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Mummelmann on 05 March 2015
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Aeolus451 said:
Mummelmann said:


Agree with this, all games where you can max out everything become incredibly dull after a while since you'll be crazy overpowered. I like games to be challenging; if you're a master at everything, there will be no challenge. In my opinion; games do this all too rarely today since they assume that this is what gamers want and when you increase the difficulty, the AI beats you by cheating and taking cheap-shots rather than by proper strategy and actual depth of thought.


Elder Scrolls III Morrowind. You could be the most overpowered I have ever seen in a game and it's still challenging for the most part or wouldn't get boring after maxing out everything. it was really difficult to do that. I wouldn't do every OP thing that i could though. I really wish games would let a character become really OP if they were clever or creative but make bosses or certain enemies just as OP. Her hands were pretty feisty. There was this cave, full of bandits that had paralyzing weapons. 


I've finished Morrowind about 5-6 times and after the first couple of times I had to set ground rules to avoid getting overpowered. No stealing glass and other expensive stuff, no Boots of Blinding Speed and Savior's Hide and no enchanting weapons with all damage bonuses. You could practically one-shot every monster besides the final boss with a good katana with all elemental damage. The STR enchantment was also overpowered and I usually had 300-400 STR, this paired with the 300 SP due to the boots and other ehancements and a killer weapon made the game a cakewalk regardless of the choices you made. I don't know how you can see Morrowind as challenging on its own but there are mods that help a great deal.

Oblivion was even worse; my first proper playthrough with the expansion saw me end the game with a character that had 105% damage reflection and 80% magic resist and/or absorb; he was literally immortal and didn't even need a weapon.

Skyrim has super-overpowered archery and stealth mechanics and the perk system is grossly overpowered as well. Bethesda just don't seem to know how to make a truly challenging RPG (yes, I have played Fallout 3 as well and Daggerfall was even less balanced than the later additions to TES series).

The Baldur's Gate games, Icewind Dale, even Neverwinter Nights I and II; now there are some RPG's that offer a proper challenge.