haha get that op bandit i hate em all. but yea i guess i shouldnt have named this thread that because i really did enjoy my DiD. but my point was it could come out of nowhere and when it does it really burns you out

He's not stopped playing Skyrim, he's stopped play DiD.


This I like; kinda like a DiD: Generations, or something, lol.

I'm playing DiD at the moment and have posted a few times on the official thread that is now dead itself.

My character however isn't- Level 15 Khajiit who is currently harbinger of the companions and doing stormcloak quests

However I am only playing on adept, use potions and am generally ultra cautious. Nearest ever to death was when I got mobbed by like 3 bears in the wilderness near falkreath. So nearly died- was only saved by a handy cliff that I could amble to down to separate myself from the bears. I think after playing this my style of play has completely changed from running in and hoping for the best to a far more realistic notion of picking fights that I can win or lose and running like hell if it's one of the latter examples.

I imagine my character will inevitably die (and I would quite like that to occur at some point) but when he does I won't instantly be turned off the playstyle. Most likely I'll just think up a new build completely and do an enitrely different set of quests.

If a Storm Paladin or Berserker Lord comes at my Breton, I'm leaving Skyrim.

Seriously, [censored] those guys. Infinite Blade was an awesome game, but [censored] those guys.

If youre trying to rp a DID character, wouldnt starting another character be just as unchallenging, unrealistic, and immersion breaking as loading previous saves? LOL, there is so much irony in playing a DID character then respawning a new character once you die....

oh he will die alright.after doing many DiDs my advice to you.stay way from giants and be careful in the dwemers. also if you see a bandit who is a sponge holding a 2hw run for your fu@#$# life

I'm still kinda stuck on the fact that you miss your decorated house...

I play to have fun, to entertain myself. If I thought a DiD run would be fun to play, I'd try it. Heck I'd even write a journal for the guy up to the point he was killed. Right now though, I'm just having to much fun playing and quick-saving.

dont worry im sure your playstyle is cool too. and to answer your question-no not at all

That same blade killed my Lydia on my DID. My character was so heartbroken by her untimely death he threw himself on the blade and joined her in Sovangarde. Ended that playthrough.

Funniest one I heard was a level 25 being killed by a mud crab.

I think that's to be expected though from a DID play through? Surely, the anti-climix is the point. To leave you feeling down about it.

thats awesome i love the loyalty

I think most people go into DiD expecting (to paraphrase the Old Orc) a "good death". A warrior's death, a death at the hands of one of the most bad-ass enemies in the game. So that the "OMG THAT WAS AWESOME!" acts as compensation for the time sunk into the character. Dying to a pitiful mud-crab leaves you feeling numb and empty.

I think you're taking this a bit too seriously. It's not like someone is looking over your shoulder. If you are that attached just reload.

IMO, dead is dead is absurdly stupid and a huge waste of time. What's the point of playing if you're going to delete the character if you die? That is not fun, at all, and offers nothing to the gameplay experience for me.

That is my opinion, however, and I truly do not care if you disagree with it or not.

you just dont get it...

_{My lamest death in DiD was when I fell off a, literally, 5 foot rock. I think it must've been a glitch, because it was a TINY fall. Maybe she accidentally smacked her head off the rock} Very anti-climatic, but I let it happen anyways.

how is it a waste of time if your having fun doing it? i get that its not for you but to call it absurdly stupid is well stupid

If you don't want to fine, but let people who want to do it?

DiD is just too bold for me. I don't want to waste 30 hours of my life only to delete it all away from a silly death.

If I ever DID'ed, I wouldn't be out exploring Dwemer ruins.

Yeah, that's what happened to me.

I charge the Bandit, striking him twice. His health bar BUDGED. He turned at me, raising his weapon. I blocked it, and my health went down to a fraction of what it was. I thought for half a second as he raised his weapon again, and sprinted away as fast as I could. I paused long enough to heal myself back to full, and turned, barely raising my shield in time to block another attack. I bashed, the bandit staggering back slightly, which gave me enough time to flee again, healing myself back to full health. This time, when I turned, I was too slow, and I saw the animation. The damned animation.

The Bandit grabbed my character, rammed his greatsword through my stomach, lifted my over his head, and slammed me back onto the ground.

And THAT, dear children, is how you go out like a badass.

it was my first one. and my cocky breton thought he couldnt be stopped in his new nightingale armor

I think I know the blade trap you mentioned. It killed my level 37 Orc, in his full Legendary Dragonbone, in two swings.

That sealed my opinions on the Dwemer disappearance. It was [censored] traps that did it.

Edit: @Sinistar: Actually, I didn't. Oddly enough, I possess a quality known as self-control, and obligation. I said that if little Tummas bit the dust, his save file would spend eternity in Oblivion.

And, actually, I never even had the opportunity to save, other than autosaves. I only had him for about six hours, because I was playing on Master.

One of the reasons I like it is because even a year from now there will still be dungeons and quests in the game I havent been to or done yet. If you don't play DiD, you tend to rush through the content a lot faster.

I have been playing DiD since Oblivion though and I also play it in most of the other games such as Fallout 3/NV. Its something I have gotten use to over the years. I bought Oblivion in 2006 the day it hit the stores and there are still a number of quests and dungeons I haven't even explored yet.

This is the biggy. There are only so many dungeons and quests to do with a particular character, and DiD really extends the fun further out for a character because doing little rinky dink dungeons no longer is just "*Yawn*, I'll take these guys out, and if something surprises and kills me, no biggie", it becomes "What kind of dangers lurk around the next corner?" Stuff like aura whisper actually become viable options.

At people saying they do dead is dead on Master though, I think that is a bit much. Master difficulty already pushes you to a particular playstyle in the early levels. I think Expert works best for DiD. Challenging, but allows for more flexibility in character builds.


Me thinks you haven't played D2 if you think there isn't a community of players who are really willing to risk losing hundreds of hours to a lightning enhanced named coming out of the blue and killing you. Sure, eventually the chicken mod was created and let people back out of death on hardcoe, but people played it before then.