the first thing i should say is im on ps3, so i cant mod. so no sixy skyrim for this guy :[

i recommended a friend of mine skyrim. he bought it and loves it! lol after practice today he tried to think of things that i havent done in skyrim, so that got me thinking...

i want to start a new character and do everything as differently as possible. i want to experience skyrim with a feel of a new game.

off the top of my head, i can say ive beaten skyrim with dragonborn and dawnguard add ons. i platinumed the game completely besides for hearthfire. (is hearthfire worth the 5 bucks? it looks like a new take, but yeah... a very different path).

along with platinuming skyrim (ps3 meaning all achievements), ive completed every guild, mastered werewolf and vampire, gotten all skills to 100 through mostly legitimate use, besides maybe alchemy.

i have started the game as an every race besides breton, woodelf, and redguard. (guessing) ive done every quest in whiterun.

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so on my new character, a couple things im planning on doing are playing on master, maybe hard due to other self-limitations ill be adding, not crafting armor or enchanting items, just buying and looting. i want to delve into alchemy, because ive never really used alchemy from the start of the game, ive only started it when i was rich and could just get it to 100 in 4 minutes.

i thought about not fast travelling, just using all other means of transportation. how is that kind of gameplay? who here has tried it?

anyways yeah what can everyone recommend? i was thinking trying to avoid the main quest and going to falkreath to start, but ive done that before. so maybe i can attempt sneaking through the one pass and getting to ivarsted?

so yeah, community, go nuts!

i cant really get drawn into roleplaying in skyrim... idk what it is but skyrim never got too immersive for me. i think it might be the fact that theres food, drink, and beds, but they dont serve much purpose, and that really breaks the immersion

When did Roleplay translate to eating, drinking and sleeping? I'm pretty sure lots of RPGs before New Vegas don't have eating, drinking and sleeping.

Have you tried playing with the compass disabled? I've found this aids the feeling of being immersed in the environment, as you must use visual cues like landmarks in the distant terrain to navigate.

Yeah, I roleplay all the time, but I only sleep when I want and rarely eat. My characters would all have starved on day 3, or dropped from sheer exhaustion!

Just make up a backstory for your character. It doesn't have to be elaborate, just answer a few basic questions: Where is he (or she) from? What's his/her background/personality? Why did s/he come to Skyrim, and what was s/he doing when s/he got caught up in that Imperial ambush? That might help you get a handle on your character and make decisions based on what your character would do.

Another thing that might be helpful is to try a different play style than your previous character(s). If you played a melee fighter, try an archer or a mage. It's always good to challenge yourself and having to adjust to a different playstyle can provide that challenge.