Anyone find they could not play skyrim any longer?

[mclericp]

I didnt know this day would come. But it did. Ever since launch i would skyrim, and now i have loads of mods enb etc. But now whenever i enter the game, i would just become disinterested and quit. When i start a new game with different ideas of what i m going to do(installed requiem recently byebye skyre) i would just play for 10min before losing interest and quit.

 

I still have many mods to play and also several major questlines i only played once or twice, but i just cant find any more interest.

 

Is this overplaying? Has it happened to anyone of you?

[RitualClarity]

Take a break. ..

 

Play another game or two for a couple of months. Keep the game intact perhaps even back it up to make sure it is safe.

 

When you decide to play again don't ..

 

Wait for awhile longer. Then play. You should then be refreshed. Basically this might take a while to accomplish. I usually wait even up to a year before returning to a favored game and find it enjoyable again. F03 is one such game. Mass Effect series is another. I wait until the memories start to fade and replay them again and usually really enjoy it when I do. Soon I might replay KTOR again. It has been years.

[Lovely Rose]

after i beat the campign, i sold skyrim. kept the collectors edition thou

i wasnt glued to skyrim like i was the other elder scrolls games

[gvman3670]

I got that way so I spent a few months playing FONV and some Oblivion. Then Skyrim was fun again. And you get to see how big of an actual improvement it is.

[Rokabur]

Seriously? People actually get tired of playing games? I've yet to get tired of Skyrim. Almost done Thieves Guild questline except for the reputation quests, halfway through the Dark Brotherhood, Companion, College and Dawnguard quest lines. Still have over 15 quest mods to turn on after i finish all the major quest lines for Skyrim, Dawnguard and Dragonborn. Seriously, how can anybody get tired of a game? Back on Dreamcast, I beat Skies of Arcadia atleast once a week for over a year and loved every playthrough. And each of those playthroughs were atleast about 50 hours.

[Guest]

I got that way so I spent a few months playing FONV and some Oblivion. Then Skyrim was fun again. And you get to see how big of an actual improvement it is.

 

In some categories it's worse than FONV and Oblivion but when it comes to stability (aka not a crash-feast like FONV) it's atleast 300% better.

 

Right now I don't really "play" Skyrim that much either, I'm mainly looking for good locations and scenarios for screenshots.

[GrimReaper]

Most of the time I get mad because I find some issues with the mods I want to play Skyrim with and thus my motivation slowly drains to zero. Be it seams on bodies or problems with script heavy mods. Or there is a shiny new and better mod at the horizon and you just can't play Skyrim without that mod that isn't even released yet.

 

I think I have played through Skyrim only once, that is if you consider completing the game is beating up alduin. And that was a few weeks after Skyrim's release. After that I started accumulating characters that never got past lvl 20 or so.

 

Anyway, if you find yourself bored with Skyrim, do something different. Sometimes not playing any vidya game at all for some time can help too. Or you could play Skyrim in a way you never played before, something like playing a travelling merchant that doesn't know how to fight and has to rely on followers to fight. Let your imagination run wild.

[canderes]

This is why you move from being a player to a modder. It definitely makes the game more interesting even if you don't play it anymore. There's a ton of stuff you can make if your willing to put in the effort. Honestly I would be happier if we could get Fallout 4 already-I'm sure it would revive playability, and the modding scene a bit more.

[mclericp]

This is why you move from being a player to a modder. It definitely makes the game more interesting even if you don't play it anymore. There's a ton of stuff you can make if your willing to put in the effort. Honestly I would be happier if we could get Fallout 4 already-I'm sure it would revive playability, and the modding scene a bit more.

 

sounds interesting

 

But the main reason why i feel like this is, witcher 3 got announced and is assumed to be released this yr or next. Plus i finished witcher 2 and read all of the novels. I have to say, i am very much looking forward to it, perhaps maybe thats why i lost interest in skyrim.

 

OR maybe it is just requiem mod, it is pissing me off so much.

[gvman3670]

Seriously? People actually get tired of playing games? I've yet to get tired of Skyrim. Almost done Thieves Guild questline except for the reputation quests, halfway through the Dark Brotherhood, Companion, College and Dawnguard quest lines. Still have over 15 quest mods to turn on after i finish all the major quest lines for Skyrim, Dawnguard and Dragonborn. Seriously, how can anybody get tired of a game? Back on Dreamcast, I beat Skies of Arcadia atleast once a week for over a year and loved every playthrough. And each of those playthroughs were atleast about 50 hours.

