On what difficulty settings are you playing Skyrim?

Shole

I usually play on normal since I like to walk and chill in that amazing world without getting one shot by everything that moves. What about you guys?

Quelhas

Hard mode is for me the best as I really get a more realistic feeling for the game. I don't think it's fun to play on normal or easy since it's way too easy. That's something the company needs to fix, the level of difficulties is just well from one extreme to another.

Shole

Yeah they don't balance it out too well, but it's interesting that you can't see enemies health just a bar, so it might be because of it, I mean maybe they need to change the game engine, not sure.

War

I like to play on harder difficulties, but sometimes it's outright frustrating because enemies just become sponges. I remember encountering a Dwemer Sphere (or whatever it's called) and it took me literally 4-10 minutes to kill it. I just kept running away and occasionally hitting it. It wasn't really all that much fun and I could have saved time playing on easy.

I mentioned it in another thread...but I really wish we had a hard mode where you could die quickly, but enemies die quickly too. That way you're not wasting time finding some cheap tactic to kill a sponge.

Of course, enemies like giant metal Centurions should remain hard to kill. They're metal! I kinda wish they made it so that they were immune to swords or something, and electricity or warhammers were their weakness. It would switch things up a bit.

So, in the end, I think I like to stick with hard difficulties if I'm playing a stealth role. That way, I can take enemies out with multiplied damage, and getting caught is a huge consequence because I can be taken out really quickly. Otherwise, getting caught is just an inconvenience as I can just kill anyone regardless of stealth.

Majoron

I play on Adept, I find that anything higher than that leads to lots of damage sponges.

Wunis

I recently did a Legendary magic playthrough. It was fun, but at the start I had to get a follower so I wouldn't die so frequently. I also did have to lower the difficulty a few times where it was nearly impossible to beat, but it was quite fun.

Sean-Bean

I like normal or only slightly higher than that. Otherwise I never end up doing any damage to anything at all, no matter how much min-maxing I'm doing... though that's probably due to my insistence of using bound weapons, which can't be enchanted.

Soyroy

I usually play adept when I am a mage. I play Expert when I am a warrior or assassin. Every once in awhile I play Novice just to feel like a god.

Majoron

Ah yes, I should have specified in my post, I'm playing as a mage.

Quadryc

I play on expert or adept - lower than that, and you start one-shotting, which takes away from the fun a bit.

Above that, and the enemies start being damage sponges - which is rather annoying. As with what War said, I'd be great to have a difficulty where you die quickly - but so do the enemies.