Well before everyone of you start yelling "critical hits is a fallout thing not a tes thing", let me first explain to you what critical hits feature does to your gaming experience.

Do you remember, when you were playing oblivion, you are facing a pretty touch monster, and you slash him with your sword, over, and over, and over and over and over... and you watch the monster's health bar drop pixel by pixel...

yea you all know what I mean. that's what happens when the combat isn't modeled with critical hits feature. Critical hits actually simulates area attacks, such as heart shots, headshots, chopping the neck, kicking in the groin... It gives you chances to deliver a large amount of damage. it makes every fight different, sometimes you are lucky and kill quickly and other times slowly. without critical hits, you are going to get the same fight every time, just seesawing with your enemy and see whos health drops to zero first.

I do acknowledge that there's the sneak attack sort of "critical hits", but what about warrior type characters? what about mages?

Do you agree?

Crits were also in Morrowind. So it's nothing that TES hasn't done before

Also maybe link it to the Luck skill, assuming it's still around.

yea why did they remove from oblivion...

I thought Morrowind had critical hits as well? *edit* Ok I thought so.

I would not be opposed to seeing them, but I would much rather see area dependent damage. Not so much as in going for head shots all the time but if I stab a guys shoulder it becomes injured and his attack is then less. That however I believe is a Fallout thing.(Not necessarily a bad thing)

I've suggested critical hits for a long time.

Morrowind's critical hits were the same as Oblivion's sneak attack damage multipliers. Critical hits like he's talking about are the Daggerfall style where Critical Strike was a skill, and it helped warriors immensely with combat. I'm all for it.

Critical Strike was in Daggerfall...

I'd like it back. Yes.

For the new game, I'd do it as an equation of your weapon skill and weapon against their dodge skill and armor. If their dodge isn't great, their armor makes up for it. The higher your combination is against their combination, the greater the chance is that you'd perform a critical strike.

So if you're using a Mithril longsword and they're using steel armor, your sword skill is 70, their dodge ability is 40, you'd have maybe a one in three chance of getting a critical hit. This means less skilled enemies get mowed down quicky, and it would take you more effort to take down a skilled enemy. The more hits they take, the less able they are to dodge. This is what softening them up with a bow is good for.

Anything that makes fights faster is good with me.
The beginning of Oblivion was great, you could hit a goblin with a warhammer and see him crumple with the blow. But as the game goes on it enemies just seemed to get more and more and more health, but the difficulty didn't change too much
Spending 10 minutes hacking away at an enemy, blocking, hacking away, blocking, hacking, blocking, is not fun.

....So you think criticals are a Fallout specific feature? *facepalm*

Actually he said otherwise in the OP. His mention of Fallout was to keep people from coming in here and saying "Noooo don doo fallouts in my tes!!!!". He sorta had the opposite problem because of it.

Do you think there will be crit chance if they have Crit?

Actually pounding away on their heavy armor should increase our chances to make a critical hit. Making a big bump on a plate with a mace could mean the next blow makes another bump, or strikes a critical as it hits same location and armor there is no longer effective. Go up close and personal with a dagger, and you may find a weakspot in his armor that allows bypassing the armor after it is "softened up". Still don't think bow & arrow (& throw) should be much effective against steel plated armor at all. Maybe more magical arrows, and certainly no hit magic on the bow itself (since it's not in contact with the enemy... hopefully )

This does make it quite easy to score criticals (not same as fatals btw). So if this is the positive side, why not have fumbles? I mean, if you score lowest possible in a 1d100, you deserve what's coming. Imagine all the fun Now imagine Hoblak the Unlucky being on a fumble streak rolling lowest possible several times in a row. Yeah it's happened. Yeah, it had fatal consequences for some in my party. Yeah they hid next time my character swung his sword Ahh, good times, lol

We don't know what the new combat system will look like. From what I heared, it might be quite heavily inspired by Dark Messiah, and in that case, there'd be plenty of critical-hit-esque things.

They aren't a fallout thing, they are in almost all RPGs.

I'm all for it, it would add more true RPG combat/dice rolls without sacrificing any of the action.

Good point, misread/half-a**ed reading the whole thing up to that point. Or misinterpreted. Spot on, he kind of threw me and others off in his wording and presenting criticals as a feature to be implemented with hard work rather than just a returning factor.