Is skyrim too easy for anyone?

[Idocreating]

Was at Shearpoint (Something like that) where I had a mission to uncover the source of power (New shout word) and a bounty to kill a Dragon.

Turns out said dragon was an Elder Dragon. And Shearpoint also happens to be home to a Dragon Priest. Skyrim can be bastardly hard sometimes.

 

[Kachiporra]

I'm playing as a Archer/dual wielding/light armor character not using stealth and I find the combat bery interesting. I can own normal foes like nothing but a mage or a warrior with a two handed weapon could still kill me.

 

[aksel]

At first I thought it was way too easy, so I upped it to master. Hard as hell, man. I was getting my ass handed to me. My only chance for survival was conjuration and sneak attacks. Got my sneak, bow and conjuration skill up high, with several perks.

Then I got my hands on a lot of money through the Dark Brotherhood assassinations, and bought my way to resources by fast traveling from vendor to vendor.
After a while, I had 100 in smithing, and had made myself a full Daedric armor (which for some reason is better than dragon armor, by the way) and two Daedric war axes, with a bow on the side.

After that, I leveled up my heavy armor to some 70, and got the fifth rank of the first perk.

Before I knew it, I had become a level 40 killing machine, starting with surprising sneak attacks, going to conjuration and ending with a dessert of shouts and dual wield axe'ing.

It can still be quite challenging with the harder mobs/bosses (especially the final boss and the dragon priests). And with challenge comes entertainment.

Advice to anyone who has it too easy: Up the difficulty.
Advice to anyone who has it too hard: Suck it up, fool. Start with sneaking. Get your hands on a companion, or learn some awesome conjuration spells, then go to smithing when you have the money. Don't go for harder enemies at first. They are hard, because you are too weak to kill them. Remember that revenge is a dish best served cold.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

You can always make the game harder for yourself by deliberately using crap gear, or not letting yourself use potions/restoration spells, or no companions, or any number of different ways without ever touching the difficulty slider

I left it on adept, the default difficulty setting, and I'm not finding it as easy as everyone else claims it is. Maybe I'm not putting points in the same skills, or maybe I'm just not very good at the whole thing. As it stands, dragons are challenging, but I should be able to beat them. Giants I run the fuck away from. Spellcasters are also bad.

 

[ShotgunZombie]

Too easy? I got two words for you: fucking bears...
I hate them so much...

 

[Shydrow]

This guy is either a troll or is a high level and just now starts to think the game is easy. Up the challenge the way it was made to or stop qqing about it not being super hard since we all remember how easy oblivion was even on the harder difficulties.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Upping the difficulty makes the game unrealistic,

You say 'unrealistic' as if it's a bad thing.

 

[Zack1501]

go try and kill the Grey beards or fight some giants head on.

I have already taken down a group of 4 giants alone, and only one got a hit on me. Aren't the gray beards immortal (They just get wounded and then get back up?)

I don't know if they are, i have not even been able to half the health of one. you get the to the point were they will fight you they stand up slowly turn around,and freeze you solid. They then just beat you to death.

 

[stefman]

Title pretty much says it all. I see 2 groups of bandits and a dragon and I know I'll be able to down all of them in about 10 seconds with my swords, without losing any health. Upping the difficulty makes the game unrealistic, a warhammer to the face should kill someone. Anyone else having this problem?

Sooo... you want a hard game where you can one hit kill people but still be at risk of death? take off all your armour and don't use health potions, then use the weapon you are worst with. Problem solved

 

[Zeema]

put the game on Master Difficulty then come back

its not unrealistic its just harder

 

[Rol3x]

Was at Shearpoint (Something like that) where I had a mission to uncover the source of power (New shout word) and a bounty to kill a Dragon.

Turns out said dragon was an Elder Dragon. And Shearpoint also happens to be home to a Dragon Priest. Skyrim can be bastardly hard sometimes.

I stumbled apon that place fairly early on, I saw the dragon and thought it would be an awesome idea to use the monument the word is on as cover. Needless to say I did not see the coffin or the liche that comes out of it until it chargrilled me and poor lydia.

