The 300 (hour) club

[lestatdark]

Mummelmann said:

lestatdark said:

brainiacxiii said:
Some poeple are saying fallout 3 and oblivion. I did 100% of oblivion is less than 50 hours. every quest, every secret. max level. Then I switched to mods and did that for anoher 20 hours., then I started making mods, and I NEVER GOT CLOSE to 300 hours, WOW!

Did you do all that with a guide? Because it's pretty much impossible to do everything and find everything in the game if you do not know where you're going and where to find all the things. 

And about the mods. OOO 1.3 alone can take you up to 100 hours to finish 100%, even if you use the walkthrough on Jorge Oscure page. Mainly because, unlike the vanilla game, enemies have fixed levels, and some of them are well over 50. Plus, you level up 4 times slower than in the normal game, which makes for massive durability.

And then, if you use FCOM+Warcray then you've got virtually unlimited durability.

Heck, even without using mods, the official expansions alone will take you more than 30 hours, and that's using a guide. Knights of the Nine is a 5-10 hours, while Shivering Islands can take you well over 20 hours to complete with everything.  

I played Oblivion for 110 hours without mods, both expansions and I was level 39 at the end, not quite maxed on all skills the first playthrough so it really does last a long ass time if you're meticulous about it.

Me too. I still have my save from my first playthrough in the game, no guide, exploring all the nooks and crannies in the game and finding pretty much every location, weapon and maxing them out with Soul Gems, doing all guild quest, etc,etc and it took me well over 200 hours alone.

And that was without KOTN and SI. Pretty much it's like a world unto it's own, even though it's a shorter experience than the full package of previous Elder Scrolls games, it's still one of the largest experiences in this generation.