The game landscape is HUMONGOUS and varied. The weather changes from day to day and people's opinions of you change with the events that pass and how you deal with them. It's like getting up and stepping into another world and culture (for weeks or months at a time). Between Vardenfel, Solstheim and Mournhold and all the politics, factions, quests, and various goings on it's not at all a boring place to get caught up into for a break from the daily grind. Even if you've played it before, there are all sorts of options and variations you can go back and try another way and come up with an entirely different adventure. I vastly overpaid for this game just trying to get Amazon to understand the difference between Elder Scrolls 3 and the Game of the Year Edition which is about 3 times LARGER and more involved. But I am VERY happy with my Game of the Year Edition.