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Skyrim Speedrun: 2hrs 16mins
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:15am 14/10/11 | 13 Comments
Speedruns are some of the more fun internet-watching pastimes, and if I weren't so worried about spoiling the forthcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim experience for myself, I'd totally watch the speedrun challenge that recently went down at Bethesda where the winner walked away from the game with a main quest completion time of 2:16:10 (if it were available to watch, that is).

The Bethesda Blog has all the juicy details, but in a match pitting Fallout 3 speedrun combatants, Sam Bernstein (QA) and Jeff Browne (BGS), Bernstein trumped Browne, with a totally different path, by a whopping 20 seconds. It's pretty amazing to think a game I will likely sink more than 100 hours into can actually be finished in that short a time.

Feel free to use the Comments space for your own speedrun bragging rights.


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Eorl
Posted 11:25am 14/10/11
That'd be just the main quest line though, so I hope there is a crapload more to do obviously. That and actually listening to text.
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ravn0s
Posted 11:27am 14/10/11
the speedrun for morrowind is 7 minutes.
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Enska
Posted 11:29am 14/10/11
its worth noting that its an hour longer than the speedruns for fallout3 and Oblivion, which means it's obviously going to keep regular gamers going a lot longer on just the main plot.
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Dazhel
Posted 11:34am 14/10/11
the speedrun for morrowind is 7 minutes.


what the!?

I had to look it up - the first minute and a half or so seems to be screwing around trying to get out of the starting town.
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demon
Posted 11:34am 14/10/11
i'm not worried about skyrim not having enough content... i never even played the main quest of oblivion with one of my characters & I had mega hours up on that character. to me it really seems pointless to speedrun an rpg. speedruns make sense for games like quake... because it's really a player showcasing their multiplayer derived movement skills in the single player environment.
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Eorl
Posted 11:50am 14/10/11
I just want some form of Co-Op, man that would awesome fun. Or hell, just a Elder Scrolls MMO.
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Pinky
Posted 12:23pm 14/10/11
I think speed runs are pretty cool. Just a different way to play through a game - i.e., like an 'achievement', just makes you play the game you love with a different perspective.

No speed runs to brag about really. Possibly my only bragging rights was being able to do Goldeneye Silo in under 1:15 or whatever it was to get the cheat. Everyone seemed to struggle with that one. My mates all brought their N64's over so I could do that challenge for them.
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skythra
Posted 01:04pm 14/10/11
Fallout 1 in 9:15 or whatever. I watched a few speedruns through games that i feel nostalgic for.
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Nerfy
Posted 02:01pm 14/10/11
Oh dear, the map music from the fallout vid takes me back (only to like 6 years ago when I first played it :P), it's awesome.
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Trauma
Posted 02:52pm 14/10/11
This run was by some guy who had not played it before? If so then I'd expect that run to fall by 50-70% once people have some experience with the game.
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Nukleuz
Posted 09:22pm 14/10/11
Not gaming related but I did a speed run of a game of thrones after eating a Trinidad Scorpion Butch T!

On a gaming note though...

No speed runs to brag about really. Possibly my only bragging rights was being able to do Goldeneye Silo in under 1:15 or whatever it was to get the cheat. Everyone seemed to struggle with that one. My mates all brought their N64's over so I could do that challenge for them.


That was rage worthy but I also hated doing the train mission in under 5:25 to get the silver PP7.
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HurricaneJim
Posted 10:38am 15/10/11
Speed run for my marriage was 14 years 11 months. 1 month short of a long service medal.
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BladeRunner
Posted 10:49am 15/10/11
Never did speed run except on GoldenEye to get cheats back in the day. For some reason I want to install Daggerfall.....never played it but it would give me something to do until skyrim.
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