I love Skyrim and everything about it but I think I may have burnt myself out. It's like that really good song you keep listening to and eventually ruin.

Any suggestions on how to recapture interest? I have a heavy armor character that does 1h/shield and 2h and an light armor archer w/bow and two daggers.

I want to start a new character, I'm not really interested in a mage type. Any suggestions for me to enjoy this awesome game would be much appreciated!

edit: I've done every guilds questline along with the main quest. I've also done all the daedric quests and pretty sure did all the side quests, minus the randomly generated bounty ones. So no worries about spoilers

Honestly, your best bet is to take a break for awhile. Play a different game (preferably not another Elder Scrolls game) for a week or two and then come back. The magic will return. I say this from my own experience with Skyrim.

Dude, everybody gets, like you said, burnt out. And I have the formulae for recapturing your hapiness in skyrim.

Play another game! Yeah.. I know, you want to play skyrim.. But you can't over saturate. I'm playing for about 94hours and sometimes I just stop playing for days.

Play oblivion, morrowind.. dunno..
Play chess, play nothing at all. Give a break.

That will vanish your afflictions.

I'd suggest playing without using any crafting skills and without using enchanted items from stores with the spell cost reduction effect or fortify sneak effect. It makes skills more meaningful imo, since otherwise there really are no trade offs.

You could try playing with a bounty in every hold and without using merchants to buy/sell other than fences and khajiits. Also, only fast travel with the carriages (which is doable if you aren't trying to complete quests quickly).

I'm playing a chef character. Chef clothes and fighting with kitchen fork and knife. Taking Cicero around for back-up and the occasional laugh. Kinda fun.

Honestly though, I'd suggest taking a break until the DLC starts coming out and the bugs get fixed.

Ive done just 46 hours and out of that ive got

2 days of messing around and trying everything.... and then 1 day of solid gaming where I almost completed the whole Companions quest line to the end...
So I dunno how you did absolutely everything in 120 hrs.

You just paid $2 dollars an hour for entertainment. I'd like you to highlight another form of entertainment that can sustain you for 130 hours at the rate of $2 dollars an hour. Cripes, I'd be happy I spent my money on such a cheap activity.

I'm at 210 hours and haven't touched the main quest or civil war. I also don't have every dragon priest mask or daedric artifact. I have 3 more schools of magic to learn master spells in. I also have a ton of side quests.

The thing is though, I try not to fast travel anywhere unless it is from a city to another city. I will run from a city to a dungeon or fort and back to the city to fast travel. I am enjoying it a lot more than fast traveling everywhere.

You can try making a spellsword. Sword in one hand, spell in the other. Use magic that buffs you/heals you, etc.

Anyways I am starting to get worn out as well. The thing is though I don't really want to play a different game.

It would actually be $.50 an hour at $2 he would have paid $260 for the game. I'm in the same boat I have about 110 hours in but there are still things I haven't done. Have you collected all the dragon priest masks?

210 hours? Holy Skyrim Batman! Take a break. Talk to friends. Mow the lawn. Do something that isn't Skyrim related. Something that isn't even video game related. I have a friend that plays a lot too, but he has a job and family and friends that he still talks to and hangs out with. You've spent almost a quarter of your waking life playing that game since it came out bro.

making yourself do an activity that you don't want to do is not how to enjoy that activity

Yep, take a break.

Real life is good, or if you're a gaming addict like me, play other games. Ideally games completely different from TES.

A couple weeks of Team Fortress 2 would be a nice contrast. I know a good server if you're in the Pacific Northwest

Yeah, avg is around 8.75 hours a day? I do work full time but that is about it. My friends are at college and/or working and our days off don't really match up to hang out, etc. I am not 21 yet so bars are out of the question for now.

Sorry bud but however you look at it 9 hours a day for 4 weeks straight is not healthy. I've played a huge amount of Skyrim but nowhere near that level. As it happens I'm also suffering from a bit of Skyrim burnout - feels like life has pretty much revolved around wake up --> work --> Skyrim --> sleep --> repeat for a bit too long now. I've played absolutely none today and might even give it a few more days before I play it again. Might see if I can rekindle some form of social life!

Haha, thing is though it isn't just Skyrim. Any game I get into will be the same: battlefield, WoW, Rift, the list goes on. This is why I am not buying swtor

I have ~ 200h in as well, working full time+, engaged, and WITH a social life. I figure I got till Xmas til the sleep deprivation gets the best of me. As far as being burned out here's my recipe:
A. Go outside
B. freeze
C. Ponder on the awesomeness of virtual winter
D. (optional) make yourself a hot chocolate
E. play skyrim

That's.....incredible? haha There just aren't enough hours in the day for me to dedicate that kind of time to Skyrim/video games in general along with girlfriend and work full time and friends and sleep and seeing my family and showering/eating/grocery shopping/cleaning up/etc. I guess if I didn't have all those other obligations then I would spend more time on video games, but seriously that isn't healthy. Get some more sleep or something guys.

9 hours a day in front of a computer sounds like a typical desk job to me. I'm jealous that he has the time... Although I'd likely take a lot if breaks with that much time on my hands.

If you're getting bored, try a drastically different character, or create a strange quest for yourself and/or try a Dead is Dead.

Or play another game, yeah.

Dead is dead is actually a great suggestion. I've had incredible amounts of fun with it in past TES games

Already got a level 46 and a level 32 character in 90 hours... think it's time for a full-on break from the game for a few days. I'll come back to it before long and I'm sure I'll appreciate the time off.

Oh, and I have a 9-5 desk job - probably why the idea of 9 hours' extra at the computer is so OTT to me!

Well i dont know...D: Too bad you got bored. i have played for about 150 hours with my main+ 40 hours with my secondary wich i am playing on now.and i am far away from bored.

1 ) Go get Saints Row the Third.
2 ) Play it through once.
3 ) Start Skyrim over with a completely different build.

That's my plan, anyways.