The video demo I just saw with Todd Howard narrating, he mentioned 3 factions. Now I'm sure there will be some "minor" ones, but as far as actual gameplay, it seems more and more like this series is no longer a RPG series, but an Action fantasy series... a FPS with spells.

Morrowind:

• 13 joinable factions.
  
• hitting something was based on my roleplayed character's skill, not my FPS skills.

Oblivion:

• 6 joinable factions (fighter, mage, thief, dark brotherhood, blackwood company, blades. The rest are just fluff that do nothing.)

Skyrim:

• 3 joinable factions

It just seems like the actual roleplaying lore and gameplay content are being replaced with pretty graphics and action, as time goes on. Will TES 6 be a choose your own adventure movie you wave a sword ineffectually in front of?


Is there some kind of tactical pausing and queueing of commands like Dragon Age or Fallout 3, or is this a fantasy Modern Warfare?