it really depends on when my last save was. i really dont like trying something over and over and over. after the 2nd or 3rd try its just boring and annoying.

also, what summer said

I usually play with the difficultly all the way up, but if I see that the fight I'm is impossible due to all my stuff being broken or I'm surrounded by like 10 super high level enemies I turn it way down. It's better then using god mode.

In FO3 and NV, i just left it at normal as to me it was fair, 100% damage to everyone equally, no one was given a handicap. In oblivion i left it on normal until id enter a dungeon that was just full of goblin warlords and shamans then drop it to easy. not because it was hard, but because of level scaling giving those bastards such a large amount of health that 100in blade, blunt and hand to hand with goldbrand as the weapon and a couple of magic weakness stacks, it would take 5mins to kill one of the bastards.

Just like playing in a game thats too easy is boring as [censored], playing in a game thats too hard is not (always) fun. this is why i support being able to change difficulty after starting a game in every game of every genre.

I would never change the difficulty from the default. I despise artificial difficulty adjustments.

now to you understand how the other NPCs feel when you go through hords of them cause you can spam healing spells. :tongue:

Yes, but they'll never know what it feels like to wield the awesome power of the difficulty slider!



I want that power in real life.

The only time I messed with the difficulty of Oblivion was to protect the NPCs in the game that were non-essential. They leveled so poorly compared to the creatures and hostile NPCs.

just fun for me, I am here to play a game after all. If i get suddenly mobbed by a bunch of enemies, I'll crank down the difficulty, or even turn on the god mode in the console (better than having to reload 10 mins to half an hour ago). A lot of the time I will keep it at normal though, I just don't like reloading.

This. Of course level scaling made frustration happen after level 15 or so for me.
I get tired of having half hour fights with enemies that have loads of hp.
Its not that I'm bad, I just don't have the patience.

Edit: Never touched it in Fallout 3, New Vegas or Morrowind. Goes to show, how much of a pain OB level scaling is.

I may.. That's the problem... The difficulty bar should be, Normal-Very Hard..

Probably won't change it.

Assuming the difficulty won't be so dependent on level and how well you min maxed w/skills and multipliers this time around, and certain enemies won't simply have absurd amounts of health at high levels(goblin warlords...).

I completely cheesed Oblivion with alchemy's ridiculously strong poisons and potions TBQH, because I hadn't leveled up enough combat skills to do without them.

I just thought I'd point out a grammatical error. It's "too" in this instance, not "to."

Will you change the difficulty if it gets a little too hard?


Personally, I don't like to mess with the difficulty slider until I've played the game for an extremely long time (six months or more). For example, after a while Fallout 3 felt too easy most of the time so I bumped up the difficulty a little. In Oblivion though, the game got really hard once I was around level 35, so I had to make the game a fair amount easier. But generally, I don't like to change the difficulty, especially to make it easier, when the game does a mostly good job at challenging me.

Most likely no. If I find out that I can't beat something no matter what I do and how many times I try, then I'll retreat and try again later. The only situation where I would lower the difficulty is a situation where I couldn't retreat, and my last save was too far before. I'm not for example going to load a 2 hour before save if I ended in a situation where it's impossible to win or retreat.

I won't change the difficulty, unless the difficulty makes the game ridiculous. For example, high difficulty usually means that enemies have more health and attack power. I don't mind attack power, but health just ruins the experience. It svcks if you have to slash an enemy 30 times for it to drop. If only higher difficulty could mean that enemies use better fighting styles. Better blocking etc.

1) It was confirmed that you can't change the difficulty, the game auto-sets it depending on how well you're doing.

2) If there is a slider, I will play two games. The first I will just do the main quest, with the difficulty to the max. I'll then do as many sidequests as I can find. The second game, I will RP the entire time with slider set to the minimum (so I don't have to care about optimization in building my character, or equipement type.)

I never really like the idea of changing the difficulty from normal. That said, i have never needed to change the difficulty at all. There are always ways to prevail as long as you have the right tools for the right job. Be prepared! :toughninja:

That said I do feel sorry for those who had to face oblivions levelling system. I tend to use a mod like OOO or do certain quests at a lower lvl e.g. doing the main quest at lvl 20 etc...

When I choose a difficulty, I stick with it..unless it's too easy.

I change the difficulty when common enemies take 20 sword hits but OHKO me or when I OHKO everything