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Sometimes mods can fix these issues, but Skyrim is really boring in general. The landscape is surprisingly small and empty, and the towns are barren too.

Every play Morrowind? You might like that one better--loads of quests and content that doesn't always step over itself. There's like, seven main plots of quests you can follow, and then there's like, what, seven more guilds you can finish? A shit ton of content, and not much repetition outside of basic gameplay. All the different stuff helps the game feel more populated and active.

Morrowind has aged rather poorly. Even with the extensive mod makeover, it still doesn't fix the poor dialogue system and the combat is horrific. Dice-roll combat is just really dumb, especially when it involves stabbing madly at a stationary mudcrab and missing more than half the time.

Plus the mod lagged everything to shit. I thought it was just my low-grade computer specs but my friend, with much higher specs, says it lags for him too.

I'm going to retry playing Oblivion though, I hated it the first time I gave it a whirl but maybe the second time around it'll be a bit better.

But in all honesty you should probably just play New Vegas. I enjoyed Skyrim in a sort of mindless repetition sort of way but it has one overwhelming flaw, and that's every mission basically being the same thing. It's always just going somewhere and killing something. It works fine in Dragon's Dogma and, to a lesser extent, in Kingdoms of Amalur where combat is a big focus (Dragon's Dogma does have some of the best combat in a RPG period), but in Skyrim, where the combat is pretty bad, having every mission involving killing the same enemies gets a bit dull. I've probably clocked over 100+ hours in the game and I'll probably end up playing more someday but the flaws become rather evident if you step away from the game for a second.

Just completed Saints Row 2. My original impression that it was a desperate GTA wannabe changed as I played it and towards the end I was rather enjoying it. Looking forward to playing Saints Row the Third.
Many people have told me the second is much better. The Third is still worth a shot though.

I'd say The Third is better but it fell a bit short for me. Like it's nice that they made it more silly but they didn't improve the game as much as I would've wanted. A better hand-to-hand combat and shooting system would be better. The Godfather has a surprisingly solid hand-to-hand combat system so taking a bit from that would be good and I'd think some type of bullet-time Max Payne style action would work with their whole run-and-gun approach. But it still feels very much like the same engine and I also found the side missions to be dumb (I hate escort missions and like half the side mission paths were escort this person to there).
 
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I just spent my 1000th hour in Skyrim.
My hat of to you sir. :gba:
Wow, that's really really impressive. I love Skyrim and all too but I'll never get 1000th hours in it. Or ANY game for that matter. The most I've done so far is 400 hours in CoD MW2, that's it.

Also, Skyrim isn't bland or dull, bullshit. The locations looks stunning and the atmosphere is just so chilling at times.
 
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I just spent my 1000th hour in Skyrim.
My hat of to you sir. :gba:
Wow, that's really really impressive. I love Skyrim and all too but I'll never get 1000th hours in it. Or ANY game for that matter. The most I've done so far is 400 hours in CoD MW2, that's it.

Also, Skyrim isn't bland or dull, bullshit. The locations looks stunning and the atmosphere is just so chilling at times.

I spent around 700 in Oblivion and around 1200 in Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda games are just too cool IMO. They're well worth the $60 + any DLC I've spent on them. Hell, I've only spent 40 days in Runescape in comparison.
 

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Finished Dead Money in Fallout: New Vegas for the first time. Wanted to hang myself for the first few hours of it though... Once you get into the casino it gets pretty good though. Aiming to finally complete an entire playthough of New Vegas w/DLC by the end of the week, only have Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, and the final quest for Yes Man left. Played about 40 hours of the game last year and got sidetracked... Started over a couple weeks ago and have about 60 hours in now...
 

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I've attained a top 10 rank on my favourite TF2 server! For this month
Basically the more/better you play, the more points you get, and the higher you get in the rank! I'm now 10 of about 640 people who played this month.
 

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I just spent my 1000th hour in Skyrim.
Wow. Here I thought I played Skyrim a lot at 130 or so hours. 100 on my main character, 30 on all my others.
I got to about 70 hours and then just gave up. There is only so much repetition one can handle in a game...

While the repetition can get pretty bad (I hope you like killing Draugr!), the endless loading killed it for me in the end.

Let's say, for example, you want to do one of the (boring and repetitive) Thieves Guild quests in order to the rebuild the guild and fully complete the questline. You have to head to Riften (LOADING SCREEN), then take the secret entrance (LOADING SCREEN), enter the bar part of the hideout (LOADING SCREEN), get your inane quest and head back to the previous area (LOADING SCREEN), head back outside to Riften (LOADING SCREEN), fast travel to the correct city (LOADING SCREEN), sneak into the building/house (LOADING SCREEN), take what you need and leave (LOADING SCREEN), head back to Riften (LOADING SCREEN), take the secret entrance (LOADING SCREEN), go to the bar area (LOADING SCREEN), talk to the right person and collect your paycheck. If you want to do another quest, it all begins anew...

That's 11 loading screens you have to deal with. I had my game installed and they were still slow and boring; I can't imagine how bad it was for people who didn't install the game.

I think I got a 100 hours or so from the game, but (for me at least) there comes a point where you realize your not having fun anymore; it becomes more like doing your taxes than anything else. I turned to playing through Beyond Good and Evil HD and I'm just loving it.
 
