As I go about my adventures in Skyrim, it seems like everyone I speak to wants me to do something for them. Whether it is to fetch a loaf of bread, or slay a mighty dragon, they all want something. Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming as my quest log fills up as there is so much to do. I've started doing quests one story at a time and I am enjoying it.

So, how do you guys quest? Do talk to anyone and everyone to pick up many quests as you can? Or do you take out the nearest quests to your location or do the ones that interest you most? Or do you take it slow and do one quest chain at a time, focusing on it until it's completed? and when you discover a dungeon, do you go in and explore, or only go in if a quest has sent you there?

So far, I've been taking it slow and following one story at a time. How about you guys?

I've been trying to get from Whiterun to Markarth for a week. I keep finding new things to kill and dungeons and forts to loot on the way. Whenever I find one, I go in. After that I'm loaded to capacity, so I have to go back home to Whiterun to drop things off and sell things.

Managing carrying capacity is a big challnge for me. I wear Steel Armor and Shield at the moment, and have 2 swords and 2 bows with me. And too many potions that I never use. I gotta remember to get rid of excess potions. I have about 150 pounds of stuff I can pick up.

I also usually pick up things that have 10:1 value/weight ratio or better. Maybe I should up that number too.

I do what I find fun to do, and stop doing it once I find it's no longer fun. Skyrim has plenty to do that you don't need to adopt a single playstyle to enjoy it.

At first, it was..look, something blue..and I would chase off in a new direction. When the quest log started filling up, I would do quests by map sector. What do I have to do in the rift? What's next in whiterun..and so on. Still carried too much junk though and when the Whiterun general store guy disappeared it took the shine off going there to do stuff.

having played the major archetype characters and finishing guild questlines, but, still needing to finish the mq, civil and daedric, i decided to delete them all and re-create an all-powerful hybrid.

this way, i can play whatever style i want to on any given day and not worry about rping, yet, still experience 'all' the content the game has to offer.

as well, i have DiD characters that i use for very strict rping.

lately i have been walking around, but sometimes i grab bounties and do those, i find the guilds and main quest line [censored] and i've already done em twice anyways, one char even completed every side quest ( not misc quests ) but im starting to like the misc quests now idk why

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It's a computer RPG. Cities are for getting quests by talking to anyone who's not fast enough to run away (provided he has a unique name, instead of "Guard" or "Hunter" ), and when travelling anywhere, I check whether I've got something to do in the vicinity. Or look at my quests, pick a bunch close together, and go there.

I typically focus on one town or one faction at a time. With Misc and Side Quests, well, I don't worry about getting them, I just do them as the quest makes sense to me at the time.

I'm trying to do town by town, but it keeps piling up as I HAVE to speak to everyone I meet, so I might stray off sometimes. But mostly one quest at a time, town by town

I train 5 times each level, and spend most of the low levels collecting ingredients, crafting potions and selling. Once I have enough Speech skill to pick the Merchant perk, I gather as many ingredients I can and move to the college of Winterhold, spending several days crafting potions, casting Muffle and buying/training with the Trainers... I usually hit the first mage quests just in time to move back to Whiterun and start the main quest... buying Breezehome and storing the ingredients there. At this time I should have the Assassin's blade perk from Sneak, then I join the DB for the armor and other items... eventually doing other guild quests and/or the main questline. Later I level smithing and craft daedric boots and gloves only... keeping light on body or robe sometimes... I find myself doing this same leveling plan with every new character I create.

Pick a faction's main questline, wander around the hold that each quest directs me to until I've gotten the wanderlust out, do the next quest, and do the same thing in the next hold.

There are too many quests in Skyrim to think about what quests to do... So I just chillax, and wander around doing whatever quests are closest at any given time.

For me it depends partly on my mood, and partly on how much time I've got at the PS3. If I know I've got several hours to kill I'll probably embark on a long quest. If I know I've got less than an hour, I'll perhaps pick a, "The Jarl wants a Bandit Leader Killed" type quest, which can be quite quick. (Though actually, I'm currently doing the Staff of Magnus Quest, which is quite a long one, and I've already spent three short sessions on it, and it alone.)

When I first started playing I tended to explore caves and stuff as and when I discovered them, but nowadays I leave them unexplored until a Quest directs me there.