Hello everyone, I've been playing Skyrim since release, though have been limited in terms of time due to my schedule. A week or two ago, I finished the main quest, however since then I've just hit a wall. I can't seem to find anything to do, and the loose quests that I do find are either too easy or not interesting.

I've finished the main quest, the Thieves Guild, the Dark Brotherhood, the College in Winterhold, and the Stormcloak Rebellion (on the side of the Legion). There may be one or two other questlines I forgot about, and you can let me know if there are any, however I think I've finished them.

As of right now, I've probably completed somewhere around 30 individual side-quests, and while I know there are more, I just don't feel motivated to search them all out.

By the way, I'm only at 65 hours of play time.

So, is there something big that I'm missing? Any advice?

Other than collecting shouts and the occasional collecting quest (like the Gauldar Amulet) or Daedric quest - not really.

I guess you could spend some time trying to solve the bug-in-jar mystery.

Collected up the daedric artifacts?

Explored everything?

One does not simply "finish" Skyrim.

The Companions, you can find them in Whiterun.

Each hold has something of a mini questline. These are usually independent from any of the guild questlines or main quest.

Morthal has you investigate the burned down house, Markarth's is the Forsworn Conspiracy, Solitude is the Man Who Cried Wolf, Falkreath and Dawnstar both have a pair of Daedric quests, Windhelm is Blood on the Ice, Whiterun is the family fued between Gray-Manes and Battle-Borns.

In Solitude there is the Bard's college. There are four or five quests associated with them, though they are typically dungeon delving.

If I added it up now I'd probably have something like 300 hours on three characters, and I know others have more. Just start a new dude and go exploring.

You must have hauled ass through this game to finish all that so quickly. I'm at almost 70 hours, I'm only halfway through the main quest, did the college quests, and just barely began the civil war.
And I still spend time just wandering around/grinding armor, etc. You either love it or you don't. Take time and experience it.

Do you fast travel everywhere? If you do then you could be missing a lot of little quests. I don't know how you could possibly have got all that done in 65 hours. I'm at 120 hours, have not even done one guild or the main quest all the way through, but I've done tons and tons of misc quests.

All I can suggest is start a new character, don't fast travel and pick up as many misc quests as you can, and pad the guild questlines out by doing some radient story quests.

Some of the town-quests are quite good. The main ones for Solitude, Markarth and Morthal spring to mind.

Some of the dungeons have embedded stories as well and trigger quests when you first approach them.

Going through things quickly doesn't mean a lack of content. That's odd logic

Start a new character, do not fast travel.

I never said that I finished Skyrim. I said that I finished the specific questlines that I mentioned.
Sorry, I did do the Companions. Forgot to mention them. I also did the book recovery to get into Bard's College, as well as the different ones. There was the Lute, and one or two other ones that also had instruments.

I also did a few of the hold quests, like the burned-down house (with the ghost-girl), the Forsworn Conspiracy (which has bugged out and disallowed me from ever entering the Shrine in Markarth where you're captured by the guards; now, every time I try going back to the temple after having finished the quest, the guards are still there and they set the entire Markarth guard on me), and Blood on the Ice (I did specifically to allow me to get the Windhelm house because I was picking up so much crap that I couldn't sell since merchants don't have enough money). I can't remember if I've completed the Whiterun fued or not; it sounds familiar, though I don't remember the details.

I'm fairly sure I haven't done The Man Who Cried Wolf, and I may have done the Daedric quests (one was with Barbas, if I'm not mistaken).

I never found a situation where I needed to grind, and I never felt like I was rushing through the game.

Clearly I fast-travel on occasion, but most of the time I didn't have the option since I hadn't discovered most of the locations I needed to go to.

Meh, probably no-one can give you an answer that satisifies you. I can spend an hour just wandering around the Whiterun plains hunting deer... Which maybe explains why none of my three characters have gotten more than about 7 quests into the main quest line after hundreds of hours. When you are sick of it, buy something else, IDK.

I will never, ever understand this mindset.

I mean, you're entitled to your opinion, certainly. I just have to shake my head and laugh sometimes. We're so SPOILED these days. "I've only completed something like 60 quests, and around 9 or 10 storylines. Now, I'm getting bored just gallivanting around this huge, open, beautifully-rendered world. I've only played between 65 and 70 hours. WHERE'S THE REST OF MY GAME?!?"

I just keep thinking...If only I could open a time-window, and somehow show my Atari-2600 loving 6-year-old self even 10 minutes of this game, running (as it does) at its full frame-rate on my 46" 1080p LCD with full Dolby surround...that little chump would $#!+ himself.

I stopped counting at 200 hours, and I'm STILL tying up loose ends. Right now, I'm trying to finish collecting all of the Barenziah stones, and also trying to muster up the stones to bring that jerk Ulfric's War Axe to Jarl Balgruf. In the meantime, I discovered two new locations I didn't even know existed.

So let's just try to keep it in perspective, eh?

If you are finished with many things like me,start creating freeform quest,i am currently exploring alftand more.

Outside of Daedra, Factions, The Civil War and the Main Quest...

There are 25 side quests, listed on various wiki's, that have unique narratives and many of them have unique rewards as well.

There are over 130 dungeons to spelunk in as well...

A simple wiki search will show you just how much 'content' is in Skyrim.

There is also, as other people have said, the option to mess around with the new dual wieldling mechanic ad nauseum if you ever do manage to do everything by creating new characters.

There is also... roleplay?

Doubt you're very interested in that though.

