I felt that in Oblivion cranking up the difficulty just meant more tedious longer fights and more damage to myself.

In Skyrim they should have an individual damage slider that increases damage for every type of attack. So if you want you could make fights a bit more fast-paced.

Isn't this basically what the difficulty slider did to begin with? :blink:

I would like to be able to increase the damage enemys cause to you...but also increase the amount of damage you do to enemys. To make fights "realistic". A bash to the head..your dead. But if you bash the other guy in the head, hes dead. I wouldnt always play like this of course, but it would be interesting.