The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Sailed past the 50-hour mark today. Still haven't been to eight out of the
ten cities; still haven't started
the main quest; still haven't started the...
secondary main quest, I guess it is?*
Part of me feels like I should dive in to some of those sometime soon — either actually continue the plot(s), or head off to sightsee. But knowing
how much stuff was unlocked
when I ended up in one major city (and I need to go back and finish off a bunch of things I started there), I feel like even hitting a single new city will kick off who-knows-how-many more hours of Things To Do, never mind
eight of them** (though only three others are classed as "major", plus five smaller ones... but if we're doing that, I need to start thinking about the eight towns, nineteen settlements, four orc strongholds, and dozens of farms, mills, caves, mines, ruins, forts, towers, camps... Yeah, it's a big game.)
This is not a complaint, by-the-way. If I was bored of what I was doing, I could absolutely ditch it and go to those areas. I could do it anyway and just end up with a
massive list of active quests. Maybe I will.
Amazing game.
* It seems to me that
the civil war is
Skyrim's secondary major storyline. It kicks off in the opening/tutorial sequence, just the same as the main quest does, and from what I've read (while finding info but also trying to avoid
too many spoilers), it eventually leads to significant world-changing set pieces
and intersects majorly with the main storyline in several ways. But my go-to resource,
the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wiki,
list it as 2 of 6 possible Faction Quests (though it does also have
a dedicated Quest page), so I dunno.
** And if we do count the civil war as one of a list of 'secondary major quests', there are three more of those I haven't started (and one other I'm in the middle of) and could/would kick off if I explored certain places.
