But isn't the challenge of fighting your way into a place and getting a reward part of the exploration? The rewards you get also go towards making you more able to fight and explore. you may as well go no-clip and just fly around and see things.

anyway, I'll shut up now and accept other people play games for different reasons Dx

Hhe. Fighting is one challenge, puzzles are another. Personally, I take an easy fight to be a challenge in itself. If a fight turns out to be too difficult for my tastes, I know I need to do better and spruce myself up.

I'm something of a game hoarder too, so when I find cool items I stash them. I consider that reward as well. It's really all relative. I do agree with you though that once you get high enough you lose some of the challenge in the combat respect.

There's certainly nothing wrong with hearing other opinions. I find it interesting because it's not something I would necessarily think of myself.

for me an RPG type game is all about the process of growing strong and better, being able to go places which were impossible previously. Exploration through your own achievements. I'll cheat on other games, but never on an RPG.

I did cheat on some games but I've put a stop to that because I just find that I enjoy the game less, and also find that I tend to be a poor player as well since the cheats make things easy. I nearly finished the old Warcraft 2 when I was 12 or so, got to the second to last scenario. Alas, I started playing around with the cheats too much and stopped putting much strategy into the game. I wasn't as good a player after that.

I use game guides for some things, like looking up how to kill bosses because I can't be bothered with them, or to find out why something appears to not be working right (found the odd snag in some games that way) but on the whole I try to avoid it now.

The most I've done on Skyrim is turn the difficultly down one step for one fight that was incredibly frustrating, after looking it up online and not finding any suitable tips or helps except more comments on how annoying the fight was.

Can't say I've heard that term before, but it does sound like something I'd do. ;)

I'm all for cheeky fighting tactics if it means the battle is over quicker. My Skyrim character is much more straigth forward than my Morrowind character when it comes to combat, but I'll still shoot a guy with an arrow and run away if I think I can get away with it. :D.

My friend is a mage, and routinely lights himself on fire and just runs at everyone in the room while simulatanously healing himself. Good trick.

I have a mage who deals mainly in duel wielding fire. nothing even gets close enough to harm me, unless it's a dragon. See enemy, hold down both mouse buttons, enemy dies. It was overpowered right from the start.

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My opinion exactly.

-whines-
Finding all the elves for the elder scroll is freaking hard! xP

Also: I am definitely a hoarder/collector. I wish the game was Treasure collector friendly! I only have breezehome at this point. I kinda want something awesome like that flying museum in Pokemon 2000. That's a complete fantasy of course xD

things I wish to collect: weapons, armor, books, clothes

I collected enchanted weapons and armor up to a point. That is, until I realized I could disenchant them, take their abilities, and enchant other weapons and armor to sell for bookoo gold.

For fighting, my main character is a mage, and I usually have her wield ice and shock. I have the perk that freezes my enemy solid once I get their health low enough, and the frostbite spell slows them down anyway. I think the only thing that gives me problems is when dragons won't land and I have to use the ranged spells. My aim... isn't that great.

There is a cave south of Solitude and west of Marcath (is that how you spell it?) Called liars retreat, in there is a bunch of dalmers and dead elves (or alive) that you can collect blood from. All but high elf I think.. Or atmer? Sometimes you don't find the dark elf.. But that's a good location.

One of my sister's just got Skyrim. Seems the two of us managed to create similar characters with the same skill trees, except she uses maces. I like my axes. :)

If you're into metal, you may appreciate this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDE2VQzghp4

Oh, I'd have that on my iPod! That's cool!

I do have it on my iPod xD

Did you have to download it? That makes me wonder if it's possible to nab the game soundtrack from somewhere. I like the music in a number of games. They tend not to be regularly sold though, unless it's through promotions or special edition versions.