{"id":14726,"date":"2011-10-14T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"skyrim-s-main-quest-can-be-completed-in-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14726-skyrim-s-main-quest-can-be-completed-in-two-hours","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim\u2019s main quest can be completed in two hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of its November release, the guys and guyettes over at Bethesda HQ<\/a> have been doing what any sensible devs do in final crunch time – Skyrim speedruns!<\/p>\n

“As tradition goes, when Bethesda Game Studios is close to wrapping up development on a title, we hold a speedrun competition through the main quest (with no cheats allowed),” writes the person responsible for writing Bethesda’s official blog.<\/p>\n

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“While the game will take many hours to complete for a first-time players, our developers have years of experience under their belts and know all the ins-and-outs for speeding through the game.”<\/p>\n

“The contest pits the best Bethesda Game Studios has to offer vs. the best of QA. The person with the best time wins a trophy and gets a pie of their choice from Todd Howard.”<\/p>\n

In an epic battle to the death (or the credits), dev teamie Jeff Browne went mouse-to-mouse with QA tester Sam Bernstein.<\/p>\n

Despite taking a “totally different route”, Sam beat Jeff’s time by just 20 seconds, with a final time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, and 10 seconds.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time these titans have clashed – back in 2008, Sam clocked a Fallout 3 speedrun of just 75 minutes, beating Jeff by “a matter of seconds”.<\/p>\n

Just 75 minutes? It took me 75 hours to finish that game.<\/p>\n

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Skyrim’s main quest can be completed in two hours<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re Sam from the QA department, anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}