I love TES, but sometimes I hate having to completely rebuild my characters (unless I'm trying to do a completely new build). I think there should be an optional import feature, like in Mass Effect, but a little different. If you start a new game, but want to use a recent character, you can do that and fight leveled enemies. You can still customize looks and name and race, if you want to (but of course, with race, it would change your build a bit).

As they are revamping skills and such, it would be completely pointless because so much of your character would be lost in the process.

I don't mean in between games. i know that skyrim is going to have revamped skills, but who says tht they wont allow import for skyrim game data, not oblivion or morrowind?

No, I don't like it. If you are going to create a new character...why would you want to start off so powerful? Where is the fun in that?

...besides, I like role playing believable characters the most; whenever my character gets too strong it usually gets too boring for me.

Between the different level system, class system, skills, and even the way characters look, I really doubt things could get imported. Importing features are generally used at least with the same game engine.

They NEEDED it in Mass Effect, but that's because once you've done all the missions there is nothing to do but do them all again. In TES it's different: there is always something to do.

True. But, maybe he's talking about this in a bigger sense. Think of it as importing your adventures so you could hear from NPCs about your character's adventures (thus, it's optional). I would like it! bliviongate:

No
Still I'm an old time RPGer
A character isn't a build, they have a story and personality of their own
I wouldn't violently object if the feature was introduced but there are other things I'd rather they spent their time on

They actually tried to do something like this with importing the Arena character to Daggerfall, but it didn't work since the two games were vastly different from one another. While this could be better implemented now, I still don't see myself using it. I like making my character from the ground up. Each protagonist of my games is meant for that story alone. I don't think from a roleplayer's perspective that I could ever use the same character twice.

I voted don't care, since I really don't. It would be an option that I would just sort of ignore.

Because in Mass Effect each installment has the same main character, Commander Sheperd. In the Elder Scrolls, each character is a different person, race, six, etc.

Hah? It would make no sense ti import an OB character into Skyrim. You see... Skyrim happens 200 years after OB and if you play a human character... you should have died already for ****'s sake!
By rule, in every game you play a different person, not the person from the past game. True, you can imagine that your character is the same but I don't think many of us who are more hard-core fans would like the idea of playing the same person because it simply doesn't make sense and we don't mind making a different character every time.

Sure... The humans are dead.

I've played tons of characters, like anyone. But I do have this Dunmer Nerevarine that I decided was going to Cryodiil after the events of Morrowind so I just made him over again, with some tweeks here and there but otherwise I decided he was the same man. My backstory was that he had broken into the cell himself. It was the very same cell he had been in when the Emperor had ordered him shipped off to Vvardenfell and he had returned to reflect on all that had happened, when low and behold, the emperor returned! Sure. I don't get to keep all his old power but I roleplayed that too. It was a choice. He saw his second meeting with the Emperor as a chance to start over and he relenquished whatever magic he had, returning to a mortal form. Alas, when the Emporer was killed and he realized his destiny had been to help, he had to build himself up again. That very same Dunmer is in the Shatterlands right now. His rage will blind him for some time but I imagine that in two hundred years or so, He'll wake up in a prison cell, on trial for a murder he cannot remember commiting. Once again, he will have to start over. Build up his power and fufill his destiny.


Point is. It's a role playing game. OP, you want to port your character? Do it. Maybe he was injured or stripped of his power by an evil wizard. Come up with a reason why you are still you and go with it.

I agree. Just make it up. Maybe your Imperial discovered a Potion of Immortality and thus can live forever (or maybe his mother/father was a High Elf, thus a longer lifespan)?

I think in my next playthrough of Skyrim, I'll resurrect my first Oblivion character and make up a reason of why he can still be alive after all this time.