Because you've played it too much. Go play something else and come back.

Got to go to work so didn't have time to read the entire thread. However, what happened to me is I started to go this route. But then I figured out why. I had crafted the best armor and enchanted it so there was no more real striving to better my character in terms of gear. Made the rest of that play thru seem lack luster for me. Made a new guy and playing without even touching the crafting skills and am loving it all over again. Just seems so much more fun when every encounter could provide me with something I could use.

It's a terrible game.

Honestly, this is like the nature vs nurture debate. You can't identify what the real cause of your apathy is. The apathy is a response to the game. This doesn't necessarily mean the game is to blame. I played Oblivion religiously on the 360, and later purchased the pc version. Try as I may, I could never get back into the game again. Everything felt bland, and I didn't get the sense of wonder I once did. The game didn't change, I did. Perhaps you are just in a state of mind where you can't appreciate Skyrim anymore. Some people never get over that feeling and can't enjoy Skyrim. For others it never sets in, and they play for thousands of hours. But don't conclude instantly that just because you liked previous iterations of the series, Skyrim must be a failure. You may just be in the mood for another game right now, or not in the mood for games at all.

I have put Skyrim on the shelf as well. I have 172 hours in and maybe I'll come back after a while. For me it is that I just don't care about anything or anyone in the game. It seems that almost everyone I meet is either evil or rude. I don't want to give any spoilers but I am really tired of so many evil quests (murder, deception, cannibalism, etc.). I was thinking about just walking away from the next dragon attack on a village because nothing of consequence will happen if I don't fight the dragon. I have the same indifference as to which side wins the civil war. The only spark of real interest is with the Thalmor. That could be interesting.
Skyrim is so close to being great. I hope some mods or DLC add a few good things to care about! For a break I purchased Fallout 3 GOTY and have new DLC to play. I am having a riot!!

I don't get lines like this, I see this alot on these forums. Are console gamers really unaware that you can hook any decent computer up to your 60" HDTV through an HDMI cable and that consoles have no advantage in this respect?

But then you would need your computer right beside your big tv which would be an inconveience for many. Plus the keyboard/mouse are a lot more obtrusive than a controller, and you would need to sit right infront of the tv to be comfortable.

Not really a problem for me, I have my laptop parked neatly next to HDTV (its smaller than consoles). The reality is laptops can run all modern games easy because those games are designed to work on ancient consoles, giant gaming rigs are not needed.

I sit back like 12 feet from my screen I don't see how using a PC changes how close you sit... use wireless keyboard & mouse like the Razer Naga Epic MMO mouse.

Whatever I guess it comes down to preference, but I see so many console users making inaccurate arguements because they labor under the delusion that its still 2001 and all PCs are huge, cost over $2000 and only work on tiny screens. At least get the facts straight there are plenty of people doing PC gaming EXACTLY the same as you are doing console gaming (ie sitting in my laz-y-boy with wireless controller looking at 60" HDTV).

when i get some extra i'll get a good computer and play with the hdmi hookup on my tv with, of course, an XBOX CONTROLLER!

You can get PS3 or XBox controllers for PC and HDMI cables of up to 30 metres.

124h here and I stopped playing. Didn't finish Main Quest even. Got bored of running after quest arrows and dungeons bright as hell. It loost it's immersion for me.

Oh I know, but aren't they meant to be terrible? Bought one to play oblivion on my laptop with, and have regretted it ever since, tho maybe that was just mine.

He was referring to the fact that sooner of later, following the release of the creation kit, somebody will make a mod that you consider an "I would KILL to have that mod" mod, and you won't be able to install or use it due to the restrictions to customization inherent in console gaming...

I have no doubt that, with the current deluge of complaints about various aspects of the game (lack of epic questlines, limited number of enemies/armor/weapons sets, gameplay balancing and scaling issues, etc.), I have no doubt that the inevitable masses of modding-wizards that cluster around TES games will begin creating and releasing all manner of mods to the game that address the parts they feel are lacking. And these mods will give you much more flexibility in choosing how you want to tailor your gaming experience than Bethesda trying to guess at what each and every one of its fans feels is the most important aspect of the game...

Having played various Bethesda games back as far as Morrowind, I approach each Bethesda title at launch with a certain question in mind: "What will I change once they let us mod this?" I assume that Bethesda sometimes created the game as they did (in a somewhat simplistic frame of mind, at times) in order to allow the creation-kit gurus to have a relatively blank canvas in which to add their own innovations, without having to trample over something that is already "done"...

If you are impatient to judge the release of the game as if it were both final and unalterable, then you probably shouldn't have bothered with it until at least the first expansion pack(s) or the release of the CK... TES titles are best appreciated by what they mature into, not what came out in v1.0.

Just played the demo of Kingdoms of Amalur:The Reckoning, went back to Skyrim and am forcing myself to finish, for the first time, the MQ and civil war, my goodness this is boring...