 

Between XBox360 and PC I've taken at least a dozen characters to level 81 or higher (one up to level 420). Probably a couple thousand hours since it was released. YES, it's entirely possible to burn out on it. Even for a Bethesda junky like myself.

 

I'll probably be online playing some Halo later. I almost never tire of that, but I have a bunch of fun guys and gals to play with. It's mostly a social fun thing.

[Rokabur]

 

I got that way so I spent a few months playing FONV and some Oblivion. Then Skyrim was fun again. And you get to see how big of an actual improvement it is.

 

In some categories it's worse than FONV and Oblivion but when it comes to stability (aka not a crash-feast like FONV) it's atleast 300% better.

 

Right now I don't really "play" Skyrim that much either, I'm mainly looking for good locations and scenarios for screenshots.

 

 

Seriously? Skyrim is alot less stable then Oblivon ever was. Oblivion I could easily run the Lovers sex mods with all my regular mods and have next to no problems and the sex mods worked flawlessly (241-248 mods). Skyrim I have to turn off all the mods except DLC and the unofficial patches AND make a seperate character to get SexLab to work properly

[Guest]

 

 

I got that way so I spent a few months playing FONV and some Oblivion. Then Skyrim was fun again. And you get to see how big of an actual improvement it is.

 

In some categories it's worse than FONV and Oblivion but when it comes to stability (aka not a crash-feast like FONV) it's atleast 300% better.

 

Right now I don't really "play" Skyrim that much either, I'm mainly looking for good locations and scenarios for screenshots.

 

 

Seriously? Skyrim is alot less stable then Oblivon ever was. Oblivion I could easily run the Lovers sex mods with all my regular mods and have next to no problems and the sex mods worked flawlessly (241-248 mods). Skyrim I have to turn off all the mods except DLC and the unofficial patches AND make a seperate character to get SexLab to work properly

 

 

Then you're just doing it wrong.

 

[Rokabur]

 

 

 

I got that way so I spent a few months playing FONV and some Oblivion. Then Skyrim was fun again. And you get to see how big of an actual improvement it is.

 

In some categories it's worse than FONV and Oblivion but when it comes to stability (aka not a crash-feast like FONV) it's atleast 300% better.

 

Right now I don't really "play" Skyrim that much either, I'm mainly looking for good locations and scenarios for screenshots.

 

 

Seriously? Skyrim is alot less stable then Oblivon ever was. Oblivion I could easily run the Lovers sex mods with all my regular mods and have next to no problems and the sex mods worked flawlessly (241-248 mods). Skyrim I have to turn off all the mods except DLC and the unofficial patches AND make a seperate character to get SexLab to work properly

 

 

Than you're just doing it wrong.

 

 

 

SexLab mods will run but they won't work if I have all the mods running. I just turn off all mods cause I really don't want to wade through 200 mods just to figure out which ones don't like SexLab (there are atleast 2-4 that won't let SexLab work correctly). Hell I had to turn off 115 weapon, quest and follower mods just to be able to do vanilla Skyrim quests.

[hryh23k9823u]

Playing Skyrim for 3 years, even with breaks, sound to me like the most authistic thing to do after playing dedicately an MMO. What you really do (well I think I should speak for me, but maybe is a shared feeling), is not playing skyrim, but modding it. Skyrim is a fun game to play the first 40-50hours, like many other games, but like most games of it's this decade, lacks of depth. After you have done 3 or 4 dungeons and some quest, you've pretty much done everything you can do in the game, cause then everything repeats and repeats (same dungeons, same draugrs, same fetch quests). Modding it is what keeps you engaged I think. Is nice testing what new mods the people are doing. I normally make my super build of mods thinking im really gona play this time, but meh, I play 5 minutes and spend 1 hours tweaking stuff, or just alt tab and watch porn and fap, or fap with your character, dunno... But that is pretty much. Is a game from 2011 y'know.

[Taskmaster]

The RPG elements for you might be wearing thin on your imagination, I know the feel.

 

Maybe you want to put some stuff in there to liven up the gameplay elements like the combat and shit. There's this one called I think, Enemy AI Revenge of the NPC No script edition or something like that. It's amazing because, the NPCs even pursue you into the next cell. I tried many other AI and combat mods and this made a noticeable difference, but the others were virtually the same.

 

Apocalypse Spell package adds some more creativity to the types of spells you can run ingame.

