Difference with Morrowind is that when using more powerful weapons you needed skill in the weapon or you would barely hit them,
and when you did you would only do a fraction of the damage. Of course with the way Oblivion and I Assume the same with Skyrim is, you'll
always hit for that fraction; which of course could overpower the PC in comparison to his/her surroundings.

The adoption of a role of a character that is not modeled, or not exclusively modeled, after yourself. I explain on page 3 how overpowering individuals makes role-playing untenable.

Don't worry, it's OK B)

I'm not sure if you understand the combat system in the two games. In Morrowind only the hit chance relied on skill, not the damage; Damage was constant for weapons (until broken, and randomized between max and min intervals). In Oblivion the hit chance is constant, but the damage relies on skill. The only practical difference in relation to powerweapons for these two models is that if there is magical damage to the weapon in Oblivion this is not changed by skill and thus would always occur whereas in Morrowind it would still only occur on the (less often) strikes.

Ever played Fable 2? Yeah, it got old, REALLY old. Being too easy and overpowered is one of the worst things a game can do. I think New Vegas came close to the right balance, but maybe making it just a bit harder throughout and scaling down the power of your character at the higher levels just a pinch would be perfect. The arguement of "Its singleplayer so I should be a god!! Hurr durr!" is stupid. See what I did there?

What if you RP the over powered though? All role playing means is that you pretend to be someone your not, most likely a character that you created. You do what the character would do, not yourself. That's all its ever meant since before video games even. OPed loot, or even OPed characters, doesnt make role playing untenable.

Fable getting old had nothing to do with being powerful. It had to do with the fact that it's impossible to die regardless of your strength and all you do is press the same buttons over and over so combat never changed

As long as there is a sense of progression, from zero to hero, not a frustrating sense of escalation.

This.

There needs to be a happy balance in the game somewhat like this. There are times when yes, I expect to feel like a dragon slaying monster pwning city burning [censored]machine. But if I can do all that when I'm only level 12 and midway into the first sidequest, then yes, I will be annoyed.

Why can't I one hit knock-out Tyson in punchout?
Why can't I always have the 4x1 block in Tetris?
What if I really want to be level 99 right from the start of (Insert any standard RPG)?

I actually want to be able to become "overpowered" after having played for a long time.. I wanna feel like a demi god in the end

Again with the 100% chameleon Then again I'll say "if you don't want it, don't use it".

What is the "whole point of the game"? I'll tell you: the whole point of the game is that you are going to play a role in a story, and you are going to have the freedom to choose how you play that role and how you influence that story. And that is what the developers do for the game: create an environment where you have a choice to play the game the way you want to play it. TES is not just about "combat", "boss fights", or "must fight-must kill everything".

As to the OP...
I play games like TES for the story. About halfway through a game, I prefer to be overpowered, since combat becomes repetitive, and to me, gets in the way of the story, so I want to finish fights as soon as possible, or just avoid it if I can.

Its OK to be overpowered in a singleplayer game like this, whats not ok is being so overpowered that you can kill anything in any numbers. there should be a limit to what you can actually do... who cares if you can one shot mudcrabs as long as the guards will still kick your ass.

I don't think it's wrong to give players the opportunity to become overpowered in a game like this, but I do think it should be very difficult. If it's too easy, it ruins the need to progress in level, a really important aspect to roleplaying games.

I thought they did a terrible job, everything was way to easy execpt for a few way overpowered eneimes(that you could easily aviod anyway). Then after like level 15 everything was too easy. Fallout 3 was much better, in both games a used a 2x damage mod and slow leveling but I was regularly having challenging battles in FO3 for nearly 100 hours, in NV it was less than 25. FNV finally put an end to the idea that scaling is bad for me, FO3 ranged based system was far better, the same System SR will be using.

I tend to do the same more and more these days. Whilst I may not play these games for the story alone, all too often it becomes the most interesting part of the game as other mechanics (mostly combat) become tedious.

Having said that I think the (often) tedious nature of combat could be solved without the need for an overpowered character.

Why is there even all this discussion about overpoweredness and difficulty and all that - there is a difficulty slider for a reason. Play the game as hardcoe or easy mode as you want. Playing through the game and you think to yourself "Boohoo I am too strong!" up the damn difficulty. Playing and think, "I wish I was overpowered!" then just crank that difficulty down. Its actually really simple.

Needless to say, an overpowered character can be a lot of fun to play with. Not that it should be easy, but making one can be fun.

perhaps not quite so simple. In FO3 and NV, and quite a few other games, upping the difficulty simple makes fights longer (thus more boring imho) and not more intense, by giving enemies more life and/or resistances. Compared to mods that say, increase damage or penalties for combat injuries or make money less readily available, upping difficulty levels might not always give you the challenge you seek.

Agreed, I have made over 10 characters in Oblivion and only one of them have been over level 25

You can choose to avoid using those exploits. There must be *some* responsibility expected from the player.

Keep the options in to get op. Keep them just like... oh... say 100% Chameleon, or an Alien Blaster. You know, where you have to go out of your way (way, way out of your way) to actually get that kind of power.

I am all for op when I've earned it or spent enough time becoming. If you purposefully go out of your way to get powerful [censored], you should expect to be mopping up enemies... and you should NOT be complaining that your doing so made the game too easy.

I think the problem is that Morrowind got too easy too fast. In other RPG's you need a ton more time to get as powerful as you were at low level in morrowind.

True but I can only tolerate for short periods. I guess the holy grail of game design would be something that allows everyone to play the way they want.

I think that is the most fun in making an OP character. I was a thief going after 100% Chameleon. I went on a journey finding a random drop weapon that had Soul Trap, getting 5 Grand Souls, finding creatures to fill the gems. It took me several hours (1 of those doing mage guild quests because this was before Frostcrag Spire and BGS only put the altars where Mage Guild members can go -.-) and I had a blast. I played with it for a while, and when it got boring I decorated my house with it. Then I thought, "What about Reflect Damage? And Reflect Magicka? and Absorb Magicka?" And my quest began again.

After curb stomping a couple thousand enemy's and stealing the best stuff from every where you should expect to be unstoppable. Otherwise you end up with stuff like the hole in ET. If you jacked some hobo's butter knife and still destroy everything then either the difficulty is to low, someone made a mistake or your just that good.