The Elder Scrolls V, your ideas

[lacktheknack]

More intense spell effects (visually), along with more variety of spells.

A world bigger than Daggerfall - I know they said they wouldn't do that, but I personally want it.

Big cities - they can be crafted in advance, but I mean biiiiiiiiiig cities, with hundreds or even THOUSANDS of NPCs. Even better, each city has its own personality, charms, and problems - a slum city that has major flooding problems but has excellent athletics and acrobatic trainers, versus the cosmopolitan mountainside village that suffers occasional avalanches, for instance.

Longer days (read - four or five hours), with a wait function in increments of fifteen minutes.

Improved melee.

More skills - lots more skills. Maybe an umbrella subsystem, thirty major skill groups with hundreds of sub-skills (I'm a ridiculous micromanager, but the macromanagers can just choose skill sets).

Bring back climbing, please?

View distance: Looooooong. Nothing hurt more than coming out of the first dungeon in Oblivion and seeing nothing but green smears across the lake.

Your own alchemy cave - A modder gave me one in Oblivion, I'd be lost without it.

Build-your-own spells WITHOUT joining the Mages Guild.

More guilds.

EDIT:
Clothes over armor, I feel odd running around cities in platemail.

More weapon classes.

Hand-to-hand a more viable option (add feet).

Probably no one agrees with me, but hey, it's what I want to see.

 

[gostchiken]

Have conflicts between the guilds, for instance have the Dark Brotherhood task you with knocking off a high ranking Mages Guild member, if you go through with it you get permabanned unless of course you can do it undetected. Martial arts styles for hand to hand, bring back thrown weapons; and last but not least vital areas, seriously an arrow to the head or heart should drop a fool like a stone.

 

[WrongSprite]

I guarantee that it'll have guns just like fable 2. Your opinion on wether or not thats a good thing.

Why do you guarantee that? Fable did that on its second game. The elder scrolls has had 4 games, none of which have guns. They have their universe set up already, I highly doubt they'll change it.

i wont be surprised cyrodiil becomes a battleground as the provinces vie for more land.

While that bit may be true, it won't really affect ES:V, as it won't be set in Cyrodiil. I doubt TES will ever be set in a war situation, it just doesn't suit the gameplay.

 

[Jekken6]

To the people saying about TESV not happening: It will happen. We'll probably get an announcement soon after the second TES novel is out.

 

[Serioli]

I guarantee that it'll have guns just like fable 2. Your opinion on wether or not thats a good thing.

Why do you guarantee that? Fable did that on its second game. The elder scrolls has had 4 games, none of which have guns. They have their universe set up already, I highly doubt they'll change it.

but that was 4 games of relative peace. there was no need to research new ways to kill people during peacetime. now that the empire is falling apart research will begin, giving way to guns and more lethal magic. i wont be surprised the empire begins a massive draft in TES V. i mean think about it, years of peace makes national security go on the backburner and the oblivion crisis decimating military numbers doesn't do it any favors. however the draft itself proves a problem, what kind of person will attack their own family? their own people? by the looks of it, the empire AND the province of cyrodiil is -fucked-. i wont be surprised cyrodiil becomes a battleground as the provinces vie for more land.

Necessity is the mother of invention, why invent guns when magic is freely available and as easy to learn? (Lvling Destruction is same as Lvling 'firearms')

(I don't believe there were magical restrictions such as 'only 1 in 1000 can learn magic' or 7th sons of 7th sons etc....)

IRL example,longbows were a LOT more efficient than early guns,however it takes 10 or so years to get a decent longbowman (basically have to start your people as children) but only a few weeks to train someone with an early gun so guns took off and were invested in and developed.

 

[JayHart10]

Take fallouts Karma, lvling up system and use more than the 5 voice actors for the entire game (celebrity voices dont count!) and youve got a winner. Also better rewards for finishing a guild, the dark brotherhood was amazing but half the stuff in the night mothers tomb was useless to me

 

[SageRuffin]

I wanna be able to build my skills as I level up, as opposed to trying to figure out what skills I want to specialize in.

And please make some core classes that are actually worth a damn. Every single one of the default classes in Oblivion sucked.

Addendum: And fix the combat. I love real-time action, but the combat in Oblivion was pathetic.

 

[Ziggy the wolf]

add more beastman races, like wolven or racoon
remove the bloody hight elves
add more voice actors
more weapon variety
more spell flexiblity
oh yea and give me some guild respect when i finish a guild questline.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Exactly. That's probably why the storyline sucked a lot too.

Uh, I don't know what game YOU played, but the main quest story, black hand, fighter's guild, mages guild were all incredibly strong and engaging (it made me WANT to do quests=good story). Black Hand story was perhaps the most intriguing I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing within a game.

By the Black Hand, I assume you mean The Dark Brotherhood?

