Your Wishlist for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim

[ComradeJim270]

I really, really want to respond to this, but I'll end up writing something resembling an essay.

I merely want Bethesda to keep their promises, unlike with Oblivion. Because the promises are, much like with Oblivion, very promising and more than enough to persuade me to at least rent it.

Spoiler: Bethesda lies

This. Of course, I think Todd Howard's the least trustworthy person in the whole industry. Yes, I'd take Peter Molyneaux's word over his without hesitation.

I would say I want the game not to disappoint me, but my expectations for it are low enough that it would probably have to somehow give me syphilis to pull that off.

 

[Triangulon]

I want persistent changes to the world. When you are the head of the Mage's Guild for example, mages in the world should recognise this and act accordingly. Your status, acheivements and the like should be reflected in how NPCs react to and deal with you.

 

[Trolldor]

Definitely. If I'm the head of the fighter's guild then they should show deference to me in more than just a dialogue change.

 

[ScroogeMcDuck]

some kind of co-op

 

[SevenForce]

- nonessential NPCs, cuz if I want them to dead they should die haha

what.

- the removal of the unarmed skill, cuz why the hell would you punch someone when you got tons of weapons avaible?

less features is not a good thing, especially when they are entirely optional. Anyway, I loved manning up and taking down ordinators with my fists on morrowind.

I would say I want the game not to disappoint me, but my expectations for it are low enough that it would probably have to somehow give me syphilis to pull that off.

Agreed.

If they just released morrowind again, i would be more likely to buy that than skyrim.

 

[Dog Killa]

If they just released morrowind again, i would be more likely to buy that than skyrim.

Damn straight.

They should include the exclusive factions from morrowind (though improve the system so it's harder to abuse), and the number of factions morrowind had.

They should restore all of the skills/spells missing in oblivion (Levitate! I mean really, how can you remove that?) and add new ones as well (dual wielding).

Towns should definitely NOT be separate cells like on oblivion. I don't really like the idea of unexplained fast travel, the system on morrowind with transport you had to pay for made sense, and also meant you had to walk around a bit, which is a good thing.

 

[Dog Killa]

Balls, accidental double post, my bad.

 

[Axolotl]

1) Allow the player to actually the main character in the storythis time.

2) Interesting and diverse scenery. Games like TES are essentially founded in exploration, please give us something interesting to explore.

3) No psychic guards.

4) Hire someone to design dungeons. Someone compotent. Seriously the only game with dungeons as bad as Oblivion is Dragon Age.

5) Give us cities that are actually big enough to explore, not just the size of a small suburb. Even with it's painfully unhelpful layout Vivec was a batter city than the Imperial City.

6) Better stealth system. Just copy Thief.

7) Bring back all the coll spells. Like the ones that you fly and teleport.

8) No fast travel.

9) More interesting locations not linked to any quest. For example in Morrowind the main houses had vaults filled with huge ammounts of loot, now as far as I know there wasn't any quest to break into them they were just there for anyone who was a thief-style character and who wanted a challenge. Stuff like this is good because it encourages players to think and plan and it rewards good play.

10) Add in an climbing/acrobatics system similar to Mirror's Edge.

11) Get rid of (or nerf) the spells that make certain skills obsolete.

12) More quests with no "right" solution.

13) No level scaling. At all.

15) More effects of non-mechanical quest rewards. To elaborate, if I'm high ranking and powerful in the Mage's GGuild, the Theives Guild, the Fighter's Guild and the Dark Brotherhood then I should be able to use this to help in certain qeusts.

16) Only membership of one faction at a time. Sure I can do quests for other factions but not become an actual member. This is to prevent the situation in Oblivion where you're the head of every major organisation in the country, it's just stupid.

17) No peruasion minigame.

18) More voice actors.

19) More quests with multiple approaches and solutions. For example if I need to break into a castle I should be able to do that by a) attacking from the front b) bribe/bluffing my way in c) climbing up the castle walls d) speaking to my contacts in the town and finding out about a secret enterance. You could do these in Oblivion butgenerally it was just one solution per quest when there should be multiple approaches possible.

