People and their [censored] expectations will never cease to amaze. You did easily a 100 hours of content and you're [censored]ing like its a bad thing. WHAT THE [censored].

If you think Oblivion's guilds could be completed in an hour then Skyrim's could be completed in 10 minutes. There's like 6 quests for the Companions and there were over 20 for the Fighters Guild. There were, what, 8 for the College? Going from apprentice to Arch-Mage in what I imagine was 2 lore days was extremely dissatisfying. Where as in Oblivion you needed recommendations from all 7 local mage guilds before even getting into the University and then another 10 or so quests before becoming Arch-Mage. No need to even get into Morrowind.

Skyrim felt like a whole lot of really short questlines, instead of in Morrowind/Oblivion were there were less groups of questlines but they were each longer and more flushed out.

Hopefully they are saving it all for DLC's, so many things have been alluded to but not expanded on..

And I loved Oblivion gates. Took down all but the last 5 or so on every playthrough, and that was simply because I got tired of wandering around trying to find them. Dragons are a boring chore that don't come down when you want them to and prevent fast travel inside a major town

The way I see it is this:

You've finished a lot of what the game has to offer after nearly a month of release. Usually by now a construction set has been released and many mods would already be out (there's some, to be sure, but only a few worth using). I think it's safe to say that if a single player game has held you this long on vanilla it's a great game.

Now, the solution:

Put the game away for a month. Wait for the CK to come out. Play some of the other new releases (Saints Row 3, Batman Arkham City, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, LA Noire) or work on some real life projects. By the time you've done all of this the CK will be out, lots of mods will be on the way and all will be well in Tamriel again.

I've put in a solid 250+ hours now and still haven't found or done every little thing to do, but the novelty has worn off as well. My solution is to catch up on work, spend time on personal art projects, and play other games. Hope it works for you...

Sounds like you rushed throught everything, using fast travel and etc..

You gotta take time to do the quests and not rush it.. try to roleplay a bit so you get more immersive into the game..

You technically joined every guild in the game.. try to roleplay, how can you be DB member and still a companion and the arch-mage while being the leader of the thieves guild ? ... That doesn't sounds realistic, doesn't sounds cool and it's game breaking for me.. While you could play lots of character, each one with their own personality you simply rushed and joined every guild and become the Dragonborn God, because you are the leader of everything.. For me, play like this, is game breaking, you should take time in the quests, almost never use fast travel, don't rush, and roleplay a bit, make your character have a personality, so a good guy would join the companions but would not join the Dark Brotherhood..

She already said she did them on different characters and so have I. She said she doesn't use fast travel either. And not only do I not use fast travel I walk everywhere, and I pretended to eat and farm and sleep and enjoy myself at taverns and play tag with children. All things I did in Morrowind and Oblivion(cept the farming and tag) which had much longer content by themselves without having to "artificially" extend it.

Just have to clarify, because you are COMPLETELY wrong n.n

I play this game because I'm a RPer. Daggerfall was like D&D for the computer, and completely blew my mind when it came out. Been hooked ever since.

I rarely quick travel. Unless I get stuck I wont bother since there might be something interesting to do along the way.

I never once said I joined all the factions on one character(how could I have since I said I've done both sides of the war!?!?)

Nuff Said

THIS.

This. I bought it at midnight the first day, have played as much as I can (too much) but have a job, a wife, kids, a life etc. But still, I've logged over 100 hours easily and don't think I've really put much of a dent in the game yet? How can someone have played everything already that has a job?

Maybe I just play too slow. I never fast travel and don't "power game". I won't even run if it doesn't make sense (like in The Keep or anywhere inside. Lost of walking for RP purposes).

I mean, I haven't even beaten the MQ once. I have Fus Rho Dah but that's about it. This guy has beaten the MQ several times over?

Yeah it's probably just me.

So much for taking it easy and breath in the world aye?

I was finished with my first quest line after 50h, at level 30.

I walked from the farthest point in the west, to the farthest point in the east. Searching for Daedric Shrines as my mage.
It's not like I power-played just to finish the game as fast as possible.

ITS JUST A SHORT GAME >__<;;;;

Honey, can you give us a synopsis of your Assassin's Creed: Revelations forum post about how you beat it in 20 hours? Also can you give us a break down of the cost of AC:R and Skyrim and relative value? Oh, and can you make some more ridiculous complaint or whiny threads on the forums about a game you invested a hundred hours in and yet still, somehow, feel disappointed in?

