Because I'm a long time TES fan and I hate to see them putting out something that should have been marketed under a completely different title in a different world instead of changing everything that has defined TES in favor of better graphics.

I've played MW, OB, and now Skyrim. It seems pretty TES to me.

Then you should remember pre-patch Daggerfall then... in comparison, Skyrim ain't that bad, and it's getting better.

Im here cause I like the game and Im pointing out something that needs to be fixed. They will fix it if enough people complain about it.

Gotcha. But a hairdryer doesn't belong in the water, unlike the discs which were supposedly supposed to be able to run on consoles.

I agree they need to be fixing the bugs that caused to you have to restart and do the glitch. And they are working on it. the 1.5 patch is in beta now, at least on PC, so it should be forthcoming soon, I'd assume.

I honestly feel for you console guys to a point, because you don't have access to the console commands and the mod community who can fix things quickly.

I had the same experience with my first character.

That's why i now play like this:
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1359145-staying-at-level-1-and-never-level-up/

A lot more challenging and a lot more fun ...

No attributes. You can't, for example, engage in hand-to-hand adequately unless you're a heavy-armored khajiit because there's no strength attribute that says your swings are getting stronger, yet they've gone through all the trouble of making animations and kill cams for hand-to-hand. The quests are all ludicrously short with inadequate rewards that are all geared to your level so there's no point in using Daedric artifacts if you've acquired them at a low level without exploiting programming loops in the game. I've already done this spiel once today and that's enough for now.
Actually, that makes it worse. By now they should have learned from their previous mistakes and had a game thoroughly tested and fixed before releasing it. I've never had a game just break on me for playing it the way it was intended to be played as badly as Skyrim has broken on me. I got locked in that house in Markarth for the Molag Bal quest after he released me from the cage and told me to go find that Boethiah disciple, and that was after 1.4! For every one thing they fix, it feels like they break another. Skyrim was pushed out the door too soon. Respectable gaming companies don't put out their products this way.

I really do expect them to increase the difficulty with each dlc so Im hopeful. I know most of the bugs will be fixed sooner or later. I just hope they dont give my Xbox the red ring again untill then. My game froze so hard that my XBOX got the red ring untill I pulled the plug and now every time I shut it off it takes about 10 seconds for it to completely shut down.

Horhey, best thing I'd reccomend for now, is to start another new guy, do what you did before, but stop around level 45 or 50.. and make daily offerings to the Patch God's for thier blessings

OR..

Buy a PC and another copy of Skyrim, and install the Deadly Dragons mod...That one thing most certianly fixes the difficulty issue..

Basically, for me, Skyrim has proven to be a real disappointment. Even after researching what they said they were doing, I had my doubts, but I was all for giving them the benefit of the doubt because I enjoy TES games. But my enjoyment of Skyrim died as quickly as Akatosh. I like a game with a high replay value because games are too expensive for broke people like me to drop my dime on.

If the game isn't fun when I can't play it because I have to keep rehashing the same garbage in order to avoid bugs, yet still keep what I've legitimately earned playing previously, the appeal to picking up that game quickly fades out. I feel cheated. So that's like I just got swindled out of money that I can't afford to just dish out left and right, and I then have a legitimate complaint with the company. They might be fixing things, but they should be free to focus on DLC right now that would keep the game fresh. I could have spent that money on another game that is quite replayable. Instead I've had to sit with the same old shelf of games and look for freeware to muck around with because I don't have money coming out of my ears.

Tax return is on the way so maybe. I really really dont want to start over again though.

Yeah, you have to do things in a certain way to work around the bugs. I hate having to check to see if Shadowmere is still with me when I fast travel cause he could vanish.

Any suggestions to playing legit?

Actually the game's alright playing legitimately. If you want to level up in accordance with the game parameters, I would say decide what play-style you would like to focus on (i.e. assassin, warrior, mage, thief, or a combination of styles). Then focus your perks into your primary attack and defense skills first and foremost. Your second priority would be anything that isn't a combat-based skill but geared more towards aiding you in your general gameplay. That way the game doesn't overwhelm you too quickly. Save often. Read up on the bugs forum every now and again to help you as well and hopefully all will go well with you

i agree. smells like [censored]

Yeah, in moderation.

