersion-breaking*

I just don't get the appeal. They're great in GMod or something but in stuff like Skyrim the only tolerable ones I've tried add balance/placement/etc changes and cosmetic updates. But that just improves QoL not increase replayability

So.. you only tried mods for oblivion not skyrim?

Duh!
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How do people rack up 1K+ hours in Skyrim

bc thats how long it took for me to get sexlab to work
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I can't stand the combat or the empty feeling quests. I wish I could love the game for it's world but the combat is so goddamn awful I can't be bothered.
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HiddenLurker posted...

Different folks different strokes.
I cannot understand why people 10th prestige in COD but evidently some people love reset grinding levels.

yeah pretty much this
I can see someone getting immersed, but I break 50 hours and get bored
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Muffinz0rz posted...

I've played nearly 60 days on Modern Warfare 2

It's not that hard

Well that's online
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I have 400 hours and I never even beat the main quest
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You're right about the repetitiveness. After you've played the vanilla game for about 20 hours, you start noticing that everything "new" you see is just a variation of everything you saw in the first 20 hours. That being said, I've probably sunken in about 2000+ hours into the game. At least 1000 of them were within the span of a year. I've never managed to complete the main quest, nor do I think I ever will for the reasons I mentioned above. But the reason I've managed to dedicate so many hours into the game is because I keep making new characters. It's fun to play as a warrior that bashes everything in front of you for a while. Then it's fun to play as a mage. The. It's fun to start a new save as a thief that sneaks around your enemies. Then it's fun to start a new character that is some combination of the three. Throughout all my playthroughs, I've found that a thief/mage is the funnest playstyle for this game. But even that gets old after about 50 hours and then it's on to a new character for me.

When i play im constantly saving and reloading when something messes up. If it was super stable/bug free id play more.
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youngfossil posted...

So.. you only tried mods for oblivion not skyrim?

Nah it was an example
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