Well, change to master difficulty, use the dead is dead ruleset and don't play the combination Smithing, Alchemy, Enchanting. You should be fine now .

lol. So far, I'm getting my butt handed to me on a plate and am having a great time. Maybe you should stick to the games you like and let Beth make the games I like. Thanks.

Never played Daggerfall then eh?

I think Bethesda should do away with the difficulty tiers and just add the slider back. I'm sure that will cure alot of the "the game is too easy" complaints. It sure did with Morrowind when it came out. Heck, Morrowind didn't have a slider when released... imagine the complaining then! There were tons. Probably more than there is right now.

If they cannot add a slider, then add a couple more tiers for the truley insane people. Maybe an insane difficuly and a dovahkiin mode.

I'm more than sure that these will soon exist through mods.

I feel it all depends on how you play the game.

I don't like spellcasting that much. It's a lot more enjoyable to whack the enemies instead of chaincasting fireballs (why can't you hurt youself with them BTW?) in back row. But I suppose a mage would have a lot harder time because the spells don't scale at all.


The game has crazy amounts of content. It feels like I've seen only a glimpse of the world and cities at level 32. The game is only in beginning in relation to the amount of content I've seen and I wouldn't mind if I felt like a god in endgame, but when you have most of the game in front of you and are already a god...


I was just hoping that Bethesda got it "right" at 5th try, what else there is to do than create a thread in forums after feeling the disappointment?


Difficulty doesn't neccessarily need to come from memorizing bossfights. Maybe those were bad examples, what about Severance - Blade of Darkness then? - http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/blade-of-darkness

At least ten years ago the combo-based combat felt good and you had to be careful all the time. I simply expected them to innovate the combat system after using the same thing since at least Morrowind.

True. But there are console gamers to think about. My brother plays on one, so I wish the best expience for him as well.

This, I totally agree. No matter which difficulty you play on, which perk you chose, which stats (health/magicha/stamina) you invested, it feels easy for people who are good with control

THIS GAME WILL BE GAME OF THE YEAR even its for u easy or not...

btw dude u r nerd x1000

i dabt u was playing 20h per day and u end "all" quests and storys in few days and get all max and u telling me now that its to easy ??

maybe for u yes but for 98% ppl its not trust me...

and liek some1 else said before

wanna elder scroll hard ?? go play OBLIVION on Hardest Dificult !!

Decided to try following because there are no mods yet and it feels silly to leave a good game unfinished:

I will throw away my Daedric plate, give my companion his old steel plate set, craft new ebony weapons for us and ebony plate for me (found them from monsters). I won't improve them in workbench.

I will not use crafting anymore. I won't buy anything from vendors and I will dump my vendor-bought amulets&rings. Maybe with those artificial changes I will have some challenge again!

Threads like this seriously make me lmao.... Like, what is the point of this thread besides you whining that skyrim is too easy. If you dont like it, dont play it. simple as that. Just dont make it overly obvious how much you do not like the difficulty of the game. Skyrim is epic... it's art, breathtaking, poetry haha. I personally think that its one of the best games ive ever played, nothing is perfect in this entire world. including video games. Try and look past some of this ridiculously benign factor and enjoy the game.

Statement like this is the dumbest reply and sadly, it comes out from time to time. You add absolutely nothing to the discussion. How about don't bother to reply if you don't agree with him? lmao yea?

Yes, the OP may sound whiny, in fact, you can categorize every single disagreement to whiny. Thing is, we all love this game, and love the series, otherwise why would he bother to put down those suggestions (call them whining all you want)?

Holy cow man, of course we know nothing is perfect in this world, THATS WHY we are here discussing about the game, trying to make it more enjoyable.

WoW is in a constant state of imbalance, so thats not really a good example what so ever. The devs say "we know this is imbalanced, we'll look into it" at least once a week.

Also, how many hours do you have logged into the game, how far into completion? And if you want a challenge, then commit yourself to not buying the regents or materials for the best stuff and instead go find them. Or only use one weapon type even if another is better. You can limit yourself if you want. I'm just having trouble believing you can judge the game so easily when its been out for less than a week.

Blood dragons are pretty hard, but I guess that's because their flame goes through solid objects though.

Wow your stupid. Everything he says it 100% spot on. I think Beth will patch it up and work it out but right now it's just like he said. Stop mistaking bad design and testing for whatever fantasy reason you think the game is in the state it is. BTW, I love the game, but I'm not stupid enough to put my head in the sand and pretend these issues don't exist.

Level 19 warrior and find the adept difficulty a challenge. Then again I haven't abused the Alchemy/Enchanting loop into the ground.

