When a game doesn't facilitate your specific play style (Skyrim)

[BoogieManFL]

Trouble is those schools are pretty much reduce to pure support and aren't feasible as a mainstay.

I remember in Oblivion I made custom spells for my caster/necromancer that would summon 3 skeletons at once instead of just one.

On one hand it sucks that so many games basically require mods to enjoy it the way you want, but on the other hand it's nice that the option to fix some of the problems exist.

 

[SantoUno]

In case anyone was wondering, I remade the mage character and focused only on Destruction and Restoration. It DID work most of the game, but goddamnit it still failed me against dragons because I would exhaust all my magic healing myself. Or when I went up against a horde of enemy mages, they would decimate my magic with shock spells and I would basically be helpless.

Weirdly enough, I checked my original mage from 2011 when the game came out, and I got through the main quest, College of Winterhold and Imperial Legion quest lines with only Conjuration and One Handed (summoned a Flame Atronach every fight then Bound Sword to clean house).

 

[skullcavity]

My answer is the same as OP (Skyrim). At first, I was enthused by all the different gameplay options but was later disappointed to find out that all of the tightly spaced dungeons in Skyrim's main quest made a warrior type the only viable option.