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I'm on my second playthrough (Switch, level 22 stealth archer) and something feels off with how detection works. I'll be crouched behind a pillar or in shadows, the eye icon is closed, but the second I draw my bow guards somehow know exactly where I am—even though nothing should've seen me. Are...

I'm on my third playthrough and this is legitimately driving me insane. Every time I go through a doorway in a dungeon, Lydia either stops dead in her tracks or phases through the wall and ends up on the other side staring at nothing. Then I have to backtrack, wait for her to unstuck herself, or...

I'm on my second playthrough (level 22, playing on Switch) and I've been dumping points into Pickpocketing because I thought it'd be fun for a sneaky character. But honestly it feels like a total waste compared to just looting bodies or buying stuff. The detection chance is still brutal even...

I'm on my third playthrough and I always skip Destruction because my frost bolts feel like I'm tickling enemies until I'm deep enough to grab the damage boost perks. Playing on Legendary difficulty, so maybe that's part of it, but I'm curious how people actually use Destruction as a main skill...

I'm on my 3rd playthrough and keep defaulting to sneaking with a bow without meaning to. It just... works too well. This time I want to force myself into something that feels genuinely different but doesn't require me to min-max or follow a strict build guide—I'm playing on Switch and just want...

I think you're onto something, but I'd push back a bit on the "intentional design" angle. Yeah, restoration feels weak solo, but I don't think Bethesda was designing around the idea of you needing a dedicated tank follower to make a school viable. That's more like... accidentally discovering a...

I'm on my second playthrough and wanted to try something different from stealth-archer, so I'm going full support mage. I've got Restoration leveled to like 35 and I'm realizing most of the perks feel... passive? Like Respite lets you heal yourself with spells instead of potions, but I'm still...

Just finished a Markarth-focused run and I'm kind of blown away by how much the Forsworn Conspiracy, the Cidhna Mine stuff, and the Dwemer quest all feed into each other thematically. Like the game is basically asking "what happens when you ignore systemic problems" but it does it so quietly...

Yeah stewards can definitely be fragile if you're not careful. The issue is they'll follow you everywhere and just... do dumb stuff in combat. I've had the same problem - watched my steward walk straight into dragon fire because apparently that's a good strategy. They don't respawn, so once...

I just realized something while wandering around down there for like two hours (again). Blackreach isn't a confusing mess - it's deliberately designed to feel like you're lost in an alien world that doesn't follow normal dungeon logic. The way the vertical space works, how the Falmer...

I'm stuck on this one and I'm genuinely not sure if it's bugged or if I'm just doing it wrong. Got arrested, thrown in the mine, talked to Madanach, and he wants me to kill the foreman. I killed the foreman no problem, but now nobody's reacting to it. Madanach's still just standing there, the...

I just got to the Karstaag fight in the Forgotten Vale (doing the Daedric quest line) and he absolutely demolished me. I was level 42, decent gear, thought I was ready. Got him down to maybe half health before he just... kept hitting me and I couldn't get away. Switched to a ranged build...

You're probably just undergeared, tbh. Base iron and steel at level 15 is rough - enemy scaling catches up fast and you're basically fighting with starter gear while they've upgraded. Even just looting better weapons off bandits and using those would help, but if you want to actually feel the...

I did a conjurer on my third playthrough and honestly you're onto something, though I'd push back a bit on the "active management" thing. Yeah, once you get the duration perks it's less about spamming, but a lot of the time I was still just summoning something and letting it do the work while I...

Coming from Skyrim, I'm getting absolutely destroyed in Morrowind even against basic stuff. My character keeps missing attacks constantly, and when enemies DO hit me, it chunks half my health. I'm level 5-ish with a longsword and light armor, and I feel like I'm doing something fundamentally...

Playing through again on my Switch and I just realized how weird the Speechcraft tree is. Like, you get perks that literally just... remove dialogue options? Persuasion, Intimidation, Bribery - fine, those make sense. But then there's stuff like the perk that lets you pickpocket during dialogue...

I'm on my second playthrough (level 22, playing on PS5) and decided to go full two-handed warrior instead of my usual dual-wield setup. Problem is, everything just feels sluggish. My damage per hit is higher, yeah, but dual-wield still clears rooms faster and I'm getting hit way more often...

I just picked up BG3 after finishing another Skyrim run and man, the magic feels so different. In Skyrim I basically always end up as a stealth archer or a pure mage with like three spells I actually use. But in BG3 every spell feels like it has weight and positioning matters and you're actually...

Just got back into Skyrim on PC after like two years and decided to finally try some mods. Installed maybe 10-15 of them (USSEP, SkyUI, some texture packs, a couple gameplay tweaks) using Vortex, but now the game crashes to desktop the second a save loads—main menu is fine though. I've got no...

Yeah I actually felt the same way on my last playthrough. The game doesn't really give you a good option for keeping them in the city - they're tied to the homestead you own, so if you want adopted kids at all, you're kind of forced into this scenario. It's one of those things where the...