Call me a fan boy all you want but I am loving every second of this game and if there are any glitches, I am either blind or don't have 'em (besides a couple of quest bugs). I love every damn thing about this game so far and hod not take it seriously at all, I enjoy it for what it is.

Exactly, what you've described would be my definition of a not serious playthrough. What the OP described sounds quite serious, you're an adventurer, it's 100% ok to go out and adventure even without a preset objective. I'd also call a playthrough not very serious if they did do every quest in the game and never denied any or did anything an NPC didn't tell them to do.

So OP, I think you take the game more seriously than you think. Getting side-tracked is the biggest thing about this game and can lead to the most fun!

I've completed the main quest, ended the civil war, completed the companions line, reformed the thieves guild and dark brotherhood. played 3 characters till lvl 40 ish, and explored a huge amount. That being said I still haven't seen the college of winterhold quests, been to any of the shrines of the divines, been to all of the way stones, done any daedric quests, seen half of the skill trees fully fleshed out, traveled with any companion, done more than 10 side quests, seen all the shouts or even BEEN to 2 of the cities in the game. There is too much to do to try and be a completist.

I have played as a warrior, a thief, and a dark magician... but I haven't even tried being a mage or a priest. But I am going to do all the achievments, play those 2 classes, finish the college questline, visit the wayshrines, and do the daedric quests. Once I have 100%'d the game and tried out every "class" I am going to start playing dead is dead.

I don't take it too seriously either. I enjoy it and will probably be playing it for a few years, but I only play it when I want to and when I do I do whatever I want to do in the game. I actually haven't touched it for a day or two because I really got into a manga.

i just killer everyone, save the essentials, in Riften

am i count as being playing serious?;)

Sorry, i play with the old patch

I do a lot of " well forget the trail, it wants me to spend a whole 90 seconds going around the mountain... I'll go over it !"

Finding the seams in the steepest cliffsides, mincing up the edges to the peaks of the highest snowy caps... then engaging the Ether form and doing the equivalent of Skyrim BASE jumping

Lot of false walls in Fallout NV that prevented that kind of "fun" (especially over clearly visually reachable terrain. The Bionic Commando remake also comes to mind as it had the same failures with their instant walls of death strangling the mobility, and I put both games down for less restrictive entertainment.

Thank you Bethesda for not walling me in... at least if the quests aren't working, and ( insert bug thread here for brevity ) I can still fling myself from great heights for Giggles.

No

HOLLY SH.. Do you have a life? I mean real life you know... if you still know what real life is... i bet you dont

TES is the ONLY game in which I actually walk around at a normal pace instead of sprinting around everywhere if the setting is appropriate. That says something...

No ur not

Cheers

Yeah, I do enjoy the non-linear gameplay. For me, that's one of the features that sold me on the ES games (Morrowind, Oblivion, and now Skyrim). It's meant to be a game you can immerse yourself in, and if a player takes full advantage of this, there's lots to see and do, definitely. :biggrin:

The people who have no lives are the ones commenting on other peoples lives. (*hint*hint* you!)

I am serious when I play. If my mom comes in asking me to do some stupid stuff like cleaning or something else dumb I tell her to bug off. She gets on my nerves.

I go back and forth with this all the time... soooo easily distracted.

Rushed through the main quest, been doing that since Morrowind, just to have it done and went right back to what I was doing namely...chasing dragonflies for the heck of it. Dodgy little critters.
Some days I go for the quests and other days I just chill out in Skyrim catching salmon, ripping wings of pretty butterflies, playing tag with kids. Oh and watching thieves get shot down by guards in Riften! There's a whole pile of them LOL

At least two times i have gotten up from the game to shut the window behind because there was an annoying bird that was making the loudest sqwabble and... oh it was the game. and i sit back down again

Recently I've been too attached to the quests. Maybe because I've been about to finish both Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves' Guild. Both "ends" seemed pretty long. Well, I did those and even impatiently fast-travelled from place to place, just gobbling quests, unlike I normally do. Now that I've completed those guilds, I think it's time to settle down again. More walking, exploring and...

On the other hand, exploring has kind of lost some of its appeal. It's not like you're going to find anything special. And if you do, it's an item for a quest you haven't yet done. Basically every dungeon now seems to exist for one quest. I don't even know if there are quest-free dungeons. And I'd always like the know the possible stories behind the dungeons, so, I'd rather do the quest than randomly enter them. It's cool to just wander and chill outdoors, though!

So you don't take this game seriously? WTF is wrong with you.

I just finished chatting with Lydia and we both think you're full of sh**.

Now if you don't mind I need to meet up with my favourite drinking buddy and the local guardsman. He is going to regail me with his tales of his life before he took an arrow to his knee.

What OP? You going to cry? ... someone steal your sweet roll?

hah.
Not 100% seriously, because those stupid bugs :celebrate:

off topic:
I just love blue mountains and strange dragons.. thanks patch 1.2 !

I'm thinking of doing that with my future, "non-serious-at-all" Khajiit thief/assasin. Once they fix the game, of course.

Im not playing it 100% seriously, started waiting.

For me, the exploration is the game. It's pretending I am really an Altmeri Cleric in Skyrim. The quests are there, but they are short term events. The long term is hunting down necromancers, draugr, bandits and petting the stray dogs. It's saving someone's life as they are attacked on their farm by spiders. So yeah, I am with you. It makes the game far more enjoyable.

I spend quite some time hunting or collecting ingredients ^^ (176 bunnies so far)

I have too much of this sort of thing happening with every Bethesda game.