How do you all check how many hours you've played?

read your saves, it should end with how many hours you've played

for example, Save 8 - Gray-Tail Skyrim 03.31.51

3hrs 31min 51sec

didn't know that, thanks

The quests are all the same and repetitive. "Kill this person and return" "Find this item and return" "Find this person and return"

The dungeons are rubbish, small and mostly the same.

I loved this game when I first got it. 100% GOTY, but now it just bores me.

Once I get all the best equipment and everything, there's nothing else to achieve.

Switch to WoW

I'd rather die.

what the hell have you done that 70 hours then, staring at the skies?

I'm level 39 in 70 hours..

70 hrs? I was 100 hrs in on my first character and only completed 3 quest lines without even touching the main quest.

70 hours, with Elder Scrolls, your short changing yourself. Slow down and enjoy the adventure.

I'm 75 hours in and not even halfway done. I (think) I've finished the Companions, I've done like three or four quests for the Imperial Legion, and on the main quest I'm about to go searching for the Wall. Other than that, I've been exploring and doing side quests. I only just visited Winterhold for the first time last night, and now I've visited all the large cities. There's a lot to do in this game. Unless you're fast traveling everywhere or just powering through the main quest, 70 hours is nothing.

People are still confused on what the argument is here. Yes, the game has a lot of stuff you can do. For the most part it is a giant sandbox game. The problem people are having is that rewards and item/character progression basically stops fairly early into the game. This ruins the enjoyment for a lot of players considering it trivializes content for one, but also there are no rewards in the game for completing quests. This makes the storyline take a backseat. You may be ok with doing content just to do it and that is fun for you, I won't argue what is fun for you. There is a definite problem in that character progression stalls mid-way through the game for many people through no fault of their own.

I just started playing, and I'm only 13hrs in, and I still haven't made the first town, due to "huh, whats that over there?"

I'm also walking and at times jogging. Taking my time enjoying the game.

Think most have posted what the games is about.

Also 70hrs of game play is better than most games out there.

I think we can all agree that the OP is a Boring person. I'm 70+ hours in on 1 character and I still have a [censored] ton to do. I plan on making another another character after I'm done with this character. Plus they're gonna come out with DLC, so go be boring somewhere else no one wants to hear your [censored]ing

The slowed hero speed, on the consoles versions anyway, also has something to do with boredom. You can't move fast enough to engage new land or a new predicament without a lag. I am not saying that if one had super speed the game would become super fascinating; but it would help some. Oblivion and Morrowind allowed the player to move more rapidly and in a large game map this helps in several ways.

I agree with the poster who opined the character development seemed to level off in the first 30 levels or so.

Bored after 70 hours, really? I have played on one save for 200 hours and am having a break from it because of BF3. you can't have done everything worth while in 70 hours, all I can say is Skyrim isn't your cup of tea

I love Skyrim.

I can still play it for hours on end, I just don't feel like I'm achieving, so therefore I feel bored.

Wow, just no point arguing with you. I'm achieving just by having the game

I know how you feel. The game has little incentive once you pass the mid levels.

I just make sure that I build each character to do a different part of the game.
Redguard- Thief and Bard
Breton- Mage
Bosmer- Dark Brotherhood and archery
Dark Elf- Spell Blade,Companion and MQ.

Doing everything with one character can make this game boring fast.

Skyrim is Huge and there's way more things to do than just 70 hours worth of play. Just deciding to go to any of numerous random ruins or caves can yield quests that take you to several others. There's the Dragon Priest masks to collect, the Gauldur amulet, the maze in Labyrinthian. I'm lvl69 and I'm still finding quests to do from people and people to help.

@OP, get out of the MMO-mindset and play the game for what it is.

i feel for you

well if you completed everything you could always try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K27GuSSha0s

70 hours is a long time for a game, but this isn't a normal 25 hours kiddy game

Wow that is a great anology. That makes a lot of sense and have never thought of my gaming like that

I agree with the OP. I'm right at 70 hours with a level 33 character myself and the incentive to continue playing just isn't there. As an RPG, Skyrim really falls flat, especially in comparison to most of its predecessors (that being excluded is Arena). The game has no reputation system, so inherently no reverberations from one's actions and path in the gameworld, very few choices and even less consequence, the factions are few, incredibly short, and pitiful, the character customization is rather basic, and the only remaining part of Skyrim that's really much of an RPG mechanic, its basic character progression system, kind of levels off by the point I and the OP are at.

Quests are repetitive, often uninteresting, and do not yield outcomes or consequences (getting back to Skyrim's lack of choice, consequence, and reputation). Dungeons are rather predictable and lack any actual hand-placed loot, creature variety, type variety, puzzle variety, etc. to make them worth it. The factions are lacking, obviously rushed or "streamlined" incoherent garbage, and without any effect on anything around you, and the halting of leveling and general character progression in this simple, option-lacking system pretty much nails the lid on the coffin. Skyrim has been tried, it's been tested, and it's been found lacking, in my opinion. It's a good game... just a pathetic RPG and subsequently a lackluster follow-up to its predecessors.