Like many people have stated, the series isn't for everyone. Sure you can utterly break the game, making yourself overpowered and whatnot.

But just simply... Roleplaying. Will always be a blast.

Probably. Have you joined one side or another of the Stormcloak rebellion? Have you started the Orb of Magnus quest at the College at Winterhold? How many thu'un have you learned? Have you joined the Thieves' Guild, the Companions, or the Dark Brotherhood? In other words, how much have you actually engaged with the storyline that's offered in the game?


If you're only focused on what you're doing, not why you're doing it, yes, that's what the game is. But the same can be said of any computer RPG. What makes it compelling is the story and your investment into your character.

Dragons.. are easy? Fight an Elder or Ancient Dragon on Master Difficulty then come back.

I love it. I've put about 100 hours in so far, and am maybe halfway through the main quest (just did the embassy party) - I keep getting sidetracked.

That said, for an average player, I think if you've got 40-50 hours out of the game and it's getting boring, that's not a fault of the game or the player. 40-50 hours of play out of a single player game is a good run regardless. If you found it boring the whole time and continued anyways, well... I just don't know what to say about that.

If you're the right type of person, though, Skyrim's openness can lead to hundreds of hours of fun. The trick with Skyrim (and the TES games in general) is that they require effort on the part of the player to get really involved. You have to choose to involve yourself. The quests are simple and boring, unless you act, unless you dig deeper.

Almost every quest that sends you to a cave/dungeon/fort/whatever can be completed by blindly running through, butchering everything, and grabbing the widget at the end. However, pretty much every quest can be completed in different ways - sometimes, doing something totally off the wall that would break the quest can start a new one instead. Also, all the environments you're sent to generally have their own stories. Sure, you can just run through and ignore it, but you can also slow down, look around, figure out the background of the place. It's fascinating, and can often lead to new adventures in and of itself.

Curious to know what people were expecting the questing to be like?
I see all these complaints of "Quests are boring and lame, y'know - go kill this, go collect that"........

What exactly else are you supposed to do?
Seriously, if you weren't going to find something or kill something, what else would you do? Stand still? Chase butterflies (not that my character does this......)?

People are complaining about quests for the sake of complaining about quests. every single other RPG I have ever played, or ever heard of is made up of two types of quest: Fetching [censored], and killing [censored]. Nothing else.

I am also mildly amused at the folks saying that Skyrim isn't an RPG. Yeah, ok. Those Standing stones have no effect over the PC, and the PC cannot chose which one he/she wants. The PC cannot chose whether to be a thief/assassin/bard/warrior/spellsword/mage/naked dude/etc. On level up, the PC cannot choose into which position to add a perk. The PC cannot control which skills to level up before others........... It's an RPG, maybe not as deep as others have been in the past, but it most certainly is an RPG (and a bloody good one at that).

I have played this non-stop since release - and I am yet to go see the Greybeards. I have also only completed the Companions Guild, and have done 2 missions for the Thieves guild. I'm sure if you ran through the main quest and declared the game 'beaten' (as I have seen some people on here wrongly assume), then sure the game may seem boring to you - but in doing so you have missed out on 99.99% of what makes this game awesome.


/tl;dr

Everyone has an opinion, it's just that the OP's is wrong.

Go to your main menu, click new.

Roll an assassin and join the thieves guild and the dark brotherhood.

Don't spend time on smithing/enchanting/alchemy.


Have funs and stay true to caesar. your character.

No way, smithing is bad a**

Legendary weapons and armor FTW

Try playing as a theif/assasin, although the playstyle is hard, it can be fun. Sneaking around and assasinating people in the night. And combining wit hillusion magic also makes the gameplay interesting and fun.

yeah stay away from two handed warrior/barbarian build, its by far the most boring way to play skyrim, belive me I played that class until lvl 33 and then I was so sick of it so I restarted as an assassin with a little magic on the side build, and trust me this made the game so much more fun to play. Sneaking around and stealth kill people and creatures are fun as hell, and have a litte magic aswell, I have a summon flame atronach as my best friend when I fail to kill some hard enemy in sneak.

i find the art style in skyrim contributes a lot to how boring i find skyrim. the ease of things will always be there. attaining god-like status has been a part of every TES game. sure its A LOT easier than before but its still not too bad. as an altmer, i simply find the nordic style boring. its not my thing...

Stupid post is stupid.

I have god knows how many hours in fallout NV, I find skyrim boring.

But hey when people criticse the tgame just use the shooter argument.

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Stupid post is stupid.

I have god knows how many hours in fallout NV, I find skyrim boring.

But hey when people criticse the tgame just use the shooter argument.






yeah, took me some time to adjust to the rather simple choices and dialogue options in Skyrim after having played 300+ hours into new vegas and its dlc's. This was for me the biggest letdown in skyrim, Obsidian put so much effort into choices and good dialogue, and it made the world more alive and it was more fun doing quests and so on. Obsidian did lack on world design though, got bored of the landscape in new vegas a long time before i got bored by the people in the game. Bethesda has a long way to go in character development, the world they nail everytime, but then the npc's never live up to the beautiful gameworld they are placed. Still I love Skyrim, it is so much stuff to see and to do regardless off poor dialogue and few choices.

