Do you want to explore the whole world?

[Skyblade]

In JRPGs, sure, you always want to have that "complete" playthrough.

In The Elder Scrolls, no way. 1) it's unreasonable and 2) the world is so big, in part, so that you can have completely different playthroughs and stories for everytime you create a new character.

Guess I've been playing TES wrong.

Exactly. What the heck are you talking about, Bolivar? The world is so big so you can spend 150-200 hours combing every inch of it in a single playthrough.

Only 200? I spend 300 per play through (game time, so not including resets) on most RPGs I get heavily invested in.

I don't understand this. I did literally everything that can be done on Skyrim in 150 hours, and it's the biggest game I've ever played. What on earth do you do for 300 hours?

I only played about an hour of Skyrim. I actually kind of hated it. I was talking most games in general. Currently I'm playing through Fire Emblem Awakening on Lunatic mode, and I have spent well over 200 hours just grinding stats, skills, Support conversations, etcetera. In a game that basically consists of 35 battles each about an hour long, tops (and Chrom has not yet married in my current play through). In FFVII I grind out a Master Materia set for each character, and acquire all Limits, etcetera. In Persona 3 I nabbed an Omnipotent Orb for each party member, including Shinjiro (which was probably a hundred hours of resets right there), and fused a "perfect" version of every Persona in the Compendium.

In RPGs, I do everything. 200 hours would be one like FFXII that I got bored with and never finished.