Well, yeah, naturally I'd want that. Basic needs addon is one of the addons I'm waiting for so that I can start playing seriously. Currently I'm just messing around mostly topside.

Definitely sounds like a good idea to me, I'll happily take one more layer of immersion!

It's weird how some people think eating is some new thing or "Sims-inspired" feature when it has been featured in many rpg's and dungeon crawlers since who knows how long. People like to challenge themselves and it's not a new thing. Skyrim is perfect for hunger-mod, you already have system and animations for cooking.

I agree. It seems like Bethesda have put all the ground work in then got bored.

Cooking has so much potential and isn't fully realised. I thought it would be like WoW where you get buffs and well fed bonuses.

Hopefully they can improve it in an update.

I just use food as a roleplaying option. Making sure my character eats at least twice a day (even though the day passes by extremely fast) allows me to incorporate food into my daily activities. Same with sleeping. Since BGS didn't add in any kind of "realism/hardcoe" option, it's the best I can do.

But yes, cooking and food do need an overhaul. A high level character has no need for a slab of meat that restores only 3hp. You get more hp naturally restored faster.

Bethesda couldve even added eat one piece of food a day, or you wont get the rest bonus, and after 3 days or so, you start losing health and stamina points by 10%. It doesnt have to be extreme and totally realistic, but the idea being implemented in some sort of consequential way wouldve made the game that much better.

Oh yes, please, please require me to roleplay some boring life necessities like eating, showering, defecating. Oh, no, not a dragon, I really have to pee. :whistling:

Precisely. As soon as I realized it didn't effect my Alchemy or any other skill I totally abandoned it. I wouldn't mind if we had a separate cooking skill that improved our results, and we could eventually find recipes that would result in unique effects which can't be obtained through making potions. However, simply adding a hunger bar and making it a necessity like in New Vegas isn't really that fun to me, it just makes the game tedious. It would feel like more of a punishment then having to haul that weight around for nothing really, rather than making it useful in the first place.

In Oblivion Food was useful for alchemy

In Fallout 3 it was useful for caps and self inflicted RP

In Fallout New Vegas it was useful for hardcoe mode

In Skyrim its pretty much useless.

I'd love a hardcoe mode for Skyrim, but I dont see it coming since it wasnt in original.

I wish it had more use. I very quickly realized that the weight of all the food I was carrying around was not worth the extremely minimal effects that I was gaining from it. I am glad they put it in the game, though. Hopefully there will be some good mods that build on it.

Actually, food can be very useful. A vegetable soup or beef stew will let you shield bash for 720sec straight, pretty good IMHO.

I goofed around with it. There are a couple recipes that are worthwhile long term, that give a regen rate.

Get married, the wife makes a darn good home cooked meal.

There are a few recipes in the game that are useful, but I would like to see more. I too noticed that there was no hardcoe mode in this game. Maybe they didn't get good feedback on it, or perhaps they just didn't have the time to fully implement it and we'll see it later. Even if we don't, there will certainly be mods for it; there are already couple being discussed in the Mods area.