CVG, Mike Jackson: Skyrim can be finished in two hours [October 13th, 2011]

Depends on what you mean by “finished”, though, surely. I mean it’s been five years and I’m still finding stuff to do in Oblivion.

If you read the rest of the article, Mike Jackson makes the story a little clearer:

The studio held one of its apparently traditional speed run contests in which QA man Sam Bernstein took on level designer Jeff Brown in a sprint to the endgame in the epic RPG.

So, the core story, then. Right. Okay. That’s good. That’s important, in fact, because the headline for the article as it stands now makes it look as though Skyrim is significantly smaller than its predecessor.

What Mike has done, ultimately, is write a deliberately misleading headline that doesn’t accurately represent the content of the story. That way gullible fools like me get drawn into the article before they discovery that, oh, it’s not that after all.

I like that nice, solid red with the white logo at the top of the page. Really helps to reinforce that “shitty tabloid rag” feel CVG seem to be going after.