Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.77.73.35-20140401211532/@comment-24349111-20141113190955

Galraen wrote: " It is just that game mechanics =/= lore" You are joking aren't you? That is a ludicrous statement given that game mechanics change with every game. I'm not joking.

It makes no sense how underpowered the Thu'um appears to be in Skyrim even though it is described to be enormously powerful in in-game books. The simple reason for that is gameplay and game mechanics.

Making the player ridiculously OP would take the fun away very fast.