Things you wish most from Elder Scroll V?

There will definitely be a Elder Scrolls V probably in another three years from now.  Im sure there are a few elder scrolls fans here who loved morrowind then went to oblivion with some discuss.  What are you expecting most from Elder Scrolls V when that finally comes out?

For me I really want the argonians and khajit to be made similiar to that of morrowind.  I was fairly disappointed when I heard the argonians and khajit would have similiar qualities to all other races for Oblivion.  The beauty morrowind gave us was true sense of RPG.  Ever single races in morrowind had their pros and cons and the player decided what races they wanted to be excepting the pros and cons.  I hope for Elder Scrolls V the developers will change argonians and khajit back to something similar to morrowind had.

• Content. A crapload of content. I don't want to finish the game in less than 100 hours.
• The reintroduction of skills, especially those found in Arena/Daggerfall.
• High level areas and hidden loot.
• Interesting quests.
• A decent storyline.
  

No... mob... auto-leveling! This feature totally ruined the longevity of Oblivion for me. I love wandering into an interesting area and getting chased out by mobs that are so much more powerful than me, only to come back at a later date, kill those same mobs, and then explore the new area that I've earned the right to explore.

Other things I'd like to see include more diversity in races, classes, weapons and armor and more enticing reasons to play a thief.

Mmmm lets se... aahw crap, who am I kidding!? I want Dragons!! I mean, riding a horse is great and all, but flying... thats just amazing, and, i agree with the 100+ hour game... I loved that you could get a bit of medieval gta-like gameplay in oblivion, maybe go a little bit deeper on that, and clearly change the leveling system, I dont need my enemies to grow stronger, i just need myself to do it, mmmm now, I know this is a bit too ambitius, but, maybe a multiplayer mode? like... arena on internet, that would bee good too... (i know this sounds stupid, but...) bigger enemies!!!! I dont feel good attacking things that most time are just my size... I mean, I need danger and exitement damn it!!... and... thats it 

 (phew!)

I definately think there should be a lot more NPCs on the screen at one time. I think if you are in a city there should be hundreds of people milling about, not five or six. Also there needs to be 10x more voice actors. Maybe this way I won't be bored with the game after 25 hours.txbitt

 - more types of armour/weapons

 - very deep story line(preferably a story line that deals with revival of the empire, since there is no emperor, there has to be some sort of trouble)

 - 2 new races....or more

 - a lot more terriory to explore, and also the terrain varies so it's not all pretty forests

 - cities that arn't randomly located, like morrowind, you just walk into them.

 - more guilds and factions to get into.

One thing and one thing alone...for it not to suck like Oblivion. :P

I definately think there should be a lot more NPCs on the screen at one time. I think if you are in a city there should be hundreds of people milling about, not five or six. Also there needs to be 10x more voice actors. Maybe this way I won't be bored with the game after 25 hours.txbitt

Make the world intresting... I felt that one i had visited a cave or gone to those ruins, that i had seent them all. They were all identical! I jus felt like Oblivion was a borring world to explore, there was never that thrill at finding some realy cool environments! Oh and leveled enemies was just stupid!ryan_frenchie

• Content. A crapload of content. I don't want to finish the game in less than 100 hours.
• The reintroduction of skills, especially those found in Arena/Daggerfall.
• High level areas and hidden loot.
• Interesting quests.
• A decent storyline.
  

Planeforger

I wish for our characters to look pretty/handsome/beautiful....

Mine just made me want to put a hood over his face....

Another thing I would like to add.  I would like to see more fantasy monsters in the game.  Fighting bears, cougars, and wolves make it seem a little less fantasy.  Morrowind didnt have any RL creatures.

