I just can't play Skyrim anymore... I've tried everything you possibly can on a console. RP died to me. I can't force myself to play through the "tutorial" anymore. Dawnguard, my motivation to pick it back up, still hasn't motivated me to play.

Does anybody have any advice on what I can possibly do? Should I just sell the game? Let it gather dust?

I just can't force that tutorial back down my throat like I have a hundred times before...

(TLDR: I put Skyrim down about 2 months ago to try to motivate myself back in to playing... Now it seems more dry than ever... Help?)

Tutorial takes me less than 10 minutes. If that's too much for you to bare then play something else.

NEVER SELL. bad idea selling, 2 people i know sold their copies and now they are full of regret, keep it on a shelf somewhere (i keep all my TES games together)

You obviously aren't ready to return to tamriel yet. Wait til you get the itch. Until then, play something drastically different! I've been playing Rage and Forza the past few nights to avoid my second phase of TES burnout

Honestly, I've tried my very best. I've been in between Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption and Saints the 3rd... And I've had the itch, it's just that every time I come back that damned tutorial ruins it for me.

Thank you for your oh so insightful and clever post, good sir.

Just play something else. If it is boring to you there probably isn't anything you can do to make it fun again unfortunately, unless possibly you think of weird builds to play and that works or something like that.

Keep it, just take a break for a month or two....

Edit: here's what I did to avoid tutorial burn out...I made one character of each race and ran them thru tutorial, then saved right after I exited the cave. If I want a new character I just load one of them up I can't change their name, but I can live with that....just an idea for down the road when you come back to skyrim

From experience... pour yourself a stiff drink... resign yourself to a dull and grindful evening... and 'new game' it up a dozen times in a row. The character creation is usually fairly entertaining, and as for the tutorial, just haul [censored]... run bye the spiders, run bye the bear, don't bother looking in any barrels or riffling any deadies (you can always fistfight people, on novice difficulty, for stuff once you're out), get into the open and save.
In return for a couple of hours of misery you should then have a bagfull of half-remembered characters to bust out at your leisure... no tiresome wagon-rides attached.

Playing something else always works.

Here's an Idea. Make whichever races you play most, and make a save right out of Helgen. Any time you want to start fresh just load up one of those.

Take a break, don't sell, TES games are one of the rare gems that you go back to and like it.

This is what I did when I got bored. Started a character and immediately go get the Ohgram book. Don't level up or assign any points until you have it.

Get your house and glitch all the way up to 81 and make a save. Now you can continually make new characters and try them out. You don't have to do any of the beginning quests or fight through those low level problems.

You can do the Book of Oblivion quest to get as much money as you need to buy your house and have spending money.

Its great having your new character all ready to go and not have to worry about getting skills up. If you don't like the way you spent your points just reload your save and start over.

I agree. Hold onto the game; you never know when you'll want to whip it out again. I only own five PS3 disk games, and three of them are Bethesda open-worlders (F3, FNV, and Skyrim). I've just been back to F3, and now I'm back in Skyrim. Maybe New Vegas is next.

As someone said, if you really want to play Skyrim again the only way to do it is to grind through the tutorial again. You could make a save after to revert to for new characters, but that's up to you.

Grinding through a 20 minute tutorial isn't that hard. I've grinded a single spawn point in Borderlands for 6 hours for one trophy, I think you could manage 20 minutes of grinding for a new character.

Your problem is the problem everyone eventually faces --- over-familiarization. You know the game inside and out and really don't look forward to leveling ( or grinding to 81). If you play on PC, that's less of an issue for you. If you have a good memory, it won't matter how long you walk away from the game. Every time you sit down to play, you'll get that same feeling. Only keep the game if you can see yourself playing again. Personally, I never sell my games.