On the difficulty, I found on adept it was pretty much on the money being a fire based mage I have never had any issues with trolls, I focused alot of attention on destruction and conjuration magic before long my dremora lord was murdering bandits very quickly and could handle most bosses, liches were nasty and required a bit of sneakiness but all in all I am happy with it.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I kind of like not having too much of a challenge, makes the game more relaxing and enjoyable in my opinion.
For the record, I usually play Skyrim on one of the easier difficulty settings.

 

[scorptatious]

The game can take you surprise if you're not careful.

Recently, I came across a small group of bandits. One carrying a greatsword. Their combined attacks brought me to half health, and then the guy with the great sword used a decapitation finisher on me.

The second to last boss of the College of Winterhold questline can also potentially kill you really quickly if you're not intelligent with cover.

 

[LordSchucker]

it was for me in the begging. Fought bandits, dragons and animals. Then I met a frost dragon. Took me two days to kill it.

 

[Wolfram23]

I'm sure there will be a PC mod to make a difficulty where everyone does huge damage and has little health, but in the mean time just up the difficulty setting.

 

[KaiRai]

The game has weird difficulty spikes... some bandits can be leveled quickly, and some other times, I get attacked by 3 of them and I'm dead in a few hits

I've noticed this massively. You'll be killing a hoarde of the same thing, but one somehow differs from the rest without any clues as to why (not a leader or anything like that) - it'll just be them taking significantly less damage and one shotting you. I was doing a dragur cave, in which I'd been wiping them out by using the sneak bonus damage from my bow, plus enchantment, plus crit bonus, and was struggling if there was a few of them. Then one of them hit me with a sword and killed me. Instantly. From full health. 150hp. Bearing in mind I was using a bow doing about 36dmg (including arrows) plus triple damage and occasional crits and some were taking nearly 5 hits before dying (most were dying in 1/2 given the damage output) then it seems if it thinks you're doing too well, it'll just bite back. The cinematic sword attacks have a hand in this too. I've got 2 off in the entire game (not including sneaky dagger throat slashers) and enemies have got literally around 20 off on me.

It really is the sort of game where it says "Oh I'm sorry, you've killed some men. I'm afraid we can't have that. Here, have a curiously strong enemy for no apparent reason." Gets a tad annoying fairly quickly in my book.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Yeah I found it way too easy. Mind you I was playing a stealth archer so that was probably why rofl.

I played it through on Master and was never stuck on a boss or enemy.

 

[KaiRai]

If you raise the difficulty, why would they enimies die FASTER?

I am currently only level 13-14, Playing on the default 'ADEPT' and I have to plan my attacks out. I die frequently if I get surrounded.

ok, so you're essentially saying that you can a one-shot sneak attack an 'expert' mode enemy while you need like two or more shots on 'novice' since the enemies 'die faster' on higher difficulty?

No, I think you guys are misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm saying that enemies should do more damage to you, but they shouldn't be given a ton of health on top of that as well. Just increasing the damage multiplier would make simple things more dangerous but have it so that it doesn't take forever to whittle their health down, like if I wanted Skyrim to play more akin to something like Mount & Blade.

I think I get what you mean: you can be killed in 1 hit, and so can they. That way it's less about who's health bar is queen bee and more about tactics. Right?

 

[A Weary Exile]

Title pretty much says it all. I see 2 groups of bandits and a dragon and I know I'll be able to down all of them in about 10 seconds with my swords, without losing any health. Upping the difficulty makes the game unrealistic, a warhammer to the face should kill someone. Anyone else having this problem?

So...you say it's too easy, then complain that the higher difficulties are too hard?

I play on Expert. Every once in a while I will get an enemy that will just trounce me (Sabre Cats, Frost Atronochs, etc.) but overall it's not very hard and it's certainly not too easy.

Yeah I found it way too easy. Mind you I was playing a stealth archer so that was probably why rofl.

I played it through on Master and was never stuck on a boss or enemy.

There's a master difficulty?

I must try this.

 

[Mr. In-between]

Skyrim makes no sense to me. I got it for Chrimbus and have spent maybe two hours playing it, not having any idea what I should be doing or what the point of the game is.