I've beaten all the guild's and the main story's quests at least three times. The story for the main quest honestly wasn't that good. The places were fun, and there were a great many other things that I enjoyed about Oblivion, but a good main plot (as in the writing)? Nope.
So I played the game you played. Three times in fact.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

1. Completely forget anything that happened in the book.

2. Fix the combat, add more to the world (Christ Oblivion was SMALL), and HIRE MORE VOICE ACTORS. Maybe get the Bosmer chick and the gravelly Dunmer guy back.

3. Did I mention that it should COMPLETELY FORGET anything that happened in the book?

I hate The Infernal City. D:

This. The book was supposed to set up some of the next game, but, honestly, some of the stuff that happened in that book was just awful. Technically, Morrowind was even smaller than Oblivion, but the varied landscapes at least helped Morrowind in that area.

And I really hope they disregard anything that was put into the book. It was just awful.

 

[StarofAzura]

1. Completely forget anything that happened in the book.

2. Fix the combat, add more to the world (Christ Oblivion was SMALL), and HIRE MORE VOICE ACTORS. Maybe get the Bosmer chick and the gravelly Dunmer guy back.

3. Did I mention that it should COMPLETELY FORGET anything that happened in the book?

I hate The Infernal City. D:

This. The book was supposed to set up some of the next game, but, honestly, some of the stuff that happened in that book was just awful. Technically, Morrowind was even smaller than Oblivion, but the varied landscapes at least helped Morrowind in that area.

And I really hope they disregard anything that was put into the book. It was just awful.

I don't know if the folks at BethSoft had a collective aneurysm or what. But the thing that happened in that book that I will not speak of ruins the entire point of playing through Morrowind at all. It literally made me feel like I'd wasted all that time saving it

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if they were just going to blow it up.

 

[Strykz]

Wait what? I'm sure I read somewhere it was going to be an MMO.. or maybe that was a speculation.

 

[Daveman]

I'd like to see variable prices on items in different regions of the gamespace (a province or all of Tamriel), leading to a trading engine ganked from a game like Mount and Blade.

Speaking of which, I basically want Mount and Blades combat system, with fighting on horseback. Also BIG arena battles.

 

[Scribjerky]

Wait what? I'm sure I read somewhere it was going to be an MMO.. or maybe that was a speculation.

Rumors only, and unfounded. From what I recall, they said they'd be thinking about an MMO, but it would not be TESV. Which I am thankful for. If it was an MMO, I wouldn't play, and then I'd have to wait another 5 years for the next one.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

1. Completely forget anything that happened in the book.

2. Fix the combat, add more to the world (Christ Oblivion was SMALL), and HIRE MORE VOICE ACTORS. Maybe get the Bosmer chick and the gravelly Dunmer guy back.

3. Did I mention that it should COMPLETELY FORGET anything that happened in the book?

I hate The Infernal City. D:

This. The book was supposed to set up some of the next game, but, honestly, some of the stuff that happened in that book was just awful. Technically, Morrowind was even smaller than Oblivion, but the varied landscapes at least helped Morrowind in that area.

And I really hope they disregard anything that was put into the book. It was just awful.

I don't know if the folks at BethSoft had a collective aneurysm or what. But the thing that happened in that book that I will not speak of ruins the entire point of playing through Morrowind at all. It literally made me feel like I'd wasted all that time saving it

Spoiler

if they were just going to blow it up.

I know! I think they were just trying to make the fans angry. Apparently the author just played Oblivion, so maybe he didn't really see the importance TES3 had just from reading the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Page's wiki. Hell, I just write fanfiction and I did more research.

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And blowing up Morrowind really pissed me off. I don't normally get angry when things get destroyed in games either. I put so many hours into saving that place that it just feels like a waste of time now.

 

[imaloony]

I want to see the entire Melee combat reworked.

To put it blunt, the melee combat in Oblivion was terrible.
We need more dynamic melee combat, so have combos, specials with weapons, don't make EVERY SINGLE block make you nearly fall on your face, allow your character to move and dodge with more grace, and don't make it all that stale.

Also, make it so that every location looks the same. In Fallout 3, sure, the wasteland looked the same, but it was dynamic in that each patch of land had things to see, unique buildings, easter eggs, and different terrain to fight on, not to mention all the towns were unique and looked nothing like each other. In Oblivion, most towns look exactly like one another!

Fix lock picking. It sucks. It's repetitive, takes a long time, and is frustrating.
And fix the bartering system. Having to play that minigame with their face was disturbing and annoying.

So, yeah, that's my shortlist on how to make The Elder Scrolls V not suck. Good luck Bethesda, you need it.

 

[Scribjerky]

1. Completely forget anything that happened in the book.

2. Fix the combat, add more to the world (Christ Oblivion was SMALL), and HIRE MORE VOICE ACTORS. Maybe get the Bosmer chick and the gravelly Dunmer guy back.

3. Did I mention that it should COMPLETELY FORGET anything that happened in the book?

I hate The Infernal City. D:

This. The book was supposed to set up some of the next game, but, honestly, some of the stuff that happened in that book was just awful. Technically, Morrowind was even smaller than Oblivion, but the varied landscapes at least helped Morrowind in that area.

