Skyrim=Boring?

[Torah Dreidelberg]

I was so hyped for Skyrim a couple months before it came out. I had played and really enjoyed elder scrolls 4 as well as fallout 3.I even had it preloaded on steam for launch day and played it at midnight. I had a major skyrim weekend that week and got to 25-30 hours and beat the game. Ever since beating the game every time I try to play and do side quests I am underwhelmed and bored with in 10-15 minutes. Ive tried many mods they don't seem to help at all either, what could be the problem?

Edit: I just hear a lot about people who still play and was wondering if that's the norm.

 

[Torah Dreidelberg]

The problem seems to be that Skyrim is just...well...shit?

Barely any quests are of interest. Christ, 90% of them are horrible. Main quest is shit, mage guild is horrible, Dark Brotherhood is alright.

Skyrim lacks decent narrative to keep playing. I recommend going to New Vegas.

I wish I could, played and beat it a long time ago.

 

[Scrustle]

Maybe you just played too much at once and now you're all Skyimed out. It can happen. That's why I usually try to take a leisurely pace at my games.

 

[Total LOLige]

You could wait for the DLC? It might give Skyrim some more life. I'm bored of Skyrim after 50 hours I'm only level 29, I haven't finished the main quest.

 

[Jitters Caffeine]

I found the game impossibly boring. I loved the Fallout series, but the Elder Scrolls series never gelled with me. Skyrim in particular just feels so cold and lifeless. The world is sterile, the NPCs are boring, and the Main Quest is a cluttered mess of big overarching conflicts that never really payoff. The combat is boring and all the factions behave exactly the same.

I honestly can't find a single NPC that wasn't more than a cardboard cutout who's sole point is to shout ambient dialogue or give you a fetch quest. There are three overarching stories going on all fighting for top billing and they all just fizzle out without providing ANY satisfaction. The different factions and guilds feel incredibly boring and one dimensional and serve only to provide more quests. The random dragon encounters are probably THE most annoying aspect of the game apart from how much I hate how boring every character is.

I also find the game damn near impossible to role-play in. The obtrusive leveling system means I have to grind my skills for perks which means I'm not able to really play how I want because my actions are dictated by what I need more experience in at that moment.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

The problem is it's just too damn easy, and there's little reward for finishing a quest other than a pile of coins and some xp to add another number to your stats list. And no, increasing the combat difficulty is not what I'm talking about - there are other ways of making a game harder than making the enemies tougher.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

It does some things better and some things worst than previous bethesda games.

The enviroment, voice acting, combat and leveling system are all vastly improved. But the quests are boring and the dungeons are all linear corridors.

The dull quests by extention make all the guilds pretty weak. I think my biggest disappointment was the Brotherhood, I didn't like Oblivion much but the Dark Brotherhood quests where all really intense creative stealth missions, where as Skyrim just points out some bloke to kill.

But I think it makes up for it in the other ways I've mentioned. Skyrim is a world I'm actually interested in exploring unlike Oblivion generic fantasy landscape, and the combat feels good and is vastly better than the last Elder Scrolls and a little better than Fallout 3's slighty clunky vats system.

Now that the hype is gone and I can look at it with unclouded eyes it was very, very flawed, but I still got a good 80 hours out of it. How many single player games can I say that about? I'm certainly going to be picking up any DLC.

 

[Epona]

It is boring, the sense of progression is seriously hampered by the fact that they replaced attributes with perks, most of which suck. The world really isn't that attractive, you want black and white, watch an old movie.

New Vegas is far more interesting.

 

[thiosk]

Yikes 4 months later and on comes the hate.

I liked skyrim, but its not for everyone. Next time I hop in, I begin the genocide, now that I've finished essentially every quest worth doing.

Every citizen of skyrim will meet a fiery electric death.

There will be no one to utter the phrase of the arrow'd knee

 

[Torah Dreidelberg]

It does some things better and some things worst than previous bethesda games.

The enviroment, voice acting, combat and leveling system are all vastly improved. But the quests are boring and the dungeons are all linear corridors.

The dull quests by extention make all the guilds pretty weak. I think my biggest disappointment was the Brotherhood, I didn't like Oblivion much but the Dark Brotherhood quests where all really intense creative stealth missions, where as Skyrim just points out some bloke to kill.

