Hey! Skyrim was legitimately easier when dragons and vampires weren't killing off all your townspeople. It made sense not to trigger the dragons, and wipe the floor with the vampires as soon as possible. Jarl Balgruf will be there when the Archmage/ Nightingale/ Speaker is ready. It takes me a few weeks to take over those organizations.

I highly recommend using a guide if you're not extremely chill about missing stuff.

I also realized partway through I really dislike pathfinder 1e, so i just started cheating, and then lost interest.

I don't spend times on games that need a guide. Put clues in your games if that's what you're doing. I work way too much to learn every consequence of in game decisions that aren't at least hinted at. Reading a guide is just spoiling. Make good fucking games. If you give me a 20 hour gotcha I'll never play it again and tell others not to bother.

As long as the game is upfront about being a game of choice and consequence, it's fine. Sometimes it's fun when your decisions actually matter.

"The hero died before he could defeat the Dark Lord by being killed whilst on an errand to deliver 10 wolf pets to a random villager."

But what about when you die fighting the Dark Lord because you're not overlevelled from doing all the sidequests?

Cyberpunk 2077: Here's a really important and urgent thing. We can't stress enough how little time you have. Also, we just unlocked the rest of the city and a million side quests. Have fun!

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee