» Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:33 pm First, no one said you HAVE to gimp yourself, I don't, I make it harder because I like a challenge, I like the gameplay to feel more realistic and dangerous to my character (Like playing a FPS on the hardest difficulty), but the option to increase or decrease the difficulty for players who find the game too hard or too easy is IN the game, just like in Oblivion and if you're allowed to use enchanted items and potions to increase the effectiveness of weapons and armor then that's EXACTLY what they did, it's not a suggestion, it's a fact, simple as that.
Let me put it another way for you, then.
In most games, when you are presented with new gear, you take it. Why? Because it's better and you'll need the better gear to survive. If you do that in Skyrim, it won't be too long before you find the game getting easier and easier, and more boring. There are, of course, other reasons one might find the game boring, but that's the one I'm focusing on right now.
According to some, those people are playing the game wrong. The "correct" way to play the game, to make it enjoyable, is by "role playing." What does that consist of? First, you create and play a character. Usually this amounts to choosing builds and gear that are less than optimal. Second, you saddle yourself with your own made up rules. These rules often consist of things like forcing yourself to eat and drink three times a day and get eight hours of sleep every night. They could also include things like walking everywhere or limiting how many weapons or armor sets you can carry at a time. Those first two rules basically amount to purposefully gimping yourself. The third one is to ignore anything that happens in the game that you don't like. That's followed very closely by the fourth, which is to replace it with a story you made up in your head that may or may not have any real connection to what actually happened in the game.
And THAT is how you're suppose to play it and why there is nothing wrong with it. It's your own fault for not doing that, and thus not enjoying the game.
With regards to points three and four, I've seen people suggest just that. I was in a thread where people were discussing the fact that the main quest forces you to join the College of Winterhold (that is without metagaming and taking the back door). One of the "roleplayers" came in and said there was nothing wrong with it. All you had to do was imagine that they let you in as a visitor. In other words, completely ignore what actually happened in the game and replace it with something completely different in your head. And that made it ok.
