Oblivion and morrowind were both great games, but every bethesda game lacks one last point of realism that could REALLY offer a challenge. Eat and drink to survive like normal people. It would actually provide a good challenge, as people may actually have reasons to buy food/drink from taverns, or go out hunting for deer or any other Skyrim animal. Mayhaps it shall be you don't eat or drink for a while in Skyrim you start losing hp VERY slowly...VERY slowly. Cast your vote.

It should be optional like in Fallout New Vegas ... We should have an option for hardcoe mode where you need to do all that stuff

It's not that realism ruins the game - it's just they can't get 'realism' correct. The process in Fallout was just - accumulate a number of hours, need more food and water. It wasn't based on environmental factors, nutritional factors or anything in the real world. It's not that it ruins a game but the rate of descent in Fallout New Vegas was too annoying; you couldn't rest without waking up and needing seven bottles of water. If they improve on it and add Bethesda's brain power and imaginative input then I'm sure they could produce a better system. I'd have to see the final product.

Realism and gameplay have to co-exist or at least meet eachothers needs before you can truely enjoy it without feeling dragged down by it.

It's hardly something I'd call challenge...

Only if it's Optional, although I do like the "Realism kills games" selection in the poll because I find that to be 100% true for a lot of games.

I don't think realism ruins games, except excessive amounts of course. I simply voted nope on the poll. Obviously with most modern games the trick is to strike a balance between 'real life' and fantasy. I am curious to see if Bethesda add a sort of hardcoe mode as others have said.

Balance is the key word, I'm all for more realistic combat but when you have to add Food in to the occassion in order to surivive then that's when I lose interest.

That's exactly right. Otherwise it becomes a chore and you find yourself not enjoying the game anymore.

I found it lame on oblivion how you had to eat a table full of food just to get a quarter of health back.

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