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Machete posted...

I just recently got into Skyrim again. It's harder than Morrowind for sure. I was able to basically break Morrowind by getting my character so OP that she could survive Icarian Flight suicide jump scrolls (and wouldn't even take fall damage from jumping off the pyramid-ish structures in Vivec), could beat optional bosses without taking damage (one of them couldn't even see her and just paced back and forth while talking lol) and had a weapon that would take like a week's worth of resting/waiting in game to recharge. Even the elite guards in the Tribunal expansion city would run away if I aggro'd them because they were that much weaker. My speechcraft was so high that I could just buy anything from any vendor and immediately sell it back to them for a profit.

No such breaking in Skyrim, but I can generally kill anything I encounter unless I get swarmed by a bunch of stuff all at once and my Khajiit follower goes down, but I'm playing as a mage/one handed fighter hybrid, so with a few mage items, my armor is pretty low. I also had a few dragons get away because they refused to land or had no place to land where I could get to them -_-

Yeah, the fighting mechanics are definitely superior in Skyrim. I don't really mind that Morrownd can break so easily, as I play Morrowind more for its quests. I find it the most immersive somehow.

Also, if you need to be challenged or appreciate the challenge more, play with only one life. Ironman/dead is dead, whatever you want to call it. But one life only, you die, the save is over. It might sound like a bitch, but it's so satisfying getting to level 20 knowing you did it all one one life. On the reverse, it's so frutstrating dying.

It is extremely fun, you take every single combat encounter very seriously. You study a cave intensely before you even consider going in. However, a warning: When I started doing that, I thought "Eh, I'll play dead is dead as long as I can, but if I die, I'll just keep playing or play a non dead is dead save, no big deal I don't care that much."

The problem is, you become addicted to that adrenaline rush of those encounters. ANd if you try to play a save you died on, you feel unsatisfied, it feels like cheating because it's like "I died, I shouldn't be playing this."

So I'll stand by that it is the best way, and it makes you respect default Bethesda difficulty, but just warn that once you go there, there's no going back. Fine by me though, I love the experience. I'm sure speedrunners can't ever play a game they speedrun normally again, it's kind of like that.

vigorm0rtis posted...

If you say "I'm a conspiracy theorist" you're not a conspiracy theorist.

I think you're saying that in the sense of, if I'm self aware then I can't use that term. The term is usually only used by people criticizing these people, not the people themselves. But that isn't really true regardless. I have theories... about conspiracies. The only difference is, I don't lie to myself that I'm not a conspiracy theorist, like so many others like me do.