 

Also though, I ain't even gonna lie, playing a Thief and/or Ninja type of character in Skyrim seems to be the most enjoyable. Thieving around, then going treasure hunting and stuff. Whereas, in Oblivion I had the most fun being a mage, mainly due to the ability to create your own spells from scratch, magnitude and all.

 

Fallout 3/NV I got really worn out on, mainly because there aren't any special types of "guild" things you can do, for example there wasn't a thieving type of questline you could do in FO3 and I sorely missed that.

 

Also and most importantly, it pays to have some sort of questline you want to actually complete. It becomes the driving force behind everything else you set out to do.

[psammeticus]

I came to a point a few months ago where it was almost like hitting a wall. I didn't even pause to think about it, I quit the game and loaded up the newest total war and took a break from skyrim. The funny part is that I updated my mods today and started a new playthrough to take a break from crusader kings 2.

[Rokabur]

The RPG elements for you might be wearing thin on your imagination, I know the feel.

 

Maybe you want to put some stuff in there to liven up the gameplay elements like the combat and shit. There's this one called I think, Enemy AI Revenge of the NPC No script edition or something like that. It's amazing because, the NPCs even pursue you into the next cell. I tried many other AI and combat mods and this made a noticeable difference, but the others were virtually the same.

 

Apocalypse Spell package adds some more creativity to the types of spells you can run ingame.

 

Also though, I ain't even gonna lie, playing a Thief and/or Ninja type of character in Skyrim seems to be the most enjoyable. Thieving around, then going treasure hunting and stuff. Whereas, in Oblivion I had the most fun being a mage, mainly due to the ability to create your own spells from scratch, magnitude and all.

 

Fallout 3/NV I got really worn out on, mainly because there aren't any special types of "guild" things you can do, for example there wasn't a thieving type of questline you could do in FO3 and I sorely missed that.

 

Also and most importantly, it pays to have some sort of questline you want to actually complete. It becomes the driving force behind everything else you set out to do.

 

That was actually the scariest thing when it happened to me the first time in Oblivion. Bit off more then I could chew with a troll and retreated. The troll then followed me through the door into the dungeon

[LaEspada]

I mainly switch between Skyrim, Fallout NV+Tale Of Two Wastelands, and Mabinogi.

And Japanese music hunting since American music is getting rather dull. XD

 

 

I'm currently coming back to play Skyrim in which I switched over to MO and can actually play my game now.

[gvman3670]

 

The RPG elements for you might be wearing thin on your imagination, I know the feel.

 

Maybe you want to put some stuff in there to liven up the gameplay elements like the combat and shit. There's this one called I think, Enemy AI Revenge of the NPC No script edition or something like that. It's amazing because, the NPCs even pursue you into the next cell. I tried many other AI and combat mods and this made a noticeable difference, but the others were virtually the same.

 

Apocalypse Spell package adds some more creativity to the types of spells you can run ingame.

 

Also though, I ain't even gonna lie, playing a Thief and/or Ninja type of character in Skyrim seems to be the most enjoyable. Thieving around, then going treasure hunting and stuff. Whereas, in Oblivion I had the most fun being a mage, mainly due to the ability to create your own spells from scratch, magnitude and all.

 

Fallout 3/NV I got really worn out on, mainly because there aren't any special types of "guild" things you can do, for example there wasn't a thieving type of questline you could do in FO3 and I sorely missed that.

 

Also and most importantly, it pays to have some sort of questline you want to actually complete. It becomes the driving force behind everything else you set out to do.

 

That was actually the scariest thing when it happened to me the first time in Oblivion. Bit off more then I could chew with a troll and retreated. The troll then followed me through the door into the dungeon

 

 

Yeah, I was in an Ayleid ruin and got Astral Vapors from some zombies, meaning my magicka couldn't regenerate and I had no way to protect myself anymore, so I took off out of the dungeon to get to safety. Well, that didn't work at all. The bad guy music kept playing so I ran some more. It kept playing...then I saw the zombies! So I ran some more, and some more and even some more. Eventually I made it to the gates of Skingrad and the music was still playing. Then all of a sudden the zombies came right up to where I was.

 

And the farmers and farm animals there killed them all with rakes and hoes and stuff.

 

[Rokabur]

 

 

The RPG elements for you might be wearing thin on your imagination, I know the feel.

 

Maybe you want to put some stuff in there to liven up the gameplay elements like the combat and shit. There's this one called I think, Enemy AI Revenge of the NPC No script edition or something like that. It's amazing because, the NPCs even pursue you into the next cell. I tried many other AI and combat mods and this made a noticeable difference, but the others were virtually the same.

