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Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
Hello everyone!

I've been away from Skyrim after a really long time and a bugged game I had to reinstall. (Real life intervened)

I always loved this game, and have beaten the main quest twice as well as devoting nearly 700 hours finishing nearly everything else on one character.

I returned, thinking my time away would make the game feel somehow fresh & new. it mostly did as I had forgotten so many things over the last year or two! I quickly got immersed again and for a couple of weeks on a new character, the game felt remarkably fresh and new.

Now, however, the repetition of all those quests and storylines is starting to feel stale to me, I am remembering what comes next, so often feeling like it's a grind again.

Can anyone PLEASE help me find the lost joy again, a way to play the same game with the excitement I'm missing? I WANT to get lost in Tamriel again, to look up at the clock and wonder where all those hours went. To feel the awe and sense of accomplishment I used to feel back when the world was new(er) to me. To be wholly immersed, looking forward to logging on every night!

Changing the difficulty settings hasn't helped at all, and approaching it entirely as a role player only works until I'm sent halfway across the world by the same questgivers to retrieve the same junk all over again.

This is the first RPG I ever fell totally in love with, my ancient threads and posted pics from way back would prove that! Help me feel the love again guys, help me make it fresh and fun once more! Back in the day, the good people who used this Forum were a source of much inspiration and motivation to me.

Thanks to any who read all this, and even greater thanks to any who offer constructive ideas.

Cheers!


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Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
Thanks! Those look promising indeed.
 

HouseHosted

Mundus 9-5, Oblivion weekends
Well, there's always Morrowind! ... Oblivion didn't quite fit with me, but you could go that way too...

Provided you're certain you wish to remain in Skyrim, I can empathize in some ways. As expansive the world may be at first, eventually comes a time when there really aren't so many secrets or quests to uncover. Truth be told, this is where, I believe, your imagination has to take control. You are limited by your own expectations. My advice is: Slow it down and take a few moments to walk around. Taking a break from questing, grinding, and all that other stuff that is most fun when you're, more or less, not thinking, can do wonders for your level of patience.

I think it's very important to refresh your mood/feelings in a game, just as much as it is in the great wilderness beyond your front door. The best way to do this is, often times, to take a break. It seems you've grown much since the last time you engaged with Skyrim, so it may just take a while for you to learn how to play it with the new you.
 

Twiffle

Well-Known Member
I empathise with you fully on your dilemma, however I think part of your situation has been answered by yourself, and that is the term "logging on every night", no offence just an observation.
My thoughts would be to maybe login to the game 2 or 3 times a week, let RL get in the way and then maybe the anticipation will be of a more exciting one and the game has a more refreshing feel to you and the same old same old becomes a new challenge.

just my 2 cents, hope it helps, and welcome back.
 

Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
Thanks guys!

Yeah the "logging in every night" is due to my allowing myself some time late in the evenings after the hectic day-to-day has subsided, to relax and do the "curl up with a good book" style of gaming I now do! This has replaced television for the most part as I unwind at the end of each day, phone turned off, lights dimmed down, cat curled up at my feet.

I played Morrowind back in the day to completion, unmodded on a 2 gig laptop, and thoroughly despised Oblivion, even though the combat system was overall better. If Destruction magic damage scaled better as a character attains high levels, I'd LOVE to play as a straight mage, something I never did past the early levels.

Happy incoming Thanksgiving all!
 

raido KASAI

Ansei Master Badass
Welcome back first of all.

Most of my ideas have been mentioned above, but I'll rehash a few and maybe add something.

As mentioned if you are on PC, I always found that a number of quality mods have kept me going, both ones that just add weapons, equipments and quests, as well as some of the ones like Falskaaar and others that add entirely new lands into the mix and often hours of new quests and other content.

The mod 'Live Another Life" is a cool one that lets you start out in one of multiple starting points picking your background (things like being a fugitive, a bandit, Thalmor, hunter, etc) and thus allowing you to skip over the initial Helgen sequence. If you want to start the main quest line again, you can go to Helgen which will have already been destroyed and the main quest line will get started by doing so.

This goes a little with the last one mentioned and that is to create a character that has either a completely different or at least considerably different build that your character(s) you've played before. If you always played as a mage, maybe go for a melee combat type. If you never did crimes like theft or whatever, maybe make a thief or someone with some evil or criminal element to them. If it's a different enough experience due to the character's build, the game won't seem as much as a grinding repeat of everything you did before.

I see you've trying RP'ing your character. That's a useful way to go. Maybe if the quests you get sent on seem repetitive, maybe just be really selective of what quests you choose to pursue. You don't have to do everything. Most of the game is ignorable and the game is still playable, even the main quest.
 
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How about skipping quests all together? After the intial stuff at Helgen just buy a coach ride from White Run to a hold your choice and just explore. No quests just see whats out there. I just recently skipped picking up Meridias Beacon because I didn't want a quest. I have found not taking quests actually refreshing and adds a little more wonder to what was in here again?
 

Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
Well I just returned from a couple days playing again and began having real fun after trying something I always intended to do but never did.

Upon departing Falkreath and obtaining Hircine's Ring, I decided to skip the roads entirely. Every city or town I traveled to, I took the "scenic route," no horse, no roads, just wilderness travel to and fro. If I saw a marker for a new place, I simply went there, taking and completing local quests when possible. If I found a cave, a mine, a lair, I entered them all and cleared them with extreme prejudice!

Die, Master Vampire! Burn, Falmer scum! And so on...

The time just slipped away as I acquired gear, money, potions and scars galore. While in the cities of the various Holds, I promptly picked the locks to the citizen's doors and ransacked & looted their homes for collectables, books, junk I could sell at the next town and was amazed at all the human skulls the people of Solitude adorn their houses with as decorations! :eek:

I think after selling so many varieties of fine clothes I'd stolen to the ladies at Raidiant Raiments, I may have a promising career in the used consignment clothing business! I've attracted loads of new potential followers along the way, and am honing my weapon skills on bandits, thieves and the occasional farmer or two. (only the ones with bad attitudes or smart-ass comments!)

My quest log is almost as vast now as a nobleman's library, my wallet as fat as a painted cow! I still have no need of a horse or fast travel, and the scenery has been glorious, albeit bloody thus far.

When my character finally "grows up" and decides what to properly do with his life, maybe I'll begin tackling those quests, until then, Hircine's Champion has a lot more hunting to do!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody, I'm off on a quest to hunt the elusive turkey dinner.
 

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