The only thing I find annoying about them is that I know I'm going to have to spend 5 or 10 minutes firing arrows at it as it flies back and forth, occasionally landing to blast me with its breath weapon. Then it flies off and circles around, often times at quite a distance from me. The fights take too long. Not because they are strong, but because they wont hold still. I often find myself groaning anytime I hear that telltale roaring.

You need to learn Dragonrend.

Yes...how dare those (censored) behave like Dragons and fly around and cause random destruction? They should patiently and nicely wait upon remote clifftops for me to deal with them when it pleases me...

Yeah, I'm like 5 quests away from that. I've been avoiding the MQ for some reason.

I bought Skyrim because of there were dragons and because they are supposed to fly around and wreak havoc. Having to travel to get to them, atop a mountain, would be far more infuriating that having them show up at times that you don't want them to.

"Hmm? What's that? Ugh, a dragon attacking a village. Well I was going to that village. Bah, I don't want to fight a dragon right now. Damn, I'll guess I can just go do a few hundred other amazing things to do in this game until that dragon leaves. What a bummer."

Exactly. What if they dont want to fight? Live and let live, i say. Also, dragons are NOT easy. If i encounter a frost-dragon with any of my characters, im dead meat real fast.

I've had one Dragon just West of Whiterun flying around and it felt like it was checking me out, when I reached a small unmarked bandit camp (has a horse and cart there) the Dragon attacked as I fought the bandits. When I had killed the bandits the Dragon went back to flying around, I moved onto the fort/camp/mine just North West of that, the one with the Mammoth Tusks and the Tone of Change Iron Ore to Gold Ore inside. The Dragon followed me there and then attacked the bandits again as I fought them, 100% sure it was them it was after as it landed and killed one that was not actually near me.

When it was over it just took off and flew completely away??? I wonder if it wants to be my companion? He He

Dragons are a major part of the game. if you dont like go back to oblivion or never comp[lete the whiterun portion of the mainqest. Seriosly dragons arent even that hard to fight. TYhe only annoying thing a dragon has ever done to me was murder half the [population of riverwood. Now that pissed me off.

agree!
it just happened for me when I was going across a bunch of Forsworns!
I was attacked by two side!! It was annoying but I most of the time when I see one, I prefer to "Run like hell"!
run...run...run...run....
you better run all day and run all night,
keep your dirty feelings deep inside!

That`s bad? I see these things as actually realistic. Why shouldn`t a Dragon not sometimes view a situation and leave it? Maybe he`s not hungry. maybe he`s scouting. Maybe he`s in a good mood today. You know a predator does not always attack an animal just because he can. Sometimes Lions will walk rightby Wildebeast, look at them and do nothing.

I like randomness in AI because it`s very Human or in this case, smacks of intelligence. It`s unrealistic and robotic to attack everything on sight every time. In games like Fear and Fear 2 the AI Devs actually left random mistakes in the AI because they saw on play that it actually made the AI seem more `Human.`

As to the OP, every game has it`s `annoying` feature to someone, somewhere. But consider that in a game of fighting, overcoming monsters and difficulties we are going to have situations which we are not directly ready for, ergo `annoying` as you call it.

It would be boring very quickly if every fight happened ONLY when we entered a dungeon or ONLY when we were ready. You might as well have a `ready to fight` switch and just press that and have enemies spawn in front of you when you were ready which I seriously would not like.

I just find these kind of complaints as unthought out because if Bethesda catered to these we would end up with an even more shallow game than we already have.

still better than oblivion's portals

Yea, a lot better as they don`t screw up the country side and you still get to explore a pristine land.

i agree with the op. If you only have a bit of time each day to play skyrim you dont want to spend it fighting dragons every 5mins. And it is the fault of the game because dragons show up way to often.

It's a part of the main plot, I get it. But not only it's annoyingly done, it also requires an immersion-breaking metagaming, such as quick fasttravels to safe places, in order to save many civilians of large cities. That's right, I won't be able to save all the people of Riften when a random dragon attack occurs (and in my game Riften gets battered a lot, even if I just had slain the nearby dragons, not fast travelling to Riften either) by killing the dragon, I'll save them all only if I reload an autosave and quickly fasttravel away.

I like random dragon attacks; I just wish they weren’t so frequent. Dragon attacks should be relatively rare and difficult.

The good thing is that you don't have to initiate them. My favorite character is level 36 Bosmer hunter/alchemist/archer who has never retrieved the you-know-what...at the beginning.
My Nord "hero" character is only level 18 and I'm taking my time doing the MQ.

I really like simply exploring and doing everything except the MQ...although I did spend an hour or so just a little while ago with my "Hero" character.

When I see a dragon circling but not attacking. After a certain time I just leave it rather than wasting time trying to get it down.

Hehe and as a fan of easy fights I am very glad that dragons are not too difficult.

But that is the complaint. He's talking about wanting to play Skyrim without being ambushed by random dragons while he is in the middle of doing something else. For me, It would be ok if dragon attacks were actually epic. But they are not. The dragons appear and either don't attack at all or do attack and ADHD themselves away from you chasing mudcrabs or rabbits. Worse still is when they attack in a town and wipe the entire town out, yet don't kill a single expendable NPC (e.g. guards)

I have to say, the worst dragon in the entire game is the random empty blood dragon corpse that spawns occasionally when I enter an exterior cell, or Riften. There's no way to get rid of the thing with the console. It's not even a skeleton.

havent had a dragon attack in the last 70hrs of gameplay, I've clocked up 110 hrs

Everyone says they want realism, but when they get it they complain. Consider for a moment that dragons are real, why do you think that everytime you see one it is going to attack you? Why can't it make a few attacks on a city and move on? Maybe it notices you, does once pass over and continues on it's journey. The whole "I see dragon, it's not attacking me, its not doing what I think it should do, this game is broken" attitude is really, really, stupid.

Only thing good about dragon attacks is being able to get their bones and scales and sell them for [censored]loads of cash. Besides that, I hate them and wish there were an option to turn them off completely.

Once I had 2 backward flying dragons in a row... I couldn't get it to land so I couldn't get a bounty.

After almost 90 days since release of the game, I thought I'd seen all the complaints there possibly could be.

But I have to admit, I was wrong.

Maybe the OP needs to move on to a different game.

Windracers were my annoyance.

Maybe you should think about what your saying before you say it. IM NOT A COMPLAINER. I don't get it what is wrong with you people? I LOVE THIS GAME. I posted ONE thread about what I felt was annoying and you guys are jumping down my throat! Please grow up