When you've gotten all the items that you wanted, completed all the quests, reached desired level cap, what do you guys do?

Start another character.

This.

I'm in 304 hours in and I've never gotten a skill to 100 or got past level 40 on a character so I've never been end game before.

what is end game?

if its just the rp objectives then I filter the litany of now useless saves and retain just a few. Then I start a new character but occasionally I reload the old ones to just kind of walk around, maybe try a few quests I was not planning on tackling.

Turn off the game.

i play different game. sometime i come back and make another character, but i always end up quitting.

There's an ending?!

I'm currently level 70 right now, and I don't think I'll make it to lv 81, bored of grinding. The way they did the leveling system could've been better, personally I would've preffered exp to be rewarded in quests, and by killing enemies, so later on you can spend your exp on the skill of your choice. Much better than spamming mage spells on horses.

Anyway, I'm just revisiting old dungeons that respawned enemies. Not going to start a new character, since Dlc might be coming soon.

QFT

Go out for a nice bike ride.

Mop up for achievements,

keep exploring. always find something new.

or start a new character and try something different.

collect armor/weapon sets, fart around with radiant quests, use really ineffective ways to kill things, or just start a new character

Pick my nose, scratch my feet, play outside, wait and get on with my life a few days, play other games, start a new character in Skyrim or another RPG, stary playing for 2 hours, pick my nose, scratch my head, etc, etc, etc.

There is a end-game?

Not at level 1

I download new quests that are lore friendly.

And there is no real end to TES games.

Hmmm, when I've done all of the mains I intended and visited all the locations I can, save a few strays here and there I park my character and their favorite companion either at the kitchen table at the house in Riften, or at the Throne of Contempation in Silent City ,Black Reach, I go do other things in my free time for about a month - 6 weeks, and then restart. I've finished four 230 - 260 hour sessions as of now. Not plannning on going back for a good piece now, though I still listen to my Skyrim Soundtrack discs quite a bit.

Not to sure about the DLC yet, the image is about all we have right now, and it says very little. Really hoping for a good story, but one that's not some tired thematic on vampirism or lycanthopy, or some other "possessed" type of theme. If its any of these, than Skyrim may lay dormant until next Winter sometime. Might even return to Cyrodil instead at that point.

Time to check out other games like KOA I think.

This. Seriously what else can you do? Turn off the PC?

I stop on my tracks. I sigh for a second and then I as myself "What now?".

Leave my vampire at stage 4 and go have fun

There is no endgame content in skyrim that is made to challenge high level and well equipped characters.

Why do you want to get to level 81?



I disagree. This is the way TES works. It is part of the reason that I enjoy the series. It is a mechanic that separates it from others.

Besides, you do get experience from killing enemies and doing quests. Doing quests leads to killing enemies 99% of the time. When you kill an enemy you use a skill, when you use a skill you level.

I know what you are saying, but I think it should stay the way it is. You see people training all through the game. Guards and Orcs are shooting / hitting dummies. Mages are practicing by casting spells at the Collage. Uma Thurman spent a year on that mountain, before she could kill Bill. I see no reason why the player should be any different.


What does that have to do with it? I plan to start a new character when it comes out. Chances are it will suggest that you are at least level 20 or 30 before you start, but I want to play a character up to it.

I try to RP all of my characters. If they have no reason to go somewhere. I don't let them go. I was recently playing a character, and installed a new player home for them. It was a perfect place for this character. The problem was...It 's located all the way across the map. My character had a map, I knew the house was there but my character didn't.

I thought I would feel like he "earned" it, if I just walked the entire way. He was level 1 and had no gear. (Live Another Life - Alternate Start mod) 3 hrs of game play later, we made it. The place was great and...I hated it. I felt so dirty, because he had absolutely no reason to go there. I reloaded and started over.

This time he met a guy that showed him to the shrine of Azura. That eventually led him to an area adjacent to the home. NOW, he had reason to go there. Just because YOU know the Super Uber Duber Sword of Cheese is in the Butt Crack Cavern, doesn't mean your character does.

When the DLC comes out we will know where it starts. That doesn't mean our character will know. I will not just make a Bee-Line for it, after it is installed, as my character will have no need to do so. I will play up to it.

With a new character.

Retire the character and start again.