Poll: Hardcore Mode: Skyrim?

[MinchMan]

Well the point of games is to give you the most realistic and absorbing experience possible.

Arguably, that point could be used for both of the two sides (yes have it, and no don't have it). It could be argued that you would want to have to do all of the real life things, eating sleeping, dealing with excrement, etc.
The other side would of course be "I don't want to have to deal with that crap."
But I think that it would expand immensely on the game, and I would definitely enjoy having the option to play it.
What would be even better is if you had a menu in which you could check on or off certain things, such as sleep or having to use the bathroom.
That would be pretty weird though. Where would all that food go?
Also, would they have your body type change depending on how much you did or did not eat?
could you get diabetes in Skyrim?
There are endless possibilities to go with the Hardcore gaming style.

 

[mornal]

To really make sure the point is hammered through, hardcore mode is confirmed to not be in the game.

Bethesda has actually never done a hardcore mode (New Vegas was developped by Obsidian if you need reminding) and had no plans to start now.

I would've, however, liked for it to have been included. The only thing it hurts is development time on other portions of the game. But, it's no skin off my back because, as part of the PC master race, I'll have mods that add it in within a few days/weeks.

 

[Unknown613]

Only if they do a better job of it than in new vegas. It wasn't depth enough to even be called hardcore mode. All you had to do was drink a bottle of water every so often. More of a hindrance than hardcore if you ask me.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Hardcore was an option for New Vegas because you're playing in a post-apocalyptic future wasteland with radioactive creepy crawlies hunting you while you rummage in ghoul-infested sewers for clean water.

Hardcore should not be an option for Skyrim, a fantasy setting in what appears to be a rich forest filled with deer and fresh, clear streams. With dragons.

It was also a sort of "return to form". At least in the way that crippled limbs were handled and that you needed to carry water with you through the more desert like areas. At least I remember taking random "dehydration" damage in the first one.
Edit: Although I'm not sure how this would work in an elder scrolls game, it could be interesting.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Ehhh, I probably wouldn't use it much. It gets in the way of exploration and all the things I already love about TES. Maybe as something to do with a different character after I've completed the game.

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

Will Skyrim have proper days and nights? and if so how long will a day last before it gets dark?

I would like it if it wasn't too invasive, just maybe based around making sure you had a meal once every... lets say 6 hours of gameplay, and have something like a skin water flask that you had to fill up and would last 2 or 3 days until you needed to refill it, you could jazz it up by having certain sources of water be unsuitable for drinking from (Eg stangnant pools of water) and they would make your character lose energy points when drank, and poison him if consumed over a long period of time. You could even make certain water sources give your character a temporary lifepoint boost.

Sleeping sounds like it would be quite invasive to the flow of gameplay if it were implemented, but I don't really have any experience with previous hardcore modes, so I'm not sure. These are just my take on it.

Well, it's not like finding food and water was actually a challenge in NV anyway. For me survival mode just adds to the immersion and gives all the food, water, and beds some real use for once. (and no, beds should not be healing/level up stations)

 

[Smeggs]

Hardcore was an option for New Vegas because you're playing in a post-apocalyptic future wasteland with radioactive creepy crawlies hunting you while you rummage in ghoul-infested sewers for clean water.

Hardcore should not be an option for Skyrim, a fantasy setting in what appears to be a rich forest filled with deer and fresh, clear streams. With dragons.

You mean Skyrim, the large, open world of things you've never seen before where people use strange abilties and have crazy weaponry, along with monstrous beasts from your imagination that can attack you with strange abilities while you make your way through dank caves searching for the Shard of [INSERT GENERIC FANTASY JEWEL HERE]?

Gee, sounds pretty damned similar.

 

[FilipJPhry]

It would be friggin awesome! Finally I can make use for vegetables!

 

[F4LL3N]

I think I'll do it first playthrough. If I get a few hours in and find it to be boring, pointless, or tedious, I'll restart and go normal mode. I also found Oblivion to be extremely easy.

 

[WolfThomas]

I would love a hardcore mod, eating, drinking and sleeping are obvious. But perhaps only being able to stay in a snowstorm for so long before you start to freeze. There might be obvious racial bonus there (Nords and perhaps Khajits last the longest, Argonians freeze quickly).

