If you or anyone wants to know what, why, who, or whatever, just click my sig. Add it to your sig, to show you are a DID player.

Definitely not. I'm not restarting just because of a freak accident.

dead is dead? is that a gametype or just something you made up? however i would still save incase of random crashes bethesda games are known for.

Thanks for the explanation. I went and deleted the rant sentence btw.

Well, you make the rules, basicly. If you run into a bug, or an obscure accident, like if a NPC walks and slowly pushes you over a ledge while you're peeing in your Skyrim-Pee-Bottle AFK'ing. It's your choice if you want to load or not.


Added explanation link in the OP

Having watched a guy get literally one-shotted by a giant only to be completely obliterated by a dragon not 5 minutes later I think I'm good with loading for now.

Giants are not aggressive unless you attack them first. That guy was reckless and got what was coming to him.

DiD players always play safe.

I would totally do that. I love it. Other games actually have a mode like that, one i know for sure tho is strategy rpg game WB3. (scared of saying the game title name) lol.

Like it should be played imo. But, everyone's got a different view on things like this! I like the enhanced feeling of achievement!

Well, play safer any way. It's about strategy, cunning, strength, and all that other stuff Gunny said.

I hope a big [censored] giant smash all you people to pieces right after you get out of that prison/cave in the beginning...

It would be funny watching you run like hell after running into your first snow troll at lv 10~ish.

Not gonna happen, sorry

It's not for everyone, steve

Well, nothing more painful then a simple tutorial load then.

I won't play dead is dead, cause eveyone has accidents, but i'll probably give each characters like 3 main quest deaths, if i can beat it in under 3 deaths, i'll reroll.

Go really hardcoe and play Mario Bros 1 style. No saves. Now that's a role play! (kidding obviously)

It depends on the accident. Check my sig.

I plan to. Because it just adds to the excitement. Knowing that each enemy encounter could be your last. In Oblivion, you know where all the bad stuff is, and the great and epic goods. It's more exciting than your average replay, but playing DID totally blind, picturing yourself in the characters position, making those choices like YOU would make them, makes the RPG that much more exciting. I plan on making many, many, many playthroughs anyway. Starting another type of character, doing a completely different route, just increases the replay value of a game that is already very high. Only each time, it is truly a different experience, with different discoveries.

I will follow a certain questline of a given faction. If I don't make it, I'll follow another the next time. After several characters, I'll repeat the questline that I had previously failed. I have spent a lot of time, and a lot of ways, trying to play the game differently, trying to get that first high. The high I got from my first playthrough. The mistake I made then, was doing everything the game had to offer in one single playthrough with one single character. In a sense, it ruined the potential of every playthrough after that. I will not make that mistake with Skyrim.

That is exactly why I got so addicted to DID characters. Its the hart pounding excitement I get from close calls, knowing it could all end. It brings the game to a whole new level. You get deeper into it than normal and pay closer attention to what you are doing. You actually THINK before you just run into a cave willy-nilly. You plan more and play better. It took just one time, for me to get hooked. This was playing FONV, where I had been several time over. I'm currently going through Oblivion with one.

Hell, we even have a thread, with a graveyard, listing all the fallen characters of players. http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1250157-the-oblivion-dead-is-dead-thread-ii/ Still, I have been through Oblivion again and again. Playing DID, in a game you know by heart, fails in comparison to going through a new game completely blind. I can't wait.

Was I upset when I lost my first character? Damn right I was. But it was due to my own stupidity. After that, if I tried to continue any character, it made me feel dirty. Like I was using an exploit. The character lost all it's meaning, and I lost all interest in continuing.

I'll have to pass on DiD. I'm always doing stupid things in games like jumping off high places into water so I manage to kill my characters off a lot. Playing DiD, I'd never make it to the first town.

It would also be funny watching you run into a certain fire mage for the first time... Po hohohoho

Well, it would teach me a lesson, it would make me step even more careful, or i could reload the game, just pow wow, and defeat him. No real fun, not for me atleast..

I dare to say, this is just about, impossible - and to my knowledge, it has never been done. Do you know of anyone who pulled it off?

Dead is Dead is not really recommendable, for several reasons, for a first playthrough in a game like Skyrim. You would simply miss
out on too much stuff since you have to play in a very different and much, much more careful way that you would otherwise. Exploring
would be severely hampered for one. Can't take any chances and got to keep all risks at a minimum, or you will never pull it off. The
less you get to see and do, the better off you are since it lowers your chance of death, of having to restart. A minimum of fighting is of
course a given since when fighting, you often die - no matter how "l33t" you are. Simply put, you would pretty much ruin the game
experience for yourself. Then of course, the chances of success gets a little bigger if you try and only go for a bare-bones minimum
content type playthrough ala the speedruns. But then again, you will just cheat yourself out of what looks to perhaps be one of the
greatest gaming experience ever. This said - try a Dead is Dead later on, just for the heck of it and see how far you can make it
before dying...sure, why not. Just not for a fresh run in a game never played before. It will NOT enhance the experience, trust me.
All it will do is to ruin it, big time.

But hey, your game - play it any way you like...

Just saying.

Never.

Wouldn't add anything to my experience, and I would start over a lot. I play a hero, and heroes takes chances, and taking chances means reloading a lot. Taking chances is what gives me the thrill.

I wont lie I have actually toyed with the idea. I think id have to have a test character first though just to put the ganme through its paces. I dont know if someone can fill me in but I read somewhere that when you very first play a game it can do some pretty odd things after which it settles down. Anyways the jury is still out on this one.

Not on my first playthrough, but probably from the second on