I'm playing on Adept and I just don't think it's too easy. It feels just right to me. I'm doing plenty of dying until I get it just right on all the different enemies.

A fair cop, although to be fair, the more specific aspect of the OP is that there are some broken aspects of the game.

The poster wasn't too far off, though. There's a new thread about Draugr Deathlords being a pain in the [censored]. Honestly, it's been that way the last couple days. "Game's too hard." "Game's too easy."

I only play on adept, but for me it's definitely not easy. I play as a duel-wielding dagger/archer and I'm level 17. I can do some damage when unseen but when I face mobs that are anything but wolves, deer, or mudcrabs I get destroyed.

The way I see it though is my character is not a warrior, but instead a treasure hunter and thief.

Umm.... If u think its too easy then turn.the difficulty up. That is why it is there.

I've never had any of these problems. If you dont want to become immune to magic, then don't. Simple as that. It's not like it's EASY to get any of those things...unless you're really OCD. As for money, I have no idea where you're coming from with that, I never have enough money xD. The most I ever had was 9k, and i used up 5k of that right away when i bought a house...and there are much more expensive houses out there!




Sounds like random good luck to me. I've never had anything like that happen! Odd that even with full ebony he dies to a few hits, though.


If you choose to max them. All of them. At that point, aren't you supposed to be on an equivalent level as the God-Heroes of old, anyway? At maxxed stats, you SHOULD be able to get ludicrously powerful weapons, because that's as powerful as they'll ever get!


If you were getting swarmed all the time it would be boring. I once ran into a dungeon that had waves of 3-5 higher level draugr coming at me while a ridiculously tough necromancer shot ice spells at me from a distance. It was super fun, but I also died a lot when I did it, and I wouldn't want to do it all the time! But it certainly exists


The merchant gear scaling has always annoyed me, but it's always been like that, as far as I know. I doubt it will be changed, but you could always send an e-mail to bethesda, it couldn't hurt! At the very least, mods will probably fix it soon.


Dragons have too little health, that's true. Most races dont have that useful of a racial bonus, so it really doesn't make that much of a difference. Crafting, again, is just fine till you get near the endgame. Vendors are also fine until the endgame. My dual wielding sword redguard girl can take out a dragon in 6 second flat. And using a shield only works in one direction! If you got attacked by two dragons, you'd be in a bit of trouble ^.^

etc. etc.

For TES VI please look at how things are done in other games.


25% magick resistance isn't all that much, honestly. I believe its the most powerful of any racial ability, probably, but at least its no longer 50% like in oblivion =P . Maces aren't all that good. They're good against stuff with armor, but fight something without armor and you'll do significantly less damage than a sword or an axe. And an axe will always do more damage in a prolonged fight. Each one is good for different things, essentially...maces for armored enemies, swords for burst damage, axes for big boss fights. Agreed on vendors. Send an email. Armor rating should, indeed, provide diminishing returns. I was under the impression that it was just a health multiplier...IE, 40 armor=1.4x health. Apparently i was wrong, which is unfortunate. I would have hoped they would have learned by now. Oh, well.

Also, combat has power attacks in all directions, didn't you know that? That's 4 moves right there, just for close range combat. You want more? This is an RPG, not a fighting simulator!


What you fail to realize is that those games are aimed at an entirely different audience. People playing Elder Scrolls games looking to do whatever they want, and limitations only annoy us, and tend to end up getting modded out. In my mind, the less limits the better. I personally think it would be great if there were no skill caps, and stuff like daedric princes manifesting themselves on Nirn happened at that point. A nice brawl with a god seems like a load of fun, to me.

Yeah, I find it too easy as well, especially with tgm on.

Ok, I am level 19 playing master and I have exquisite armour etc with thanks to smithing it out at riverwood for ages, buying out every ignot the guy sells, spending ages cutting wood for the funds to pay for the ignots. Despite all of this and therefore discovering certain creatures at this higher level, despite being very early in the game, I am being destroyed! One hit from a Frost Troll sends me flying, not to mention having 2 bandits at one time whacking me with war hammers and killing me within 3 strikes at most. The game is very tough now, and even I was under the impression it wasn't that bad to begin with. I guess the level system is locking too early for people who travel the game very quickly before levelling, which then leaves them with lower level creatures?

Also, OP, in regards to you saying money is too easy to come by, let me just tell you, I have spent days cutting wood, which I consider to be very easy money (30 gold every triple cut), and even I can't just afford everything from merchants, because there are even minor enchanted goods that cost 2000/3000+, and full plate armour is almost 2000, minus the rest of the attire. All that talk of easy money, easy spending, easy game. Nonsense!