My bloody 15 foot single-hand fireball of pure fire that causes a WHOOMPH explosion doesn't even cause a goddamn mudcrab to stop in its path to destruction (although it DOES die...but IF it survived). I don't even have a force spell, I can only shout it, and that does nothing at all!
Eh what? I was going to write something about the magic spells being simpler, but neat and the shouts making up in the more special department. But then I noticed that you mention shouts yourself, so you already have them (and they are magic in my opinion). So that adds a lot to it.
Now what where you saying about a force shout that does nothing?? Exactly what kind of bug does your game have, in mine it kills a lot of people and hurls the rest of them far off (even giants).
Perhaps upgrade your shout?
Heh, I believe you're the first person I've ever seen who enjoys Oblivion more than Skyrim. Especially people who played earlier Elder Scrolls games seem to really dislike Oblivion.
What annoys me about your post though, is that you're basically saying that all people who prefer Skyrim only do so because of the better graphics.
Agreed, though I don't necessarily read that from his posts, but it does surprise me a little. Though everyone have their right to make a choice. And the "expansion" shivering isles was bloody awesome and pretty much made Oblivion all I wanted it to be (although still with some misgivings). So basically Skyrim and Shivering isles combined and I would very much enjoy it.
bug list from elder scrolls wikia:
"Equipping Spells: Impossible to unequip or change spells on the right hand. To fix it, one must equip a weapon to this hand. (PC)"
you are either trolling or your skyrim is the least buggy on the planet
- pretty much all spells have AOE
- magic does not scale as well as melee/ranged damage or doesn't scale at all (100 pt in two/one handed and ranged passively raises damage by 40%)
- two hitting, I don't care about "adept" or whatever difficulty you play at
however melee/ranged does incomparably more damage (up to 60x damage multiplier)
- dremora lord is overpowered, it can 5~6 hit a dragon hence gamebreaking in that sense lol
- not use game mechanics because of other broken mechanics ? great argument, I always use companions because it is an available game mechanism and because Bethesda decided to make this god awful and useless carry weight BS
force players into searching for tweaks or console commands or "do it some other way, because we just can't design crap" surely sounds like Bethesda
- if we assume our companion is a generic redneck with 30IQ then yeah their behavior is realistic
but yeah I ended up "doing it other way" and became dual-wielding bound sword conjurer eeer two hander destr enchant something... class
also IMO enchanting/smithing is rather unbalanced as well you can have 100% fire/ice resist from only like 2 items (turning dragons into punching bags)
interesting note is I don't crash to desktop (or in any other way for that matter) and luckily no freezing here so far
I'll ignore the comment about trolling, I believe just looking at my profile should tell you otherwise. Could I get a direct link for that bug? Since I might be realizing that I am in luck or something hehe
. Well I won't complain about not having a bug.
I play as expert...and if your playing on master difficulty and are complaining about enemies not dying easily, well your doing something wrong. Btw: your hero can withstand magic so why shouldn't other people do so as well? But a sword to the gut it something everyone it hurt by - so fair enough. And they can block it with swords, armor protects against it and so forth. Magic hits them no matter what unless they use a magic shield. So once again I don't find that a problem. If thats how it is then thats how it is. If you prefer to be a freaking killing machine having to use one spell to kill everything or want some more creative spells without AOE, just wait. I bet you that mods will do that for you. And the rest
88WaRCraFT3 pretty much already said (I consider that increasing damage per level).
No not pretty much all spells.. pretty much half of them... and only one who is truly annoying in that area (chain lightning).
I've seen my demon lord being slaughtered by humans, though not a dragon, but hey I myself can slaughter a dragon with around the same trouble as a Dremora lord, so somewhat makes sense. In regards of killing a dragon in 6 blows I mean. So if you can, why not the thing you conjured. And since the whole purpose of the game (or underlaying purpose whatever), is to become freakishly powerful, then I don't consider it game breaking that something which is expensive to cast is good.
Well good luck to you in the crash to desktop then, a few people don't do it. Either by luck or by having a 32 bit system..
Lastly: So why again are you complaining about the enhancing (its only enhancing as you don't require smithing, unless you want to make your own armor/weapons as well). So if you become a master enhancer and make two such items. Well congratulations, you've trained to become good at something and you use that knowledge to become more powerful. Although you miss out other enhancements (4 spaces used), but well thats ones own choice. Its part of the game, and dragons can still eat you or main you or you can meet one that doesn't breath ice or fire (a bit rare admittedly).
So all in all, why are you playing the game? You've seem to dislike just about any aspect of it.
Of course they can improve a lot and there is flaws, but it is also a damn huge game with a lot of fun to be had + tons of mods to come with even more stuff.
Enjoy it for what it is, even if your unlucky with the equip thing, sounds like a pain in the ass.