 

Apocalypse Spell package adds some more creativity to the types of spells you can run ingame.

 

Also though, I ain't even gonna lie, playing a Thief and/or Ninja type of character in Skyrim seems to be the most enjoyable. Thieving around, then going treasure hunting and stuff. Whereas, in Oblivion I had the most fun being a mage, mainly due to the ability to create your own spells from scratch, magnitude and all.

 

Fallout 3/NV I got really worn out on, mainly because there aren't any special types of "guild" things you can do, for example there wasn't a thieving type of questline you could do in FO3 and I sorely missed that.

 

Also and most importantly, it pays to have some sort of questline you want to actually complete. It becomes the driving force behind everything else you set out to do.

 

That was actually the scariest thing when it happened to me the first time in Oblivion. Bit off more then I could chew with a troll and retreated. The troll then followed me through the door into the dungeon

 

 

Yeah, I was in an Ayleid ruin and got Astral Vapors from some zombies, meaning my magicka couldn't regenerate and I had no way to protect myself anymore, so I took off out of the dungeon to get to safety. Well, that didn't work at all. The bad guy music kept playing so I ran some more. It kept playing...then I saw the zombies! So I ran some more, and some more and even some more. Eventually I made it to the gates of Skingrad and the music was still playing. Then all of a sudden the zombies came right up to where I was.

 

And the farmers and farm animals there killed them all with rakes and hoes and stuff.

 

 

 

Is there a mod anywhere so that enemies WON'T run away in a fight? Some fights I take a single swing and then I have to try and chase them down as they run away. That enemy confidence/whatever is stupid. Did the one Companions quest where at the end its huge room with alot of Draugr in the coffins. Half the fight is just trying to run them down as they flee.

[judge0]

If you find the enemies too easy try adding some.

There's a mod called Icicle Valley I think that adds some extremely difficult encounters.

A series of mods called "Populated" by the same author increase spawns.

Add to that OBIS and dfb Random Encounters and More Bandit Camps and Immersive Patrols

and all of a sudden, just getting to the next location is a challenge.

 

But yeah, sometimes the game gets overplayed and old, that's when I switch back to say Fallout 3, Oblivion, New Vegas.

 

Sure hope Fallout 4 comes out in my lifetime, lol.

[mclericp]

If you find the enemies too easy try adding some.

There's a mod called Icicle Valley I think that adds some extremely difficult encounters.

A series of mods called "Populated" by the same author increase spawns.

Add to that OBIS and dfb Random Encounters and More Bandit Camps and Immersive Patrols

and all of a sudden, just getting to the next location is a challenge.

 

But yeah, sometimes the game gets overplayed and old, that's when I switch back to say Fallout 3, Oblivion, New Vegas.

 

Sure hope Fallout 4 comes out in my lifetime, lol.

 

i got requiem. Hardest thing in my life. 1shotted by some bear.

However i believe that is actually the best combatoverhaul mod. I strongly encourage everyone to try it.

Warning u will get pissed and ragequit.

[Rokabur]

Depending on their level enemies can be easy or hard since I decided to not Legendary any of my gear. I'm just tired of a mob making a break for it in the middle of a fight. Think it was near Morthal or Solitude and was fighting a group of bandits, one of them made a break for it and was almost two thirds of the way to Markarth before I killed him cause he wouldn't stop running.

[Lovely Rose]

Yea i usually play skyrim for few days before going back to anything else. i mainly go to fallout 3 or NV just becuase its flat out better XD

might pick up the metal gear solid series agian and replay that :3

[...0...]

Playing Skyrim for 3 years, even with breaks, sound to me like the most authistic thing to do after playing dedicately an MMO. What you really do (well I think I should speak for me, but maybe is a shared feeling), is not playing skyrim, but modding it. Skyrim is a fun game to play the first 40-50hours, like many other games, but like most games of it's this decade, lacks of depth. After you have done 3 or 4 dungeons and some quest, you've pretty much done everything you can do in the game, cause then everything repeats and repeats (same dungeons, same draugrs, same fetch quests). Modding it is what keeps you engaged I think. Is nice testing what new mods the people are doing. I normally make my super build of mods thinking im really gona play this time, but meh, I play 5 minutes and spend 1 hours tweaking stuff, or just alt tab and watch porn and fap, or fap with your character, dunno... But that is pretty much. Is a game from 2011 y'know.

 

Skyrim is just over 2years old