i care for nobody, no not i, if nobody cares for me

[muladhara]

I'm actually getting a little bored with Skyrim now. I mean, it is still fun running around, but the plot's really not engaging me. Though I've killed two blood dragons and that makes me happy. What irritates me the most is that it's far too easy to get sidetracked. I don't mind in principal (because it doesn't bug me when I'm playing Mass Effect, for example), but I suppose this just isn't that interesting to me?? IDK.

In other Elder Scrolls related news, I saw a copy of Morrowind for the original Xbox, and almost bought it, before I remembered I had no interest in the series, really (I'm seriously only really playing right now to complete the main plot, the scenery, and the music).

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I am contemplating playing The Witcher 2 (because the original Witcher was PC only) and basically my only reasons are "Reg played it and she liked it so ?????"

I feel this is not a good reason.

(Not that Reg doesn't have good taste, she does! But I essentially know nothing about it!)

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I was going to write today, and then today disappeared somewhere and now I haven't done anything except open a few writing blogs. Um, whoops.

(Though it doesn't help that I don't really know what I want to work on, except that really none of it is any of the ideas I have on the go).

Comments

[selenicdistance]

What irritates me the most is that it's far too easy to get sidetracked. I don't mind in principal (because it doesn't bug me when I'm playing Mass Effect, for example)

The thing about Skyrim (and TES as a whole, I guess, though I haven't played and have no interest in playing the older games) that is make-or-break is that getting sidetracked is the point: the vast, vast, vast vast vast bulk of the game is what in any other game would be called sidequests.

In Mass Effect, which I love more than I love Skyrim, the player is given opportunity and incentive to explore, and each game has different ways of letting the player focus on individual party members or galactic factions rather than the main quest, but eventually everything is Saren Saren Saren/Collectors Collectors Collectors/Reapers Reapers Reapers again. In the second and third games, this is enforced -- a main quest happens, and then you're given two or three "quest-lengths" to do other stuff, and then a main quest appears on your galaxy map again, demanding your attention with varying degrees of insistence on a scale from "uh, when you have the chance, Shepard, could you maybe come talk to us on the Citadel" to "EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE HERE AND YOU'RE COMING TO HELP US RIGHT NOW."

Whereas in Skyrim...well, yeah, there's that thing about dragons, sure...but also there's a war on...and something's up with those assassins...and hey, how do you feel about werewolves?

You can care about the main quest, but the game doesn't really put any effort into making you. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on the player. In my case, I generally stumble across one of the handful of Really Big Questlines, stick with it until the end, and then walk away from the game out of fatigue. I can't focus on Skyrim as "the game I'm playing" for very long before I start to feel burned out.

[muladhara]

Oh OK, that makes sense.

Whereas in Skyrim...well, yeah, there's that thing about dragons, sure...but also there's a war on...and something's up with those assassins...and hey, how do you feel about werewolves?

Yeah, I think that's what's lacking and not giving me the drive to continue (though continuing I am. I think I'm nearly at the end of the main quest anyway. Though I thought that a couple of days ago, so honestly who knows???)

I think I am actually burnt out at this point - this would possibly be a good place to go back to P4A for a bit (I'm not so far from the end of that). Skyrim seems like it might be a good game for picking up for a few hours here and there when I'm not really sure what else to do.