God I was so tired of replaying new vegas n fo3 with mods of all kinds not to mention the old fallouts so many times that I finally had to give Skyrim another try (been trying to get into it since I got my new dx11 capable pc about a 1 1/2 yrs ago)

I was playing new vegas when skyrim came on the scene with a big bang and everywhere you looked there was talk of it so I was disappointed a tad that I didnt have a pc powerful enough to play skyrim without watering down the gfx greatly tho it could play fo3 n fonv at very highish settings at 1600x?0?? But was happy enough finishing fonv n its dlcs n then a few mods. So it was very surprising to me when I did get a new rig n skyrim on it that I just couldn't get into it at all no matter how hard I tried coz the tes world just doesn't grab me like fallout's does (not too hard but just saying) Anyways I have been playing it again thinking of it as a game to tide me over till the next fallout comes out and vallah! I finally officially became a dragonborn in the game and have been helping out folks in skyrim with this or that while grinding my skills. So if ny others are having trouble finding skyrim interesting enough cos they prefer the fallout series much more I'd suggest th to think of skyrim as something to tide you over till the next fallout comes out..

I can only play Skyrim in short bursts before I get bored of it and abandon it for months.

Sure its a gorgeous world, with lots of quests to do, but there's no meaningful choices and consequences..

And the characters are damn pretty weak... spouting exposition like its going out of style, and their bare-bones dialogue trees.

I love a good story with strong characters... This just doesn't scratch that itch.

Yeah I suppose that's the reason it never really feels enjoyable. I also think that the gfx are neat and its a nice looking big world they created but the people in it are just too boring and then there's the stupid character development system which is realistic I suppose but not fun at all, I much prefer the special and skill system of fallout. Or maybe it's just that swords n magic n dragons are just not that interesting to me. Either way can't wait for a new fallout to come. Also hoping that witcher3 will be all that people are hoping for it to be. I'd love to switch to it to scratch my itch for open world rpgs till fo4.