Mmmm lets se... aahw crap, who am I kidding!? I want Dragons!! I mean, riding a horse is great and all, but flying... thats just amazing, and, i agree with the 100+ hour game... I loved that you could get a bit of medieval gta-like gameplay in oblivion, maybe go a little bit deeper on that, and clearly change the leveling system, I dont need my enemies to grow stronger, i just need myself to do it, mmmm now, I know this is a bit too ambitius, but, maybe a multiplayer mode? like... arena on internet, that would bee good too... (i know this sounds stupid, but...) bigger enemies!!!! I dont feel good attacking things that most time are just my size... I mean, I need danger and exitement damn it!!... and... thats it 

 (phew!)

luke159

Mmmm lets se... aahw crap, who am I kidding!? I want Dragons!! I mean, riding a horse is great and all, but flying... thats just amazing, and, i agree with the 100+ hour game... I loved that you could get a bit of medieval gta-like gameplay in oblivion, maybe go a little bit deeper on that, and clearly change the leveling system, I dont need my enemies to grow stronger, i just need myself to do it, mmmm now, I know this is a bit too ambitius, but, maybe a multiplayer mode? like... arena on internet, that would bee good too... (i know this sounds stupid, but...) bigger enemies!!!! I dont feel good attacking things that most time are just my size... I mean, I need danger and exitement damn it!!... and... thats it 

 (phew!)

luke159

Mmmm lets se... aahw crap, who am I kidding!? I want Dragons!! I mean, riding a horse is great and all, but flying... thats just amazing, and, i agree with the 100+ hour game... I loved that you could get a bit of medieval gta-like gameplay in oblivion, maybe go a little bit deeper on that, and clearly change the leveling system, I dont need my enemies to grow stronger, i just need myself to do it, mmmm now, I know this is a bit too ambitius, but, maybe a multiplayer mode? like... arena on internet, that would bee good too... (i know this sounds stupid, but...) bigger enemies!!!! I dont feel good attacking things that most time are just my size... I mean, I need danger and exitement damn it!!... and... thats it 

 (phew!)

luke159

• Content. A crapload of content. I don't want to finish the game in less than 100 hours.
• The reintroduction of skills, especially those found in Arena/Daggerfall.
• High level areas and hidden loot.
• Interesting quests.
• A decent storyline.
  

Planeforger

Don't do Morrowind skills. Keep those as is. Bring spears back! And make modding for guns easier. Man, I have wanted to shoot zombies with a shotgun for a long time. But, don't put them in the game.(The guns) Large scale plague that infests the whole planet. The plague turns the body undead or demonic. So, you have to protect villages and find the source and defeat it to rid the world of the curse. I want at least one city of undead and vampires, that respawn of course. Have Dead rising number of enemies in large scale battles. Have a type of Orc that is hostile and attacks everyone, including the normal Orcs, and they equip weapons and armor and attack in warbands that constantly roam around. I want Lord of The Rings meets Dead Rising, Zelda, and DOOM. Pretty much make it really creepy in places and have a alot of enemies. Have large dungeons with boss-like enemies, and a quest item needed to end the plague.

  Alright, so it would have to be a whole new game. But, bethesda should make it. :D

There are a lot of thing i would have done differently. As great as the game is. First the A.I needs tons of work. my soul battle tactic is get on top of a rock and shoot whatever is walking in to a wall just bellow me. Instead of having one to four enemies with tons of hit points on screen how about 30 enemies with only a few hit points. Thats much more entertaining. Location based damage you should be able to get head-shot while arching. The leveling system was difficult to understand at first. It makes no sense. In order to have the best possible character your goal is to level as rarely as possible. You should be able to change your skill set when you level up. Very earlly in the game you are forced to make that desision. At that point you don't know what you want. The environments need more verriety. There is nore desert region in the game that would have been nice. The enimies need to have a larger veriety in size. Bosses should be 20 feet tall. Alot need to be done with ranged weappons. Only having a bow is weak. a primitive musket and crossbow whould be wellcome additions. And advanced archer should be able to fire faster. BOWS NEED TO DO MORE DAMAGE PER HIT. HITTING SOMETHING 50 TIMES WITH YOUR BOW IS NOT FUN.
The1stFishBone

Alright, he said what I meant, but a lot better.

A seamless world. It annoyed me to no end having those constant little loading times.Taxpaying_Acorn

FFVII DOC loaded as you went. It would be hard to have it done in a large freeroaming game though.......

