Try many different builds. Playing a sneak archer is completely different then playing a spellsword which is also different then playing an illusion mage.

All video games have repetiton to some degree. Its what you do with it that counts.

It's perfectly easy to roleplay in it, just put some effort in.

I'd also suggest you take the rose-tinted glasses off for Morrowind - it was a great game don't get me wrong but it was no more or less "repetitive" than Skyrim or any other RPG. And on that point it's only as repetitive as you make it. You have an entire world to play in, so use your imagination, there is a huge amount of depth and content and possibility in it if you just make an effort.
There is so much going on in it, seriously.

It's an RPG ppl not an adventure game. But having said all of this I'd like to have more variety in how we interact with certain quests.

I'm not commenting on Skyrim as an Elder Scrolls game, I'm commenting on it as an RPG, which I don't find it to be.

Couldn't agree more with the OP. I got bored of Skyrim much quicker then I ever did with Oblivion and it's a lot harder to roleplay a character in Skyrim due to all the dumbing down that occured with some of the game's features like Attributes which are now Blue, Red or Green choice instead of 8 quality selections.

Thing is, even RPGs work exactly the same way.

Honestly, if you cannot imagine Roleplaying or doing anything else without having a stat called "strenght", "intelligence", "agility", YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!

I tried to do this, I played as a... Ugh... "Rouge"... Character and then I tried a brute tank (Yes I am very very creative thank you, the brute tank was an ORC who fancied himseld to be a scholar too) but tactics of the game gets repetitive after a while too.
And while the tactics will change, the dungeons will be the same, the enemies will be the same, the quests will be the same and the loot will be the same.
So it breathed some new life into Skyrim, but after that 2nd character I couldn't push through any more.
Maybe when quality mods have been released so I can overhaul the game.

This. No need to say anything else really.

Those stats are already in the game.

You know, the green-red-blue bar, skills, perks?

Its barely a RPG, it feels like a meaningless slaughter game.

Point is, don't talk about Skyrim roleplaying as if it's something anyone and everyone can do.
Some of us simply cannot roleplay the way ES is designed to be roleplayed.

Exactly. Or, as the OP said so well: "It is as repetitive as the developers made it, if theres no content for use, no depth and possibilities, it's hard to "imagine" all that. Then I could as well leave the computer, just sit down and shut my eyes and imagine having fun."

I'm paying Bethesda to do the work to make their game fun and replayable, not for them to thrust that responsibllity almost entirely into my lap. Sock-puppetteering for the lose.

Then TES is not the series for you and Skyrim is not the game for you. Don't blame Bethesda for that. Many of us are very happy and satisfied with the products they've given us.

I roleplay. My character eats and sleeps in inns, goes out hunting, chops wood for innkeepers, catches up with friends and checks up on his college. And I fast travel quite often, so it's not like traveling between cities takes up my time. Skyrim isn't all about quests - go take a stroll through the Reach's Autumn forests, or go hunting in Falkreath hold. It's fun, trust me!

It's perfectly easy to roleplay in it, just put some effort in.

I'd also suggest you take the rose-tinted glasses off for Morrowind - it was a great game don't get me wrong but it was no more or less "repetitive" than Skyrim or any other RPG. And on that point it's only as repetitive as you make it. You have an entire world to play in, so use your imagination, there is a huge amount of depth and content and possibility in it if you just make an effort.
There is so much going on in it, seriously.

There is?
I found myself dungeon crawling all the time.
Quests? Lead to dungeon crawling.
Exploration? Lead to dungeon crawling.
Trying to level up skills? Lead to dungeon crawling.
Trying to find new gear? Lead to dungeon crawling.

Yes, I "can" chop wood, but why would I want to? So I can watch a repetitive animation and then sell the wood to merchants which also becomes repetitive.
Yes, I "can" roleplay by eating and sleeping, but why would I want to? It just gets tedious and repetitive, like forcing myself to be bored even more.
Yes, I "can" hunt deer with a bow, but why would I want to? I can find other stuff to eat way more easily and after killing about 20 random innocent critters it gets boring and repetitive.
Yes, I "can" do bounty quests, but why would I want to? I'm tired of fighting the same bandits over and over from bandit dungeons, why would I sign up to kill even more with their repetitive loot, tactics and difficulty?

