This game has officially pissed me off.
It's way too impossible. I can't even bother with the main quest because apparently mobs level up as you do, and they never get any easier. 5 or 6 hits and I'm pretty much dead. I selected a dark elf thief.
It's ridiculous. Right now, I'm on some quest where this guy is stealing bodies and you follow him into the family morgue. Just two enemies, and they utterly thrash me. I have absolutely zero chance, what, with a thief wearing light armor and equipped with nothing but a bow.
I haven't even closed the first Oblivion gate because... enemies thrash me.
I read up on this because I thought I was missing something or doing something wrong, and I am: I'm not rigging the leveling system. Apparently the only way to win in this game is to either create a custom class so you maximize the +5 attributes to your desired stats on leveling, or just flat out don't level at all. That's no fun. Just kinda defeats the entire purpose of the game.
I just wanted to play the game normally without doing some stupid mumbo jumbo, and I guess that's not possible. Way too frustrated at this point.
I just don't see how this is playable, and it's a shame because even though I'm really loving this game, I won't be able to beat it unless I follow someone else's pre-defined "power leveling" or "non-leveling" method of tricking the system, which isn't natural or intended.
For example, all the stuff explained
here. I mean really, that's absurd. All that stuff is too complicated. Like I said, I just wanna play the game, not have to worry about "overleveling" (which defeats the purpose of leveling if I'm not getting stronger)
BTW, playing it on the 360 so mods are moot.