Verno wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 08:43:

Watter wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 08:35:
I have quite a few hours in but I'm not sure how you guys with 80+ in one playthrough do it. Even without grinding through smithing/enchanting, by the time I was lvl 39 I was so powerful that exploring and combat had lost any kind of tension or interest. I would walk through room in a dungeon and try to aggro as many as I could and then kill them all with just a few shots without losing much health. It's frustrating because exploration is the best part of the game. I turned the difficulty all the way up, but it didn't help much.

Don't get me wrong; I want the reward of feeling powerful after investing the the time and effort to build my character, but there still needs to be some challenge left somewhere.

You're playing on Adept, if you play on the harder difficulties the game is much more challenging. Even a simple 2 on 1 encounter can be extremely deadly. Enchanting and Smithing tend to break the game if powerleveled, if they are leveled naturally it is a reasonable curve.

Im hoping some kind of standalone expansion ala Fallout: New Vegas is done by Obsidian at some point in the future.