Two-thirds of my Skyrim experience can be boiled down to these ten repetitive actions

[Domehammer]

1. Enter Dungeon
2. Sneak close one shot first enemy
3. Charge like lunatic swinging two hand sword obliterating everything in path
4. Loot corpse's of dead
5. Return to town and make around a thousand or two gold
6. Head home and position skulls about home
7. Put away the 30-40 books I found into my book chest
8. Rinse and Repeat

Worst was when I went into dwemer ruins at one town. I looted 2000 weight of items. Made 384 dwarven metal ingots and a few thousand gold. I did the power attack speed walking while encumbered and level 2 whirlwind. I just wanted the ingots since I'm light armored two handed wielding stealth berserker that makes potions, enchants and smiths. Had to wait 24 hrs around ten times to sell all the other junk though as couldn't fast travel to other merchants then took 2-3 trips to bring all the ingots and books I had found home.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Bigger than my list.

1. Dungeon dive
2. Offload loot
3. Ignore quests
4. Repeat 1

 

[Annoying Turd]

Try the Thieves' Guild quests. Those were more interesting than those dungeon quests where you go and fight in Crypt/Dwemer Ruin/Mossy ruins of a fort #f00ab342.

Although I have to admit I liked exploring the Dwemer ruins in the game.

 

[Active Schizophrenic]

I feel Skyrim really lacks the sense of humour or fun that Both Oblivion and Fallout had in many of thier offbeat quests or environmental easter eggs. I've yet o come accross a quest that has a distinct air of humour about it.

Umm... "A night to remember" was the funniest quest in an RPG all year...

 

[Bealzibob]

Well I have a lot more interesting breakdown as a thief/assassin. My combat goes a little like this.

1. Sneak into Dungeon
2. Roll around room observing targets.
3. Kill weakest with arrow without alerting the rest
4. Repeat 3. if necessary
5. Sneak and instagib some (30x damage )
6. Cast Invisiblity and instagib another
7. If anyone left either repeat 6. or wildly flail with weapons
8. LOOT EVERYTHING (equipe hauling items)
9. Dump all the loot in a chest cause I don't need gold
10. Possibly disenchant the loot later
11. Repeat 1-10 in varying ways for a 70 hours or so

Still sounds less exciting wyhen brokedown but it's got more to it for sure.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Stop raiding dungeons and do something else instead then. And don't fast travel.

It's even worse if you don't. I told myself I wouldn't fast travel. That ended quickly, because not fast travelling ended up being a laborious, boring process.

inb4 hurr durr u no enjoy rp

 

[Furioso]

I feel Skyrim really lacks the sense of humour or fun that Both Oblivion and Fallout had in many of thier offbeat quests or environmental easter eggs. I've yet o come accross a quest that has a distinct air of humour about it.

Look harder, there's a Daedric quest with a talking dog, and one that is basically "The Hangover"

 

[plugav]

Yeah, TES games are like that. A huge sandbox world can only have so much substance, the rest will always be filler. And you might enjoy a certain subplot or get a kick out of exploration, but after a while you're so rich and powerful that you have little motivation to continue... Well, that's my experience with Oblivion (and Fallout 3) at least. Less so with Morrowind.

7. JUMP OVER A FUCKING MOUNTAIN to nearest town.

ROTFL, yes! Either that or run so fast you have to wait every two seconds for the next area to load.

Also, 7.5: Attract a horde of cliff racers in the process.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Doesn't this break down like every RPG ever? If you don't like what you are doing, why not try and mix up your playstyles and do something else?

 

[DarkRyter]

User generated experience here, bro.

I spent most of my Skyrim time dressing up my followers like dolla.

Hundreds of hours of dress up doll gameplay right here.

 

[DrWilhelm]

Break anything down into it's most basic components and it'll begin to appear boring/simplistic. For example, Books:

1. Read words
2. Turn page
3. Return to step 1 until pages run out

I feel Skyrim really lacks the sense of humour or fun that Both Oblivion and Fallout had in many of thier offbeat quests or environmental easter eggs. I've yet o come accross a quest that has a distinct air of humour about it.

Look harder, there's a Daedric quest with a talking dog, and one that is basically "The Hangover"

That Hangover quest had me baffled and laughing hysterically throughout. Totally didn't expect anything significant to come from the drinking contest.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Bigger than my list.

1. Dungeon dive
2. Offload loot
3. Ignore quests
4. Repeat 1

Im level 30 and haven't even seen the Graybeards yet.

I'm like level 42 on my latest character and I haven't even seen the dragons yet.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

Here's an idea... don't be an easily led automoton. Learn to role-play. I had one of the better battles in a while today just fighting some bandits. Mostly because I had tons of options (spells, weapons, shouts) that I could have fun with. Lightning bolt that guy off the tower. Conjure a Dremora Lord to fight that one. FUS RO DAH those three. Whip out the mace to cinematically finish the leader. Oh, you want to get involved too, Mr cave bear? Have some force lightning as I cackle madly.

I guess some people have just been ruined by the forced paths and actions of games like Uncharted, Gears, God, etc. and don't know how to enjoy themselves when let free of the restraints.

/shrugs

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Here's an idea... don't be an easily led automoton. Learn to role-play. I had one of the better battles in a while today just fighting some bandits. Mostly because I had tons of options (spells, weapons, shouts) that I could have fun with. Lightning bolt that guy off the tower. Conjure a Dremora Lord to fight that one. FUS RO DAH those three. Whip out the mace to cinematically finish the leader. Oh, you want to get involved too, Mr cave bear? Have some force lightning as I cackle madly.

I guess some people have just been ruined by the forced paths and actions of games like Uncharted, Gears, God, etc. and don't know how to enjoy themselves when let free of the restraints.

/shrugs

No, it just takes a certain type of gamer to enjoy dungeon crawling.
Person A:"Why do I want to fight my way through that cave?"
Person B: "To get the loot inside."
Person A: "What do I do with it?"
Person B: "Sell it or use it to get better equipment."
Person A: "To what end?"
Person B: "To better loot caves."
Person A: "........" or "Awesome!"

 

[OManoghue]

Every game ever can be boiled down to something boring.

Biochock: Walk down hallway, shoot pseudo drug addict. Hear something Irish.

Half Life 2: Walk down hallway, shoot pseudo nazi. Hear something sciency.

Pokemon: Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, lucky crit, shuffle.