First off: I own this for the xbox, i cannot mod. And i dont plan on getting it for PC because i have other priorities besides getting absorbed into PC gaming.

I don't have a hour log since i play on console but i played an average of 4 hours a day since it came out, up untill several months ago.

I've made countless characters, and i really miss this game. Since they stopped working on it a long while ago i havent had much to do in the game. How can i make the game fun for me again? I cant seem to get enough action in the game. I wish i would get more bandit attacks or more interesting creatures to slay.

RPing different character mostly.

Have you roleplayed? It can greatly enhance your experience.

There's unlimited quests with Radiant technology.

I have tried to some success, but i always get distracted and stray from my RP path

True, but that gets boring extremely quickly for me.

Roleplaying.

Either that or get Skyrim for PC for Mods.

You could try to spice it up a bit. If you are taking the assassination quests you could try and think up elaborate plots to follow through with. Ex. Find the target, kill him while he sleeps, and drag his body out without being seen. Put a head of lettuce where he slept. Only try and make things like 100x more convoluted if you can. Stalk the prey, learn his habits. Kill him at the perfect opportunity and escape without being seen. Leave a signature mark. Just try and think of things to make it a bit harder and take a bit more time and concentration to pull off successfully.

You could also try and perfect a dead is dead assassin. Go through the game being the unseen shadow, the knife in the dark. Having to perfect your skills to the point that it's next to impossible to kill you. And then when you die you start over. Maybe as a mage.

Note: I say assassin because i like being an assassin. Dead is dead is a viable way to take your skills to the next level regardless of the character.

I had the same problem. Skyrim got so boring for me that (even with mods) I couldn't play it anymore. Ended up taking a break for about a month and I STILL couldn't get into it. By then I knew I was burnt out from the game and I ended up selling it.

But yea, Maybe you could try a new RP. Check the skyrim blog for some ideas if you're out of em.

It's been a long time since I've done any of the bigger questlines, so there really isn't much for me to have memorized and have more of a reason to replay.

Nowadays I just let my characters do their own thing. RP with little actual quests and all that.

Well play Dead is Dead. While you may have memorized everything, playing Dead is Dead it is a totally different experience. You can only reload from a glitch, and nothing else. You will see how much more EXHILERATING that game can be. I tried it but kept dying all the time and got tired of making new characters because I wanted to finish the game.

I only memorized the first 1/4 of the game, so want to experience the rest of the 3/4 of the game. Too bad I have gone onto other games right now. Will be refreshing when I do go back to Skyrim.

Sadly with my restartitis ive only had this problem with Fallout 3 - that being the only game ive been able to play a long-standing character in. And in my opinion, there isnt really a good way to stave off the type of burnt-out feeling that you get when you know the entire game like the back of your hand.

Even if you were on PC, there is not much that can be done with mods. What I would suggest is playing another game. If you're broken like me, and are only able to enjoy a small range of games outside of Bethesda, I would suggest just choosing another Bethesda game and getting into that for a while, while putting Skyrim on the trip down to the slow burn of forgetful memory. Eventually if you don't touch Skyrim for several years you'll forget a lot of the details of it, and be able to get back into it when the world becomes fresh again. I would suggest taking a trip to Fallout 3, or if you can stomach a lot of the things that will be missing from Skyrim, a good go at Oblivion. Those are all available on Xbox 360, and I would imagine go for pretty cheap. If you're new to them either of the games will destroy your free time for the next few months at the very least. And if you decide on Fallout 3, I would suggest holding off on playing New Vegas until you've "completed" Fallout 3 with Broken Steel and the rest of the DLC. Its entirely possible to roleplay the same character between the two games with a bit of head canon. There's no save game converters or anything like that, but just recreate the face and stick with the same personality and you're good to go.

Some people like to be told a story. Some people like to tell their own stories. I think those of us who like to tell our own stories are more likely to spend years and years playing these games.

I play not to experience a developer's story but to tell my own. I'm not much interested in being an actor in a game developer's movie. I have a vivid imagination and I generally find the stories I tell myself far more interesting and engaging than the stories game developers tell.

I use the game assets provided by Bethesda to construct my own narratives. I have said this for years: the Elder Scrolls games are like blank canvasses on which I paint my own pictures. Creating a character and living vicariously through that character and telling that character's story using the tools and assets provided by Bethesda is what roleplaying is about to me.

So my games are never the same. Because the story I tell myself is never the same.

I am also on Xbox, no mods (at least, not for Skyrim), and have been playing since 11/11/11, so we can rule any console limitations out. Lots of people are on consoles around here.

I can't speak for others, but in my case, I just have a vivid imagination. I've had multiple characters (over 10 of them) all of who have been quite distinctive from one another. They're all individuals. Some of them focus heavily on quests, others do not. It's all about variety with me.

I'm like a few others here because I also play dead-is-dead, which means if my character fairly dies (no glitches, no household emergencies) he or she is dead. I've had at least 5 die over the years. DiD adds an extra dimension to my character's lives, in the sense that their lives are finite. I don't push my difficulty level past Adept, and some of my games (the ones with rather extensive stories) are actually Apprentice difficulty. The story becomes the focus of their games in these cases.

There are a few other things I like to implement: food & drink & sleep matter, specific rules for each character, etc. My vampire, for instance, does not go outside during the day, even though technically she could, with Skyrim's dumbed-down sunlight damage. My vamp's sunless game feels much different from my knight's game. He loves being outdoors in the sunlight. See? Variety.

I kinda doubt any of our suggestions will help you, Turtle. Either you get into the game and keep at it for years, or you move on.

Chop wood all day long best thing to do in skyrim or RP different characters go crazy with it.

Do or do not. There is no try.

And with that you can lift the X-wing, while this is not a quote, you get the idea i convey, i hope.

Role-playing, and taking a looong break. They both help to enhance the playtime.

Take a break from it and simply play something else, that's what I have been doing. Havn't touched Skyrim for quite a while now since I reached the burnt out stage with the game. You can pick up some very good games reasonably cheaply now. Since I stopped playing Skyrim I've played the Mass Effect trilogy, Tomb Raider (2013) and am currently really into Assasins Creed IV black flag. I found all of these game very good and picked them all up for not a lot of money, nice to have a change from the same old game day in, day out.

I've been playing since release on 360, while I have a break's, playing other games for a couple days it doesn't amount to much. I have not even done all the Deadric quest's, as none of my characters have been the type to do some of them. I prefer like others to tell my own story, just using the games. I may have two characters that do Dawnguard, but because their stories are so different, so is my experience with the same quests.

To make my game more interesting for me, I have turned my HUD off ( or down to the point it's barely their), footstep's are off, back ground music is off and turned the brightness setting down so much that my characters have to use a light spell or torch to see at night or in a cave or other "dark" area, the same as if "I" was doing that same walk.

I have never had a legendary dragon or some of the high level enemy NPC's, because generally my characters develop so slowly that their story is done before they even reach lvl 50. That's mostly because I don't dwell on leveling my characters.

Play in the nvde and cut your self everytime you get hit that should liven things up and then make things dizzy cause of blood loss.

An interesting extreme gaming technique there!

@pepe - what happens if you're playing DiD?

Wild guess, you watched the SWB trailer.

SWB?

Hunting for me. I go a long time without running quests, then run a quest line once in a while for something different, plus get into places I haven't been in in ages because they are quest locked.