Spawn a couple dragons inside dragonreach, sit back and enjoy the show..

@Hitchenson: Ahhh.. gotcha. That is really amazing timing. not going to lie, I'm a little bit jealous.

I started a second character that has a much different fighting style has my first character. I mostly just mess around with my second character and try to make my own story for him. Its a fun way to play the game without haveing to play the game if you get my drift.

60 hours in and I've only finished the Mage College questline. I've sort of poked at the Main Quest, and I'm slowly working through the Dark Brotherhood, but for the most part I just travel and see shit.

I never fast travel, by the way. I like the experience of trekking across the countryside, gathering ingredients for potions or for food. It's sort of like role playing, I suppose, but I haven't really considered my. Haracter's backstory or lifestyle. I just wander and take the world in.

Kill every 15th person you see

The guild/main quests and the daedra quests are many of the more interesting ones. I've been peppering my play with them at least every few.

Sounds like you're going around just doing the one-off quests, which anyone will get bored of eventually. Do the story or a guild quest and get somewhat engaged in the fiction. It's better than hunting for nirnroot, trust me.

Weird that you find hard encounters maybe you shouldn't be there, start doing quests at around the starting place go to inns ask around if you see people arguing go talk to them that's usually a good quest, sometimes a quest starts out as miscellaneous then turns out to be a great adventure. After you get powerful enough try fighting stuff with a completely different weapon that before it's cool.

Sometimes I bring food or toys into the mix. I've even thought of bringing in another videogame, but I don't think Skyrim will go for that...

I hit it with my axe.

I collect things. Like unique items and books for my bookshelves. I also collect people and place them in my basement storage room at my house in Solitude with the master conjuration spell "dead thrall". lol I have a collection of sorts, from master necromancers to just savage warrior type characters. Who ever gives me alot of trouble becomes part of my collection. Kinda sick I know. lol But my Master Necromancer is quite useful. Not only can he carry unlimited weight for me, but he also kills just about everything in one or two hits. He killed me three times before I finally killed him and added him to my collection. Thats just a side hobby for when I get somewhat bored. The game its self has still got me very interested.

Rollplay, use toys, also Threesomes, but mostly rollplay

The boredom and repetition feeling seems unlikely to happen to anyone who didn't play Oblivion and the Fallouts, but almost unavoidable for anyone who has already put a lot of time into those games. It's really the same thing with a new coat of paint, which works great for some shorter games, but not so well when you already have 300 hours looking at the past coats of paint, after which, Skyrim can feel repetitive quickly.

Skyrim is awesome, but it might be worth it to go play Dark Souls for awhile if you haven't already.

Play one handed...

If you know what I mean.

@AhmadMetallic:

Well, when I play Bethesda games after I've reached the level cap and/or I've finished all the quests I usually kill everyone in every town. That's pretty exciting.

Increase the difficulty. I also started to play my dark souls ng+ again and I rediscovered the joy of dying.

Join a Guild, depending on what character you are. Mages go to the College, Thieves do Thieves Guild, Tanks do Companions. Dark Brotherhood also appeals to the sneak. I'm pretty sure all of these places have repeatable quests that help me combat boredom. Also, talk to innkeepers and ask about rumors. Get married, buy some houses, randomly rob some shopkeepers, do the main questline to learn some sick shouts, and talk to people in towns.

Also, if you're running into trouble in caves and whatnot, it probably just means you're not supposed to be there yet. There is no shame in running out of a dungeon because the boss is wrecking your stuff.

No Crosshair, HUD Opacity zero, No subtitles, No Music, Don't do the main quest, set it to master difficulty, be a mage.

Have fun!

My suggestion? Pop in Saints Row The Third. After that craziness for a few hours, Skyrim is perfect and relaxing.

Try different builds, explore more shit.

Man, I cam in wondering if I should pick up this game, I won't. My problem with these games is they feel like offline MMOs. I got bored with Fallout after 20+ hours also. The story and fighting just never do it for me. Judging from most responses, this is a pretty much a roleplaying game... I rather do that in WoW.

I take Skyrim out occasionally, show it a good time, buy it dinner and go bowling, whatever.

I listen to what Skyrim wants, I don't just worry about my needs.

To be honest OP, my way of fending off any sort of boredom or whatever has basically (without me even realizing it until earlier this day) boiled down to me sinking an entire day into the game without any real breaks (and by day I mean from one free moment until I pass out that night) and then playing other games for a few days without even touching Skyrim, it's been a pleasant experience doing it this way as I always feel excited to get back into action when I go back to it.

I bring it flowers every now and then.

@AhmadMetallic: Welcome to the wonderful world of Elder Scrolls. 30-60 hours of actual gameplay, 270-240 hours of walking or riding. There you go, 300 hours of gameplay.

I'm about 165-hours in and think I'm pretty much finished ...

I think I'll play it again next year after a combination of patches, mods & new content are released.

I made two characters, one is walking a more respectable line, while the other is up to his neck in dirty deeds. Bouncing between the two is keeping it fresh even after 58 hours.