20) Mutiple quest pathes that conflict with one another. Take New Reno in Fallout 2 for example. There are four rival gangs in a state of cold war over the city, which one you side with can greatly alter what quests you do, what rewards you get and how the plot progresses. And you can't do all the quests for all the sides. A few quests that combine this with point 19 above is better than 50 quests to kill tome goblins in the sewers.

21) More diversity of enemies. This a fantasy game use your imagination.

22) No cliffracers. They still crowd my nightmares.

23) More interesing magical items. A Mace of Smashing isn't interesting, it's useful but not interesting. The Grey Cowl was interesting, Scroll of Icarian flight are interesting more things like those.

24) Breakable locks.

25) No lock-picking minigame.

26) Nire a proper writer for the dialog.

27) More interesting bad guys. For example the evil necromancer god-king should not have the same overly-effeminate High Elf voice actor.

28) An in game economy. Just a simple one so some items are cheaper in some places and more expensive in others. I don't want to turn the game into Elite or anything but allowing me to be a merchant when travelling between towns would make the game a little more immersie since it rewards the player for being interested in the game-world.

That's all I can think of now.

 

[Stammer]

I agree with the "Let us delete spells from our list" suggestion. Having all those redundant spells just got annoying.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I desperately want factions to involve you more. When I reach Arch-mage of the mages guild I don't want it to just stop. I want to have duties to complete for that job. Whether it be to go talk to the Elder Council or whatever, I want more involvement. What I don't want is for the guilds just to say 'hi' when I walk by and then maybe add on my rank.

The guilds just seem attached with blutac and have little to no affect on the main quest.

EDIT: I also wish for no more Shock Atronarchs anywhere ever again. After just being pummeled by one only just winning with a small amount of health, I stumble upon another just slightly to my left that I have to fight. I barely ever get a hit in once they've touched me.

 

[Eponet]

Multiplayer

Higher lethality combat

More variety in attacks

The ability to actually kill human enemies instantly with a backstab

Not getting reported for crimes if the victim/witnesses/already alerted guards don't make it out of the building

 

[Atmos Duality]

1) Prime Objective: MAKE THE GAME NOT FUCKING CRASH EVERY 30 MINUTES ON AN AVERAGE PC.
Yes those CAPS were necessary. Nixing Gamebryo is the first step (that they have indeed taken. Good.) Making it so that the game is optimized for something OTHER THAN AN XBOX 360 when it's ported is step 2.
Think it doesn't matter? There a number of PS3 owners out there who are rather tired of being treated as second-class customers despite paying the same amount for the game. Just ask them about Black Ops. I'm sure it'll be a riot.

2) Wind back level-scaling. Without distinction in regions, the exploring might be safer, but it carries no weight or tension. Adventuring requires tension of some sort, or you end up with shit like Fable, where nothing ever threatens/scares or forces you to adjust your approach.

3) No more Hadoken-logic spells. I understand that the game is going to be more combat-centric, so expand on the utility of spells beyond "Element Touch, Element Bolt, Element-ball../over time/instantaneous". Give each element some flavor, or at least some better targeting options.
Rebalance your existing effects so there isn't one or two amazing defensive options with everything else be relegated to the shit pile because there is no way they can compete (hi there Fire/Shock/Ice Shields).

4) Either focus strongly on the central plot, or focus on plot strings. Don't pull the Fallout 3 approach where you establish characters only to immediately dismiss them after one fucking mission.

5) If you pull the Horse Armor DLC gig on us I swear I will take a lemon zester to the lead designer's unmentionables...

 

[imnot]

- more then 8 voice actors

Thats really all I want.

Oh, and mod support. It'll most likely have it, but doesn't hurt to ask.

It does its official.
I want better thieving where I dont have to go to a fence to sell stolen goods, how do they know its stolen!

