Have pets to a certain extent like a specific job it can do like carry some inventory also attack or defend.

I say yes to pets but pets that are specific to different races. (ie. orc- large animals like bears) but the larger the animal the more difficult it is to aquire.

Even though I'm quoting an old post I have to say I compleatly agree with 'ThatOneGuy' s motive. I would hate to have a pet thats just trouble and I especially don't want a pet that's just a trouble in a game. I voted yes, but they would have to make it extreamly realistic for me not to complain. :shrug:

The real question is: what kind of pet would you want? Dog/wolf? Cat? Boar? Bear? Scrib? Nymph? Bosmer?

Ooohhh good question. I would personally choose dog, wolf and cat because if they let you have pets they should let you have more than one. :celebration:

I don't see why pets SHOULD be added to the game when there is so many other things that would contribute far more to the Elder Scrolls experience than some stupid animal of whatever sort.

The Elder Scrolls isn't about simulation or even downright realism. Something like pets is best left to mods, otherwise it'll just be fan-service. TES is more about a richly detailed world and how the character interacts with or affects that world, and how that character defines his or herself in it through the events of the game. Morrowind was just as much about the province as it was about the Nerevarine, but in regards to the Nerevarine, it's not about what pets they had or who they dated or who they were friends with. That's not the kind of roleplaying the Elder Scrolls brings to us. The focus on the Nerevarine was primarily in the definition of their role in Morrowind in relation to the events that unfolded (be it in the main quest or Great House quests, Morag Tong, whatever) and the province itself, and the roleplaying was brought out in how you defined that role. What skills did you use and develop to accomplish your goals? What choices did you make? What factions and people did you or didn't you align or associate yourself with?

Something like pets adds nothing to this model. They are simply not within the focus of the Elder Scrolls. It's not that kind of open-world game. In fact, I may even go so far as to suggest that Elder Scrolls games have more focus on the world your character is in rather than the character itself.

If the Elder Scrolls as a series is to improve, then the focus needs to remain where it is, and it needs to be improved upon within that focus. Otherwise, when that focus is lost, it'll just turn into another game that doesn't know what it wants to be. It'll too quickly become quantity over quality. When you start adding things like pets, dating, and all that stuff, then it becomes more for the sake of adding them and the series starts to fail to achieve the experience it originally aimed for.

Just my two cents. Apologies for any redundancy or lack of clarity.

Is this thread repeating itself or something? I know I saw a post like that few pages back...anyway, to everyone who still forgets it: PETS ALREAD ARE IMPLEMENTED IN TES GAMES!!! There were more than a few in MW (rats, a guar etc.), the fact that only horses were availble in OB means nothing...

People do not read all the comments from any threads but the OP, the comment below the OP, and the last comment.

Of course, pet already exist in TES, but I RATHER not want to it see to the point where they start adding features just for pets, like a skill for using pets or feeding the pet or only Race/Class A can use pets.

that I second, pets should onle be used for RP, carrying and as mounts(and no lore-breaking ones...).

Pets would be cool.

Dogmeat ftw.

Exactly why would they be restricted to certain classes? Doesn't that go against TES style (as of Morrowind)?
I would like pets in TES 5. But I'd hate if they were all combat related. Only a few that could help in combat would be great.
Bunnies and kitties and whatnot, just for show. And maybe birds that can help you find your way? Or just for show? I'd wouldn't mind.

I like Dogmeat in fallout 3, it was a nice display of how incorporating animal companions could be done, he's skills was also useful, and shows that an animal companion doesn't have to be useless.

I don't want a pet, in the sense that I have to take care of it, but animal companions would be nice.

Yes, and it should be done the way it is done in Dungeon Siege 2

You should also be able to recruit party members

I voted in the negative. It's a function I see as largely unnecessary.
If I want to play with my pet, I'll go outside.

Maybe if charming someone or something into a pet by way of magic were possible then... xD

i like the idea

There had better be pets in TES V.

Maybe there could be magical pets, like a "enchanted" raven that would scout for you, telling you where the traps and enemies are.

I thought dogmeat was done pretty poorly. He kept jumping in front of my gun and died I dont know how many times. The first time i sent him off to go look for items he never came back. I found him milling around some ants nest looking like he'd been standing on that spot for a week. So I played with him more and as I was facing harder enemies he was dieing more and more, untill I finally got fed up and sent him home, then after a while I went back to get him and sent him on another item hunt, and he never came back.

I would either want to have a pet Ogre, or a pet Billie (Land Dreugh).

Yes but only to certain classes, like the Hunter in WoW. Could be a really cool skill to train, but you would need to have taken that skill as a major therefore that not every class could have a Pet. Or like if it was in Oblivion as a skill, if taken as a Major skill you would need be at level 25 (which you would get once you take it as a Major skill) or if it was Minor skill you would need to be level 50 till you can own/train a pet.

Would be interesting and add a new way to play the Tes series.

It is called "conjugation". I think they should extend the times they have for it though, for it really pisses me off when my best goes away in 30 seconds. However, not everyone is a mage and you can have assassins follow you (assuming you finished the Dark Brotherhood) and the same with mages for the mage's guild. I will go with for some classes.

Don't forget that if you do a quest for an orc in SI you get a pet skinned hound, coarse he dided in like two minutes and he got left behing al;ot, he was technically a pet, a very shortlived pet....

I'd gladly just buy / sell things for a certain price and exchange mercantile skill for a working pet system simply because TES hasnt had anything like this yet and all the haggling gets old sooner or later... not as deep as a simulator or WoW hunter pet with all unique talents and skills but something more than a pack rat following you around. Having the option to feed it and perhaps giving your pet more advanced combat commands like blocking hostile creatures (tanking) from coming close to you or attacking spellcasting NPCs

By the way are there any druidic cults or circles in TES? There are mages warlocks priests and all that but no druids who use nature magic?

Sorry, but... Ick. Simulator? Feeding it? Extra combat AI packages? And you'd be willing to trade the whole mercantile skill for that? If haggling gets old sooner or later, the don't use mercantile. Many people have used it in past TES games to further accent their character and find it to be incredibly worthwhile. TES hasn't done anything like that yet because TES focuses on the single entity of the player. It doesn't need to descend into a party system or a virtual simulation game.


No. In TES, magic is magic is magic. It all has the same source, and there are no unnatural distinctions. There's lots of cults, and some are more in tune with nature than others. But there is no "nature" magic category, just like there is no "mage" magic category, "warlock" magic category, or "priest" magic category. Even the classification of magic schools is an artificial and arbitrary division in-game.