What keeps you interested? : V - Skyrim

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:18 am

I know what you mean for the dialogue aspect. We might as well not have any dialogue choices for our characters at all.

What keeps me in it is the prospect of new, better armor and weapons. Plus the more powerful spells.

Finally, someone realises that the dialogue options within Skyrim are pointless. Most of the time it is grey and black answers such as "yes" or "no".

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 3:22 pm

A peaceful solution where no fighting starts?...where you have to run back and forth doing set-up's for a meeting that you moderate to get a peacful solution. It would be nice, but for something like that to be interesting there would have to have enough dialogue choices to fill the whole game. You can't just do the end where side "A" get's this and side "B" gets that and neither is happy. And that is what it would boil down to... go to side "A" they want this, this and this to peacefully reslove...got to side "B" they want this this and that.... back and forth... Sorry...that IS what peace negotations are like. Unless one side has already won the "battles".

I think that is why they put a cure in... I just never "use" the werewolf form....and RP that it doesn't take effect til I kill someone. Think of it like a test to get into the inner circle.

I know peaceful situations aren't the most exciting, but I still think it should be an option. I would have also liked to have the option to spare Ulfric or Tulius once you beat either side. I hated having to kill them - it didn't fit my guy despite supporting either side.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:33 am

Finally, someone realises that the dialogue options within Skyrim are pointless. Most of the time it is grey and black answers such as "yes" or "no".

Exactly. No use it in at all.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:51 am

The lore, I find it amazing taking a useless book, reading it, and suddenly it adds a lot to my gameplay, for instance today I was on my dunmer, collecting ingredients and spending some time in the New Gnisis Club, in Windhelm - stopped by to read A Game at Dinner, and the book inspired me to change the build and add perks onto the pickpocketing skill to reach the poisoned perk, and before many say its useless I tell you: I know, but who cares, its damn funny to be able to poison someone without hitting them with daggers or bows... so right now I'm investing a lot of time reading the lore available and my experience is I'm much more immerse into the game, not that I'm doing anything different, but what I'm doing has much more depth.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:35 am

Why does everyone accuse my of "power gaming"? I simply played the game how I've played every single game! For enjoyment at my own pace.

I wasn't accusing you of it, just pointing it out so you refrain from doing so.
But either you play every single game to full potential, or you're treating Skyrim like "just another game"
If so, I see your problem of losing interest.
you might need to try getting Immersed by Playing alone, no skipping Dialogue, or any other Immersive breaking things. I know I lose interest when I become a Mindless gamer (No Immersion at all, all based actions are basically instinct, and primary goal is self beneficial)

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:34 pm

Mods and roleplaying. I couldn't enjoy the game without them.

Without mods the game was too easy and simple for me (and I don't powerplay). And there was too much hand-holding with the compass etc. markers.
Without roleplaying (and reading lore) I wouldn't care about anything or anyone in the game world. Roleplaying makes the experience more personal, and it's exciting to for example seek shelter in a storm.

Edit:
I've played 422 hours now, and I'm still enjoying the game. Just started Dawnguard.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:48 pm

Role playing, exploring, making characters, making stories for the characters, gameplay, and just how much there is to do and find. For me, at least.

Pretty much this. These things makes all the ES games last a long time.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:04 am

Roleplaying. It opens up limitless opportunities, hundreds of hours of meaningful gameplay and a fascinating new element to the game. Seeing a character progress, grow and even fall are some of the most valuable moment I've had in Skyrim - and indeed, the Elder Scrolls in general.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:00 pm

Klawed Flaw nailed it. Making stories for my characters and roleplying those stories is what has kept me playing Elder Scrolls games for ten years.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:32 pm

i know I have complained a lot about the state of Skyrim but what keeps me playing is roleplaying my character and expanding their stories and I create families and I am telling an epic legacy spanning the course of four centuries as my old character Otheral was born a few years after Tiber Septim.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:49 am

The fact that I try not to use fast travel and am easily distracted by shiny new locations, so I'm barely able to finish quests. It takes me utterly forever to do anything as most quests involve tracking halfway across the continent. I try to get a particular quest done, then realise I've spent an hour in a random cave.

But I really like this aspect, it's ace that a lot of locations have bits and pieces scattered (letters, journals and other weird stuff) about to suggest a self contained story, every location is like a little short story I get totally svcked in.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:49 pm

The shortest way to answer this question.... The possibilities are endless.

I enjoy being able to play this on my laptop, as well as my 360 because if I'm out and about I can still enjoy Skyrim.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:49 am

For me I just happen to enjoy this series a lot period. Skyrim is the only game I bother playing regularly and a big part of that is being able to make so many different types of characters and (as others have suggested) just roleplaying with them. Sure it may not be the most thorough RPG out there but it is more than enough to me and I'm glad I can be what ever race I want doing what ever I feel like doing.

» Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:17 am

I take breaks and play other games. That's why I still play Fallout 3 after all these years. And it'll be the same with Skyrim.