You Can Beat Skyrim In 136 minutes
People like these Elder Scrolls games because they have a lot of content, but you don’t have to see all of it to complete the game. In fact, the game is kinda short if you know what you’re doing. The important part of that that last sentence is “if you know what you’re doing.”
The QA testers and developers at Bethesda know what they’re doing, and two of them managed to complete the entirety of Skyrim in less than 137 minutes.
This is a tradition of sorts at Bethesda; they get close to wrapping a game, and they have a speedrun competition. It’s the best of the QA guys vs. the best of the developers. Sam from QA and Jeff from the Studio had at it, and the thing was oh so close. Sam won, with a time of 2:16:10 to Jeff’s 2:16:30. I mean holy hell.
It should be noted that this is nearly twice as long as it took these same two guys to get through Fallout 3, so I guess we can expect twice as much content in Skyrim. Right?
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7 Comments on You Can Beat Skyrim In 136 minutes
JosephPS3 Dead State
On October 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Premature ejaculaskyrimation
Luther
On October 14, 2011 at 8:38 pm
O wow I never knew about the speed runs they do, interesting.
Symon
On October 15, 2011 at 2:30 am
you forgot to mention Sam won himself a pumpkin pie
Aids
On October 15, 2011 at 5:19 am
Omg you can speed run an Elders Scrolls game? Never seen that before.
StygSec
On October 15, 2011 at 4:45 pm
I call BS. It is impossible to speedrun any game of this mass size in under 200 hours. The internet lies a lot. Don’t believe this pile of crap.
Garyn Dakari
On October 16, 2011 at 1:34 am
@Aids and StygSec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_fFApDyki4
Garyn Dakari
On October 16, 2011 at 1:38 am
And: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfmdl9-tnSU&feature=related