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it becomes more like doing your taxes than anything else.
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Morrowind has aged rather poorly. Even with the extensive mod makeover, it still doesn't fix the poor dialogue system and the combat is horrific. Dice-roll combat is just really dumb, especially when it involves stabbing madly at a stationary mudcrab and missing more than half the time.

Plus the mod lagged everything to shit. I thought it was just my low-grade computer specs but my friend, with much higher specs, says it lags for him too.
Which mod? I know of at least two, or three, overhaul mods which compact several graphical mods together into one large mod, and this is just begging for problems, as most of these mods are not from the same creator--possible incompatibilities, part 1. Then, whichever optimizations were made are most likely very provincial, and while they may have worked great for others (the person who compiled the mods, and youtubers show the most recent graphics overhaul compilation runs without problems), their builds are not our builds.

Luckily, most of the mods within the overhaul can be downloaded as standalone titles, such as the tree and landscape changes, and the textures. There are also mods which remove the dice-roll combat, but it's a thing of taste. I personally don't mind it, as it really makes your skill level worth something, as you will actually have feedback as to your skill. The realism may suffer in knowing that your strikes are being withheld due to a number-game, but at the same time, realism is shafted in Skyrim where you can virtually kill everything in your path regardless of your skill or ability. You fucking assault mountain bears for christ's sake! :P The only big time I was turned off by it was during stealth gameplay, where you successively creep up to do a killing strike and the number-roll costs you the kill, and in the process, your cover. Naturally, fans have created mods which will only correct stealth-based kills, either through guaranteeing the strike, or by making specific weapon types 100% hit under certain conditions. Bows have a mod that will guarantee a hit so long as your accuracy is also proficient enough to hit a target.

That's the great thing about a modding community: when we find something lacking or problematic, we have the opportunity to fix it. If you are going to give Oblivion a try, I would definitely recommend slugging through the unique locations, unique dungeons, and OOO mods, in addition to numerous others. My last load order, from 2009, effectively turned the game into a first-person roguelike, like what Notch intended Minecraft to be. You could literally play the game anyway you wanted and you never felt like you were overly powerful--monsters are no longer leveled, so stronger enemies are in certain locations. Looting dungeons are an effective, if only viable way to get money. Shit costs a ton. Becoming more powerful is dependent on the player's desire to accrue their power--unlike Skyrim, where it's simply a matter of pressing the action button, following a compass, and killing scaled dragons without any difficulty :(

Personally, I'm just afraid of what the next games from Bethesda will look like, at the rate they're going. Elderscrolls 6 or Fallout 4 look like they're going to be games where you hold forward, press your action button, and win, with the amount of streamlining done in the quests, and the dwindling amount of content (you can fucking scale an entire country, Skyrim, in only an hour. Not even. not cool bethesda)
 

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Didn't do much today, but I'm giving a try at boss rush mode on Kid Icarus: Uprising for the first time in a long while (in the middle of it right now).
I ended up dying on boss 23 in that try, but I gave another try just a short while ago, and I beat boss battle mode for the first time. I even had one "Drink of the Gods" to spare at the end. :)
 

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If you are going to give Oblivion a try, I would definitely recommend slugging through the unique locations, unique dungeons, and OOO mods, in addition to numerous others.

A couple of years ago I fixed all the best OOO mods, highest settings and really maxed Oblivion out. Then I started playing vanilla Skyrim when it came out. It was a step down, graphically ^^
 

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Skyrim is the first Elder Scrolls game I have played. I would like to go back and try the others, something to work forward to I guess. I shall definitely keep Morrowind in mind.

Keep in mind that the fight mechanics are somewhat different in Morrowind. It's like a dice roll everytime you swing your sword, so even if you see your five foot sword pass right through the enemy model, the game might decide that you miss 6 times out of 10... :P
It's a great game, but that little part is very annoying to me. (also, there is no fast traveling, except using a taxi-beast... forces you to walk and discover things in a good way!)

Oh, and this is my 3000th post. Yay me!
That's quite alright, I usually tend to use bows anyways, plus I love exploring! Slash, congrats on 3000 posts! I'm hoping I get there someday :P
But in all honesty you should probably just play New Vegas. I enjoyed Skyrim in a sort of mindless repetition sort of way but it has one overwhelming flaw, and that's every mission basically being the same thing. It's always just going somewhere and killing something. It works fine in Dragon's Dogma and, to a lesser extent, in Kingdoms of Amalur where combat is a big focus (Dragon's Dogma does have some of the best combat in a RPG period), but in Skyrim, where the combat is pretty bad, having every mission involving killing the same enemies gets a bit dull. I've probably clocked over 100+ hours in the game and I'll probably end up playing more someday but the flaws become rather evident if you step away from the game for a second.
Heh, funny you should bring up Dragon's Dogma. My bro traded in Skyrim to get DD. I haven't actually played it yet as I am on holidays, but my bro played through it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm hoping to play through it when I get back home.

Bethesda games are just too cool IMO. They're well worth the $60 + any DLC I've spent on them.
That is generally true, although don't get your hopes up with Hunted: Demon Forge. I was just playing it and I am pretty disappointed that it is a Bethesda game. It might get better as I progress, but so far I haven't seem much that I like.
 

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I played Radiant Historia for the first time ever today and got past the first part.
Amazing game, isn't it? I haven't gotten too far into it and haven't played in a while, but I love that game! I need to start playing again...
Some points drag on a bit with the talking, but it is a pretty fun game thus far!
 

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