For those who love this game, I have some honest questions.

I started playing this on Saturday and wanted to give it a fair attempt before deciding if it was for me. I'm about 13-14hrs in, so far, and have only ran into my first Greymane buddy. Still questing around the initial area.

Are all quests like this? I talk to a guy about whatever. It's about a 2-5 minute conversation, depending on the quest, but he never really tells me where I should look or go. However, after the dialogue, I get the quest marker on my map and just run to it to progress the quest. Literally no thinking involved. No need to decipher where to go or understand what's going on. It feels very MMO like with these quest lines, which I find mindless and dull.

How many hours should I be investing to get the full feel for the game to make my decision? I already feel like I need to force myself to keep pushing through, but I keep getting the urge to simply play a different game.

Honestly, the thing that got me to pick it up the most was seeing a clip of someone riding a dragon. I absolutely love the fantasy of being a powerful dragonrider, so wanted to give it a shot. I assumed this would be more of a mid to late game thing, and was fine with that. I had also heard there was so much to do in this game and was interested to see if I would just lose myself in it, but that isn't happening yet.

The better quests are when you arent recruiting greymanes.

Every quest, aside from bounties, has been the same, up to this point in my playthrough.

Lathspell said:

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For those who love this game, I have some honest questions.

I started playing this on Saturday and wanted to give it a fair attempt before deciding if it was for me. I'm about 13-14hrs in, so far, and have only ran into my first Greymane buddy. Still questing around the initial area.

Are all quests like this? I talk to a guy about whatever. It's about a 2-5 minute conversation, depending on the quest, but he never really tells me where I should look or go. However, after the dialogue, I get the quest marker on my map and just run to it to progress the quest. Literally no thinking involved. No need to decipher where to go or understand what's going on. It feels very MMO like with these quest lines, which I find mindless and dull.

How many hours should I be investing to get the full feel for the game to make my decision? I already feel like I need to force myself to keep pushing through, but I keep getting the urge to simply play a different game.

Honestly, the thing that got me to pick it up the most was seeing a clip of someone riding a dragon. I absolutely love the fantasy of being a powerful dragonrider, so wanted to give it a shot. I assumed this would be more of a mid to late game thing, and was fine with that. I had also heard there was so much to do in this game and was interested to see if I would just lose myself in it, but that isn't happening yet.

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You can get a dragon later in the main story quest. You can get a wyvern at any point if you are determined. There are guides on YouTube

The quests are definitely some of my biggest complaints of the game. Most of the side quests are bland and repetitive. I absolutely hate some of them. Anything that involves me sitting on a horse waiting for someone to go or ride a wagon around irritates me.

The trick to this game is to just let go of a schedule or a checklist of doing things and go wandering about. Do a couple of quests and then just go looking for stuff that looks interesting. Stumble into bandit camps and fight, go to other areas and get your butt kicked by overpowered enemies for your level. Look for caves behind waterfalls and pick up some really cool gear.
But to the point of gathering your fellow Greymanes, it builds into a really useful camp. You eventually get all kinds of different storage (including a refrigerator) at your house on the cliff. You get all the different types of shops and merchants in your camp. etc etc etc
The witch quests are some of my favorites. you unlock knew abyss gears and powers with those. But mainly get lost and have fun. see something that catches your eye? Go check it out. See a mountain that you want to see if you can get to the top of it? Give it a try. The exploration is unmatched for my tastes.