User blog comment:Jimeee/Skyrim 1.9 beta update adds Legendary difficulty and raises level cap (Updated Apr 8th)/@comment-99.23.162.183-20130328143528/@comment-5185283-20130330092501

It's Bethesda, of course it would be gimmicky. It would still be pretty fun, though. I don't know why they didn't include some sort of arena in Skyrim.