I love armour customization, back in morrowind we had so many stiles to chose from, the shoulder armours were so big, meaning that we could completely customize our selfs, but some clothes, then a entire armour , then a robe! then 2 rings and a amulet with a shield and sword(for me lol), i would love to see how skyrim handle customization, by what we could see, the player now can customize the entire body while in the character creation! thats good! now, the number o items that form a armour and how diferent can we create our own armour should be interesting as well, morrowind style of armour customization was awesome, left shoulder-deadric paudron, right shoulder- glass paudron , daedric platebody, alduin graves and boots, and clavicus helm, thats a completely weirld armour, but its mine, i finded every single piece of this armour exploring! this quantity of items to create a full armour make the it alot more valuable than in oblivion, they mixed togheter the platebody and the two paldrons, and i love paldrons, probaly, we will be able to customize our armour even further on skyrim, like, with black smithing, creating our own style of armour, painting it or somenthing, making us want to explore for rare metals, such as daedric! i think we will se some of this in skyrim , i hope!

I would like to see morrowind system again, but this time with clothes that go over the armor without covering totally the legs.

Daggerfall. Right and left pauldrons, layering multiple cloaks, tucked/untucked shirts.

Then Daggerfall.

As far as customization I like the Morrowind approach as far as enchanting I like the Oblivion approach.If someone casts Detect Magic on me they should not melt like that nazi fella in Indiana Jones.

I liked the incomplete sets of armor in MW(Dreugh,Trollbone,Imperial dragonscale) and the mix and match pauldrons.Not so much the wear everything you own model.Try putting on a business suit then football equipment then throw a bathrobe over that.Not very conducive to rapid movement(Maybe thats why every one moved so slow in MW no closets they had to wear everything)

I don't mind the way Oblivion did it. Morrowind's armor customization I felt was unnecessary, I don't think I ever put on two different shoulder pads and gloves, etc. It just looked too silly.
Fallout 3 had what? Body armor slot and a head piece slot? That was way too little, I hope Skyrim won't do the same.

http://tes.ag.ru/oblivion/armor/img/steel_armor.gif

More armor please.

i say bring back pauldrons but as a whole not left and right, and as far as putting clothes over armour if they can do it realistically that would be cool. by realistlicly i mean you should be able to wear clothes over leather or chainmail stuff but when you get into solid plates then you shouldnt have the option.

Pauldrons <3 Morrowind was awesome.

fallout was one item "armor" , making them completely ... i don't know, easy to find, i can have the best armour in the game right in the beggining! (power armour) but the hard thing was keeping it entireliy fixed!, i think that in oblivion the system was.. you know, normal, not good not bad, there were some 1 item armours, like robes and dark brotherhood armor, but the main sets where divided, the only bad thing is that in oblivion if you mixed armour pieces it would look silly , but on morrowind if you mixed them it would look like your a lonely badass
warrior that lived every day fighting, ready for action," take care... i've killed over a thousand cliff racers!!!" i would say that to any npc if i could lol

There is already this poll / Thread ....

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1162993-do-you-want-piecemental-armour/page__st__40__p__17086711__hl__piecemental__fromsearch__1#entry17086711

More armor slots is one of the things I want to see improved to most. I can live without spears, with oblivion style fast travel and EVEN a magic compass, but I don't want the oblivion armor slots, they were so disapointing

More armor slots == More diversion!

They should be also customizable in terms of stats via "mundane professions", not just enchanting.

Morrowind hands down, but I wish they would leave some open slots or make slots creatable so that we could mod in more equipment, so you could have more different types of armor equiped

I just loved picking which pants\shirt to wear along with my briastplate\greaves
Morrowind all the way, and looks like it's winning!

But let's be realists: Bethesda is obviously making each game more casual, so I think it will be either even more dumbed down Oblivion's system, or the 2 armor\helmet system. I will pray to Talos to have them use the Morrowind one, though.

Maybe we will be given a single armor and weapon at the beginning and won't be able to change it through the game... Reduction from MW to OB points that for Skyrim... I hope not...

what does piecemental even mean? :glare:

I'm guessing they mean "piecemeal". Of course, that's a general term that could practically be applied to every TES game's armor.

Only if it's a Viking Helmet, jauntily placed angled to the side.

I am NOT a fan of one-item armor "sets." Where is the customization?
Although an exception can be made with body suits, like the Chinese armors from Fallout 3, for example.

I liked Oblivions just fine but I wouldnt mind getting Morrowinds different boots and gauntlets back however. I dont like the idea of pauldrons though, if i've understood them right theyre part of the cuirass, not something you just attach like another piece of armor.

Pauldrons may or may not be attached directly to the cuirass, although I think for dressing purposes, they weren't. You can't slip into armor like a t-shirt.

Spaulders, the shoulder piece that pauldrons evolved from, are almost always separate, and strapped directly to the upper arm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpaulderForwardSmall.jpg

Interesting, I always thought pauldrons were directly attached to the cuirass, thx for the info

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I hate fallout's one-piece armor system. IMO, the more armor slots the better.