User blog comment:Kunigonde/My opinion of the "dumbing Down" of TES Skyrim/@comment-3981749-20130416144532

hey, im all for self-control, i used plenty of it to try and keep the game interesting and played on the highest difficulty (that was available at the time), i only upgraded stuff to a certain point and such.

but i still turned out a god among men, and nothing could kill me.

while the player does have some part in making the game challenging on themselves, the game itself has a much bigger part, Skyrim should have been more challenging in the first place, in my opinion.