And I really hope they disregard anything that was put into the book. It was just awful.

I don't know if the folks at BethSoft had a collective aneurysm or what. But the thing that happened in that book that I will not speak of ruins the entire point of playing through Morrowind at all. It literally made me feel like I'd wasted all that time saving it

Spoiler

if they were just going to blow it up.

I know! I think they were just trying to make the fans angry. Apparently the author just played Oblivion, so maybe he didn't really see the importance TES3 had just from reading the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Page's wiki. Hell, I just write fanfiction and I did more research.

Spoiler

And blowing up Morrowind really pissed me off. I don't normally get angry when things get destroyed in games either. I put so many hours into saving that place that it just feels like a waste of time now.

Seriously. If I could email the author a punch straight to the jaw, I totally would. As it is, actually punching him in the face would get me into more trouble than it's worth.

But really. What the fuck was that?

 

[StarofAzura]

1. Completely forget anything that happened in the book.

2. Fix the combat, add more to the world (Christ Oblivion was SMALL), and HIRE MORE VOICE ACTORS. Maybe get the Bosmer chick and the gravelly Dunmer guy back.

3. Did I mention that it should COMPLETELY FORGET anything that happened in the book?

I hate The Infernal City. D:

This. The book was supposed to set up some of the next game, but, honestly, some of the stuff that happened in that book was just awful. Technically, Morrowind was even smaller than Oblivion, but the varied landscapes at least helped Morrowind in that area.

And I really hope they disregard anything that was put into the book. It was just awful.

I don't know if the folks at BethSoft had a collective aneurysm or what. But the thing that happened in that book that I will not speak of ruins the entire point of playing through Morrowind at all. It literally made me feel like I'd wasted all that time saving it

Spoiler

if they were just going to blow it up.

I know! I think they were just trying to make the fans angry. Apparently the author just played Oblivion, so maybe he didn't really see the importance TES3 had just from reading the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Page's wiki. Hell, I just write fanfiction and I did more research.

Spoiler

And blowing up Morrowind really pissed me off. I don't normally get angry when things get destroyed in games either. I put so many hours into saving that place that it just feels like a waste of time now.

I write fanfiction too, and whatever else they decide to do in the games, that particular part of the book will never make it into my personal canon.

...are you FUCKING kidding me? Keyes never played Morrowind? /RAGE

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My Nerevarine character refused to be written for days after I read that. She just wouldn't come out and play.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

1. Completely forget anything that happened in the book.

2. Fix the combat, add more to the world (Christ Oblivion was SMALL), and HIRE MORE VOICE ACTORS. Maybe get the Bosmer chick and the gravelly Dunmer guy back.

3. Did I mention that it should COMPLETELY FORGET anything that happened in the book?

I hate The Infernal City. D:

This. The book was supposed to set up some of the next game, but, honestly, some of the stuff that happened in that book was just awful. Technically, Morrowind was even smaller than Oblivion, but the varied landscapes at least helped Morrowind in that area.

And I really hope they disregard anything that was put into the book. It was just awful.

I don't know if the folks at BethSoft had a collective aneurysm or what. But the thing that happened in that book that I will not speak of ruins the entire point of playing through Morrowind at all. It literally made me feel like I'd wasted all that time saving it

Spoiler

if they were just going to blow it up.

I know! I think they were just trying to make the fans angry. Apparently the author just played Oblivion, so maybe he didn't really see the importance TES3 had just from reading the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Page's wiki. Hell, I just write fanfiction and I did more research.

Spoiler

And blowing up Morrowind really pissed me off. I don't normally get angry when things get destroyed in games either. I put so many hours into saving that place that it just feels like a waste of time now.

I write fanfiction too, and whatever else they decide to do in the games, that particular part of the book will never make it into my personal canon.

...are you FUCKING kidding me? Keyes never played Morrowind? /RAGE

Spoiler

My Nerevarine character refused to be written for days after I read that. She just wouldn't come out and play.

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My Champion of Cyrodiil is a typical proud Dunmer native from Morrowind and would rather die than let her homeland fall, like most I'd assume. Especially to Argonians. I literally said "LOLWUT?" when I read that, because how can tribal lizards take over the Dunmer?

I think a lot of the fans generally did not like the book, so hopefully we will be seeing little influence on the game. Too bad I lost the personal email of the guy who runs the Bethesda Blog otherwise I'd voice my opinion directly to him. I so will if I do end up getting an internship there when I graduate from college like I might.

 

[Scribjerky]

Guys! I can't believe no-one knows about the fact that Bethesda publicly announced they had no intention of another Elder Scrolls game. It ain't gonna happen.

LOL Where exactly did you find this announcement, because every interview I've ever seen with Todd Howard has him saying "Yes, we're making TESV eventually." They just haven't done it yet.

Nice try though.