But I think it makes up for it in the other ways I've mentioned. Skyrim is a world I'm actually interested in exploring unlike Oblivion generic fantasy landscape, and the combat feels good and is vastly better than the last Elder Scrolls and a little better than Fallout 3's slighty clunky vats system.

Now that the hype is gone and I can look at it with unclouded eyes it was very, very flawed, but I still got a good 80 hours out of it. How many single player games can I say that about? I'm certainly going to be picking up any DLC.

You really think the combat was better? I enjoyed fallout 3's combat better by a mile.

 

[TehCookie]

The sidequests are pretty mindless and boring. I still love playing it since it gives me something to do while I watch anime. Now playing it and not doing anything else at the same time I'd be bored quickly.

 

[Lucem712]

I don't often play a game for 30+ hours and decide I don't like it, but that's just me.

I enjoy the game and I pop it once a week or more if I get into it. I enjoy Fallout 3 and NV more but that's mostly because I really enjoy the lore behind Fallout, the game-play and the world surround it.

If on the other hand you actually enjoy the game, but are bored because you've done everythin' you've wanted to, (if you are on a pc) just download some mods. The exploding chicken one looks super entertaining!

 

[Torah Dreidelberg]

I don't often play a game for 30+ hours and decide I don't like it, but that's just me.

I enjoy the game and I pop it once a week or more if I get into it. I enjoy Fallout 3 and NV more but that's mostly because I really enjoy the lore behind Fallout, the game-play and the world surround it.

If on the other hand you actually enjoy the game, but are bored because you've done everythin' you've wanted to, (if you are on a pc) just download some mods. The exploding chicken one looks super entertaining!

I've gotten a fair amount of play from it, but I haven't done most side quests. What baffles me is that I suddenly found it boring after the main quest, as did my friend.

 

[Lucem712]

I don't often play a game for 30+ hours and decide I don't like it, but that's just me.

I enjoy the game and I pop it once a week or more if I get into it. I enjoy Fallout 3 and NV more but that's mostly because I really enjoy the lore behind Fallout, the game-play and the world surround it.

If on the other hand you actually enjoy the game, but are bored because you've done everythin' you've wanted to, (if you are on a pc) just download some mods. The exploding chicken one looks super entertaining!

I've gotten a fair amount of play from it, but I haven't done most side quests. What baffles me is that I suddenly found it boring after the main quest, as did my friend.

If I recall correctly after I finished my first playthough, I just started over because I didn't feel the effect of my actions in the world.

 

[Torah Dreidelberg]

I don't often play a game for 30+ hours and decide I don't like it, but that's just me.

I enjoy the game and I pop it once a week or more if I get into it. I enjoy Fallout 3 and NV more but that's mostly because I really enjoy the lore behind Fallout, the game-play and the world surround it.

If on the other hand you actually enjoy the game, but are bored because you've done everythin' you've wanted to, (if you are on a pc) just download some mods. The exploding chicken one looks super entertaining!

I've gotten a fair amount of play from it, but I haven't done most side quests. What baffles me is that I suddenly found it boring after the main quest, as did my friend.

If I recall correctly after I finished my first playthough, I just started over because I didn't feel the effect of my actions in the world.

I feel like maybe the game lost it's urgency.

 

[Lucem712]

I've gotten a fair amount of play from it, but I haven't done most side quests. What baffles me is that I suddenly found it boring after the main quest, as did my friend.

If I recall correctly after I finished my first playthough, I just started over because I didn't feel the effect of my actions in the world.

I feel like maybe the game lost it's urgency.

I definitely feel that. You've basically saved the world, now what?

 

[Torah Dreidelberg]

I've gotten a fair amount of play from it, but I haven't done most side quests. What baffles me is that I suddenly found it boring after the main quest, as did my friend.

If I recall correctly after I finished my first playthough, I just started over because I didn't feel the effect of my actions in the world.

I feel like maybe the game lost it's urgency.

I definitely feel that. You've basically saved the world, now what?

It's like "I just saved the goddamn world and nothing has visibly changed, I'm not even treated differently."