Wow. My drawer has the following games unplayed and unwrapped:


The reason - Oblivion. Those games will be played sometime later in my life, but there is almost always time for Oblivion, especially now that I have Integration Integrated. Sometimes I dream of it and that is a little disturbing. Perhaps I am turning into Tom Hanks. My attitude toward Skyrim soon turned to 'bah humbug' and now I'm contemplating reinstalling Morrowind and going through all the bother of downloading all the mods I had before.

Are you stuck like me? Not really impressed with Skyrim, not in a hurry to try other games and pushing them back so that there is more time for Cyrodiil? I recently had to review Red Tails the movie, and the 15 minutes into it realized that I would have been more entertained by the mundane task of finding the shipwreck's survivors somewhere in Shivering Isles. Not because the movie was bad, but because Oblivion has such an internal high rating with me for no good reason. Oblivion is not a new, exciting experience for me, but more like a pacifier.

Yes, except it's Oblivion/Skyrim Stockholm Syndrome with me. I'm a massive Star Wars fan, was in the Beta of The Old Republic and have money saved up for the base game and nearly a year's worth of subscription fees but I can't get interested enough to buy the game. I'm still still too involved in my current Oblivion character and planning stages of at least two Skyrim characters. The same with Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. One of SubRosa's videos tempted me to want to give Fallout 3 another chance but I just can't get around to it. Or Dragon Age 2 (I'm actually kind of curious to see if I'd think it was as bad as everybody else). I've been wanting to play Bioshock and the Mass Effect series since 2007. It's all clear to me now: I'm never getting free of the Elder Scrolls, never. I'm stuck here for the rest of eternity. *Al Pacino voice* "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in."

I have a bunch of games still in the shrink wrapped plastic thanks to the Elder Scrolls. Besides a few other games all I play anymore is ones in the Elder Scroll series. Some days I will play Daggerfall while others will be Skyrim or one of the other ones. I don't see any reason to get any more games if they are just going to sit there unopened.

I haven't been buying many games because to TES also. I'll at least play them if I get them, but they usually get shelved within a week or so.

I didn't even know Mass Effect 3 was coming out in a month. I probably won't buy it for several months either.

Well, I wouldn't waste your time or money on DA2. Went from a game/IP I loved to something... I disliked intensely. But yeah... Skyrim has me rather enchanted and engrossed. I did just do a 2.5 hours in Reckoning though, and I like it. It's a pretty game, and I needed a little break from Skyrim, but I can tell it won't absorb me the way Skyrim has.

As for SWTOR - I was given the game and 3 month sub as a Christmas gift from my boyfriend - we like play MMOs... but I just can't get into it. So I will play for an hour hear and there, just leveling a smuggler and having fun with my guildmates and stuff, but then I kind of wander off. Back to hunting down dragon priests, or climbing snowy cliffs, listening to the gorgeous soundtrack...*wanders out of thread with a vague expression on her face*

I will say that Dragon Age Origins, The Witcher and the two Mass Effect games were games I love and played very intensely, but it wasn't until the grip of Oblivion had subsided. It was odd -I played Oblivion steadily - and frequently exclusively - from release in 2006... and then one day, 1000s of hours, 100s of mods and several years later... I was suddenly just done. Morrowind was almost an identical experience. I have dipped into MW here and there, but Oblivion I have not. One day, perhaps. But now I have Skyrim.

I know what you mean. I had that same experience with Morrowind years ago. It's not that I think Morrowind is a bad game - far from it - it's just that somehow I suddenly felt it was over for me, as you say.

To be honest I'm having a little trouble getting into my current Oblivion character and I'm beginning to wonder if I'm hitting that point with Oblivion now. I'm going to give this character a few more hours before I call it quits. I feel like I owe the game a few more hours, just to make sure.

I probably will never actually play DA2 unless somebody gives me a free copy. Which is to say, I will probably never play DA2. And I think the real reason I can't bring myself to buy SWTOR is because I think I will do exactly what you describe: play for an hour or two here and there and then, distracted, wander back to hunting Dragon Priests, climbing snowy cliffs and listening to Skyrim's soundtrack (follows behind Leydenne with vague expression on his face)*


*which is indistinguishable from my usual facial expression.

The main deterent for me to give Skyrim more chances is that auto-kill-player for enemies. My level 50 must dance on eggshells or else some level 20 bandit will auto-win. After the 20th time it became clear that it wasn't possible for my armored char to be the crowd dodging hero. 147 hours was more than enough to finish Skyrim and the aftergame is lacking because there are no large mods for it yet, not KoTN and no SI.

I admit that my stockholm has soured my approach to a new TES because my brain thinks it knows how a TES should be and Skyrim didn't match it.

I know exactly what you mean, I am SoulCalibur fan and I am having a latest game at standby mode because of Oblivion and Skyrim.
Same with many other games, I somehow cant't free myself from Tes.
Not that I want to....

Lol. I've got DA2 on my shelf. I think I played it for about half an hour. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it, I just don't have time really for any additional gaming, Oblivion and Skyrim take so much time. But I'm also curious to see if DA2 is as bad as all these other gamers have said it is.

One thing for sure: DA2 didn't "wow" me the way Oblivion did from the very start. I found myself confused at the beginning of DA2 (after the cut-scenes died away and I was "on my own"). I found myself not really caring whether or not I would get over my confusion. I just wanted to quit the game and fire up Oblivion.

DA:2 wouldn't of been that terrible had it been It's own game and not a sequel to a really good game. Bioware kind of crapped all over DA:O and twisted its sequel into not what most of us were expecting. I gamefly'd it and played through it once, was mildly entertained but incredibly happy I didn't buy it.

@OP I feel your sentiment, I played Skyrim and was just kind of going through the motions. Wasn't unhappy with it but wasn't really all that stoked about it either. I realized what I really wanted to do is start OB back up, which I did and man I love this game.

Even as a standalone game, dragon age 2 just isnt acceptable as a game this generation, let alone from bioware and especially with such a large publisher backing them. That it's a sequel is just an utter disgrace. It's the only game ever released where I've felt ripped off and that the company did a bad job, not because I have some standards.

On topic, I'm sort of in a stockholm over the WRPG approach to games right now. I've gotten hordes of other games, but I'm so stuck down with skills and personalising armour and stuff that I can't stray too far from the genre, which is a horrible shame because I have a few gems lined up. The only reason I would look back to Morrowind from skyrim is because Skyrim had a lot more you can do with your character. Oblivion had more too, but I feel that everything else skyrim improved upon from oblivion counters that.

Oh and God I wish they removed the autokill from enemies. I don't think anyone wants to see themselves killed by an enemy stylishly, and most of the time I could of survived easily by changing tactics. If I get the PC version it will be the first error I bother to correct in the game's design.