Never felt the need to post something like this before, but I know there are lots of people who love skyrim as much as I do out there... maybe even moreso.

Been playing skyrim since 11/11/11. I'm one of those people that can start new games over and over. I love playing different styles of character... a rogue, a mage... I can never play an all encompassing character... If I want to use dragon shouts i have to play a "dragonborn character" if I want to use magic I just have to be a "mage character" using only magic to fight... don't know why.

Anyway all this time I've been playing on adept difficulty, partly because it's the default skill level, and partly because I'm sort of a roleplayer.. I don't wear heavy armor if I'm playing an "adventurer/ranger" type character, and only use steel swords and try to skill up so high that I can deal decent damage using only steelish looking swords, just cuz I like the way they look. I've always thought that adept is a nice balance for roleplayer type chars.

After I accidently broke my game installing a combination of script heavy mods (happens sometimes unfortunately), I started yet another new game, while thinking about what type of character I wanted to play, I checked out the difficulty level... having never messed with it before I clicked up until I got to master, which was the highest difficulty before the DLC. I actually clicked one last time by accident and I saw the legendary difficulty. I was going to go back to master, but I was like what the hell I don't care. And WOW....what a difference in gameplay.

Before I was confident enough to traverse the land to get to safety when starting with the R.A,S. Mod, but setting the difficulty so high I found myself getting two shotted by saber cats and even bandits. It actually made the world dangerous for me. I gotta say it's super fun dreading to take on a bounty, and doing stuff like backing up and sneaking when I see a bear in the distance. Actually wanting to take a follower along to survive really adds a thrill to everything. Right now I'm level 12 somehow, and I'm finding myself going back and forth from whiterun > riverwood> to falkreath just to buy/sell enough things to power up and even stand a chance against everything. Really fun to actually feel safe inside cities and towns--except for when a master vampire decides to visit and you start thinking that it can actually kill some villagers with this level difficulty.

And spotting a dragon... forget it. They are as deadly as they should be.

Just felt like mentioning.

That's why I love TES games. You can customize them in so many ways to fit your playstyle.

Yes, they chop your head off with an axe, and you just hit them with a fork,
That's legendary for ya.

have fun getting instant killed by bandits armed with a plastic spoon or getting your level 50 character with maxed out resist instant fried by a novice mage using a spark spell