People criticizing the poor writing or a perceived lack of depth are envious clowns you brush off to the side so rudely...
or trolls?


Interesting...

I've stopped playing, I've done everything I can possibly do. I don't think the game lasted a 100 hours with me.

Pardon?

At this point not really I've given up on it till the patch and even then I am going to wait so that I dont have a 1.2 happen again.

Perhaps it was more inadvertent in what you responded with, but alexander1023 stated quite the bold, insulting, and generally misguided claim in his thoughts on, presumably, any criticism of a Bethesda Game Studios game... that people criticize what BGS release because they're envious clowns who are hell-bent on trashing Bethesda.

Not ashamed of it, Just getting bored. I used to have a good routine in Oblivion and Morowind and now it is just grinding dungeons and quests. I can't display anything I collect due to the crappy high/low texture bug in the houses. So all I can do is dump stuff in crates, dressers, etc, and move on to the next quest. I have logged roughly 400+ hours on 3 characters and just simply , "YAWN".

Do sidequests, I am sure you have not beaten every single little quest in the game.

Roleplay, it always makes it fun as well.

If that doesn't suit you, then it looks like you need to wait until the DLC.

I know its comparing apples to oranges but TONS of people I know have left Skyrim for The Old Republic.

Skyrim is a game about imagination - it basically becomes what you make of it. It's about a massive 'living' detailed world as opposed to a linear story (yes it has a story, but it's not exceptional or involving). This isn't something a lot of people enjoy, much like most people are not into creative writing. It's not a bad thing, exactly, just different tastes.

If anything gets added to future games I hope it's more NPCs with character development. Skyrim did well making more defined NPCs, but I'd love to be able to form a party with character related quests and actually see those characters grow and change. Other people care about the combat, which I think is fine if a bit simple in Skyrim, but then again I've always played all the TES games so each one seems like an excellent upgrade over the previous one to me. Except the bloody slow-mo kills that pause the whole game - decapitation yes please, just don't pause the game to do it. Figure it out.

Personally, I couldn't care less if other people are playing a single player RPG or not. Not like we won't have anyone to play with suddenly. And Bethesda already got their money and GOTY 2011, so they also do not care.

Im still playing it. Guys, I think you play it a lot. I play like 2-3 hours a day, even there are days that i don't play it. I bought the game 12/12/11 and I'm 62 hours with one character (lvl 18) And enjoy it a lot. My younger cousin, who is a desperate powerleveler, got it like three weeks ago, make several characters before his assassin that he's playing now, and he's bored of the game.

bethesda games aren't for everyone, if you're looking for lots of dialogue and a story oriented game, thats not really what bethesda games are about....thats just a fact...they're games are very combat/exploration and adventure driven...if you're not into that, its prob not your game...its got plenty going on...but if the game elements arne't the types of things you like, well i guess it would be boring to you. i like sneaking around dungeons, forts, buildings, secret bases, setting traps for enemies, doing the different guild type quests, decking out my followers in cool gear, cruising around, doing various stuff...to me its fun so thats why i like bethesda games. i don't need some super duper heavy on the story type of game...i play deus ex and its pretty story driven, but its also really cool if you're into stealth playing and like killing bad guys, and it has some rpg elements...i think some people like a lot of depth in a story, and i can understand that. but its hard to do everything great, and to me bethesda does a lot of things very well in their games.

Playing 4 characters (rotating each day), 337 hours today. Pure destruction mage; assassin/bow user; warrior 2H swords; and a pure conjurer mage (wearing heavy armor). They all have enchanting, not power leveled; two have smithing (one I pushed kind of hard to get to 100).

Two have finished the mage college quest line and that's it. None of them have finished any other quest lines. Most are working on the Dark Brotherhood, Thieves' Guild, etc., quests.

Walking most everywhere - doing a lot of dungeon crawling. Glad I'm going slow - Sky has to last me till D3 is released - even then I'll probably keep playing if I'm not finished and let D3 wait.

Best thing about dungeon crawling in Sky - you don't need a tank, healer, and 2 other dps.