I had god knows how many hours in Morrowind and Oblivion. But after I beat the MQ in Fallout 3, I just coudn't keep playing it.

Personally I think its a setting thing, they both appeal to different people. More so then game content/mechanics.

Boring?

Pshhhh....

I Don't Agree, Nothing you haven't heard before but..

Up the difficulty a little bit, so the monsters are at your desired killing rate. Maybe try making a few different characters, use magic on one, get into the enchanting and alchemy part of the game. Use Range on Another, and get a good understanding of the smithing skill (without grinding).. For light armor. find your ore in dungeons rather then spending all your money. Another possibility is Changing up the people you're doing quest for, find a faction that intrest you. Look up videos, or keep searching forums for something that you would like doing.
I Really Feel this game could be a hell of a lot more interesting for you.

For me I would say I find any quest that involves going to another location and talking to an npc boring because of the load times since there is no action other than waiting to get there and then clicking on the npc. I play on the ps3, and I have never spent so much time watching load screens before. Anytime I enter a door to enter a house or dungeon, fast travel, or having to restart the game because of eventual framerate drops, I feel like I am spending the majority of the game watching a load screen. For a while, I was using the Arch Mage's chamber in Winterhold as my storage room, but this meant sitting through several episodes of long load times - fast traveling there (long load time), open the door into the college (long load time), open the door to the arch mage's chamber (long load time), drop off dragon bones and scales, exit the archmage's chamber (long load time), exit the college (long load time), fast travel to my destination (long load time). I played Oblivion and Fallout 3 some time ago on the pc, and both games ran great. I didn't expect anything like these long times on the ps3. Why is it that even entering a small single-room cabin results in such long load times?

The other thing I don't understand is why is it when I push start and click save, the game doesn't do anything for 5-7 seconds before finally pulling up the available save spots. The game is just accessing the default ps3 save screen - why does it take that amount of time when no other game I've played does? And I feel compelled to save often because of the number of times the game has completely frozen (7 in the past week) requiring hard resets of the ps3. It's aggravating when after spending a good bit of time playing, the game suddenly freezes and requires me to go through 3 or 4 doors (load screens) just to get to where I was again. It just hasn't been that enjoyable for me because of the numerous and long load screens.

I know it's no consolation, but the load screens on the PC version are very fast, and - for me at least - quick saving incurrs nothing more than a slight stutter, and thats just with a conventional HDD.

Sad that the game runs so rough on a ps3.

also, if the quests annoy u, u can do wat u want & ignore them. become a thief, a werewolf, a vampire, bandit, go explore an area tht isnt part of a mission tht u apparently do not care 4, climb a mountain, hunt mammoths and challenge their giant masters. occasionally u will even be attacked by more thn one dragon @ a time. personally, i got [censored] by 3 @ a time lmao T.T w/ so much 2 do, i dont understand how this game can b boring!

You have to change it up man.. Combat gets dull if you stick to just 2h and heavy armor. Try conjuration or archery. Make a sneaky assassin Mage. Mix it up to find what playstyle suits you. Try 1h and shield. Power bash and stick enemies when they stagger.

I imagined I was a warror who saw riften and wanted to help. Then I went into the ratway with my ebony greatsword and attacked the thives guild. Only they didnt die, so I was stuck with the developers imagination instead of making my own impact on the world.

Another character was a stormcloak, he hunted down imperial camps... Only to have them respawn and have an unkillable npc with no purpose...

Another time I just wanted an insane orc, he tried killing the jewelry selling argonian, but he was essential, that didnt work either.

Another time I tried doing the companions, but my character wanted to stay human, but I had to become a wolf to progress.

RPing is a joke in this game.

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If Skyrim bores you then Your Doing It Wrong.

Seriously though, you just have to do your own thing to make it fun for yourself. For me, thats creating many characters based on a concept I've thought up in terms of class, race, and morality and just RPing that character. Also, don't fast travel too much, if you fly all over the map the quests can get tedious. Adventure around the world, go into caves and tombs when you feel like it, etc. If you go back and forth turning in quests or blaze through an entire questline in one sitting, I could see how it could get boring.

Sometimes, making up rules for yourself to follow can be more fun and exciting.

NO I don't think it's boring. It's beautiful and majestic. The water is the best I have seen in any Bethesda game.. I love the crafting.. I can easily see myself playing this game for a very long time.

Agreed on all your points, apart from this one.

Boring no way in hell. It was first game on a long time that managed to get my attention.
I have reached lvl 41 yesterday going as Empire supporter and already planning to start new char to support the rebels probably a elf or a orc or even a nord to see if as a nord i get better acceptance from the start playing the game.
I would love to have the $ to buy a new graphic card so i could play the game with the graphics on the max right now i am only playing on medium and iam already drooling.
In the overall iam loving it all . now iam just waiting for the patches to fix some bugs so the game gets even better.