 

[Who Dares Wins]

- Some motivation to do dungeons would be nice, in Oblivion after I got Umbra everything was obsolete (and boring) except the main quest.

- No level scaling. Of anything. (spells especially)

- Make the guilds, I don't know how to say, believable, because one man rising to the top of any community takes a long time, why not make you spend some time being a regular recruit and getting a lot of quests on timed intervals so you can't do them all at a time.

- Make spells unique but also add a template function where you make your own spells, because almost all the spells in IV were " x damage y time z touch/throw/whatever"

- Improved acrobatics as in Assassins Creed style, grabbing, pulling up ledges and stuff like that.

- Make days long and make them count, something like a system of exclusivity of day and night and maybe a system of tiring, not just running marathons without stopping for weeks.

- Involvement in world. Sims has a system where everything you do affects you and the environment and that's cool so maybe you doing something notable would, you know, be noted ( not just a comment from passerby's). Being a Grand Arch Ultimate Supreme Guild Master and people still asking you to pay for the stuff you bought (like everyone else). Pfffft.

- Physics system in which when you hit someone with a BigFuckingAxe their limbs fly off. It doesn't have to be that new MSG game with Raiden [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7UbfJBFbI] , just something like Fallout 3 and NV had.

- Realistic economy. That is all.

 

[ComradeJim270]

One thing does come to mind. The thing I referred to in my review of Oblivion as the "Magical Compass of Fucking Omniscience", or something similar? Get rid of it. Make it like in Morrowind, where you can sometimes notice hard-to-see dungeons on the map if you bother to look, but don't just point everything out, and don't just show me where I need to go at all times. Give me enough information that I can get stuff done without a big green arrow pointing me in the right direction.

Better yet, make it optional. People who are too simple to do without it can have it, but the game is playable without it! There! Everyone's happy!

I'd say to give the game a good paper map, like Morrowind, but graphics and storage media have advanced enough that I imagine we could save some trees by putting a highly detailed map of Skyrim in the game itself... one where there's actually landmarks that aren't really explained, so you see them and go "Oooh, I wonder what's there! I'm going to go check it out!" I remember doing this in Morrowind. I'd be in an area, and check the paper map, and think "Huh... there's a mysterious ruin not too far out of my way. I think I'll take a little detour and see what's in it." Some of these places I may not have noticed until dozens (or hundreds) of hours later if they weren't on that map.

 

[minimacker]

Remember why Total Annihilation was such an awesome game? Except the whole 3D revolutionary thing, of course.

It had units.
LOTS of units.

So many units, you'd drown before you manage to pump 'em out. And surprisingly, they all had their own niche and purpose.


I want that reflected as weapons, magic spells and skills. A WHOLE LOT of weapons, a WHOLE LOT of magic.
An awful lot of everything.

Polearms, Staves, Swords, Axes, Hammers, Crossbows, Maces, Flails and all that stuff. Throwing weapons, even. Regular stones to toss! Who cares! MOAR WEPON.

Oh, and an enchantment system that isn't bork.

 

[Bang25]

I want companions like Fallout had, and I want the enemy leveling system that Fallout used, and I want some diverse enviornments. I want it to use what Fallout 3 got right but still have it feel like an Elder Scrolls game.
Also I want better character customization, like being able to dye my clothing and armor. I want more than five voice actors for the NPC's, and that's about it.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I want them to fix the buggy detection AI and make stealth more fun to use. I can't tell you how many times I've shot someone in the face with a fire-enchanted arrow to have them say "Damn rats, always scurrying around in the shadows, making me jumpy." That, and once I got to high enough level, I could just waltz right into wherever I wanted and steal everything, murder everyone with barely any effort. I understand that this is an RPG, but make the stealth balanced.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Not much really. Just better combat that doesn't end up with you madly pressing the attack button till said Mudcrab is dead...not like Mudcrabs were a problem for me...(cough)...vicious creatures them things...

 

[Trolldor]

Keep the compass, keep fast travel.

Go nuts with everything else.