I still haven't gotten my game yet (thanks a lot Gamestop) but in the time I could have been playing this weekend, I thought about the game instead (best I could do). I pulled together a list of rules for the ultimate immersion experience:
1-For every 36 hours in game time, you must sleep at least 8 of them.
2- You must eat at least 1 piece of food every 4 hours, and 1 meal (3 or more pieces) every 24.
3-You must drink at least every 2.5 hours
4-No compass (if you can turn it off)
5-No in game map (only because it is very GPS-esque)*
6-You must bathe by submersing yourself in some body of water at least every other day (suggested to remove armour and weapons and drop them at the shore)
7-Avoid swimming in armour as much as possible, try to find ways across the body of water without getting too wet. If the situation requires you swim to the bottom of the lake/river, remove armour/weapons and leave them at the shore, because they'll be ruined if you get them wet. One weapon and some clothing is okay to bring with.
8- NO BACKTRACKING SAVES, unless the game is affected with a bug or glitch.
9-NO FAST TRAVEL
10-DEAD. IS. DEAD.
There you have it, 10 rules to make the game harder and more realistic. Of course you'll probably want to play this way later on, instead of as your first game. If you can think of anything else, please comment on this post.
*For some people this might make the game difficult, but I suggest printing out a copy of a somewhat detailed Skyrim map, using the map that the game came with (if you have it) or drawing up one of your own, based on what you've seen and heard. If these options are for whatever reason, near impossible the in-game map can be used.
Also, one thing I'm going to do when I do this playthrough is keep a regular composition notebook by me, and take notes of conversations, directions, descriptions. Pretty much I'll keep my own adventuring journal. Drawing sketches of monsters and noting their weaknesses, making small maps to help me find quest locations, writing names, places, etc.
If you wanna keep to dead is dead then do stay away from giants. Trust me on that one, I know it. Just check out what happaned to me.
ReplyDeleteI also have some rules for realism like that, but I don't write them down or anything like you. It's just automatic to sleep through nights and such.
Teleporting sucks too. Good luck with your notebook, I had one for Runescape quests (some were ridiculously hard though, really needed it or else it would be impossible).
Oh God hahaha I remember Runescape quests. At least they made you feel good when you finished them because they were so ridiculous, I too had a journal for RS, thanks [:
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