Can we please NOT do V.A.T.S or its equivalent?

As someone who does archery in real life, I have to say that this is [censored] (I couldn't think of a more politically correct term, you'll have to excuse me). I have a love-hate relationship with archery in TES games, but one thing that is true is that a person could indeed withstand being shot with several arrows before dying. Now what I am talking about is not long term, if you pierce a man with an arrow (as in all the way through) he most likely will not die instantly, I'm not saying that an arrow in the gut would still allow him to live to an old age of 100 (not that it would effect much if modern medical applications were to apply to it), but even with your throat slit (an extreme) you can still keep on fighting for quite a while. Back in the day when bows were an "effective military tactic", their primary role was not to kill the enemy, but wound him so that either it will weaken one side greatly or other men have to drag him off the field. If you were to shoot somebody with a bow, I have almost no doubt that they will become quite enraged and charge at you with intent of aggressive retaliation. Even quite severe wounds are survivable if not only for a matter of minutes, which is all one needs to do harm to his attacker. To put into perspective about how strong the human body is, there was report of one police officer who was shot through his eye at close range, the bullet entered his brain and hot gunpowder burned his other eye rendering it useless. The blind officer fell to the ground, drew his weapon and fired his entire magazine into the attacker (which died) and lived to tell the tale. Now, you might be saying "But you said the body was tough, how come the attacker died?" to which my response is "the question was why does it take several arrows in a game to kill a person instead of just one, and in this example the officer was shot once and didn't die, the attacker was shot 6-10 times depending on the gun, if anything the video game results are quite on par with reality".

tl;dr: people don't just die instantly from getting shot by one arrow, the game presents results close to reality.

I don't know if it's actually possible, but if you can turn the bow sideways and shoot double arrows like Legolas, that would be a great master level perk.

I dont really buy the "arrow scarcity" thing though. All it takes is knowing where to get them or having enough money. I mean, there will obviously be a way around this, unless it literally limits the number of arrows you can carry, which I wouldnt be opposed to.

does that mean I will be a one-hit-kill for any archer in the game as well?

As someone who does archery in real life, I have to say that this is [censored] (I couldn't think of a more politically correct term, you'll have to excuse me). I have a love-hate relationship with archery in TES games, but one thing that is true is that a person could indeed withstand being shot with several arrows before dying. Now what I am talking about is not long term, if you pierce a man with an arrow (as in all the way through) he most likely will not die instantly, I'm not saying that an arrow in the gut would still allow him to live to an old age of 100 (not that it would effect much if modern medical applications were to apply to it), but even with your throat slit (an extreme) you can still keep on fighting for quite a while. Back in the day when bows were an "effective military tactic", their primary role was not to kill the enemy, but wound him so that either it will weaken one side greatly or other men have to drag him off the field. If you were to shoot somebody with a bow, I have almost no doubt that they will become quite enraged and charge at you with intent of aggressive retaliation. Even quite severe wounds are survivable if not only for a matter of minutes, which is all one needs to do harm to his attacker. To put into perspective about how strong the human body is, there was report of one police officer who was shot through his eye at close range, the bullet entered his brain and hot gunpowder burned his other eye rendering it useless. The blind officer fell to the ground, drew his weapon and fired his entire magazine into the attacker (which died) and lived to tell the tale. Now, you might be saying "But you said the body was tough, how come the attacker died?" to which my response is "the question was why does it take several arrows in a game to kill a person instead of just one, and in this example the officer was shot once and didn't die, the attacker was shot 6-10 times depending on the gun, if anything the video game results are quite on par with reality".

tl;dr: people don't just die instantly from getting shot by one arrow, the game presents results close to reality.

Yp i somehow had 2 arrows sticking out of someones head and he was chasing me ?!

Also they should make bows wooden cuz really there are no glass or vulcanic rock bows they should be wooden and like Yew bow should be good and etc

Okay, can someone tell me how many arrows fit within a quiver? this will be the amount you can carry

Death Kills should be when you hit him in the Head or Stomach.

I also hope we have multiple levels of zoom. Sometimes, the zoom in TES 4 just wasnt far enough for those really awesome long distance shots

EDIT:

When re-reading this post, it sounds kinda stupid...i dunno

The developers don't have to implement VATS to implement limb damage.

Hmmmm..... Well in oblivion you could have OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While it is easier to kill enemies now, arrows are now more scarce and more expensive.

I hope they have body damage like Fallout. So if your going after a higher level enemy, you first shoot him in the the leg too cripple him to get more time to line up a headshot.