What difficulty do you play on? Options

[Renee]

I started out playing with the Adept (default) setting for my first 6 or 7 characters. With Lord Haaf-Mersey and Mycharonna I switched to Apprentice, rationalizing that I wanted to see both of these characters grow and thrive, so I could continue their stories to completion.

At some point (somewhere around Level 30 or so) I switched both of these games up to Adept. Apprentice had become too easy; I get bored if I pwn everything all the time. But with my two latest games (Uber Kness and Master Baytor) I bumped it up to Adept from the very start. Uber died at about Level 12, but MB is still going strong, even after killing three dragons so far.

What about you?



This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Jan 3 2014, 04:20 PM

[haute ecole rider]

I'm with both Acadian and ghastley.

I have never played DiD - I don't learn to become a better player if I don't reload and try again from another angle or try to figure out what went wrong. True, IRL many fighters don't get that second chance. But I'm too much of a klutz with the controller.

I also tend to leave the game slider on default. I do slide it down a bit on certain battles (Battle of Bruma comes to mind) but for the most part it's left alone for both Oblivion and Skyrim.

Like Acadian and Buffy, I get to really know my characters. I've tried a few different characters in Oblivion, and only Julian had that really strong voice that drove me to write that long fan fic over three years. But Alise Sudmeri was nearly that kind of character in Oblivion, but she didn't really sing until I brought her to Skyrim.

And like ghastley, I love playing against type. Like Julian starting out as a warrior type but moving towards a mage/healer through the progression of the MQ. And Alise Sudmeri starting out as an homeless outcast searching for a home to settle and ending up with far, far more than she ever wished for.

I haven't felt the need to play Skyrim with a different character. Alise remains the only one for me.