Never had issues with my PS3 or 360 controller on my PC.

Great advice.


Oblivion was bland, Skyrim is far from bland.


Oblivion "revolutionized" something? Now that's funny.


Most threads on the forum are like: "Skyrim changed too much, we want the old systems back, I don't like change". And now you demand they "reinvent" the gameplay? Make up your mind.


Having being released on the same generation has nothing to do with the fact that Skyrim is or is not so special. You're basically saying that the only way Skyrim would be special is if we had "best graphics EVAR" in a next-generation or something like that. A bit shallow, if you ask me.


Funny, I have lots of things to do in Skyrim. I find new lore, books and quests all the time.

Here's the thing: when you've been playing a game series for a long time, there is a moment when all games start to feel a bit "samey". You already know what to expect. If the devs had put some Shakesperian quests in the game, most people would be complaining about how "convoluted" and "complicated" the quests would be. You can't please everybody all the time.

And I've played Morrowind and Oblivion before Skyrim, just so you know.

It took around 80 hours for me to drop it. Everything seemed to blend into the same old thing. Nothing new or wow happened. I will go back again in the future when/if mods/dlc/expansions "fix it" to have another playthrough. I have never spent anything close to 80 hours on a game before. That really shows it drew me into the world and it is great value for money.

I spent around 25 hours on Oblivion, but that never did it for me. Tried multiple times over the years and it never grabbed me enough to want to keep playing.

After all the fandom for Morrowind I finally decided to give that a go with the recently released Morrowind Overhaul http://morrowindoverhaul.rpgitalia.net/news/its-release-time-morrowind-overhaul-sounds-graphics-2-0 . After only approx 20 hours playtime I am loving it. The depth of every factor of the game is amazing. Everything that (in hindsight) bugged me about Skyrim is better in Morrowind. If you have never tried Morrowind, give it a go. The GOTY version is very cheap and the Overhaul gives the graphics a giant boost.

I couldn't agree more, I also decided to give it a try when I stopped playing Skyrim (I was 70 hours in game and couldn't force myself to finish MQ, I stopped playing right after I completed civil war).I fell in love with MW, I also installed 2011 Overhaul just as you did.Quests, NPCs, talking - everything is so much better.The game is much difficult, at least at the beginning, but it's worth it.

most of the time Skyrim feels like a job to me. it's always:
Well I guess I better complete these 3 quests before I go to bed so I can make way for the main story
those 3 quests end up taking me places where I accidentally end up accepting more quests that again have me traveling across the world to get some trivial item that I give back to them for gold. Don't get me wrong I love helping people but I think that's the reason I feel like it's work. It's even worse when I'm traveling and I forget to save and I die because I didn't access my items menu quick enough or I get killed in just a few hits then I have to start all the way back from where I started trailing my way through the same locations and enemy's. It gets tiresome and most of the time when this happens I just pop the disk out and switch to Modern Warfare 3 which is kind of sad that a game like Skyrim could get beaten out by Modern Warfare 3.

I agree with you OP. I've logged about 120 hours and I'm spending less and less time playing. I just can't quite immerse myself in to the game fully. I logged over 500 hours on Oblivion and was enthralled for every minute of it. I just can't quite get there with Skyrim and I still haven't done the MQ, any of the civil war, the DB or the MG. There's so much left to do.

That's because the meat of the game is so bad and quests of just boring and repetitive. People gave this GOTY on knee jerk reactions because the game world was so owwww, awwwww big, forgetting that the core of the game is so poor.

Second playthrough already look boring to me.I had hope they learned something from Fallout 3 and NV..sigh.
If you don't save things to do on later playthroughs,the game is exactly the same,no decisions at all,unless ignoring quests are considered decisions,dialogue choices ultimatelly lead to the same events...that's my problem with TES games,and skyrim.

Every game has a use-by date.

You guys have been whining ever since Morrowind was a dumbed down daggerfall, did it REALLY work?...

Or are you guys whining IN THE WRONG [censored] PLACE? You know, there are people that are actually CONCERNED over those statements, they're called the DEVELOPPERS. They have emails and all that stuff, and they don't spend their workdays looking at forums with 60% "this game svcks", 1% "I don't like the game for X reason", 38% "this game is tha best EVAR" and somewhere even below 1% of threads like "Do X with the game, and give us our results. The game's for fun right?" (the threads I'm actually trying to find while going down the pages of this hell...)

@ Segvirion

Oblivion did revolutionize the combat system and sneaking. Skyrim has done very little besides this perk system filled with many useless or boring perks and shouts.

But back on topic:
Diving through a Dwemer dungeon today deep in it and I find a chest with an expert level lock. My level 30 Mage picks the lock (I break like four picks) to find inside a steel sword and 10 gold. I think I'm just about done with the game. The only thing stopping my from not playing is that if I go back to my Telvanni wizard in MW I will just get more annoyed with Skyrim and post some things which will infuriate those Skyrim White Knights.