I only have this problem if I powerlevel. I once played as a Khajiit with maxed out smithing who used glass armor and duel wielded scimitars. He was way over powered, but it's my own fault because I abused the smithing system by making iron daggers until I leveled up. I haven't done it since and the game is much more challenging.

The OP clearly knows how to defeat the game. A shadow warrior assassin is the hardest hitting class you can make. I have one and I can testify to the ability to one shot nearly every creature in the game including bosses. It is extremely overpowered even without exploiting enchanting which I did not do. However if I do desire a challenge with that character I can have that challenge. It would just require me to balance things out between the games difficulty and the gear and abilities I possess, mostly the gear. While this may not seem ideal it allows a greater deal of freedom in the game than simply artificially scaling it to the player or having a difficulty so hard that fights become tedious. They tried scaling with Oblivion but players hated it. They put in some really difficult creatures in a Fallout 3 expansion but players complained about those as well. It seems there's no way they can make everyone happy. That's why I suggest tuning the character back a bit and learn to work within the games current parameters. It's obvious there won't be an overnight change to the difficulty levels in Skyrim. For now we have no other solution than to make it work with what we have been given. That doesn't seem to difficult to understand.

If I use a character and don't power lvl, glitch, or do anything at all to help me get to 81 other than just playing, I really hope I feel like a god because that's what I just worked my a$$ of for

That goes back to my philosophy that that is the developer's fault. They're the ones who made it so that smithing could be powerleveled very quickly compared to every other skill in the game. Why they did this I have no clue. Maybe they thought the materials would be harder to come by for some reason? Whatever their logic, this was one of the big things that threw the game off-balance. It makes it hard to enjoy crafting your own items though. No satisfaction of accomplishment. No effort involved. Can be done in under an hour. I wouldn't say it's your fault at all. You didn't program the game. It's natural human behavior to do something if it promises to be an easy road and could prove to only be beneficial to you in the end. Who wouldn't want to explore that avenue?

That's funny how you just emphasized Darkside's point. Most gamers have come to expect to find a challenge in leveling up to beat a game, not in being forced to find ways to dummy themselves down so the game has a chance to beat them.

You just said I took the easy road, now it's too easy

Everything you have said points exactly to the problem we are critisizing.

Bethesda doesn't know how to balance a single player game. That's why we're critisizing it. We shouldn't have to change how we play so the game can keep up with us, we're supposed to change how we play so we can keep up with the game.

"We have no other solution other than to work with what we have been given."

Yes, that's the problem we're trying to get fixed and rebalanced, so that there's no problem in the first place. Again, we shouldn't have to scale ourselves so that the game can keep up, we should be scaling to the difficulty of the game so we can keep up with it.

We buy better equipment, perks, etc so we can defeat tougher opponents, we as the players shouldn't be then negating that so the CPU has a chance against us.

Some enemies should be various set levels, spread out in various areas of the game and spawned when the player reaches certain levels.
Some enemies should be scaled to the player at all times and placed above the player level.
Some enemies also need to be exactly level with the player at all times.

And some enemies, and dungeons, should have new ways to add difficulty to the game other than just an ocean of Health, or limitless Magicka, etc.

The concept of "because it currently is the way it is, we have to gimp ourselves for a challenge" is not a hard concept to follow, it is however a concept that should never happen in the first place if the game was properly balanced.

And Bethesda put that road in there. I mean, who honestly puts in something that tempting to do with absolutely no negative consequences for the character's development at the end of it. It was the first thing I discovered about the game without a guide. First day of release it was right there and so obvious. To not do something that the game freely allows you to do that will only make you stronger would feel foolish. Smithing was a new aspect of the game. I wanted to test it out. If Bethesda made it so easy to level, that's no one's fault but theirs.