To the contrary, I would be ecstatic if people weren't jumping 10 story buildings like in Morrowind or sending people flying 100 yards from a melee attack.

This is a concern? I call that a feature!

As long as no NPC or monster / creature has them either I'm fine with it.
If the game is full of bosses and hordes of foes capable of doing everything, then I'd be annoyed.

To me game balance is a trade, I won't play god and do everything or use exploits.
So the creators should not let anything else in game do so, and allow the easiest difficulty to actually be easy.

After Ive put 200-250 hours in a character I feel I deserve to be a lot better than I was fresh out of tutorial.

Oblivion didnt really provide in that, and the level scaling is one of the most frequently heard complaints.
I have no doubt its one of the things bethesda adressed for Skyrim.

Im pretty sure that at level 40-50-ish we will be quite powerful.

I'm the Dovakiin, the Dragonborn, I WANT to feel godlike when I play this game, because I'm the ONLY ONE that can save the world from being dragon chow.

That's like Bob from Accounting being able to stop World War 3 (when it happens), all by himself. I don't want Bob from Accounting to stop WW3, I want some superhero to be discovered, and single handedly defeats all the bad guys. That's what makes a video game a video game, you want your guy to feel special.

no. Godlike abilities would give the poor dragons a disadvantage

You can be powerful but there reaches a point where it gets silly even for the hero to do certain things, like jumping over fort walls because he is a fan of acrobatics <_<

I do, and thankfully mods will help me achieve them if I cant be a demi-god in game

Personally I was ecstatic with morrowind's jump, where I maxed it out and got fortify acrobatics to jump across the land from mountain to mountain. I grew up with mytholgies about the demi-god Hanuman and how he leaped across oceans... so I thought it was pretty bad ass to be able to do that.

That svcks...Yes, I'm worried...And it svcks, I may only have to buy it on PC, to mod the game...and don't have a powerfull enought laptop...

if I want to play God I would play black and white.

I want skyrim to be balanced, and op abilities should have limits, OB and MW were such a spam fest they got boring really fast.

At the very least, mages, werewolves, vampires and liches should be able to attain godlike power.

I was actually a little disappointed you werent godlike enough after becoming Sheogorath.

But it shouldnt be easy to do. It should be something you have to work hard at and quest to hell and back for. All of those saying it would be game breaking, no it wouldn't. Not really anyway, when you think about it, considering the world you live in. It's not a historical/realistic game after all. Dosnt it make sense to attain some sort of godlike ability after questing for it for so long or studying magic or even becoming a vampire or werewolf?

What you're worried about is the acrobatics skill amirite? maybe since you're dragonborn you'll be able to grow wings or something, or maybe u can cut them off dragons and make a glider

This is a Bethesda game, of course you can be stupidly overpowered , Despite New Vegas nerfing Vats in new vegas with chemist and the Turbo perks you can have Bullet time on crack whenever you want it, and so so much more O_o.

I'm actually concerned this game could possibly be too easy with Dragon Shouts actually and no overhaul mods on release day, I'm assuming no other non dragon NPC has access to them, and I'm betting that an enemy assassin character with the ability to teleport behind you would be a good challenge.


...Then again, they're going to be fun to abuse in towns anyway...

Dragon Preasts...or something named like that can also do dragon shouts. Undead preasts put to guard the walls where we get dragonshout words I believe. We won't be the only non dragon thing using dragonshouts.

Osh- seriously? I totally missed that, Skyrim awesomeness ensured.

Personally, I worry more about the ability to play in a way that doesn't involve becoming godlike within an hour or two of character creation.

Yeah same, they are too over powering in my opinion.

I believe it was talked about in one of those scans that I never saw. :whistling: Something along the lines of the golden claw opening a door in a cave, learning your word, then a mummy jumps out of a tomb and roars at you with a dragonshout only for you to fire back. Can't remember for sure, cause I never saw it. :shifty: I know for sure there will be something human-ish that can use them, just cant remember the details exactly, its been a while.

Anyway, I don't really mind gaining god-like powers. You just shouldn't be able to get them without working your tail off first. They should be optainable near or at the end game soft level cap thing, but not before. And none of that spamming shield till you max out in alteration. Way to easy to max out that skill in my opinion. Not sure how to fix that...but it still should be fixed...somehow.

Maxing a skill should be tough to do but you should be able to get past most enemies using said skill alone.

I think if, for example, you max your speechcraft skill, ALL enemies that can understand you should accept a yield. You'd be able to walk thru a bandit cave, looting as you please, and whenever they attack you simply yield. They then consider you a friend and may even become a companion.

In every TES game I've played(A touch of Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion), I've always played a Mage. This mage also happened to be a Fire Mage, and this Fire Mage also wanted extremely powerful Fire spells. I'm not sure how warriors and max level thieves were in the other TES titles, but playing a mage was sorta limiting on it's own abilities. Sure, I'd have the power to one or two shot my foes, but I was limited by Magicka. In every game, I quested to find more Magicka enhancing items. The more I found, the longer I could go killing without resting. When I played my Fire Mage in TES, he was always a god when he had Magicka, but when I ran out of Magicka I was below human, some frail creature that died to the smallest of paper cuts.

With the change to the magic system, I hope this feeling is more or less the same. I am not sure how things will be without Spell-Making, which was a great part of my mage career, but I'm sure if we can combine our spells in our hands, we'll be fine. The game "Magicka" had a system like that, which was fun, so if it's going to be kinda like that, that will be awesome. All of this, of course, is IMO.

Where's the fun in being God-like? Being invulnerable and unstoppable... boooooooooooooooooring.

I want the ability to become very powerful and God-like because of my skills, and I hope that there are enemies who can take on such a character as well

Dragon shouts aren't as overpowered as people think. You're going to have to find all of the words for each ability for one, then you have a cool down period after using them. You won't be able to teleport everywhere at a whim (I'll fix that with mods though...mwahaha!). You do it planned once and then wait for the it to cool down. The same goes for the time slowing shout; they haven't even given us a big clue as to how long this slow down will last. Just remember-dragon shouts ARE on cool down, it's confirmed.

I think that if I get my skills to epic heights, just like D&D, I'm allowed to do epic sh*t. Levels 1-30 (as far as TES goes) are the levels where you play as a mere man, beyond that you are stuff of legends. You are the Nord that slayed the undead legions, nearly dying in the process, and that eventually challenged even the giants and lived. You are the Imperial that stole from homes of the commoners that eventually became as stealthy as a shadow and treaded the vampire infested ancient dungeons and maybe even acquired an Elder Scroll, but who knows, your face is a mystery to the public. You are the Altmer that learned the basics of telepathy, moving simple quills and goblets at first, that eventually picked up a dragon and forced him through the side of a mountain after years of study and practice against small armies of bandits.

Plus, there's a difficulty slider. Even my characters that had maxed out stats couldn't slay simple enemies in just a few hits at max difficulty. That's what the slider is for.