Skyrim: I can't play it

[Azunite]

(Sorry for the long post but it's worth reading )I said I "can't" because whenever I open the game I close it again due to boredom.

This never happened to me in Oblivion, at least in the first hours of gameplay. I remember playing Oblivion without shutting the PS3 off for days and days and days, and I was like : "This game is the turning point of my life".

It still is.

Allright now if I were to play Oblivion again and create my zillionth character, I would be bored but come on, I only have 40 hours' gameplay on Skyrim and I just don't play it anymore...

Tooth and Claw, Secunda, Imperial throne, Menu theme, Dragon Fight theme; I still listen to the Skyrim soundtrack ( I downloaded it ) and have Dovahkiin as my Facebook nickname but I just don't play the game anymore.

...and I hate myself because of that.

And I asked myself: Why?

I started with the main quest: Skyrim's main quest is epic, yes. But it is so short that you don't even have time to feel that epicness. You escape, you do some stuff I don't remember, find Esbern and kill Alduin. Oblivion's main quest was epic at some places, namely the Defence of Bruma. When I charged into an Oblivion gate I felt no less than a Japanese samurai, charging into death... Skyrim's main quest was just going from point A to point B. In Oblivion, we had Kvatch, we had collecting these 4 items for the Bruma Gate, we had the epic raid of Miscarcand, we had the Battle for Imperial City...

Then I went on with guilds: Say, Dark Brotherhood. The scenario, the betrayal, Cicero, Night Mother... There were absolutely epic elements in the storyline, but it ended just in an hour. On the other had, we had our loony fellow Lucien who made us shit in our pants when we thought we were safe while sleeping in an inn Talos-knows-where. Companions' Guild had also a cool scenario, but it ended just like the others ( I'm excluding the small spin-off random missions where you get around 200 Septims ) and was short.

There are other stuff too but I won't write them for the time being, in case someone agrees with me and wants to add something here.

[Hatsune Miku]

I can say I agree. I try to play Skyrim, but I literally get sleepy. It's never happened to me in any other game. Yes I get bored, but to the point where my eyes get heavy? Nope.

Let's not forget about the painfully long loading times.

[VeryWell]

I know what you mean. Don't get me wrong, I truly enjoyed Skyrim, but after finishing the main quest, followed by all the guild quests (except for the mage one), I coudln't play it no more. I guess I had an "overdose"...

[shadowhunter320]

same here, i just got bored with it surprisingly quickly. im back playing Mass Effect 2 for the 13th time.and about a week ago i beat my 18th playthrough of Mass Effect 1.

[Sugaree]

Ever since the 1.4 patch went live, I've finally gotten serious about playing the game. I'm still excited for DLC and hoping that Bethesda comes through. Thanks to reddit and 9GAG, all I hear now is "lolol arrow 2 da nee XD" from people who don't even play the damn game. Even the dragon fights are getting sort of predictable now. The "radiant quest" system that we were told would offer "infinite quests" is a lie; why couldn't they just call it what it is? It's simple quests, like "go kill x and you'll get y".

If Bethesda can't come up with an expansion like "Shivering Isles" for Skyrim, I'll be highly disappointed.

[DerBear]

Wish I could tell you to shut the **** up and skyrim will never get boring but hey I agree with you.

I have made to characters 1 is a experianced mage who kicks ass and the other is a light armor masters with one handed weapons.

I enjoy both but to be honest could not see me playing this game much, I spent hours playing oblivion and it became boring after my 45th character I think lol.

Skyrim had huge hype and if the DLC is Epic then I will stick around and play it.

I have patch 1.4 downloaded (playstation plus perk) but have not been on the game to instal it.

Overall the game is good but once you complete the short main quest and somewhat short side guilds the game becomes tiring.

I had high hopes for this game and for a short time they were met, now I have to say I am rather disapointed in this game.....

Hope the DLC is good

[Aves]

I'm hoping the DLC will bring more excitment to the game. Now, I still play it, but I don't have the urges a lot of people did when it came out to play it for days on end.

[Rage of the Menace]

Didn't like it very much. Too boring and repetitive.

[Sugaree]

Didn't like it very much. Too boring and repetitive.

This isn't the Call of Duty thread.

[scuba steve]

Didn't like it very much. Too boring and repetitive.

I can't really agree with it being boring, but to a certain extent I guess it does get repetitive since it's a game that relies heavily on tomb raiding and "grinding" almost by clearing dungeon clean the place of loot (Just like any other elder scrolls title that i've played).

Since the 1.4 patch, i'm only moderately content with the framerate that i can actually keep the ps3 on for hours with just a skip in frame every here and there.

To me Skyrim is a let down only because of their horrible engine stability and programming skills for console. They should've used the same company they used for Oblivion to port the game.

Although, the main quest didn't exactly go anywhere, I mean did I even finish it? The credits didn't roll or anything, but Alduin's probably already started decomposing...