So who else plays at a slow pace in Skyrim? I did the same In Fallout 3 and Fallout NV. I enjoy finding snippets of other adventurers and stories that are hidden in the world that are less obvious than the main questlines. I know alot of people hated FNV but I found the story in Vault 11 to be the best in the series! and I'm sure that Skyrim has lots of these hidden little stories off the beaten path waiting to be discoverd that are equally as good.

I believe that most players will Rush through the main obvious quests for the sake of fast leveling and potentially fail to pick up on the best stories Skyrim has to offer much like the ones In the Fallout series.....

Maybe people are rushing through to get back to MW3? lol

i rushed through it inadvertently.

Well, some of those players that rush through it are probably veteran TES players that have figured out how the economy of morrowind and oblivion and can easily find ways to exploit the system, intentionally or not.

Others are probably players that are not experienced in the way of actual RPG games in this cultulre of over flooded MMOs and Action RPGs.

But I also think that a fair amount just don't have the time to explore and enjoy the little things and so, NEED a main quest to have a sense of accomplishment.

I have put 1000 hours into FO3 FO NV and planning on the same with Skyrim and Oblivion which I'm new to both

I play very slowly. I clocked 50 hours last night, I'm not very far. I suspect I've barely grazed the main story.

I move through dungeons incredibly slowly. I'm playing a warrior, but just like one would in real life, I still move slowly, carefully and sneak through corridors. I don't run through unknown corridors blindly, knowing its a game and I can take on pretty much anything it throws at me. I just move slowly, listen, listen to enemy conversations, search for traps, and try to learn how they work before moving past them. I'll often work to disarm or spring them with physique objects and corpses.

But I'm a character-driven roleplayer at heart. I'll do useless things such as hunt deer pelts and supply poorer villages with them. It serves no real purpose, pays me nothing, but it makes the game more realistic. Adds activities like hunting to it.

I could munchkin the whole thing, grind hundreds of iron daggers to level blacksmith, hoard everything i find to hit 30000 gold (did this early on), and just run everywhere with no real danger of dying.

But where is the bloody fun in that?



Right on on the former. I was falling for this trap myself (my purse is overflowing with gold) because I unintentionally fell in on veteran knowledge of how the game works. I wasn't blowing past the story, but I was really ruining the game for myself with some legit but too convenient actions.

I am taking my time... but have yet to come across an interesting story of any kind

Although the Markath side quest was brilliant

Really? Try 'The Lusty Argonian Maid' by Crassius Curio. You can find it in the Honningbrew Meadery. Get Lydia to read it to you..