@AhmadMetallic said:

I'm like 30-35 hours in and I'm kinda getting tired of the game. for the past 10 gameplay hours it's been nothing but riding my horse around the world, discovering the various locations, each one is scarier, colder, lonelier and darker than the last, clearing crypts and caves which is getting rather tedious and intense, and taking quests which all feel.. insignificant and repetitive. Should I focus on the main story quest a little more? (I'm not doing that because I thought what the world has to offer is more interesting). Should I focus on a guild questline? What else is there to do? I've also been running into a lot of extremely powerful enemies which is making me, all of a sudden, really vulnerable during combat. Pretty sure I'm leveling up/perking stuff just fine..! I mean, I get it, the world of The Elder Scrolls is perilous and full of dangers, but there's gotta be more to it than constant vicious near-death fights with underground skeletons and mountain mages. Getting tired of the continuous traveling and fighting.

I'm around 80 hours in (wait... Have I really spent 3 waking days on this game..?) and have finished all of the major storylines: Dark Brotherhood, Thieve's Guild, Main, and Civil. I've even finished all of the Daedric quests but one, according to the Wiki. What I did was switch up my weapons. I played through the first chunk of the game using two-handed weapons (ending on my big, beautiful enchanted Daedric Battle Axe...), then I switched to one-handed and something else, and started mixing in a little archery. I dunno, it was enough to keep me relatively interested the whole way through, but the wandering started to wear on me. I might go back when the Wiki becomes more complete with quests...

I make back stories. My character is the kleptomaniac, amnesiac Khajiit Queen. I don't think the Khajiit have a queen but that's not really important. I also have Lydia following me currently but I gave her some big ass helmet and armor so now she is the faceless and mysterious knight who follows me.

I don't. I need to find a way. I haven't even done any quests really, and I'm lvl 35 and bored as fuck and sick and tired of loading screens. Takes me longer to sell loot from a dungeon than it does to clear it. Why oh why couldn't they just load the damn interiors when they load the city? Gah!

@AhmadMetallic said:

I'm like 30-35 hours in and I'm kinda getting tired of the game. for the past 10 gameplay hours it's been nothing but riding my horse around the world, discovering the various locations, each one is scarier, colder, lonelier and darker than the last, clearing crypts and caves which is getting rather tedious and intense, and taking quests which all feel.. insignificant and repetitive. Should I focus on the main story quest a little more? (I'm not doing that because I thought what the world has to offer is more interesting). Should I focus on a guild questline? What else is there to do? I've also been running into a lot of extremely powerful enemies which is making me, all of a sudden, really vulnerable during combat. Pretty sure I'm leveling up/perking stuff just fine..! I mean, I get it, the world of The Elder Scrolls is perilous and full of dangers, but there's gotta be more to it than constant vicious near-death fights with underground skeletons and mountain mages. Getting tired of the continuous traveling and fighting.

I'm around 80 hours in (wait... Have I really spent 3 waking days on this game..?) and have finished all of the major storylines: Dark Brotherhood, Thieve's Guild, Main, and Civil. I've even finished all of the Daedric quests but one, according to the Wiki. What I did was switch up my weapons. I played through the first chunk of the game using two-handed weapons (ending on my big, beautiful enchanted Daedric Battle Axe...), then I switched to one-handed and something else, and started mixing in a little archery. I dunno, it was enough to keep me relatively interested the whole way through, but the wandering started to wear on me. I might go back when the Wiki becomes more complete with quests...

Eh, my one-handed isn't very high, but my enchantments, smithing, and sneak attacks make up for it.

@AhmadMetallic: I'm even further in and I don't have any skill at all maxed out. They seem to go up extremely slow...

@AhmadMetallic said:

@cstrang said:

I'm around 80 hours in (wait... Have I really spent 3 waking days on this game..?) and have finished all of the major storylines: Dark Brotherhood, Thieve's Guild, Main, and Civil. I've even finished all of the Daedric quests but one, according to the Wiki. What I did was switch up my weapons. I played through the first chunk of the game using two-handed weapons (ending on my big, beautiful enchanted Daedric Battle Axe...), then I switched to one-handed and something else, and started mixing in a little archery. I dunno, it was enough to keep me relatively interested the whole way through, but the wandering started to wear on me. I might go back when the Wiki becomes more complete with quests...

How is that possible? Defeating the packs of tough hard-to-kill enemies that gang bang you relies heavily on leveling up one kind of weaponry until it can save you later on. I can't believe that you've progressed so far in the game and, consequently, faced some really hardcore boss-like enemies, without maxing out a single weapon type.

My two-handed was at 100 when I switched over, and when I was getting my butt kicked I would never hesitate to bust out my battle axe and swing away. My armor was all enchanted Dragon Bone, then enchanted Daedric Heavy Armor (Heavy Armor skill was also pretty high at the point I said "Fuck it"). With that kind of armor rating, the only real threats were mobs of magic users, ancient dragons, or the occasional pesky Deathlord and his crew (simply because of being shouted down). It's kind of amazing how powerful you can make stuff in this game. I think the only thing I use regularly that I found is DragonBane, and whatever jewelry.

I had done almost all of the main quest, finished the guild quests and was finally begining to thin out my quest log. I was getting maybe a bit bored but then I snuck up on a sleeping dragon and killed him with one hit of my assassin's blade....

....I'm ready for another 80 hours of skyrim now.

KY You and Her Intimate Jelly?

@xseanzx: Find a chopping board.Windhelm. Gather wood. Trek to Whiterun over emcumbered. Sell wood to crop harvester in town. Journey back to Windhelm sell crops bought and watch skyrim crumble. Next GO hunting with your werewolf friend. TO BE ANNOUNCED in FALL. EAT IT pigs