Amen

I have a roller coaster kinda thing going with Bethesda, but I always play in 2-3 week spurts before taking 2-3 weeks to do something else, it helps that I'm willing to quit and restart 35 levels in, kinda like what I did in oblivion, one problem will be the depth of the cities and npcs

(Bethesda, your moving in the wrong direction for a few subjects) sometimes in oblivion I just go door to door and talk to everyone, it's a lot less interesting with this skinned down speech, I mean I would rather shout RUMORS and listen to conversations about mud crabs than get these crappy fallout 3 no name npc answers for named characters... That line of dialogue in Rumors is a question YOU ASKED, not like in skyrim were walking next to a npc will get you a single unconnected line you don't care about. I understood the difference between the rich text in MW to the few per character in OB because of full voice overs, but the number of voice actors increased yet every character seems so shallow, heck, filler npcs in OB seem so much greater than Skyrim's spouses.

And going door to door is not a time consuming thing anymore, with like 3 doors in the whole providence.

Sometimes it's ok to send the player to seek out a npc. In skyrim, it fails to realize that the combat is not the only reason we play, I little filler for questlines is ok, send me to go see guild master John doe for a conversation about what I'll be doing next, it's ok. When skyrim thinks the perfect filler is dragon fire and sending me to unimportant dungeons (that have no importance than a guest giver saying there is a place, let me mark it for you) then it becomes more of the same.
Rant rant rant, cry cry cry... But I think I will enjoy skyrim till the next one comes out (unless the dlc blows me away, then it's going to get revisits from the year 2016)

All games are flawed, it takes time to see said flaws, I spend a lot of time in skyrim. I think you get the picture I'm painting.

I put it down a few weeks ago, thats not to say I won't ever play it again. I just find with old age I just don't have the patience to play one game over and over. So before I get sick of it, I take a break, play something else and come back one day with shinny new updates to discover and what not.

The problem is the side quests are pretty much all the same. Go to random dungeon x and get y. Or something similar. Aside from the MQ, the guild quests. Daedric quests and a few random dungoens, most of the quests have hardly any associated story. And the ones that do are often uninteresting. So ultimately you're just doing the same thing over and over again.

I do have to agree, but there are a few unique ones, such as the one in Dawnstar, with the Dream Quest.

You should try it out, if you haven't.

Small quests like those keep me going.

I hope the patch comes so it coming this week right?

I do all the quests Main, Guild, Side, Misc. I do roleplay and I have been playing TES for almost 10 years and been on these forums just as long. Skyrim just simply isn't doing it for me like Morrowind, but better then Oblivion. After this many hours a person gets bored. Not all of us want constant combat with no substance. Skyrim IMHO just seems like alot of fluff frosted over crappy questlines and more bugs then Oblivion and FO3 put together. I honestly think BGS dropped the ball on this game in many areas. Role Play or not after so long it just becomes a blur.

Well, looks like we need to wait for the DLC then

That's a Daedric quest, if I'm thinking of the same one. So it's covered in my post.

I mean quests more along the lines of this... (and I'm being vague on purpose)

You meet an seemily crazy NPC in a certain city by a body of water. That NPC pleads for you to return a mcguffin from where she got it. And when you do, you're met with phantasmic images of the original expedition. Now here's the problem. There's really no explanation as to why you're seeing them in the first place. Then, the story they tell really isn't very interesting. And ultimately, all you're really doing is going through and killing mosters like just about every other dungeon crawl in the game. Get to the end, return the mcguffin and get a reward. The end. No real good resolution to the story or anything.

It's easy to get bored when the side quest stories aren't engaging or interesting, and it's little more than just another dungeon crawl.

Surprisingly it wasn't, I just talked to a random guy in the Inn, and he told me the story and I signed up to end the nightmare

I'm about to hit 200 hours in. most of that on a single character (my second, but the first was just to figure out some things). I'm still not level 35 yet, and have lots left to do. I don't play every day, or even every weekend, but when I do...

Uh... yeah. That's Vaemina's quest. The Daedric Prince of dreams and nightmares.

Oh, sorry, I don't know much about Daedric.