I see so many posts and I hear about so many people who claim that they have played Skyrim for over five hundred hours, some over a thousand.
My questions to those people is, what the heck do you do ingame? Do you actually enjoy going through all the repetitive dungeons?

Is there someone who actually enjoy it for the sake of roleplay, someone who enjoyed the depth and adventures of Morrowind?
Someone, tell me, what do you actually spend your time on?

I don't want to play a character till I become godlike. So I deleted my first character on 32 hours since I got bored of being called Dovahkiin and playing some sort of god.
I couldn't wait for Skyrim when it was announced and I preordered my collectors edition very early, but now I realize that Skyrim is highly overrated.

Its barely a RPG, it feels like a meaningless slaughter game. I've never had much fun after I completed the main quest, the dark brotherhood, companions and thieves guild (which put me on my current 72 hours).
Neither is there choices in quests, and all content follows a very narrow stream. It seems like people play Skyrim for the sake of it being so.. famous in troll-culture, yeah you know what I mean Arrow in the knee, fus-ro-dah, and all what the parodies include. Yeah, advertisemant was really successful for Skyrim, but in truth it was the mainstream game of the decade.

Buut I don't just want to bash, I want to know what others think, and if someone agrees. I was a really devoted fan of Skyrim in my early months too

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 did get repetitive for me after 120 hours.

They should have put in some reputation system to make the grind more meaningful.

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.

I've taken a screenshot for future use very well put! A lot of people on these forums need to read this ...

It hasn't become boring or repetitive for me as of yet. I doubt it will for quite some time, if at all. I suppose roleplaying helps with this to some extent. I'm guessing I've played around 800 hours on various different characters and I still find new things to see and do each time I play.

yeah, it gets very boring, very fast

i would install mods to keep it interesting but i cant even be bothered to do that

but theres plenty of other things to do besides this game, those people claiming to have played a gazillion hours are either have no lives at all or lie

I RP after all it's an RPG not an action game. Seriously I think some ppl have lost the ability to day dream, to escape into there creative sides. I personally believe the game is what you make it.

My Monk is totally different to my blood svcking vampire, yet they both use magic and one handed weapons. One loots, steals and murders the other heals, helps and gets drunk. And they both differ from my nord warrior!

Hell I've played several hundred hours and have nit even started to the main or civil war quests because my characters would not be interested in them.

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 would say this thread now needs locking and pinning to the front page.

Az

*slow clap*
Best answer to this kind of topic that I've ever read.

I do as him, roleplay. That is what a RPG is.

I think many people don't understand what The Elder Scrolls slash RPG is. It's not some game you go thru to complete. It's a world, you live in and breath in, do what you do.
YOUR IMAGINATION IS YOUR LIMIT! If you can't find fun things to do, shame for you.

This... You have to learn to appreciate the little things in Skyrim. Don't take the beautiful world that they created for granted. You have to immerse yourself into your character and have fun!

Yeah, Morrowind is not different at all in this regard.

The dungeons are just as repetitive, they do use the exact same textures and tiles everywhere, but both of them has the same share of unique dungeons, quests and random things to find.
If there's anything I found to complain about was that I couldn't really spend as much time in cities doing random things, as I did in Oblivion, but ironically the other game that I've had the same problem was Morrowind. It's probably the static NPCs...

But what am I doing? Wandering the countryside, doing quests nearby, finding stuff in the distance. No, those are not repetitive.

I am no hardcoe RPGer but I have a lot of friends who are. Some totally love it and the rest know what they have and make the best of it.
People live and learn. Maybe Bethesda will too.
Am I disappointed with what I paid for? No. I've gotten my money's worth already. Peace

I am disabled so yeah I don't have much of a life but I have no reason to lie about a game. Also, there is no such number as "a gazillion".
If this game is that far below you, and there are so many other things to do then maybe you should go do something other than troll the forums telling people how boring their game is.
Peace

I really hope you're just deliberately trolling for the lolz because if you're not then frankly you're no better than this post that you have made, and that's not up to much.