I "can" do a lot of thigns in Skyrim, thing is: most of it I find to be pointless, unrewarding, tedious and most of all, repetitive.
Then again, I have never been able to grasp the concept of roleplaying a guardsman and make believe that things are happening when they are in fact not.
Different tastes I suppose, still, what you consider to be content I consider to be pointless filler inbetween the dungeon crawling as that's all the game seems to be designed around.

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So no, it's not "easy" to roleplay in Skyrim, not for everyone.
I can't make believe that a guard told me something it didn't do.
I can't make believe that I need to wash myself.
I can't make believe that I'm stalking a murderer who is actually just a nobody walking down the road.
Skyrim is a game of make believe and restriction roleplaying.
You want to be good? And you want to do that evil quest but in a good way? Sorry, but then you'll have to avoid that quest.
It's not easy at all for some people to roleplay in Skyrim, I can't roleplay if the game doesn't give me an incentive to pursue the role I've created.
I need lots of quest solutions, I need real dialogue, I need action and consequence.
Skyrim barely has any of that, so I can't roleplay.


Point is, don't talk about Skyrim roleplaying as if it's something anyone and everyone can do.
Some of us simply cannot roleplay the way ES is designed to be roleplayed.

That's excatly what it is; a dungeon crawler

You do realize that it only takes a bit over half an hour each day of playing Skyrim for it to be up at a thousand by now? If you've played it an hour each day since it was released, you'd be up at 2000 hours.


Annyhoo: I haven't explored everything in Skyrim. I've done most of the quests, probably, but there's still many new quests I find on my travels in Skyrim. And I can say that I've played about 4 hours, most of the days, since the release.

Then TES is not the series for you and Skyrim is not the game for you. Don't blame Bethesda for that. Many of us are very happy and satisfied with the products they've given us.

And many of us aren't, and think it's high time they did a better job of building in good, replayable RPG elements directly into their sandboxes, to greatly improve them. It can be done, if they hire talent they don't currently appear to have. They can certainly afford to, now.

WTF has eating, sleeping and drinking to do with roleplaying? What are you guys roleplaying as? Someone who eat and sleep??? Man! I wish I was that easily amused.

I'm on my third playthrough and I came across someone collecting ingredients for the Gourmet for the first time. Yeah ok, it's repetative.

Ohhh.... woooow.... a random npc gathering weeds.... hold me, I'm swooning....

Already seen that npc, on several of my chars. But, I'm an explorer, who likes to see everything out there not force himself to avoid and horde unfinished content as long as possible in a vain attempt to extend the limited gameplay.

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They're a nice break from the constant action the game is otherwise. Helps with the pacing. Also all these things add to your character. It's all part of the journey and worth it in the end.

I tried that, it was great fun for some time, but the small amount of description given for quests - " has asked you to talk to , you should move." wasn't simply enough or deep. The game is made to be played with the stupid questmarkers and all the shameful simplifying for the mainstream audience.

Most people seem to reply that one should use the world, instead of letting it lead you, and I totally agree with that, but the point is that there is no original content in the world for use.
It is all very repetitive, find a random NPC, he/she asks you to find something, oh and it's in a dungeon, again. Kill a dozen of mobs till you find the object, done. I found Oblivion's quests more fun, too. It was sure going in the direction of mainstream, but still had some unique aspects and living, original content.

All NPCs in previous TES games were not there when you went to return that quest, some lied dead, some had simply disappeared, and it was up to you to find out what had happened, it was all more less straight forward.

For some reason I actually (even today) enjoy Morrowind more, you don't know whats around that mountain, or that lake, you'll have to go and see. Find interesting cities and villages in remote areas. And theres is not a copy-paste dungeon around every corner.

Is there even any quest not involving, or ending up, in a dungeon? Maybe a quest where I will have the choice to go and kill someone, or steal the object in mind instead, buy it off him, get someone else to do the job, become friends with the target and gain his trust?