Day 1, escape from Helgen and am released into the world.
Day 2, Learn that I am dragon born, pretty sweet, I wonder where this will take me?
Day3-4 Wow, leader of the Companions, and a werewolf (not a lot of choice on that part).
Day 5-7 Arch Mage, huh, not even my thing but I guess they can spot talent.

Just as an aside, did you know I am also the greatest blacksmith in Skyrim? A bunch of daggers and leather bracers and bam, epic dragon scale. They say Grey-Mane is the best, but that guy can't work with Dragon bone, his whole life dedicated to one thing and I can smoke him!

I just realized that the same hold true for enchanting, even at my hobbies I am beyond fantastic.

Next couple weeks, run around following these dam arrows everywhere, but that pretty much takes the guess work out of what to do next. Luckily, I get arrows every time I go anywhere.

Oh wait, I am supposed to figure out this dragon born thing. Right right, I was distracted, but I can kill everything with ease now, maybe I should find out why I am a God walking among men.

OK, Why does everyone of these "leaders" want to tell me what to do, I don't want to join your cause and go kill an ice whatever, if I want to trap a dragon here I will. How many have you guys killed, me I killed 20. I have an ES, you are lucky I don't just kill you now! Wait, did that guard just tell me he was keeping his eyes on me? That is it, I am the dragon born, head of multiple guilds, a werewolf, I look like demon in this armor, my weapons are the things of legends and everyone treats me like a f-ing errand boy. Why do I have to convince anyone, I am telling you what to do. That is why, when I was getting lip at Solitude I just killed everyone, except for a couple people, because they are immortal. I know, who da thunk it? But, I guess if I am an uber-being they get to be immortal. Funny part is they still try and tell me what to do!


Obviously this is sarcastic, but the point is, if my character is able to be the best in the world at everything (without much grinding) why does everyone treat him/her as an inferior. This is what has become game breaking for me, there is no weight to any of my accomplishments. I tried to make a character that has depth, but you get to a point and it doesn't matter.

Why does the main character need to be so powerful, it breaks the illusion of being part of the game world, which to me breaks the game.

Just my 2 cents.

Also don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed my time with Skyrim. It was well worth my money.

Hmm maybe you will be the 10th Divine - a mortal like Talos ascending to divinity... who knew, right? LOL

Seriously though, the exact thing you mentioned is what irritates a lot of people. My biggest issue is that my actions have no consequences what so ever. I'm a "goddess walking among men", yet guards still tease me, asking if I carry the mead for the Companions or if someone stole my sweet roll (I'll kill the next guard with my sweet roll!)

There are plenty of posts, addressing that same issue! I just hope Bethesda is listening! Or just wait for some awesome mods to come out! I'm sure our modding community knows how to fix the game!

Don't get me wrong - I'm totally addicted to Skyrim and I LOVE the game!

Well my character has been "playing" for months.

But yes, being the Dragonborn means you're innately the best at what you do.

I *WILL* say, though, that being the head of the "Guilds" in Skyrim isn't that impression.

* You become head of a college.

* You become head of a group of mercenaries.

* You take over a gang.

That's not as HUGE a deal as stopping Alduin.

Imagine though, you become the Listener for the Dark Brotherhood and Delvin Mallory knows this...and yet you still get treated like the newbie in the Thieve's Guild.

....as if slaying the Emperor wasn't enough to prove your mettle and worth....

*claps*

You hit it on the head man.

Well, I would say you are not playing right, but it's a RP game so play as you wish.

I've retired 5 characters and am on my 6th. Highest level was 34, lowest at 17. Each one only did 2 or 3 factions, those focused to their skills. I leveled and perked their skills equally with none of them even getting close to 100 in any skill. Never perked more than one craft skill per character.

I'm having a blast. Current character, Dunmer Rogue. Joins Dark Brotherhood and will do all the daedric quest he can. Skill focus on Light Armor, Archery, One-Handed and Alchemy.

It is a role playing game, and it would not be fair if you were untouchable. I get what you are saying, and it's been brought up many times before. The reward is in the journey, not the destination.

I didn't realize that this has been discussed on so many other threads. But after I killed the entire population of Solitude out of irritation, I felt like I needed to ask if someone had experienced something similar.

I didn't just go postal, was arguing about the peace summit, was tired of running errands when a guard stopped me for using whirlwind sprint and told me he would be watching me. So I killed him. Yes I know it was childish, but then I just kept fighting until I took Solitude. I can wipeout your town and I have to beg you to go to a peace summit, made everything my character had done seem like a waste. Follow the arrows, pick the same response, travel, repeat. Yeah you win, and don't you feel original.

I rationalize this by basically saying that news travels slow in the Empire. Of course, your meteoric rise through the Companions and so on is actually FUNNIER for the fact most guards assume you're a private versus the General of the Companions.

Of course, this is the nature of the limitations of the game.

In my mind, I go with Brynwulf wanting to know if this psychotic Dark Brotherhood type can do regular burglary vs. KILLING EVERYTHING.

Shh, don't let the thalmor hear you

Just to note, the PC in Oblivion and Morrowind is relatively much stronger. Specially the COC who has 100% resist magic and 100% reflect damage can kill anything by just standing in the same room.

Yeah, I forgot about going totally predator with 100% chameleon, that was also a bit over the top.

Because it wouldnt be so much fun if you had to toil and toil and labour away for months on end to make a little, if any, progress within society? Infact, that would make it so much like real life, Ie, eons of toil for little to no reason, that then people would complain about that also.

I loved being fantastic in this game and excellent and amazing in every way.

That's one of the points of video games, surely? Because they're alot more dramatic and exciting than real life and they're geared to show how hardcoe your charecter is?

I'm not picking a fight or anything, I find it hard to convey emotions or friendliness through the internet. I do get your point that perhaps success is *too* easy to achieve in this game..

But if you were playing Need For Speed, you wouldnt want to start the game racing in a Fiat Panda and have to labour and save for months even to be able to afford a NOX system, would you?

Being a badass in skyrim is no different. Whilst the game aspires to be immersive and indepth, it still wants to excite and stimulated people, not bore the shiat out of them with every day mediocricity.

whenever i get discouraged i remember Oblivion.

the tee shirt read

i just saved the world and all i got was this crappy armor?

On a side note. I joined the Imperials for the first time, and Tullius decides to send me to a fort and clear out about 30 bandits. How many people on that planet are able to do this?

I'm brand new in college and go to a "safe" dungeon that the college has visited multiple times.... I'm the first one to realize it's full of about 7 deathlords! I know it's because I was a higher level.. but, sheesh.