Bethesda nailed the world with Skyrim, easily the best looking, most interactive, most detailed game world ever. Problem if the world is filled with repetitive meaningless unimaginative quests. Skyrim is the huge beautiful ocean that is 3 inches deep the whole way through.

The quests in skyrim have no impact on the world, they are WAY to formula oriented, go here, kill that come back for reward, Go to these 3 places to collect these parts of this item then come back to make item, go here give this to that person etc.

Even the main quest lines and all the faction quest lines were not only way to predictable and unimaginative they all had horrible endings, nothing you did changed anything and most of the time you weren't even rewarded for it.

not sure what happened but please for TES 6 make the quests better.

Quests and the storylines have been getting worse since morrowind but heck I'd take Oblivions's quests over Skyrim any day.

Such a shame that the world of Skyrim cannot have deep interesting stories or Quests like previous TES games.

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try read the books...

If not better writers, more of them. They are starting to rely too much on clichès and repeated quests.
Many of them are simply go there, get this, get back.

But what Bethesda do know how to, is writing books. Many places I've found really interesting books or notes.

I think Bethesda should give the writers the time they need for TES VI. The lacklustre stories are caused by rushing them, it's obvious the writers have the potential.

I did, I read more books in Skyrim than any other TES game, I read books because the quests were so freaking bad. Books helped flesh out quests like Red Eagle sword but most of the times reading books did not help at all when it came to the transparent formula ridden quests.

Also books didn't help that quests had no impact on the world and questlines had horrible endings with little reward.

some of them add depth to most quests tho, like the wolf queen to name one

To be fair many TES, and RPGs in general, suffer from contrived quests. It's hard to have specialized quests as you're unsure if all the players could even complete it. If a quest was "Go and make me dragon armor" then you'd only have a select few players who could actually complete it.

can anyone give some..whats the word..mmhh...INPUT as to why the books are nicely written but the quests and overall story...not so much?

I'm actually comparing Skyrim to previous TES games, compared to previous TES game the quests in Skyrim are very formula ridden, and have no impact on the world and you are pretty much not given any type of real reward or proper closure for anything of the main questlines.

Most of those books are the same since Morrowind. They really need to take a look at how these quests pan out and how they should really impact the world.

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