Never played TES before, but have played both fallout 3 and NV and loved them. I loved DAO, The Witcher 1 & 2, and i thoughta mixture of Medieval and the openess of Fallout would be terrific. I'm terribly bored though.

I'm not sure if it's the poor VA'ing, somewhat repetitive combat (At least as a warrior), uninteresting story (so far) or the fact that the Level up system is the most shallow thing i've seen in an RPG.

I should be loving this game, as there are so many different things to do, and various crafting specialities i can go with (i love crafting), but i just can't get into this game. So unfortunate, i'm only 20 hours in and have become bored.

Well guess its just not the game for you. It happens.

I'm the complete opposite. I only played 10 hours of fallout 3 before I was bored and never touched it again. I've played this game for like 40 hours so far.

just go explore the world, try archery also, i find it great fun to kill dear and wolves on the tundra or foxes and birds in the woods

Have you considered that it might be because the main character has no real substance to him/her? Like, no personality at all, basically. That's the only thing about TES games that made them not quite as enjoyable for me sometimes as more character-oriented games like Mass Effect or the Baldur's Gate games.

I'm usually up in smoke when I play.

Helps me dive right in.

lol im in the market.

Im still trying to get try out all the game has to offer

Only way to game my friend.

The story is not uninteresting. I will also not allow you to leave this game calling the voice acting poor. If there is anything Skyrim does right, it is story and voice acting. Each fort has an entirely different feel and situation going on. Run a dungeon and use the gold to travel to each of the cities by carriage (Outside Whiterun is the easiest one to get to, but outside each city wall). Also, one of the things I notice even in professional reviews is that when voice acting is called poor, no one describes how. It's terribly bad manners to not leave room for negotiation, only for agreement or disagreement purely by the end decision, ie. bad or good.

You have spent 20 hours using a fighting system you do not enjoy. Try a rogue, you should tell pretty quickly whether you enjoy that or not. Then go for archery and mage. If none of those work for you either, you know you do not enjoy any aspect of the combat system. Sit down in any pub with a bard and at least three people frequenting and come back to say the voice acting is poor.

You do not, of course, have to do any of these things. This is my advice and these are my sentiments, but I understand it isn't for everyone. Just give it a fair chance.

Also, do not stack recreational activities on top of each other. If I were to watch tv while playing a video game, surely one of them would take away from the other or I would feel overall dissatisfied. You know what I'm referring to. I think.

It's drugs.

both fallouts?

now that threw me off

That would be awful. The reason your character has no voice or personality is because its supposed to be YOU. I think it would take HUGE roleplay value from the game if my character had a seperate personality.

Maybe, i know when i play any kind of game where choices are available i like to roleplay my character. Like his personality and goals and everything, but it's been hard to do that in this game.

@ Magicman: I'm sorry, but this game has BAD VAing. Some are terrific, but in general the voiceacting is not well done.

What I'm having trouble with is the complete lack of depth in the dialogue options and the other characters in the world. In Fallout: New Vegas, for example, you sort of felt like you could get to know the characters and sway their thoughts and actions through your dialogue choices. In Skyrim it's basically "Yes, I will enthusiastically help you" or "No, I don't care about your problems." That's it. There's no gray area or intrigue whatsoever. What the characters do say is also poorly written in many cases and just falls flat.

It's a good game but beautiful world design (which it has) aside, it's not their best game in my opinion. You just don't develop any emotional attachment to your character or to anyone else in the world. They feel like throwaway World of Warcraft npc's.

Maybe it's just not your type of game. I absolutely loved FO3 and poured more hours into it than any other game. At first, I thought I wouldn't like this game (never played an ES game) because of the completely opposite atmosphere, but I'm glad to know that I was wrong. This game will easily be able to hold me over until my other anticipated titles are released.

Sounds to me that you need to brush up on your history of Tamriel. Spend some time to learn the lore of the game and fall in love like we have.

Why is role play so hard? It is open world, unlike many other so called RPG's, it has a large number of races, cooking, smithing, various faction quests etc
Use your imagination and the game can be what you want it to be.

Very well said.

Because, as mentioned earlier by someone else, the dialogue is extremely shallow. I've tried my hardest with this game, but i have to really put my imagination to work to make a believable character, as opposed to letting the game shape my character. FO:NV did this well, but t ht was developed by a different company.

Wacha talking bout willis?! This is an awesome game! It F^%$K'N PAWNS any other game that is out in the market! NORDS you must be a legion DOWN WITH THE EMPIRE!! STROMCLOAKS! neways it happens

Maybe you don't know what the word bad entails in terms of voice acting. I take it to mean quality of the actual voice acting. Since you think some are terrific quality, you think it is more alright than bad, but bad in general. If you are referring to the amount of characters with the same voice actor, then I may allow you to use the word bad in combination with said quality. But you are saying qualitative terms and not giving any reasoning for them.

I take voice acting fairly seriously. It is probably the most underrated field in video games.

What games have better voice-acting??

Only one I can think of off my head is mass effect, but only just...

I agree that the dialogue does not hold up against games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, but remember that those games pigeon hole your character down one story of the main quest as well. Sure, they have side quests, but they are not open world games either. Elder Scrolls is a game that allows you freedom to ignore the MQ and instead just RP the character.

Dialogue should not hold you back from having an awesome RP experience.

I got over 1000+ hours in Fallout 3 and NV and this is my first tes game but I love it! I thought I wouldn't because I was never into magic and swords but bethesda made it so I thought it would be pretty fun, I was right.

I'm completely sure that when I buy Skyrim the PC version very, very soon this month, I will enjoy and adore the gameplay adventure to the highest degree possible!!!

As far as the narrow choices go, that is only for the main quest. Given that, it has to be liner to some degree. They throw in a few choices you get to make, and how you handle certain portions of the main quest line. As far as other side quests and interactions go, you can do anything from threaten someone, persuade them, poison them, slash 'em up, pay them off, challenge them, intimidate them, and so on and so forth. These are the same people who learned a lot from fallout, and took what was successful from that game and implemented it into Skyrim.

The choices are there, but as with any game there are always going to be certain limitations on what you can do for individual quests/tasks.

Actually, I often dual-game. Gameboy out while grindy bits happen on my PC. Games like Etrian Odyssey that are turn-based grindfests that require little thought but occupy the mind while waiting on something on the PC. Useful on multiplayer games where I have to wait on the actions of others or put up with load screens.