That said I'm the sort of obsessive fiddly gamer who'd love it if a game made me go to a banker to change silver into gold, so yeah.

 

[kane.malakos]

One potential problem - you level up when you sleep, and sometimes it's nice not to level up for a few days even when you've got the XP

 

[Tiger Sora]

You want hardcore mode, just crank up the difficulty setting in options. I put it to max in Oblivion and nearly got 1 shotted as a Nord Warrior blocking with a shield by a zombie.

 

[Bobbity]

Only if it's managed better than FO:NV's was. By that, I mean that I don't want to just be filling arbitrary bars - essentially health meters that decrease over time - I want a real reason to tuck into some food, or get roaring drunk.

Also, this being Skyrim, I think that the warmth could be an awesome factor in this mode. If you find a bandit's campfire out in the wildreness, you have a real reason to stick around and sleep there. You think twice about crossing an icy river to get to the other side, because you're going to come out absolutely freezing. Stuff like that...

So long as it's creative and not simply an arbitrary sort of challenge, then I'm happy.

 

[Wayneguard]

I would rather "hardcore mode" be the default setting and anything less be "easy mode"

 

[Jessta]

you know? I actually think I would enjoy hardcore mode in Skyrim MORE than I did in New Vegas, I mean I know Fall Out is all about surviving in a post apocalyptic waste land but one of my favorite things to do in Oblivion was to try and be social type character who didn't fight himself (sneak, illusion, summoning, restoration, persuasion, barter.) hardcore mode would make this pretty interesting, I've always wanted my baskets of different kinds of foods in my fully decked houses to serve a purpose.

 

[Weentastic]

Skyrim should have a hardcore mode, kinda like New Vegas did. In New Vegas it was great, it added a bit of difficulty to the game and raised immersion, especially how your companions could die. It wasn't that hard to carry some food and water with you, and there are already beds everywhere you need them, and the consequences of neglecting them added a new dimension to the game.

Nothing pisses me off more in Skyrim than getting talked down to by some character and thinking, "I'm the dragon born *****! Taste my boot!". Then I attack that person, and they fall down, catch their breath and continue attacking me. What the hell? In Morrowind, nobody gave me shit at the end of the game, and lived. Since all the little girlies would hate to hafta reload their game (which is now saved like every freaking four minutes), there should be a manly mode for those of use who "don't take no shit".

Hardcore mode should take off all the little safety devices that bethesda's day care center put in the game and let me mess some stuff up. You know, make mistakes and experience the story a little more deeply. It should also turn off fast travel, cuz some of the best experiences in the elder scrolls universe are the roads to objectives, but fast traveling is too tempting an option for most, and it also breaks immersion a bit, especially when there used to be mage guides, silt striders, and now carriages.

Hardcore mode would give a reason for all those inns and meat salesmen in the land, and the system was not that hard to grab a hold of.

 

[Weentastic]

Skyrim should have a hardcore mode, kinda like New Vegas did. In New Vegas it was great, it added a bit of difficulty to the game and raised immersion, especially how your companions could die. It wasn't that hard to carry some food and water with you, and there are already beds everywhere you need them, and the consequences of neglecting them added a new dimension to the game.

Nothing pisses me off more in Skyrim than getting talked down to by some character and thinking, "I'm the dragon born *****! Taste my boot!". Then I attack that person, and they fall down, catch their breath and continue attacking me. What the hell? In Morrowind, nobody gave me shit at the end of the game, and lived. Since all the little girlies would hate to hafta reload their game (which is now saved like every freaking four minutes), there should be a manly mode for those of use who "don't take no shit".

Hardcore mode should take off all the little safety devices that bethesda's day care center put in the game and let me mess some stuff up. You know, make mistakes and experience the story a little more deeply. It should also turn off fast travel, cuz some of the best experiences in the elder scrolls universe are the roads to objectives, but fast traveling is too tempting an option for most, and it also breaks immersion a bit, especially when there used to be mage guides, silt striders, and now carriages.

Hardcore mode would give a reason for all those inns and meat salesmen in the land, and the system was not that hard to grab a hold of.