I don't think my posts have been whinny at all.
I've bought every Bethesda title I've seen (I HAVE BETHESDA BOWLING FFS) Some more the once due to flaws (Original xbox Morrowind disc got toasted as I reached level 45 for the first time - pretty sure I have 4 copies of Morrowind total, and 3 of Oblivion)
Considering all the money I have given these people I think at the very least I deserve to post my opinion.
Especially considering I've done it respectfully...

Sounds like you skipped pretty much all the side quests and miscellaneous stuff. If you do only the guild quests and main story then it makes sense that it felt short to you. I've been playing for nearly 100 hours and have barely touches any of that.

Nope.
For most of my characters I did whatever quest I came across. As long as it was in character.
Like for example my Paladin certainly wont be murdering Vigilants of Stendarr's in the name of a Daedric Prince.
And my mage has no interest helping your silly little club beat down a Giant.

But yes, I did take whatever quest came my way if it was in my current characters best interest =]

Yes. Except the stupid overkill stuff like "talked to every 'person' in every town, village, fort and shack". There's a difference between beating a game and being a completionist, out to lick every scrap of a game out of RAM. 99% is good enough for most people.

I can't believe people are so unwilling to believe there's a finite amount of interesting content in the game. The denial and stubbornness is astounding. A competent gamer in this day and age knows where to find content, and how to enjoy it. She's finished it. Why is that so hard to comprehend?

I am pretty sure you skipped tons of content lol...

You miss a lot if you don't actively travel the map on foot and talk to as many people as possible.

Still, how many hours have you played and what difficulty are you on? A lot of my time has been spent grinding through tough fights on master.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great game. And Skyrim kicks the ass of any other current game you'd find in the display case at Walmart right now.
But compared to the standards of previous TES titles...
It's just not as epic....
Yah yah it looks nicer. I know.
But still to this day there are things in Morrowind that SCARE me. Can't say the same for Skyrim or Oblivion. I cried once in Skyrim, but not because the quest had intended for me to be emotionally moved. But just because I reeeeeeally wanted to be Psijic and for the first time you come face to face with one. Who then poofs out of your pathetic little life forever... TT__TT


Pretty sure you're wrong =]


Before I realized there were Daedric quests INSIDE towns (shocked me since in Oblivion they were all random wilderness shrines) my mage explored every inch of Skyrim looking for specific Daedric Princes =]
(Then I found them and they were right infront of my face the whole time LOL)

Well to be quite frank someone shouldn't have to pace themselves like that. When Morrowind came out you didn't have to pace yourself to make the game longer. But when Oblivion came out people could beat that questline rather quickly without rushing it.

Edit: And Daggerfall. That game had some long ass dungeons.

I'm 120 hours in on one character and I'm still finding new places and things to do.

I really doubt you spent MORE time in a single playthrough in Oblivion, or even Morrowind. It may be about the same, but there's no way you can finish everything in Skyrim and spend less time on doing so than the other games. Daggerfall may have taken longer but simply because that game was 90% traveling and getting lost in dungeons.

There's really a lot more to it than doing the big quests. I'm sure you haven't scratched the surface on the ones that just pop up when you enter a new ruin, or talk to a random NPC about his troubles.

That's not the hard part. What I find surprising is that a person with a life and a full time job, which the OP seems to have, has had the time to do that in just over 2 weeks. I'm not saying I don't believe it or that it's "hard to comprehend" as you so condescendingly put it, but I find it very surprising.

I mean, I've completely overdone it with Skyrim by the standards of any responsible advlt (the wife is starting to glare at me) and I haven't beaten the MQ once yet and have a journal that's so packed I can't remember anything about most of the entries.

All my Daggerfall saves are characters I've gotten stuck in a dungeon and can't find my way out >_____________<;;;

I'll be honest; I've put in way too many hours in the last 3 weeks as well, but most of that has been theorycrafting, not playing, so I don't expect to have explored all the content. That said, I've still played 4 characters to 40+, and seen a lot of the content. If I hadn't been theorycrafting, I would likely have seen most of the non-random content.

But there is a big difference between surprised, and the people blatantly calling her incompetent, or a liar. I wasn't intending to be condescending, but when faced with the attitude in this thread, I was a bit outraged. Just because you haven't done it doesn't mean someone else hasn't. And everything I've seen of the game so far seems to indicate fewer, shorter quests, and more freeform non-questing.