Oblivion

[Saber Cherry]

Graeme Dice said:
Or, one could make the converse argument. If you focus on their secondary skills, they end up overpowered. If you game the system, then you end up with more powerful characters than if you don't. This is hardly new to either the RPG genre or the Elder Scrolls games.

Either way is the same. I like to play games that are fairly challenging throughout, but in Morrowind it was like walking on a balance beam - pick the wrong skill, play the wrong way, and suddenly the game is too easy or too hard... but you never know if you're playing too well or too badly until it's too late. In a normal RPG, there is self balance, such that if you get too powerful you can go to a "more difficult area" with commensurate rewards, and if you are too weak you can go to an "easier area". In Morrowind/Oblivion, there is no such option - when you become off-balance on either side, you just keep falling.