Skyrim builds

[Rand{CLR}]

I'm going to go ahead and post my "final" stats, having beaten the game this weekend and just working on some final quests--Destruction Ritual Spell, "steal all the sweetrolls in the world," and the civil war quests--call that about 2 hours maybe.

So, I'm 118 hours and 40 minutes in today, before the above. That makes Skyrim by far the largest game I've ever played. I've got 96 hours and 18 minutes in Fallout New Vegas--INCLUDING all the DLC. I think Baldur's Gate 2 plus Throne of Bhaal came in around 100 hours, and the same with the Neverwinter Nights 2 series. The only mod I'm running is glowing ore, so these hours are for the game upon release with no additional content.

I'm level 72, with 100 in Destruction, Enchanting, Smithing, Heavy Armor, Block, One-Handed, Sneak, Lockpick, and Alchemy.

My other skills are 76 in Restoration, 51 in Alteration, 76 in Conjuration, 87 in Illusion, 67 in Two-Handed, 88 in Archery, 78 in Light Armor, 56 in Pickpocket, and 50 in Speech.

I discovered 328 locations, had 1,264 skill increases, finished 102 quests and 312 miscellaneous objectives, killed 1,436 people and more than 2,000 other things, and gained 44 dragon souls. My final daedric armor set gives me a rating of 1200, but it's on one of my dummies as I am trying to get more light armor points.

I just got PC Gamer today, and it contains their most recent 100 Best Games Evah! They name Skyrim number 2 (I have BIG problems with them kicking Deus Ex down to 28 after it coming in 1 last time). Skyrim is clearly my game of the year, and it's high on all-time, but not that high.

What do you all think, where do you rank Skyrim for the year and all-time?

-Rand

P.S. My top games of the year are 1. Skyrim, 2. Deus Ex Human Revolution, 3. Arkham City, and 4. Portal 2.

[Duke{CLR}]

I have not had much time to play and don't play a large number of games but I would have to agree on it being the best game of 2011. Portal 2 is second.

Games I'm looking forward to are Diablo 3, Torchlight 2 (to play co op with Mini) and the next chapter of Half life.

[Dead...Again]

I've only played Skyrim for a few hours, but it is awesome and very addictive. I currently have ~93 hours in FNV, working through Old world blues. After I started Skyrim, it was difficult to go back to FNV... Deus Ex was awesome, but it only took me ~35 hours to finish it. I haven't played Arkham city yet but heard it was great. For me I'd say best games are Skyrim, Deus Ex, BF3.

[Rand{CLR}]

I forgot to add The Witcher 2, which would come in number 5. I'll probably post a more comprehensive list after I have a chance to finally play Zelda Skyward Sword. Looking to post a top movies list someplace too, but I need to see The Artist, The Descendents, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy first.

Deus Ex was awesome, but it only took me ~35 hours to finish it.

Nowadays, that makes Deus Ex a massive game. It's very rare for a game to take longer than 20 hours and has been for about a decade. Most games today take 4-10 hours. A good, solid RPG is 25-40 hours. A great RPG gets into 40-60. Superb RPGs like Fallout NV/Fallout 3 and Skyrim are 80-00 or so if not more, and are very rare indeed.

-Rand