When do you get your visits to Skyrim into your day?

[Stigweard Ruadhan]

I'm intrigued to know when we all get the chance to sit down and indulge in Skyrim. Do we snatch the odd hour here and there? Dedicate a weekend to the pursuit? Have barely enough time to journey between settlements before we shut down?

For me, Skyrim (alongside Total War, Crusader Kings, Chivalry and Witcher) is an escapist indulgence away from the unrelenting demands of every day life.

Being a guy who works Monday to Friday 7:30am - 6:30pm, I manage to grab maybe an hour or so every night and a little longer (about 4 hours or so) on the weekends due to having the day to 'zombie out' if tiredness creeps in.

Having a wife and two year old daughter, severe constraints can often come into play and Skyrim time is often quite a 'treat' based gift to myself after I've bathed my little girl, made the tea and done some paperwork.

So...how about you?

 

[Zolo-Shea]

I love this thread already.

I hate my job with a slow, cold hatred, and any time spent in that dirty cage usually requires some good ol' stress relief (i.e., computer-generated violence.) I used to love Batman: Arkham City for the brawl mode, breaking bad guys is definitely the flavor of gameplay i go for. But after I bought Skyrim... the rest of my video game collection just kind of faded away. Now when I get home, i wrestle the controller away from my wife (she's got a badass little Bosmer coming along,) I load a big ol' bowl of "Skooma," and the real world is abandoned for a couple hours. So yeah, definitely after work.

Weekend Skyrim is a different kind of game, though. It requires much more "Skooma," and much less moving around for anything or anyone. Washington initiative 502 FOR THE WIN!! I mean, we're talking bathrobe and greasy hair. My wife works weekends, and I... do not. So I play the Akatosh out of that disk, and our home "Skooma supply" shrinks just a little faster. Clearly, I'm a devotee of Sanguine, for those dark and hedonistic Skyrim-tendencies come oh so naturally on a Saturday. Oh well!

Teaching my wife how to play Skyrim was a bittersweet development. It's really cool to see someone who hasn't even picked up Mario yet get a slo-mo headshot kill cam on a dragon--brings a tear to my eye even now. Although you do have to wait for your turn, like I'm playing with a little brother or something.

 

[Monkeyzero]

I've got a wife and 7 year old son that are also gaming addicts so I usually get to play between the hours of 9pm and 4am. I'm a stay at home dad (thanks to my wife being a psychologist for the army) so you would think I could play all day, but no. I also have a 1 year old son, and he's the only game I get to play all day during the week and most weekends. He is my favorite game though. He's my avatar on here.

Sent from The Nether

 

[Stigweard Ruadhan]

Amen to that sentiment!

 

[The Phoenician]

I usually get in about an hour and a half after my wife and my 4 year old son go to bed on school nights. 2-3 hours on weekends. But lately my youngest who is almost 2 months thinks he needs to fed during this time.

 

[Stigweard Ruadhan]

Kids are be biggest threat to Tamriel...not the Thalmor, Dominion or any other!

 

[jRi0T68]

My 11 year old and I alternate between who plays, but he doesn't play without me.

My time is 70% my wife's (largely due to her chronic illness), 29% my son's, and 1% mine. So, if I play Skyrim with my son, it's "bonding". Lol.

Still, I average 2-3 hours a week for video games.

 

[Harc]

I play skyrim everyday, for as long as I want to play, I do my homework in school. And I have no job. Being a kid is great!

 

[jRi0T68]

I play skyrim everyday, for as long as I want to play, I do my homework in school. And I have no job. Being a kid is great!

I'd like you to explain that to my son, lol. He gets overwhelmed, but he's autistic and still an honor roll student. Kid is doing great, even with 3+ hours of homework most nights.

 

[Prometheus100c]

I play every day, every time i feel for it. I find ways to manipulate my teachers to go from the classes.
I've come that far in evolution that it's in my genes to lie and manipulate idiots.
At the end of the day i'm the hero with my good grades and my intellect.

Now every idiot can disslike this comment.

 

[jRi0T68]

^^^ Young Thalmor? Trololol!

 

[The Phoenician]

So, if I play Skyrim with my son, it's "bonding". Lol.

Well of coarse. My oldest isn't old enough to play but he likes to play 20 questions when I am. Once he asked to make a guy. So I let him and he made an Arogonian named Lizard Guy

 

[doc108]

Well of coarse. My oldest isn't old enough to play but he likes to play 20 questions when I am. Once he asked to make a guy. So I let him and he made an Arogonian named Lizard Guy

Yeah my kid is 13 so he just got out of his little COD phase and bought some of the better games. He saw me playing Skyrim asked about it then looked it up online and bought it for himself. He's been hooked for 3 months now.

BTW epic signature.

 

[Doctor Langstrom]

I usually play when a new DLC is released. Beat DLC, put Skyrim back on the shelf. Personally, I prefer Oblivion and pop that in whenever and never get tired of it.