Anyone else play skyrim as a permadeath game?

[flintfakeer]

It is very fun and quite difficult if you don't use exploits or grind too much.

[Cherry]

i play on expert right now and i've yet to die. level 18 so far. you just have to use everything you've got, like using your shouts.

[Taco-Rex]

I would totally watch a video series like this

[flintfakeer]

I also use a few mods. Here are the ones that impact combat if you want to have a look at any of them. I added darker nights to this list even though it is a lighting mod because it makes hitting an enemy at night more difficult.

Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch

SkyUI

Skyrim Unbound

Better Combat AI

Duel - Combat Realism 8

THE PEOPLE OF SKYRIM ULTIMATE EDITION

When Vampires Attack

Run For Your Lives

SM Essential Kills +

Realistic Ragdolls and Force

Faster Vanilla Horses

Immersive Patrols

Pure Weather - Darker Nights Edition

Wear Circlets with Hoods

Flexible Perk Trees

Dragonborn Smithing 2.0

Dawnguard Smithing 2.0

Smithing 2.0

Tailoring

First person camera

[flintfakeer]

Ive always played skyrim permadeath; ive always played on adept; ive never beaten skyrim.

I started playing with mods because the escape from helgen wasn't something I was prepared to do another 30 times.

Then I wanted combat to be a bit more interesting and for the game to stop crashing.
then i wanted my game to look prettier so I got some graphics mods.

I have played over 300 hours and playing permadeath with Duel combat realism and better ai I feel like im an awesome warrior/mage dragon eater but still very mortal.

[Uncle64]

Play the game at Master level.
More fun and more realism. Add some mods that add weather, bathing and so on. Then it become immerse :P

[leyu.]

Wanted to go permadeath but with Requiem+Deadly Combat+Revenge enemies it is too time consuming and possible only through hardcore grinding for ages.

[flintfakeer]

Most of my characters don't last 4 hours let alone the whole game. I always think "I can take them easy" then something happens like i get caught on a rock, get stumbled, my stamina runs out and im out of potions, I go to inventory right as the arrow hits so I die, but can heal, I just lose with full health, or I hit with a power strike while my enemy is loosing theirs and I die THEN he stumbles (this one happens too much).
The words are "I have to only be unlucky once."
Thus to rule permadeath one must not take, or ,at least, mitigate, chances; What is an open world game but a place to take chances and experience things that in all likelyhood would mess you up for real? I die a lot.