How you manage to keep up your intrest with the game without getting bored

[Guest]

What you do on skyrim and how you keep your intrest. I been trying my best to keep up playing and managing my impression but almost all the time i just end up having sex ! Then get bored and quit. I would love to have some nice wild immersion questlines mixed woth LL mods taking me to wild adventure, but this seems so hard task for me to find If someone would give some fun tips how to having fun in this game i would reallly appreciate Thanks in advance.

[rieka]

I bought VR goggles some time ago and started another Skyrim playthrough. Let me tell you, it's quite different when you can visit all those locations in person.

[Eadoo]

Legacy of the Dragonborn, and associated integration mods, have really renewed my interest in actually playing the game.

Sex doesn't have to be involved in EVERYTHING, you know.  ?

[Visio Diaboli]

Trying to fight off boredom is (usually) an impossible battle. If you aren't feeling the game I wouldn't try to force yourself to stay interested, just do things you'd rather do for a bit and when you feel like coming back to Skyrim it'll still be there.

[shencereys]

On 4/27/2020 at 1:39 PM, aklvjixcvioxdjvixodjlvidx said:

What you do on skyrim and how you keep your intrest. I been trying my best to keep up playing and managing my impression but almost all the time i just end up having sex ! Then get bored and quit. I would love to have some nice wild immersion questlines mixed woth LL mods taking me to wild adventure, but this seems so hard task for me to find If someone would give some fun tips how to having fun in this game i would reallly appreciate Thanks in advance.

 

On 4/28/2020 at 10:15 PM, Visio Diaboli said:

Trying to fight off boredom is (usually) an impossible battle. If you aren't feeling the game I wouldn't try to force yourself to stay interested, just do things you'd rather do for a bit and when you feel like coming back to Skyrim it'll still be there.

 

This last one is a really great answer, honestly if ANY game is boring you you should feel no obligation to play it.  As a matter of fact I think even if you have played a game for many hours you should stop even if you don't exactly feel like it yet.  It's very easy to keep playing well past your enjoyment threshold without realizing you've passed it just yet.

 

That being said, the way I make the playthrough happen  without just the sex animations all the time is to create a play loop with the mods. 

 

For example with a female character I will use mods that work the sex into the game progression.  I like Beeing female + Skooma whore (addicted) + Apropos (with wear and tear turned on and values set rather high) + defeat.  This makes it so battle often leads to sex (when you lose), which can lead to pregnancy if you're not taking your contraception (which can be difficult to keep in stock), and will usually lead to big debuffs (apropos) which you can cure with Skooma (Skooma whore), but that is very expensive.  So the need to keep all those things going (debuffs gone, contraception on) creates a loop that drives you to go adventure, and the sex happens as you play normally. 

 

For male character creating a sexlab play loop is more difficult I think, unless you like to see him get fucked by monsters in which case I think it would work just as well as female.  Skooma whore + defeat + apropos would do the job (although without the pregnancy you'd lose a little of the urgency to do things like go find some emergency contraception or wash out the sperm).  What I personally do is just go adventure and mostly forget the sexlab stuff.  It's too bad there aren't more options for males.

 

Unfortunately as you may have noticed these are all practically exclusively aggressive methods.  I don't really know of any peaceful / nonaggressive play loops.  Those mods seem to be very focused on just being in town and talking to people, which isn't really what skyrim's more interesting play is about.

[Kaervek86]

I'm always looking for new mods to try. There are so many interesting quest mods or other mods out there, which change the playstyle.

When I feel like I want to play Skyrim again I think about a character concept I'd like to play. I think about the background of my character, his or her personality, habits and what skills I want to use this time.

Last time I played a girl from Bruma with hatred for the Thalmor. The Thalmor wanted to get rid of her and transfered them to Helgen for execution. I installed The Second Great War and some other mods to support the story I wanted to play and started to fight for the legion and later against the Thalmor. It was a long playthrough and I build a house and married and adopted children. My character had habits like worshipping Talos and bringing him offerings to the shrines, drinking to much in the tavern after bigs fights and then sleeping with random people.

 

What I want to say is, that you don't have to play the same thing over and over. I use Alternate Start and You are not the dragonborn often for that. Many interesting stories come from your own imagination.