Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[Artega]

You can do it that way.  If you hold down the left mouse button while attacking you get a power move.  You can also be moving left/right/forwards/backwards for different power moves.  There is also dodging, rather than blocking the blow with a shield you side step and swing.  Almost like real sword fighting huh?

So yes, you can just left click, right click, left click, yawn.  Or, you can move around, use the other 8 attack variations and make it more interesting.
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Not really. I'm a Master in Heavy Armor now; it doesn't encumber me at all.

I'm fully aware of the various power moves, and fully aware how useless they are. The disarm, knockback, and paralyze effects happen only sparingly, and a power attack leaves me open for a counterattack, while I can swing two or three times and have my shield up in time with normal attacks. And guess what? Three normal attacks do more damage and eat less Fatigue than one power attack.

Dodging requires Journeyman Acrobatics; I'm only Apprentice.

Sidestepping doesn't change the outcome of a fight; it merely makes it longer. It's pointless against a single target, and backing into a corner to prevent flanking when fighting more than one target is more efficient than trying to hop around.

Turning the difficulty above normal simple makes fights even more boring, given that they still don't do any damage worth noting (and even if they do, I can simply Wait for an hour after the fight to get all my stats back), but have even more HP, making fights even longer.