People put lots of hours into games like this and also have very full and productive lives and do other things; also for some people who may not be as lucky as other folk and cannot get out to do all the "other things" of which you speak so blithely, games like this provide them - I imagine, and I don't wish to patronise at all - with some much-needed escapism.
Just because you are unfulfilled does not mean you can belittle others because of their enjoyment, regardless of how time-intensive it is.
Maybe when you grow up you'll learn that not be so free and easy with your cheap shots.

I agree.

I'm closing in on 600 hours with 5 characters - mostly different builds.

I mostly walk everywhere, a lot of off-road walking looking for dungeons and other surprises. Between the wolfs, cats, bears, skeevers, thiefs, spiders and other things that attack you, it keeps you busy enough. Then, in later play, you have to add the assassins the Thalmor send after you, and also others sent by merchants, etc.

I love dungeon crawling, especially now that you don't need a tank, healer, and 3 dps sigh.

I switch back and forth between the 5 characters. One pure destruction mage, one conjurer, one warrior, two assassins/sneak/archery users.

They all are at different points in different questlines - although my current character is nearing the end with only the mage and bards colleges' quest left to do.

Oh, I forgot, I'm retired and play all day, 7 days per week. If not for the fact that I started cutting back from my normal 10-12 hours per day playing Skyrim (at release) to about 2-4 hours per day, I would have been over 1000 hours by now. But, there are other games to play - and coming on 15 May Blizzard releases D3, so the madness will start all over again.

@ Flabber - Looking at your post, maybe this game is not for you. Try COD or WoW.

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Well, it's a dungeon crawler so i crawl in dungeons, obviously Finding new and exciting ways and equipment to kill things. Clearing every (non-quest locked) dungeon with different characters builds does increase playtime quite a lot.

Why?
Because he has a life away from a monitor?

No, because he thinks the game is over once he can't find any more quests.
I've played Skyrim for hundreds of hours and I have a life away from the TV. I spend much more time with friends and family than I do playing Skyrim, but that doesn't mean I can't play it.

Couldn't agree more - use your imagination. I have one character who is a Bosmer, jonied the Companions - became a werewolf and became so disgusted with what he'd become that he lives far away from humans in one of the wilderness camps with only a dog as company. Another character is a poisoner, using the perk from the pickpocket tree to secretly murder his victims at night. TES games have always been about using the world Beth create to enjoy you own adventures. Some people seem to believe that the game needs to provide all the roleplaying for you.

Skyrim was "overrated" by who ? its a game,if you've played it for72 hrs after that you've done Morrowind (and probably even Oblivion) to me sounds great - and its even a great victory for Bethesda.

Sincerely,i don't remember in this moment the exact total time i've played among Pc and Xbox 360 from 11/11/11 ,i guess around 260-270 hrs - but i can tell you that its the only game i've played from then - and i've played even more Morrowind and Oblivion in the past when i had more "free time" to dedicate to this hobby.

However i have to say that the Guilds and the Main Quest are not the best things in Skyrim; some of the most funniest quests are others indeed.

For the lack of depth and choices,well- read my signature i agree on that; but bear in mind that Skyrim is an action/adventure game with some Rpg element,not a "pure Rpg" -probably its due to this mainly your disappointment.

You want fun in Skyrim ? deactivate the Hud,don't use fast travel and began to wander around freely avoiding what you don't like ( i.e. refusing potentially repetitive quests)

Finally,i found a little exaggerated to play a game for 1000 hrs or more in such little time (5-6 months) but this is just my opinion and if a game is able to "entertain" someone for all that time there would be a reason.

I am retired, and I have lived my life. I am just waiting. And yes, I have played for 1000 hrs.

Doesn't matter, and why am I not surprised?

Well,look at the positive side; at least you've lived your life and are still waiting for something

i bet that there are a lot of people much younger out there that "doesn't have" (or don't live properly) a life neither have the patience or the bravery to wait something