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Playing a Bethesda game is kind of like dating Trixie. You know she’s hot, and you really do legitimately like her, but then she goes nuts for no reason and you facepalm just a bit.

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Thegug
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@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Despite how much it ruins the fun, a little pragmatism is always nice ;).  
I was gonna make a reindeer joke but then I had an image of two generals with antler helmets locking horns in the middle of a battlefield and lost my train of thought.
TheAbridgenator
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Entil'Zha
@Thegug  
The reasoning I heard was that the horns are supposed to deflect the sword/mace/spear from directly impacting the helmet, sparing the bulk of the head from damage. Granted, all of the military technicians I’ve heard of tend to emphasize that putting handles on armor is very rarely an applicable design, so I’d wager it’s more of a ceremonial helmet that we’re thinking of. And considering the only thing archaelogists like more than garbage piles (no, seriously!) are burial sites, those helmets would be among the first they’d find.
Thegug
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@TheAbridgenator  
Speaking as someone who enjoys the odd spar, what good is giving your opponent ample leverage to knock your helmet off or bring you down to the ground?  
Intimidation? Whatever you say DEER-y, just try not to get stuck in between doors.
Niggoslav_Krawczyk
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#ChanYe2028
@Whatevs  
I think the point is more that Bethesda basically shits out a framework these days and lets the players finish the game for them. It feels that way with how easy every enemy gets by halfway through a game. It feels that way how only user mods are capable of fixing/discovering/preventing some bugs. It feels that way when they release a BARREN AND TEXTURELESS BARREL and you need a mod just to get rid of a retardedly annoying glitch in one of your homes. That have gotten so lazy it’s unbelievable. They may as well hire a group of fans to do everything after they write the story and setup quest triggers. (and even then some quests become uncompletable for no sane reason out of the blue, or because the quest giver launched himself into a pit so he died on revival.)
 
Basically the least they could do at this point is make some of the dragons actually challenging, say Dogma/Monster Hunter level, but ya don’t even get that, despite how ‘prominent’ an enemy the game design makes them out to be. And prior to Skyrim they tried to solve this with ‘scaling’ as a crutch, which usually winds up annoying as piss when a tiny rat crits you for 130 damage.
 
 
Speaking of mods though, there ARE currently efforts to bring MH critters over, but the AI just isn’t there yet.
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@Juggernaut470  
I know just what you mean. When your reaction to a dragon is “Sigh. Another one?” instead of “Oh shit! Run!” something has gone awry. Dragons ought to be intimidating monsters you only consider taking on when you are well prepared.
 
It would improve the experience greatly if dragons in Skyrim fought intelligently. Dragons are supposed to be smart. They shouldn’t land and expose themselves to melee. Dragons should circle strafe you with breath attacks and use their claws in fly-by attacks.