Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-109.152.70.181-20131231073113/@comment-145.53.42.217-20140506213551

As stated before on this thread, everyone should find their own way to enjoy Skyrim as much as they can. I like a bit of realism as well. Or maybe a more suitable term: consistent with the fantasy world I play in.

So I would like it to be realistic, but since I play on xbox or macbook air, I can't get to any mods. Without mods, there's no good way to increase the realism factor. Legendary difficulty is just insane, especially when you're not playing an assasin, sure you should drop quickly when hit by something very strong, but having to hit a guy 30 times with a huge battleaxe or something doesn't make much sense either. I support the position that until the difficulty system in the Elder Scrolls games is improved (higher = better AI, damage taken and done can be altered individually), there's no point in playing on legendary unless I want to be annoyed all the time, want to take a longer time to kill everything, or want to have to really manage my potions and magica. For me the sweet spot is master, because it at least requires some caution to run around in the wilderness.

As to not using certain skills. The only thing I never do is use smithing enchanting and alchemy together to create ridiculously overpowered potions, enchantments and armor. Individually they are decently balanced though, so I don't throw them out of the window entirely.

Obviously everyone wants to be proud of their 'achievements' in the game and create their perfect character, I got into that for a while too. I realised though, that the beauty of the game doesn't really lie in it's levelling system or it's combat system, but in it's storylines and variety of locations and characters.