for me, yes. I was surviving those Icarian Flight scrolls with like 30% health and then needing a week of resting to recover, I wouldn't even take damage from jumping off buildings in Vivec and the tribunal optional boss wouldn't even try to attack me because I had too much chameleon for her to see so she just monologued until I finally decided to kill her... and that tribunal unique guard dude with the enchanted armor (who apparently has some quest where he goes insane and can be provoked into fighting) just ran away from me when I attacked him... and at that point, all other guards already were running from me when I attacked them for no reason... and the weapon I made was so powerfully enchanted that it basically took a day to recharge for every one time I hit an enemy with it >_>
that sounds more like you had a choice and could have using lesser items, tbh.
I mean I know what it's like with health regen in daedric armor and an absorb health weapon on a dagger, I never die. But that isn't fun, I'll just end up using weaker weapons so it's still a challenge. I do not intend to end up like New Vegas
ah okay. Yeah I was doing everything in my power to be OP. Granted I didn't know it would work as well as it did, but I literally planned out and pre-recorded every skill focus and stat point ahead of time in a notebook and since I got to close to level 40 I think, that was a few pages of chicken-scratch shit, like to the point where if you looked at it you would be like "this guy has fucking OCD for sure"
I've never tried not doing that so no idea what the game is like to play casually >_> ---