You may run into a town and have a citizen complain about the bandits attacking travelers, which will then send you out after them.

Many of the quests will involve simply completing generic objectives. That isn’t quite as sexy as saying you can play it forever, but the idea is the same. So while theoretically the game can go on forever, it is probably more accurate to say that Skyrim will feature self-generating mission content with no fixed end. Thanks to what the developers are calling the “Radiant Story System,” the game will continue to generate random quests for you to embark on, long after you have completed the primary story and all of the pre-arranged side quests. In an interview with Wired, Howard claimed that the game will never run out of quests for you to do. Ok, so maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but rhetoric aside, the intention is genuine. But if Todd Howard, the director of Skyrim for Bethesda Game Studios is correct, as the last light from the final star in existence is extinguished, there may still be people hunting down bandits and finding items in the game. It is rhetoric steeped in absolutes that can’t possibly be reached. People will be listening to The Beatles forever. Weddings are full of love that will go on forever. Usually, when people bandy about the word “forever,” it is attached to a healthy dose of rhetoric.

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