Honestly never thought I would make a thread like this, but then never honestly thought I would need to. Why have I lost the urge to play this game? I have logged about eighty hours, haven't even finished any guilds or the main quest, and just have lost almost all desire to play the game. This is a massive shame as I was looking forward to it so much, and the first month really really enjoyed it, but now I just can't get into it, and I still really want to. Nothing motivatives me - I don't care about levelling, questing, collecting. I have even been playing with the idea of loading morrowind up again to revel in that addictiveness it has. Any one else come to a similar position? I am honestly saddened I don't really care about playing any more - the only thing that motivates me to play any more is exploring.
I still play a bit and have fun in a light hearted manner, but gone are the massive addictive sessions where I just cannot pull myself away, I had a couple with skyrim in the early days, but nothing like the endless morrowind sessions. Is it me, or skyrim?

Probably at some point all that time spent on Morrowind will eventually make your mind tired of the same first-person-action-adventure-rpg concept and Skyrim doesn′t renew the concept enough to break the monotomy.

Play too much with any toy and it becomes tiresome. Play with something else for a while. Skyrim will still be there when you come back.

Skyrim seems a bit samey to me, by no means bad. It just is sort of bland.

This, Skyrim doesn't really add anything new, beside eyecandy to the old formula. You could even go as far as saying that it took out alot of the stuff in the older games too. It's story and quests are linear and shallow so it doesn't help in that area either.

my response to every person who posts these.

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS

if you are on console,

WAAAAASTED MOOOOOOONEY

yeah, thats a fair point, I just expected to get a more 'meaty' experience out of it I guess. What is most annoying is I can't put my finger on precisely what is generating this apathy

ye i too was excited to play skyrim and after 150 hrs i lost interest for sum reason

these games were my favorite type and fallout 3 will forever be my favorite.

but ye i put it down to getting older, the experience isnt new anymore

and the fact it doesnt challenge me as much as i had hoped

i find just running around spamming mouse buttons gets boring after a while, and i find the game doesnt have any sense of danger or urgency

tho i play arma2 every night (logged over 3000 hrs in last 2 years) online in a TvT warfare simulation - which requires strategy, team work and lots of skill - so skyrim doesnt really compare
spamming against ai vs playing against hardened humans - there is no comparison

maybe the CK will inspire me again - thats wat im hoping for - but i have my doubts

It doesn't revolutionize the game the same way Daggerfall, Morrowind and even Oblivion did.

lol, also a fair point. I'm on pc, and when the big mods start pouring in, it will definitely get me playing obsessively again : P

This. Of course it also doesn't help that there are only 4 flavors of guild to choose from, each offering only 8 to 10 fully fleshed out quests.

I'm not saying this is bad per se, because instead of guilds and guild-quests they offer tons of side quests. But these stand alone quests don't break the feeling of 'been here, done that'.

So I too am starting to feel bored wnow that I've done the guilds and there isn't anything 'big' to uncover. The side quests and exploration has its charm but it is too much of the same. Even reviewers who started out with Oblivion acknowledged that Skyrim feels a bit too similar.

Even if these games are huge and take 4 years to make, they still can be blamed for unoriginality, just like games like CoD games are. Either reinvent the gameplay or put more storylines (guilds) in the game to keep it interesting.

I'm at almost 100 hours, most of which are some of the best hours spend on gaming this generation. This doesn't qualify as a waste of money to me.

In fact, enjoying it first on consoles behind a big TV and than replaying it on PC when the good mods are available a few years down the line actually doubles the value for me.

I'm in the same boat.

For me, it's largely due to the lacking character development / progression in the game. My first character felt "done" in Skyrim after about 70-80 hours, compared to the hundreds of hours my first characters seemed to last in Morrowind and Oblivion. I've tried making new characters, but under the new levelling system they all feel rather generic aside from their visual appearance. It really doesn't feel like there's a significantly different experience to be had playing as a new "character".

I'm not forcing myself to keep playing though. I'll wait a year or so - by which time there should be a nice expansion pack as well as an abundance of mods to significantly improve the game. At that point, it'll feel fresh again and i'll probably enjoy it a lot more than before.

You seem depressed, look for a psychologist.

Indeed, bland is the word.

I'm sure you can tell i was hardly serious, but most of my friends who have it on consoles don't play it anymore, whereas I still play it all the time. Because the mods I have are awesome (I use almost every witcher for skyrim mod available, better style)

After a while on a given character, the gameplay becomes same-y. Try to make a different archetype if you are tired.

It's only a game. It really is only a game.

No, it is not you. I'm the same exact way. I just can't find the desire to play the game right now and I've only finished the main quest and the mages guild. I just started playing Far Cry 2 again yesterday.

It's Skyrim. The game is just really uninspiring, for me it has to do with the fact that it's an extremely poor example of an RPG. I'm not sure that DLC will even entice me to play it more.

This is also why I say that sales have very little to do with how popular the game is. Just because people buy the game doesn't mean that people will have as much fun with it as they should.

all games become boring

I even puked after playing MW non stop for 2 months

don't be sad give it a few weeks u will run back begging for more

No, they don't. I played Morrowind every day for at least 6 months. I then continued to play it for at least 2 years, on and off. I played Oblivion for at least 3 months every day and then for about a year on and off. I played Deus Ex HR all the way through twice, back to back over about a month. I played Portal 2 Single Player and they played Multiplayer for about 2 months, not a whole of replay value after that.

I couldn't even play Skyrim for 2 months every day, much less play it any more. Skyrim is boring, but not because I've played it too much. It's because the game itself isn't very good.

hmmm

well that only thing that I think MW did better than skyrim is the massive "text" quests (which were very cool) and the massive amount of armor and weapons and cloths.... other than that I think skyrim beats MW and OB on every level

for me at least

Before someone says all games get boring and that you got your money's word, don't forget this is a TES game, supposed to last you at least several hundreds of hours even without mods. Having being released on the same generation of consoles like Oblivion is probably what made it appear not so special. Skyrim is not exactly what anyone could call revolutionary. It's more like teasing you with features that are a preview of a real sequel in the making. At least Oblivion was a big overhaul of the technical aspect of the series. In Skyrim, we've seen it all before (Fallout 3). Oblivion used to be the prettiest console game for a long time.

Congratulations. You just realized that beneath its pretty face, Skyrim is ultimately shallow, unbalanced, and gutted.

Oh Bull. Im on the 360 and just reached 120 hours on my second character. This game is awesome on the 360.

I've heard this same argument since Morrowind.