First of all, I have to say I enjoy playing Oblivion - using some of the mods available like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. If only the game had actually shipped out of the box like that, it would have been a far better experience from the outset. I know there are Oblivion haters out there, and people who don't even consider it to be an RPG, but I personally can see the vast amount of work that did go into the game, and there were some really interesting and thoughtful quests to undertake. So in terms of Elder Scrolls V, there are certainly things I would change from Oblivion: - level scaling. Playing OOO makes Oblivion so much better because there is more of an incentive to level up to reach areas that are initially too dangerous. The game feels a lot more challenging and engaging as a result, so level scaling should be ditched for ES5. - no more loading screens to enter buildings/caves. It starts to become tedious having to load a new area just to enter a building or a cave. Other games have managed to do away with this (like the Gothic series) so I think it's time to optimize the engine and have seamless transitions when entering buildings or other areas. Though I would say there is still the potential to retain the facility of loading other areas to provide continuity with the modding community, so that modders can still add new areas of exploration to the game world. - additional and improved animations. While I feel the animation in Oblivion is very good, there is still room for improvement. Things like specific animations for walking up and down stairs, for example, and improving the lip syncing, and that's quite apart from improving the number of combat moves. - higher res textures, particularly for distant terrain and close-ups of different materials. Parallax mapping etc., is all well and good, but there is a tendency to end up with blurred textures, or textures without enough detail. I like to see crisp detail. - better performance. One of the main issues I've had with Oblivion is with performance, so I feel the engine could potentially be optimized more for any further outings in the series. - cities that feel like cities - or no cities. The other problem with Oblivion is that the 'cities' actually feel more like villages or, at best, small towns. It would actually have been better to refer to the key locations as towns, and made the Imperial city much larger, perhaps to encompass the whole of City Isle. Indeed, if level loading were to be ditched, the buildings and layouts would have to be increased in size to match the interior proportions, and therefore require towns to take up more room anyway. Let's have a more seamless world to explore. - more voice actors. While the voice actors for Oblivion did a good job, it simply became very noticeable after a short time playing that many of the NPCs sported the same voices and comments. It would obviously be an enormous undertaking to not only increase the number of NPCs, but also the number of voices and range of comments, but it would help to improve the sense of immersion. There were also the obvious voice faults in Oblivion, like an old beggar talking like an old lady one moment, and like a sophisticated noble woman the next, but that is probably down to not catching everything during beta testing, and possibly not recording enough lines with one particular voice. - a different country to explore. It makes sense to me that each Elder Scrolls game takes place in a different country, and that trend should continue. I also agree with others that there should be a greater variety of terrain, perhaps including desert areas, although I think Oblivion did a pretty good job with variety, from grasslands to forests to icy peaks to the swamps on the way down to Leyawiin. That's not to mention the great coastal areas. - a longer main quest with more depth. While I enjoyed the main quest in Oblivion, it was quite short, and it started with too much urgency. You felt like you had to start on the main quest right away, when it would have been better to have a few more 'key' quests available from the very outset to take you in other directions. You get this sort of effect if you install the add ons for Oblivion, which open up new locations to explore when you 'inherit' a couple of places - how much better it would have been to include those in a better context as well, like finding a deed on one of the corpses in the tutorial dungeon, encountering a dying NPC who thrusts a bloodstained note into your hand, etc. - a PC-centric GUI/HUD for the PC version of the game. We don't need huge text and oversized icons and a restricted FOV (75 instead of the more traditional 90). - more quick slots - retain the excellent alchemy system. - improve the physics implementation. There were some screwy physics-based bugs in Oblivion, but more than that it would be good to see some physics-based puzzles in the next outing, like those in Half-Life 2. - a player body in first person view. It's past time that this should be standard for first person games, so when you look down you can see your body/feet. - breakable and movable chests/furniture. Breakable doors and windows. - improved horses and mounted combat. Those are the main things I would like to see in ES5. Maybe they should hire the guy who developed Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul and a few of the other modders out there, because they came up with some great alterations and additions to Oblivion that actually makes the game fun to play.RobertBowen

Amen to that. :D

• Content. A crapload of content. I don't want to finish the game in less than 100 hours.
• The reintroduction of skills, especially those found in Arena/Daggerfall.
• High level areas and hidden loot.
• Interesting quests.
• A decent storyline.
  

Planeforger

More stuff for thiefs.

Mates to aid you in battle.

Maybe pets, like an eagle.

Some more stuff for thiefs.

AND I REALLY want the world to feel alive.

By the time they say the first thing about Elders Scroll V, GeForce 8900 will be out.

And by the time they release it, Nvidia will start talking about GeForce 9.

So, expect a lot.
Lots of NPCs, Storys, Weapons
And, of course, it will look good than ever.