I never said I wasn't. Trouble is that if unless you only level one skill to the exclusion of anything else and that one happens to be a combat skill (unrealistic not to mention impossible) you'll be ready to level up before you get a decent modifier for the combat skill. Getting even a measly +2 at a time could leave you falling behind the enemies after several levels.Originally Posted by Bert
Especially if you happen to level a lot of other skills like athletics, armorer, speech etc. for other reasons. In fact, I always found any time I played Oblivion that my combat skills generally leveled slower than any of my other major skills because even if you're exploring every cave you come across you're probably still using them less than a lot of other skills.
Again, it's not a question of running into things that are hard and needing to level. Honestly, I have to question if some of the people in this thread even know how the leveling system works in Oblivion. If you level up as soon as you're able to, odds are you're only going to get a +2 modifier for a combat stat. It is entirely possible that if you continue to level as soon as it becomes available the game will become progressively harder. This is not something that happens instantly. It is a problem which compounds itself the longer it goes on making the game a bit harder every time you gain a level.I've played this game I don't know.. a dozen or more times and I have NEVER had ANY problem with leveling or ANYTHING being too difficult that I couldn't level up once or twice and complete it.
And again, this isn't some esoteric, happens once in a million years if you actively try to go out of your way and accomplish it sort of thing. It is something which happened quite frequently to new players and is well known to exist. Just because it didn't happen to you guys does not mean it is some impossible to accomplish thing that couldn't possibly happen. It's remarkably easy to pull just by not realizing how the leveling system works.
And I'll say one last time that this only happened to me on my first play through. After that I read up on why the game was getting harder, found a lot of people with the same issue, and looked into how the leveling system works so that it never happened to me again. It didn't happen because I was an idiot, or because I had never played an RPG before, or because I did anything wrong when my decision to level as soon as possible would be correct in any game where the leveling system made sense. so if people are going to continue discussing this as though I must have done something wrong and the difficulty I experienced on my first play through was my fault and not a result of a leveling system which was both broken and gave incentives to postpone using it as long as possible without explaining that rather important fact (something no sane person could argue makes sense, let alone is acceptable), then I have no real interest continuing this discussion.
I've made my argument based on how the game actually works and the real experiences of many players who found themselves in the same position I did on their first play through. If anyone doesn't understand how it can happen then feel free to fire up a new game and try it for yourself over the course of 10+ levels or so and tell me that the game doesn't get steadily more difficult. Keep it up over 20 levels if you really want to see how ass backwards the whole thing is.
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