I always hear of people playing over 400 hours on their skyrim builds and iv only played around 20 hours. im being serious the most iv played on one build is around 20 hours. all i do is create a new character for example i started an orc warrior and i continued to play untill i got daedric armour then as soon as i obtained it i stopped playing coz i was bored. its not the first time its happened to me. i get proper hyped coz i started a new build then ill boost smithing to 90, get the daedric armour then i get bored. i fel like as soon as i get the armour theres nothing else to do in the game. i see people on youtube who play for hours on end. Can someone please tell me why and help me find a build or gaming strategy that will last at least 400 hours of gameplay.

Stop smithing...?

Different strokes for different folks. Just because other people can play a game for a massive amount of hours without getting bored, doesn't mean you can too. If you get bored, chances are the game is simply just not for you, so I suggest you try other games and see what you fancy instead of trying to force yourself to enjoy a game. Gaming enjoyment comes naturally, not by force.

I think it's pretty clear you are grinding to a specific goal (eg. Daedric Armor), after which there is no motivation to continue. I recommend crafting a true role play build that fits nicely into the world. Who is your character? What is their past? What do they want to achieve and why? How far are they willing to go to achieve their goals?

You have to create a living character. If in real life your only goal was to obtain something valuable, you'd find life mighty empty after obtaining it.

Personally, I've got 6,123 hours in Skyrim as of right now... and there are many things I've never done, many quests I've never completed. I only get bored when I fail to use my imagination to create a character i like, or enjoy, or whose style of play is so sideways that it just can't be dull.

Here's the thing though. Getting armor is not the purpose of the game. Getting Daedric armor is all fine and well, but the REASON for the armor is to help your character survive while doing other things. Perhaps you should try the game on legendary in nothing more than a roughtunic... or find something besides daedric armor you're interested in. Use alteration instead, become a mage, go fight some falmer or something. It's not the build, its what you do with it.

That is insane...Is that by 1 or multiple playthroughs? Also, have you thought about entering yourself in http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/?

Try to limit yourself, don't make yourself too op. Roleplay

Ok, well you've now posted 3 separate threads in this forum asking effectively the same question - which might go some way to explaining why you lose interest so quickly...

i dint mean to do three it was suppose to be two. im also looking for good builds aswell. and im not a fussy person if thats what ur inquiring.

Genuinely my first reply to this thread is the best advice I can give.

I've just started a play through where I'm prohibiting myself from doing any smithing, alchemy or enchanting. It really makes you appreciate finding good gear while out on your travels when you're not able to craft insanely overpowered gear on your own. Try it,

Or just try to focus on other skills. I personally never really saw the appeal of role playing or 'builds', but that's different to just focusing your efforts on different skills than what you've done before,

Honestly there is just so much to do in Skyrim, it should never be a matter of wanting to be able to play >400 hours or whatever, that's not a goal in itself. But if your only goal is to just get the best armour then of course you will get bored very quickly.

- what others said about RP. Stop power gaming. The game is not something to be beaten. It's to be RPed.

Stop being a Warrior. Start being a Stealth character or Stealth hybrid.

Forget all about smithing and enchanting unless it's for RP.

Don't do Bleak Falls Barrow until after you are 40+ or 50+ and even after that don't be in a hurry to do the main quest.

Install mods.

How far into any of the main questlines can you have gotten if you've never played more than 20 hours?

Yes, roleplaying is what keeps me interested in these games. I don't think in terms of "builds" - (I loathe that word) - I think in terms of characters. My characters are people - not races, or classes, or "builds." I aim to create characters that feel real to me, and then I play as those characters.

The one thing I do not do is play as myself. Playing as myself would bore me very quickly. What draws me to these games is the opportunity they afford me to roleplay. Like an actor, I get to be someone else for a while when I play these games.

I play many characters and each character I make is different from the others. Like real people in real life, each one does things a little differently than the others. Some steal, some never steal; some use magic, some never use magic; some join guilds, others never join guilds. And on and on.

The great thing about Bethesda's games is that they allow me to use my imagination to its fullest. I make up my own stories, my own quests, go where I want. I invent "main quests" for my characters. Some of them do not do any of Bethesda's quests at all.

When one roleplays, the experience is likely to be always fresh. My characters constantly surprise me. I start a game intending to do this or that and end up doing something completely different. I'm never quite sure what is going to happen in one of my games.

I guess I've probably spent about 4000 hours in Skyrim by now. And I always find new things to do in the game because my imagination continually takes me to places I've never been before. Roleplaying keeps these games fresh for me.

After getting Daedric quite late in my last playthrough, I've now in my current one finally just reached level 92 smithing and have just forged a Deadric greatsword and still have not completed the main quest. (I'm at the point where I have to trap Ohdaving at Whiterun). In fact I have about 20 - 25 quests on my log still to do, some faction questlines to do and nearly all of the Solstheim quests also and looking forward to doing them using Daedric and possibly even some Dragon stuff too.

on my current playthrough im play as a orc warroir. im level 23 and iv got to the part where i have to go to the greybeards at the top of high horothguard. the thing is even the main quest is boring as i have completed it twice but played through half of it about 10 times. and also i feel like side quest and misc quest dont interest me. give me advice on ur current characters and what yout doing at the moment

Generally speaking the people that have that many hours plus on one character are Telling a Story or Role Playing with their character. This is pretty much what I do, all my characters have stories, some are very short, some are rather long.