This sums it up. I got nothin' against the OP, but I sense BS. There are several epic memorable dungeon quests I have discovered after 200 hours of play because I simply missed the dungeon entrances. The amount of places on the map is astounding...... It is simply not possible to discover everything.

There is one thing: You raced through the main quest in 15 hours (probably can be done)

Then you fast travelled and did the guild faction quests, and came to the forums.

My game is gone!!!!

This game is worth 1000 hours for me......and then it will still not be enough for me......

123 hours here, done most of the College and Companions quests (got head of each faction but still some side quests to finish), halfway through main quest, not touched civil war, TG or DB, still got lots of words of power to get yet and I have numerous other side quests to do.

I also use fast travel a lot!

Fast travel is fine, but I would recommend exploring too. There's enough locations in the game that even with fast travel I still have many times to find somewhere first when I need to go there. I also allow myself to get sidetracked too and follow icons on the compass to discover new locations, even if I don't need them yet.

I don't think fast travel is the problem here, if you pursue the quest objectives and nothing else then yeah, easy to burn through them quickly. Going from A to B isn't a race.

The main quest was not very long. I didn't clock myself on how long it took, but I doubt it took much longer than 15 hours.

Honestly, the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild were outrageously disappointing in comparison to Oblivion's own respective questlines. In Skyrim, each had maybe 2 or 3 individual quests, and after that it led right into each guild's main story. After their completion, each has the option of doing more contracts. I haven't checked on the Thieves Guild after-quests, but the DB quests after the end of the main story are little more than "go-here and kill this hunter."
Oh please, don't act like I think I'm entitled to more content.

I was asking because Bethesda said that there would be 300 hours of content. Even if I did rush through all of the quests (and I can tell you that I didn't; why would I buy the game if I was just going to rush through it?), I seriously doubt that I could complete even close to 300 hours in 65 hours. If I know that a linear game has an 8 hour campaign, then that's what I'm going to expect.

I'm expecting 300 hours and I get 65 hours, I'm obviously going to wonder if I'm missing something. But I don't think that I'm entitled to that 300 hours. I was just asking if there was anything big that I missed; you just replied with an attack.


The other problem is that after maybe 40 hours, the game just became too easy. I completely outmatched my opponents; I was able to kill dragons in 7 or 8 hits, and run-of-the-mill bandits and Draugr fell down with one swing. Once I realized this I upped the difficulty, though I thought that areas were supposed to scale with the player.

There might be BS in the OP, but I don't know and neither does anyone else. For all the talk of mindsets though, the posts here border on attacking the messenger.

I couldn't have done all the things he said he had, but that doesn't mean he isn't telling the truth. The character build has been reduced in Skyrim- and people are going to ask "What do I do now?" In a way they never had to ask with Oblivion or Morrowind.

Maybe...

Though in Oblivion after the Main Quest I found myself asking :

Why did I play this game?

After Skryim :

Effing sweet, wonder what I can do different?

....

Morrowind was awesome, but that was so long ago I'm not sure if I'm just forgetting the bad stuff. Oblivion on the other hand... just never could get into that game. Was a chore just getting through the Main Quest for me.

Definitely not representative of the whole TES community, but Oblivion just didn't do it for me.

Honestly, me neither and yes, we are somewhat a minority

Loved Morrowind to bits but was disappointed with Oblivion some what. Loving Skyrim too. Skyrim seems to have at least captured the essence of what made Morrowind so good.

Try spending about 10 hours game time doing no quests whatsoever. Explore. Ooooh, shiny! That's a cool looking ruin over there. I wonder what's inside. I view the quests as a way to point you to interesting places, but there are plenty of places to explore that have nothing to do with any quest. I don't think I'm in the minority when I say I could spend an hour just chasing butterflies.

It was the exact other way around for me .

In Oblivion, I didn't complete the main quest for an outrageously long time after I started the game...for some reason, it just gave me so much more playtime. Even after I completed the major questlines, I felt really motivated to play more.

There are hundreds of hours of gameplay to be had if you wander about taking your time talking to plants, lots of people do it & lots do not, For me personally i'm not doing anything productive by wandering around for hours shooting deer as all i'm doing is living a life in game without moving forward.

If i had the discipline i could certainly spend 300 hours walking about but i don't have the time & certainly not the patience, Just because the OP does not RP the way some do does not mean he's missing out on any meaningful content.
I respect the guys that put in 100's of hours without touching the main quest or fulfilling guild responsibilities, It's just not the OP's cup of tea to pad it out & i feel the same way.

I don't have an issue with the OP's post & he does not deserve any form of defensive response, It's a single player game after all.
300 hours of content? no way, can you spend 500 hours having fun? Oh yes.

I played Morrowind again last year, well, I guess two years ago since it is January. The first time I played it, I built a desktop just for that purpose when it was first released, the graphics card alone cost way more than an Xbox. In terms of the atmosphere and lore, it is a timeless classic.

But in terms of complexity, sorry but Morrowind is not that deep. And the character system is just broken. It is still a great game, but it's not nirvana. Where it is far out is because of the writing and the weird stuff you see in game.

Personally I am hoping the next TES installment will be like the movie Avatar, totally out there. To me the problem with comparison to Morrowind is only lore based. In terms of mechanics, Skyrim beats all the previous TES games, and in terms of lore it's well ahead of Oblivion. And go watch a gameplay vid on YouTube to jog your memory, Oblivion looks like cardboard puppet theatre sometimes.