I enjoy a lot of what Bethesda has done with Skyrim, from new features to radiant quests and amazing graphics.

However, despite all they've done with the game.. I can't help but feel that the game is - dare I say - boring compared to Oblivion and Morrowind. I think my reasoning for this is the lack of mystery and exploration of new ideas and cultures in Skyrim. In Cyrodill and Morrowind you had a large to moderate amount of Elven characters and a decent amount of Argonian/Khajiit characters with rich culture and history that I always found fascinating to learn about. In Skyrim the culture seems very generic. A human race of prideful warriors with typical human characteristics and bland history. That's something I never really found myself bored by while playing Oblivion and especially Morrowind. There was much more mystery and a sense of learning about an entirely different people with all the elven and beast-race characters.

I hope future DLC takes us to areas where we can feel the diversity of other cultures rather than the bland Nordic foundation of Skyrim.



tl;dr - I think Skyrim's kinda boring due to the lack of elves and other non-human races. Fa sho.

Other then a few small select areas, I'd have to agree with you. Skyrim is pretty much nord, nord, nord.

Skyrim's environment is dull. The only thing that took my breath and blew me away was the dwarven ruin related to Hermaeus Mora's quest.

Dwarven ruins are awesome. You got steam, shadows, statues, moving mechanical parts and usually big open spaces for lots of fun.
I do like the landscape variety though (snow, marsh, forest, lush forests, mountains etc.) but there's also plenty of empty barren places which I find rather dull.

Dwarven ruins are fun, but once you've seen one, you've kind of seen them all.

Just wish there were more variety of monsters. Goblins, more variety of undead, different races of giants, evil trees, give me something.

Well yeah - it would be Nord...?
Skyrim is far less cosmopolitan than say Cyrodiil so fairly obviously you are going to find less variety in it.

I don't know you people will do if the next TES game is set in the Summerset Isles. It'll be Altmer, Altmer, Altmer! There will be none of those stinky lesser races, just Altmer shoving their superior you-know-what's in your face.

I certainly hope the next game is Summerset Isles.

Because if something is not alien/elven/magical/weird, it's boring...

My opinion, Skyrim is fine on this front. There is a Nordic culture in evidence, and a sense of history. There was a sense of culture in Morrowind. As the centre of the Empire, you would expect more of a melting pot in Cyrodiil, but culture? Welcome to Hampshire, with some green, blue, brown and yellow people, and a mountain or two. Where was the Cyrodiil that could have been? Oblivion fares a hell of a lot worse than Skyrim where the word 'generic' is concerned.