Its only repetitive if you spend all of your time with the same race, same guild or same skillset.

Roll a new character with a different play style, and you will be amazed.

You created your own repetition, not Skyrim.

I don't know... The dungeons are varied, to an extent, but they're still largely the same. Earlier today I walked up to a fort that was little more than a tower on a hillside. Before I even entered, I knew what palette was going to be used for the place and I knew I would be fighting bandits/Forsworn (I was in the Reach) or mages. Why? Because that's the way it is with pretty much every fort.

I wasn't disappointed, either. So then I did what I do with every fort or old ruin I come across. I went in and I killed everything. This particular time it was magic spiders with a mage at the end.

Yes, it starts to feel repetitive. You find a dungeon, go inside, face the same sets of enemies and kill them all. Go to the next and repeat. Sure, they try to work stories into them, but usually fail pretty badly.

From interviews, it's been said Oblivion had 1 dev doing all of the dungeons. So, yes they were extremely repetitive. Skyrim has 8 devs doing the dungeons. So while there will be more diversity in looks, there are still technically only 8 variations.

Uldred

I don't get this... Forts all look like Forts?

Going into the same dungeon has the same enemies?

I'm confused.

Every dungeon, cave, and ruin I've been into has been unique. Yes, for sure, there is some reuse of certain structures or textures, but the overall design of each has been wonderfully different. Some of the underground areas are quite stunning in their artistic design. The fun for me is not so much what I'm there for as the actual exploration itself. I enjoy the act of exploration in games like this even when there is no clear goal. I discover a cave and go inside having no idea what I might run into. Sometimes that exploration leads to nothing and sometimes the results are quite thrilling. I'm not sure though what some people expect from a game like this. It's so vast and varied and there's just no way they can make every single quest a breath taking adventure. Sometimes it's just a small task like clearing out a few bandits. If you don't like that then move on to another quest or as someone else suggested, maybe this isn't the game for you. I haven't been bored at all during my 150 or so hours of play. To me this game is anything but repetitive.

I'm about 120 hours into the game and i'm still havin' fun eploring the world of Skyrim. I rate it 10/10.

No game could have lived up to the way this one was hyped.

What's not to get? All forts use largely the same sets of building parts. Yes, they're organized differently, but you if you pay attention, you can see the repetitive use of parts between them. The result is that they don't feel all that different from each other. The same is true for the old ruins.

And yes, most forts across all of Skyrim that I have entered have been occupied by either bandits or mages. Go into one of the old ruins and it's a pretty safe bet you'll be fighting draugr. And so on.

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Skyrim is sort of like Oblivion. With the different types of chararcters you can be. I mean the only thing different is that you can dual wield spells and use shouts.

After the success of Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2 was hyped pretty hardcoe. Failed miserably in sales. With the advant of the internet early reviews by players trashed Dragon age 2 and the people listened.

You must ride the short bus to school, it's all good

I find this game deadly repetitive, all the '250' dungeons are pretty much exactly the same.

I find every game repetitive if played too long. Here are my list of games I have yet to finish and most of these I purchased days of release. 90pct of this list is still on my hard drive is never played anymore, lol

Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, Oblivion, Morrowind, Starcraft 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, New Vegas, Fallout 3, GTA 4, Baldurs Gate 2, Crysis 2, Black Ops, Civ 3 and 4, Batman Arkham Asylum.....

The world overall is a huge improvement over Oblivion that is hard to deny. This is the major thing that Skyrim has going for it the world is so amazing.

Your doing it wrong. Leave the 4 square feet of the world you have explored, till then Please continue, my good sir..

Any current game will start to look a little repetitive once you`ve played it 100 hours.The fact that this is the only game this year I`ve played for that long must show how good it is,though. If TES VI is to take over everybodys lives for months it will need more features-Whether it should get them is questionable.

The dungeons all look the same? Why don't you take a visit into oblivion and see if the dungeons are different there; the dungeons are much more varied compared to oblivion.

yeah honestly from being on the forums twice every week since announced alot of the stuff that they said would be In the game never was some things had a hint of what they said for instance raidiant AI they said if you were really good at a skill someone would either challenge you or ask you for help I've had 5 characters 1 150+ hours in and 4 others around 40+ Ive had 2 instances where this happened on my 300+ hours of skyrim both on the same character. alot of the radiant AI and story things before release gave me assurance that skyrim wouldn't be repetitive and there was replay value honestly I don't feel like skyrim has much replay value.....

I think people are misunderstanding what OP said, it is not the interior levels or architectures that are repetitive, but the motivation and expectation of player are ---

for exmaple

1) go to a location X,
2) encounter some hostile guys
3) sort out the puzzle
4) loot out everything
5) sold loots and repeat (1).

I hit my 80th hour in the first week of release and I didnt touch the game since then. It was worth my money, to be honest.

but it is like, im not motivated to continue playing...

I am not roleplaying like some people here. just doing the quest like NPCs told me to do. I only wish that quests were more involved with actual player's skills/perks rather than overusing the template (go to place X, kill Y, and come back and get reward).

As said before, you can generalize all genres of games like you are doing.

You need to learn to play the game for what it's worth.

I know that doesn't explain much, but I'm drunk, it's Xmas, I have family things to do tommorow, and I'm going to bed.

What do you expect a cave or a ford to look like then? What other enemies do you expect? Which other games (with modern assets) do you play that offer more variety in both enemies and world building sets that doesn't charge a monthly fee? Of course assets get reused, every game does that. And the longer and bigger the game, is the more assets get reused.
But I think they did a good job at telling all these little stories in dungeons, and mixing and matching building sets for a slightly different look each time.
I haven't gotten bored, I haven't thought once "This is getting repetitive", instead I've been eager to explore the dungeons. But maybe that's just me.

Sigh ....... I was brought up on space invaders and pacman...... and you have the nerve to say Skyrim is repetative...... Gamers today dont know they are born!

I honestly think that Bethesda could put some people in a space ship and fly them to the Moon, and people would still complain they were bored...... If Skyrim is only worth 7.5/10 then I think sadly your expectactions are a little bit too high. What about if they built a life size Dragon and landed it in your garden...... 8.5/10? Some people sadly will never be happy!

Btw.... if you think Skyrim is repetetive, you wanna try grinding out Dailies in MMO's for a few months

For sure, these boards are pretty repetitive ... it's not the first time I've seen this thread subject.

Obviously the radiant quests are repetitive - they only exist as a way of funneling you to dungeons you haven't visited - but for the most part the dungeons seem impressively diverse. The number of graphical assets crafted for is game is pretty amazing; yes, there's repetition, but it's only using repetition that Bethesda has been able to give us a game of this size. There are also loads of non-radiant quest dungeons that have memorale or unique elements. I can't see that there's much reason to complain.

I don't find Oblivion's dungeons much worse than Skyrim's, they weren't at least so linear and unnecessary long.