What are you looking for in the next Elder Scrolls?

[RatB0Y68]

I have a few things I am hoping to see in Skyrim that I sincerely wished the developers put in Oblivion.

 

1: Better enemy AI: Instead of simply attacking you, groups of enemies will use strategies to bring you down, with tactics becoming more varied and advanced when you reach a higher level. For example, you're in a marauder lair, and archers start trying to pin you down with suppressing fire, giving a battlemage enough time to paralyse you, buff their allies, then finish you off with AOE spells etc. Instead of wantonly blasting your way through a dungeon, this kind of arrangement would make a dungeon crawl more challenging and rewarding.

 

2: Better levelling system: It's been said before, and I agree wholeheartedly; the levelling system in Oblivion should have been different. There wasn't much incentive to get stronger when every other creature/NPC levelled up with you. Eg: Trying to take down a wraith, but spells/ weapons not powerful enough, do some grinding, buy better spells/weapons, come back when you've levelled up, problem is that wraith has become a gloom wraith, levelled to you and now your spells and weapons are still useless or inadequate. Instead of simply levelling up every enemy as you level, you can still encounter lower level enemies, but they could come in new variants and use more advanced tactics (as mentioned in first suggestion) or there could be more of them.

 

3: Better enemy abilities: I personally found that enemy powers were weak or tame. To use the example of the gloom wraith again: I enter dungeon, take on gloom wraith, it throws a frost spell at me, does minimal damage, ten minutes of hacking at it with daedric longword and it's down. The point I am making here is that from my perspective, Bethesda seemed to make enemies more powerful by giving them more hit points, rather than giving them powerful abilities. Killing high level foes in Oblivion is simply laborious rather than challenging.

 

4(and final): Better female bodies: I don't mean breasts the size of balloons necessarily, but I don't want my female character to look as scrawny or underdeveloped as she did in vanilla Oblivion. Make them look more feminine.

 

EDIT: It just occured to me that Bethesda are already planning to implement some of these suggestions, most notably the levelling system overhaul, so it's looking better from my standpoint.

Edited June 12, 2011 by RatB0Y68