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

[Destri Melarg]

I agree with a lot of what Acadian, ghastley, and hautee have already said. I play on expert because adept seems too easy, yet master seems needlessly weighted against the player and I don't want to have to glitch/exploit to even the odds… especially early. All of my characters have been played did up until level 25. If they reach that level I figure they've earned their place in Skyrim and I remove the did restriction (yeah, that sounds better than saying that, like Acadian, i've developed an attachment to the character by then and I don't want to see them die ).

Perking one crafting skill is the only limitation I impose on my characters.

[mALX]

I agree with a lot of what Acadian, ghastley, and hautee have already said. I play on expert because adept seems too easy, yet master seems needlessly weighted against the player and I don't want to have to glitch/exploit to even the odds… especially early.

Ditto this, but I won't play DiD. I take way too much care in character creation to throw out all that work

The truth is, early on in my gaming I saw a friend play DiD; Bobg. He mourned that character deeply as if it was his own child. His pain over the loss of one of his characters was terrible, and he was so afraid of losing the next that he refused to play her - left her sitting in Anvil on the bench where she would be safe from harm.

Well, it ruined his enjoyment of the game and of his characters; if he loved them he couldn't play them. What fun is that?

Well, I have played Maxical through Oblivion over 30 games with only losing her once, probably never died due to how easy Oblivion was to play with the leveled enemies. That death was on my 360 game back in 2009; and it glitched my game for some reason. At the time Maxical was a vampire and had died in the sunlight while in combat with a bandit. But for some reason she didn't actually die.

The camera stayed stuck on the ground, I could still move her anywhere I wanted but it was her dead body moving around and all I could see was people's feet - even when I activated them to talk to them it would just zoom in on their feet.

I tried fast traveling with her to Skingrad Castle, she stayed laying on the ground and her dead body moved when I moved her - still laying on the ground. Going up the steps at Skingrad Castle was jamming her face into the concrete.

Many of you know that back then I was writing my Fic based on my game - so in my Fic Maxical had to die, but somehow stay alive incapacitated and be moved to Skingrad Castle. I put her inside the dungeon there while I worked on the issue.

The issue was eventually fixed, bringing Maxical back to life in the Fic (at the Old Life Festival). That was the last time she died in game, but twice now since I've been playing on the PC I have lost (I thought permanently) her mod files and thought I'd lost her. Truthfully, I did not want to play Oblivion without her.

But I have played Maxical in Fallout 3/New Vegas/Skyrim - in those games she must have died hundreds of times; none of those games was as easy to survive as Oblivion was. I would have spent a tremendous amount of time remaking characters.

So instead I decided to change the Roleplay for death. It could be just near death and pulled through, or it could be the magic of that realm and healing - but she survived it in my Roleplay, and that was a lot more satisfactory for me than changing toons every time one didn't survive a Sabre attack at level #1; because I'd rather not spend all my time making characters, it is my least fun time in gaming but if I don't get the character's face right I will not enjoy the game as much (hence why I spend so long making each character).






This post has been edited by mALX: May 21 2015, 08:43 PM