Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-86.136.125.188-20140106151230/@comment-5.151.204.254-20140526204216

Everything about this thread is wrong, although as not everyone plays Skyrim on a PC I can understand why it's here.

The correct answer is: difficulty means nothing. The fact that the game merely alters the amount of damage done makes it an artificial system. What you SHOULD be doing is modding. DCO and Duel are a good start, as they drastically alter the behavior of your enemies, resulting in a NATURAL way to increase the difficulty of the fights.

If all you want is to slide a pointer to make things more difficult then it's just as easy to equip only leather armour and iron weapons. Or stop investing perks in the trees that you actually use. The only people who use the difficulty option (on PC) are those who want all the self-satisfaction of saying they play it at the highest degree of difficulty without actually making the game any harder. Tell them to install DCO and get turned inside out by a gang of ancient dragons with "limit breaks", while a briarheart hacks them apart.