Help me enjoy skyrim

[Benni88]

Get the Cloaks of Skyrim mod. It's purely aesthetic but it adds a lot to the characters in the world.

 

[Auron]

I enjoyed it, but some mods were required for me to actually like it. Skyui for example, the rest was just some personal choices and one or two sets of armour I liked. Overall I just create a concept. After my first playthrough of Oblivion as Battlemage I rolled a swashbuckler and even though it wasn't as powerful but it was pretty good fun.

Still on my first run of Skyrim though, waiting on Dragonborn to consider it finished.

 

[cikame]

I really love everything in slow motion so i installed the Masters of Time and Space mod, then when i wanted everything to get really epic i'd hit the key and make that slow motion sound with my mouth, like *BCHOOOOOO*.

 

[squidface]

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This encapsulates when I most enjoyed playing skyrim, and when i least enjoyed playing it. trying to get all the achievements, level up everything, loot everywhere etc... makes it boring. it becomes routine and repetitive. but letting it carry you along in the story and the lore and immersing yourself in the world, not just playing in it, is the best way to play it to fully love it.

 

[Matthewmagic]

If you don't like the game, then you don't like it. I personally can't stand call of duty. No matter how I try to play it I'm just burdened by the fact that I'm just not having fun. It is okay to not like a game as popular as skyrim. Stop trying to enjoy a game you don't like and move on to a game you do.

 

[CommanderL]

I agree with the role play thing My new guy is My dark elf from oblivion returning after a long trip away as such he is very for the Imperials as he remember's his strong friend ship with martin He refuses to rob tombs as most of his friends have died and he wouldn't want that to happen to him he only takes linen as he wants it for his cloaks he is going to start very rich and he will start with a level 100 destruction skill and alchemy skill with all the perks and every thing else will start at zero as during his 200 hundred year trip he only used magic and alchemy he cares not for money and is very interested in fighting dragons

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Don't fast travel, try to role play a bit, and if you want to retain any sense of challenge do not grind those enchanting and smithing levels. That said, I enjoyed it plenty until a game-breaking bug with little difficulty.

 

[BrainBlow]

I played the game for well over 250 hours. If you didn't like it then I don't think there's much that can be done.
It's a game played to be immersed in, not to "win". Otherwise no playthrough would last longer than about 40 hours.

 

[Smeatza]

Type TCL into the console

Use Fus-Ro-Dah on somebody several times in a row

Type TCL into the console again

That's the most fun I had in Skyrim. Seen as role playing is impossible if your character wants to interact with NPCs.

 

[smartalec]

Likewise roleplaying.

The most fun I had with Oblivion was in installing a load of mods to improve spellcasting, spell selection, the mage's guild quests, and added in a DLC Mage's stronghold for the player. Then, I made a character, played him as if he was a young, feckless apprentice wizard, and gave him the goal of having been left the deeds to this vast, mysterious wizard's stronghold by a deceased elderly relative, but the terms of the will were contingent on him becoming a fully-trained Mage.

And bingo! All of a sudden, there was an extra dimension for everything he did. I avoided the main quest initially, and steered clear of the Fighter's and Thieves' Guild quests, but did everything else I could find, and it all tied back into my character's overall quest as he tried to find ways to fund his tuition, practice his spellcasting, and earn the right to explore this strange stronghold. And in time, when I eventually did get around to embarking on the main quest, my character had progressed into this powerful Merlin-like character working to combat daedric incursions and guiding the heir to the throne.

Good fun.