i tend to have faith in that bethesda will resolve the FPS issues from OB. with so many other games that populate your screen with dozens of enemies from open world games like GTAIV or Assassins screed, to linear shooters like COD, i assume the new iteration of their engine will handle more than 3 characters on screen at the same time with descent AI.

whoever i didnt play FO3 for longer than 5 hours or even a bit less so im not sure how it was done there. i heard it was a good middle ground between MW and OB.

I don't like the idea too much... but believe me I'm no fan of level scaling either. What I would prefer is that instead of just making fights last 3minutes instead of 30 seconds of pure hack and slash or run and cast...(which is what auto-leveling did) is make the AI more complex depending on your level. Have the creature dodge more often, have the bandit block more often, etc. This way it still feels realistic, you can still become "god-like" in that your skills will improve more than the npc's, but you won't have the unrealistic fights where its you versus 8 people.... which just doesn't make sense to me.

The low-level dungeons should be scaled up by number. Using what we know about the Fallout 3 levelling system, suppose you enter a dungeon at level 3 and it locks to low-level creatures. Then you come back at level 20, and it still has the same type of low-level creatures, but more of them. The challenge then would be to fight off the swarm. I hope the new game engine can handle moderately-sized swarms, such as 10 goblins at the same time.

'd also like to see the AI react to "oh [censored], a high-level badass just walked into our dungeon." Perhaps a guy near the door sees you, gets scared, and runs off to alert his allies deeper in the dungeon (unless you stop him first.) Then they gather and plan to ambush you all at once.

what im afraid of is not the engines limitation for rendering many NPCs but the combat's system of handing multiple foes. in a locked-camera game u cant quickly change targets to attack or block like in free-camera games (like assassins creed or batman:AA or GOW etc) so there should be a big change in how u combat enemies on your sides and rear. that's what im afraid of. and bethesda are not stupid. if the combat system doesnt lend itself well to fighting many enemies than they will know this, and might not include larger groups of attackers.

We have area-of-effect spells now. I think those spells were designed to take on many enemies.

frankly i think that humanoid enemies are much more fun to fight since their AI tends to be a lot more sophisticated (they block, cast spells, turn away etc) so i think it's important that a player will have the enemies he likes fighting against still be around and fun to fight when u level up. also i think there SHOULD be some limitation to the numbers+skill scaling. so bandints will increase in numbers to a threshold (say up to 2 bandits at start and 7 bandits at a later levels) and once they grow to a certain number than some of the bandits will become more powerful.
i think it makes perfect sense that animals won't become more powerful , instead new more powerful animals (and creatures) show up, as u said, but for humanoid enemies it DOES make sense that they will grow slightly in their numbers, expertise and equipment.
i think that at first, when u r level 2 character, u can encounter 3 level 2 bandits and much later in the game , when u r a level 20 character, u encounter 6 level 5 bandits than it still feels realistic and fun. it makes sense the bandits will gather together and be slightly better. individually they are weak compared to the player's character, but as a group they are challenging.

it's just weird to me thinking that a game becomes easier as u progress instead of harder. i want a game to become harder as i play and get better at it. i want it to make sense as well. this is why i think some sort of progressive challenge SHOULD be included.
i read that ppl assume that there will always be weaker enemies in the world while new more powerful ones appear as u progress. that's a good way to do it, i believe, but i am a little afraid that the newer enemies that come out later will mostly be monsters that are usually shallow in their behavior (they chase, they attack.... that's it) while i believe enemies that block parry and use tactics are much more fun to fight and might not appear later. but that's just assumptions.

True but I could probably have explained my point of view a bit better, it does not only have to be creatures, I just spoke of them for the sake of diversity. What I want is to fight a group of bandits when I′m level 22 for example, where 3 of them are level 5, 1 of them is maybe level 12 and two of them at level 17, makes no sense to me how people and animals are always so alike in power. I′d also like to see maybe a level 6 polar bear one day when I′m level 8, and then maybe the next day I′d pummel a level 1 polar bear cub, and even later I′d maybe get ravaged by a level 15 polar bear.

Diversity in levels.

I'd also like to see the AI react to "oh [censored], a high-level badass just walked into our dungeon." Perhaps a guy near the door sees you, gets scared, and runs off to alert his allies deeper in the dungeon (unless you stop him first.) Then they gather and plan to ambush you all at once.

The only problems I see with it is:

1. The framerate reduction. The reason the other games can do lots of NPCs is because they are low poly, disappear within moments after dying (unlike TES where the corpses stick around a bit), and incredibly simplistic in their AI (Have you ever seen a CoD enemy that didn't Shoot, Run, Crouch, Shoot, Run, Repeat?) Bethesda always does high quality and detailed models on enemies, even if people don't see it when comparing the newer stuff to it. I'm sure we will see more enemies at once but I'd be fine seeing 5-9 at once.

2. Loot. A huge gripe with TES is cash is easy as hell to get, especially at high levels. I don't think giving level 30 players a lot of weak, one shot-able level 5 enemies with armor. weapons. and various supplies is a good way to balance that. The obvious fix for this is to duplicate all the regular armor in the game, name it something to indicate it is worth less, and give that to the bandits. Instead of finding an Iron Longsword on every bandit worth 15 gold, you see a "Worn" version worth about half as much.