Bethesda QA tester beats Skyrim in just over 2 hours

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I didnt think ppl ever atctually completed these games.

a true nerd indeed

The point which people are missing is that the game is almost twice as long as Oblivion if you rush through it and ignore all other things there are to do. Therefore just imagine how great the game will be if you play through it at a normal pace and take time to enjoy every little aspect of the game.

Figure I'll do a speed run too...in about a year when all the new game smell is gone....

oh and finishing a games different to completing it on the speed runs they go from a-z bypassing b,c,d etc etc all dialogue would of been skipped most towns not visited and doubt any of the 150+ dungeons explored i'd spent 200+ hours on Oblivion and 100+ on fall out and if he finished them in just over an hour and skyrim took nearly an hour more then do the math for yourself i reckon I'll spend over 150 hrs on skyrim without playing any dlc's with a gam like Skyrim you want to savour everything not rush through it.

Skip dialogue, run through dungeons, focus on main objective. This certainly is dumb game spot post. Sometimes i wonder what they're acttually trying to convey. Morrowind was nighmare, finding your location rembering where you left your loot, but what interesting world it was tho no where near 1 hours. more like year.

Pretty pointless.....all of bethesda's games CAN be finished extremely quickly if you only do the main quest. And I mean only....no sidetracking to mess around at all. This isn't news.

so it took him just over an hour to finish Oblivion and Fallout christ it takes me an hour to just get between towns.

@carnivalshow that is not true I have played through oblivion on hard without the use of summoning spells in fact summoning spells makes the game boring to me I rather use a shield and sword I have this one set of armor that all I have to do is block the creatures will kill themselves because of the reflect damage/magic the armor had I didn't used it much because it made it way to easy almost has easy has using summoning spells

2:16:10 ? Challenge accpeted. nah am gonna take my time.

@wisealex You're right about that. I both FO3 and NV a lot of quests could be bypassed like that. I hope that's the deal behind it.

@Mega_Skrull The Actual campaign will be a lot longer. They do speed runs by cutting out a lot of the campaign (finding people before you are told to, etc. Like finding your father in Fallout 3 before all the quests that are supposed to precede it). Basically it requires a very good knowledge of the game and how it can be bypassed and occasionally glitched, check out the Morrowind and Oblivion speed runs on youtube.

@carnivalshow Apparently The Elder Scrolls to you is 'hard mode and summoning spells.' Your three posts were all necessary.

And this is what they are doing instead of real bug testing. Yay -_- Other than that, I know the main quests in Oblivion, Fallout 3 and NV were quite short, but 2 hours and a quarter sounds like very short. I don't know how to feel about this in particular, I've loved the 200 hours I've put into each one with all the side content.

So what's the point of these speed runs? Bragging rights?

I play the game on hard unlike most everyone and summons spells mean alot.

What's the point? It's like watching a movie in FF. O_o

why are people so worried about this,havent any of you played oblivion,you can clock 100hrs on that even before starting the main quest, i knw i got stack on the main quest,i misplaced some book needed fo the main quest so decided to on side quest, it got so bad i would actully talk to anyone i see hoping they hav a quest for me and yet to finish oblivion (i got rrod last year playin oblivion)

Me and alot of others want to see an summons spell clip.

They must of been playing it on easy they should do that test again on hard no way i bet in 2 hours.

It's like Oblivion or Fallout 3, if you'd already beat the game before and remembered where the main locations were in the main questline you'd know how to skip large chunks of it . Most of the main questline in fallout 3 and oblivion involved figuring out where to go next. You eliminate the need to do that and you could knock 6-8 hours off easily. Not to mention you don't need to listen to conversations or fight almost anything.

@mrsniper83 so you want them to post a complete run-through of a game that's not even out yet? Do I even need to point out why they would never do that?

@ exedeath: yeah you really went into every dungeon and completed every side mission in 38 hours. Why would you even try boasting such a thing on a site dedicated to people who actually play these games. Machismo like that requires proof and I VERY much doubt you have that. No way I'm attempting a speed run. The world deserves absorption as you go through it. Why waste all that beauty?

@RadicalToenail I wouldn't take anything into it. There could be other factors as well.

lvl 99 then speed run wosh!!! finished

sound interesting,it could be a fun way to reply my old games and see how fast i can run thru em,but it would be awesome if the x360 or consoles in general can have lik a build in timer that shows the fastest completion time of all the games you have played, maybe speedrun can have their own achivement points outside of the game achivements, so how about it ms,how abt a system update,please pretty please

WAIT, hold on, hold on....these games FINISH!? I've spent ~200 hours just killing people/ making money.

How is that even . . .

I am not surprised considering that it only took me around 38 hours to 100% oblivion.

Hmm, im curious how he did this.Would love it if they would have posted it so we could watch the run.

Well if you crank the difficulty on these games all the way down, they are incredibly easy.

Oblivion could be completed in half an hour, and I've seen a 7 minute Morrowind speedrun.

Im actually playing Oblivion! Next step on storyline is the Seal of Kvatch! Played over 100 hours...and that tells a lot! =)

The good news? It's October. The next month on the calendar is November. I think we all know what that means!

That's a good sign, considering it's about an hour more than the fastest for both Oblivion and Fallout 3.

@aaron25m Shhhhh, it's a secret. ;) The man in the blue box said not to tell anyone. @Chainer323 Sarcasm a little lost on you eh?

2 hours means about 20+ hours of storyline. Don't worry, @Jaga_Telesin . It doesn't mean the game or the main storyline is short. People on fuse say that Morrowind speedrun time was about 5 to 6 minutes. So you see?! Nothing to worry about!

@Jaga_Telesin Honestly, I've never met a person who bought Elder Scrolls for the main quest. it's the side quests and world that usually attracts the crowd. I understand many want a great story but the world always makes up for the story's shortcomings.

@Jaga_Telesin Did you read the whole article or just the headline? It was a competition to see who could beat it the fastest, they weren't taking their time exploring or anything. And 2 hours and 16 minutes is still an hour longer than it took them to speedrun Fallout 3 and Oblivion. And those game weren't short by any means.

Fast travel everywhere helps a lot. Something which I am never planning to do. I want to enjoy every sight and sound of Elder Scrolls.

I hope no one considers this "good news" in any form. In fact, it reflects poorly on the construction of the main quest, that you can speed through it as deftly as he did.

Amazing. If it took him twice as long just to finish Skyrims story, then thats beautiful. With all the sidequests to do, places to see, dungeons to rob, weapons/armor to collect, the arena, leveling up, magic to learn, and dragons to kill i can safely say NO ONE will be finishing this game in 2 hours. hell, not even 20 hrs.

not worried. Theres 300 HOURS of gameplay total and i'm going to do all of it more than once.

Well at least it is longer than Morrowinds time of 7 minutes and 30 seconds. << LINK REMOVED >> Among others.

I'm sure they're not saying "hey go speed run this game" and no one will (mostly). This little contest is only so that we know how long the main quest line is and nothing more. That must of half ruined the game for the testers... kinda sucks.

@PeterDuck Skyrim is bigger then Oblivion. Oblivion provided hundreds of hours.

i dont mind the main plot that short as long as you dont end end the game for me.......like vegas, because you should be allowed to do sidequests......its not the end of the world..........

speed runs are great, but heres hoping there are enough sidequests, faction quests and dungeons to explore so it takes me close to 60 hours to traverse the game fully.

Wow.... how can they beat a game so fast? I tried to speedrush beating Bulletstorm and it took me longer than 3 hours i'm pretty sure it would take me a lot longer to beat Skyrim.