If all you are doing is smithing to get to Deadric armor, that in and of itself would be boring to me, but now you have a character that is very out of balance, almost no skills but armor that has probably make them on a lvl with enemies that could potentially walk all over it.

I would find a purpose for your next character, a job or goal. You don't need a great big involved back story. My characters generally have a decent back story that goes towards their motives, history, type of skills, basically who they are. Yes it can be very complicated or it can be simple, that depends on you and what you wish to do with it.

If deadric armor has been your "thing"... go either with a character that uses light armor, clothing or mage robes. Don't grind any skills, use them and allow their use to lvl them up. My rule of thumb is I only "train" a skill that is lagging behind for one reason or the other. A character may only use archery to fight dragons and then only when they are airborn, which means archery is going to lag pretty bad behind their other melee skill. So I will find an NPC who trains archery... or find a dungeon I know I can mostly use archery in to clear.

To smith I generally only keep my armor rating at what is being worn by enemies or found as loot.... meaning if my character is ( role play wise) staying in Iron armor and I am seeing the mercenaries in Orcish, then I will ... when I get to town, Temper or improve his/her armor to be within range of Orcish armor. Now I play on Adept or Expert, when I play on higher difficulty, I keep my armor rating a little higher, for obvious reasons. It works for Light armor as well.

Every one is different, just because I can spend 300 to 600 hr's telling one characters story, that does not mean it is something that you will find fun. Like Neil and others I know... I have not seen or done every dungeon in the game. I know I have not done the majority of Deadric quests..probably never will. I have over 6K hr's on the 360 and probably a little less than 1K hrs on PC ( I got it earlier this year ) maybe more... I stopped keeping track.

Ick... would end up writing a book... lol

I'm going to go with "Sandbox games are not really your thing".

The Elder Scrolls is not really a "goal oriented" game series. Similar to the X series in space, or Harvest Moon, or any number of other titles.

Try the Witcher 3 or, if you like grinding for gear, WoW or another MMO may be more your speed.

That's why all these different game genre's exist: because there are different kinds of players who enjoy doing different things.

In that case have you considered the possibility that this game just isn't for you?

What other games do you like?

iv come to the conclusion that i will start again. bare with me. my character will again be an orc who was once in a stronghold and was once vicious and brutal, however after being cursed by the daedra he went berserk and accieently killed his family. now he still has his warrior triats but...he incorparates passive illusion skills as well as restorion. he seeks to abolish all evil across skyrim. he wants to avenge his familly

Thats a good start but my advice....don't think of Skyrim as a "game" to beat,think of it as a world to live in,your Orc has a life and just as in the real world,stuff happens. Just go with the flow and let him experience things as they happen,maybe he takes a trip to Riften and gets approached by the thieves guild to be a member or walking along a path,he sees a cave and wonders"what's in there"? You are just along for the ride as it were.That's kind of the way I play my characters and I've got well over 3000 hrs. invested in the game. Maybe stop smithing and just search for better armor as you explore,you could be surprised at what you'll find in some of those chests!

Hello i don't know how many hours ive played but ive played about 18 hrs a day for at least 3 wks with 2 different characters the first to level 40 something the second to 68 or so and I had just started acquiring Daedric armor randomly by pieces even though I grinded smithing/enchanting/resto/heavy armor Im not really familiar with this game in fact its the first game that ive taken serious interest in since "Ocarina" but youve got to be exploiting and taking every shortcut that you can.

I just started getting bored because I grinded to the point that I was 1 hitting everything with by bow and Great Sword and now realize that grinding just to OP everyone is what caused it.

Do you do only the main quest lines and ignore everything else? Ive never even chosen a side or particular line to follow because I got so immersed in collecting ingredients and stumbling on caves and Foresworn strongholds and hunting that ive completed like 90 something quests total I like finding stuff so im a treasure hunter/hoarder to the point that ive spent entire 16 hr periods doing nothing but hunting,gathering,and killing people/creatures that attack me without completing ONE misc. quest and had a blast in the process.

Maybe turn the difficulty up and do stuff besides try to reach a specific goal OR maybe this particular type of game isn't for you I understand that Mass Effect is like Skyrim but a different type of fantasy world I think it's by the same developers also so it may be very similar.

I just started over again because the old scuffed hard disc that I was using just froze completely the other time was my first character and I totally messed it up because I didn't know what I was doing,im not really grinding or trying to exploit and its still fun.

It's so weird coz when I first got skyrim I was so hyped that I played through character but because I wanted a powerful build I deleted my playthroughs and started again. I literally did this a numerous amount of times and I think that's where I went wrong. Because I started and deleted so many playthroughs I kinds ruined the game for me because I experienced it so many times to the point where it got boring. Thanks for everyone's feedback so for

That's all good and well, but if you don't actually enjoy doing the quests then I don't think any back story is going to change that.

Do you not have a job?!