Before you decide to flame me on this, let me first tell you that I love the way dragons are implemented and the fights I have seen are very impressive!
But just like in Oblivion, I found my first Oblivion Gate to be fun and exciting. After exploring overtime, Oblivion Gates became just another bump in the road even though I didn't have to destroy them. But in Skyrim there is no avoiding a dragon when it seeks to fight you.

I know there are different types of dragons (such as frost dragons) and that they sometimes fight differently depending on the enviroment but would the dragons eventually become so repetitive that it'll be just like the gates in Oblivion or are dragon fights unique most of the time?

Fellow TES fans, what do you think?

The only one way I think I would get bored of fighting dragons is it they just kept coming and coming, which I doubt will happen.

An Oblivion gate lasts about 10-20 minutes each with the same exact environments. A dragon fight lasts probably an action-packed 2-5 minutes, that can happen anywhere.

Are dragons long sets of dungeons taking more than 20 minutes to finish each?

hopefully there are only two or three dragons on the map at any given time.i dont want to run into one every time i turn around.

You're missing the point. I'm not comparing the time length of the two; I'm comparing whether all the dragon fights will be quite similar or more unique so the fights would feel more exciting or feel just repetitive.

Oblivion gates don't move from place to place and actively hunt you when they feel like it, they dont come in several flavors and they only bother the player.

There's different types of Dragons and 20+ shouts. The encounters will be varied enough to distinguish themself from the Oblivion gates.

This.

No, I don't think the dragons in Skyrim will be even slightly cumbersome. This is because, they give you a MUCH better reward than the oblivion gates offered. I read that (one of) the most powerful armor in the game is made out of dragon materials. That is good enough reason for me to want to kill dragons. Also, you unlock the power to use dragon shouts, that also, by itself, would make me want to kill dragons. Plus, killing a dragon looks just plain fun, unlike the extremely tedious oblivion gates were. So no, I will be looking forward to killing as many dragons as I can in Skyrim when it comes out.


By the way, it looked like in the e3 demo, that the player was hunting the dragon, as you see it on top of the distant ruin, sitting atop a pillar, very early in the demo. This is the same place where the dungeon is that the demo took us through, making me beleive that the player of the demo was consciously looking for dragons. Which means that you find them, and they are not necessarily "looking" for you.

Of course this all I just my opinion, and how I interpreted the demo.

You think multple types of unscripted dragons are going to get boring?

There is a way to avoid dragon fights... you can hide in your house hoping for it to go away or you can be a dragonborn and destroy the foul beast! :thumbsup:

On a serious note you can just run away from the dragons or guide it into a populated area with guards and either it will stop attacking you to kill the villagers or the guards may be able to collectively kill it. However the rest of us that know the dragons can never be as tedious as the oblivion gates will be having a fun time fighting them and doing are solemn job! :foodndrink:

I would think dragon fights are as unique as you make them.

If you fight them all the same, it will get repetitive. If you switch up your tactics and approach them differently, you'll have a wide range of possibilities when dealing with dragons.

This is one reason I'm making a balanced character that will utilize spells, swords and bows. That, and the leveling system will allow me to be less one-dimensional to maintain a powerful character.

BLASPHEMY. did fighting mudcrabs ever get boring? no? i didnt think so.

Thank you everyone for your post. I can't wait for Skyrim even more now.

Thank you,
-Kush

Oh I thought your subtitle "not another one" was referencing this thread.

At worst it'll be like normal monster fight. Repetitive but not boring....

You're wrong! The dragons do NOT find you, you find THEM randomly. You can be in one area forever and never see them!

The only way i could see me getting bored with them is if they get too easy and boring. like after i did the first 20 oblivion gates... i only did the ones the needed to... i would walk right past them because they were too easy, boring, and long... I dont see them doing that with the dragons

Did Oblivion gates summon lightning storms that activly try to strike you with a bolt or two? Personally I hope each fight is a long epic dual, draining me of every singly reasorce I have in order to survive. Two beings of imeasureable power going at it, exchanging blows that could nearly kill the other with a single hit. Let me tell ya, that's where it's at.

I've been playing some DBZ Raging blast 2 lately. In all honesty it's not that hard. Even on the hardest setting it's pretty easy to get the enemy caught up in your combo's. But there's this one setting, called battle zone. It exists outside the normal game, and it doesn't have a difficulty setting. Just starts at level one and starts to go up. Around level 60 enemies start using the ultimate moves, they transform, and if you make a mistake you are punished. I sware to you it even rubs it in. Yamcha knew exactly when to use his special finisher, which just happens to end with his smug face smiling right at the screen. Lord knows I get my back side handed to me more often than not, but when you do win, heck even when I do lose...it feels like it was a real dbz fight.

If dragons can push us to the limit, making it feel like an actual fight with a dragon, they won't get repedative.