Probably, although it wouldn't be considered a true open world game.

Dark Souls is a game that was just made to piss people off. every enemy has a pattern it's not that hard.

Loose experience or money? That is not hard... that is easy. I play dead is dead.

Enemies 3 stories tall.... Um dragons, Mehrunes Dagon, or the God of Order. TES has big bosses.


I do wish the basic enemies and bosses used the abilities and strategy better. I obviously wouldn't want every dunmer to cast flame cloak in every fight, but occasional would be cool.

I also wish illusion spells actually worked on you. For instance Fury makes everyone including allies look like enemies. Could make for an interesting twist if they used it in one of the civil war quests... but of course they did not.

Would love to have these.

Yes, I would like it if Skyrim were as challenging as Demon's Souls (haven't played Dark Souls yet) but I wouldn't want the same gameplay. I hate replaying the same stuff over and over again. It's immersion-killing and always seems like it's being done to artificially stretch the length of the game. If the combat in Skyrim were as difficult (though less predictable) as Demon's Souls but kept Skyrim's save anywhere system, I'd be happy.

More importantly, I'd only want Master difficulty to be this challenging. I think Adept difficulty is fine for most people and it would be dumb to change it. That's why we have difficulty sliders.

I have it on Master. I'm a level 52 Fighter build maxed on one-handed, almost maxed on shield, almost maxed on heavy armor. I just got assaulted by four Draugr Darklords at once in a confined area and if I didn't have restore health and stamina potions and my Sanguine Rose handy, I'd have been dead meat. I also have Dragonbone armor smithed to the max quality and a maxed ebony sword of sparks.

I'm sorry, but what you describe sounds horrible to me.

Sounds boring.

I like a challenge, but then I also like to be able to beat the game as well. Reloading and doing the same quest fifteen times is not my idea of entertainment. I like games to chill out. I have a 15month old daughter and two cars I'm building to stress me out.

I don't think I would enjoy it nearly as much. I didn't play Dark Souls but I did play Demon's Souls and one thing I didn't like was that it really ended up being a trial and error process. Once you figured out what to do on each fight it was actually a very easy game. In fact my second character blew right through it no problem. It was disappointing in that regard. There was no randomness to it at all. Every single thing in the game was scripted to happen exactly the same way every time other than a few patrolling mobs who patrolled exactly the same area over and over making that predictable as well. If Dark Souls is the same way I really don't even want to play it. I did enjoy my first play through on Demon's Souls but once I saw that it had no replayability I took it back and traded it in.

I do wish Bethesda's games had more challenge to them. I love the way they feel for the first few levels when I'm stuggling and fights are hard and take some thought. Unfortunately that doesn't last nearly long enough and before you know it the challenge is gone and I'm waltzing through dungeons like there are no enemies in them because they don't have a chance against my character. But every Bethesda game has been like that so far so I really don't think they'll change the formula any time soon.

In a word: No.

I think the difficulty is just fine in Skyrim. Not everyone is a sadist when it comes to game difficulty.

I like being able to become a demi-god after spending hours building a character.
It's easy to avoid it, and without it there is no sense of progression.

Why would I want to have Daedric armour and yet still be squishy?

I believ its my build, im a spellsword frost artificer. My gear isnt enchanted yet, and i spit out frost spells, in skyrim, i just get one hitted constantly currently 39

I like the difficulty just the way it is. I like having the option to bump it up or down as needed, too.

Difficulty? Yes, design? No. Dark Souls difficulty is usually the result of cheap shots by new enemies who you can't really predict. Once you know their attacks, it's really easy.

That may sound like an insult, and it kind of is, but at least Dark Souls enemies have some behavioral variety.

I also think on Master Skyrim, that regeneration should be lowered for all three attributes. A lot of the difficulty in RPG's comes from resource management, and the rapid rate of regeneration undermines this just a little too heavily. Specifically, having the "in Combat" regeneration rates set as the idle and combat rates would probably be fine.

No. Would most likely hate it.

But, then, nothing I've seen of Dark Souls has appealed to me. And I haven't played any Beth game on Master/Very Hard..... I've always found Normal dif to be enough. My first Skyrim character played on normal, and used Smithing.... I felt challenged up in the mid-40's.



Never really been a fan of "Nintendo Hard" games. Not in the 80's, not now.