I've followed the TES games since Morrowind and I'm a huge fan! With the up and coming release of Skyrim I thought I would voice my idea to the community and see what the general opinion on it is. If its well received then maybe…. just maybe someone involved in the game will read it and take the idea forward.
Anyway, lets get down to the idea and how everything would work
We all know that the existing "Save" system in the TES games needs an overhaul, not just that but it needs to be brought up-to-date and inline with what is considered standard in an RPG of today.
My Idea is to implement a new "Profile" style system for each character after they are created and leave the tutorial area. What this "Profile" would mean is that each characters saves would be kept individual and only available from that characters profile. Upon entering the game you would choose one character, this would then load a screen showing the various different saves for that specific character. Also each character would have their own auto save and quick saves so that theres no chance of accidentally overwriting another characters saves.
In addition to this upon clicking on any of the save files for each character it would show you additional information for that character including their current statistics, perks, level etc all in relation to that specific save file. This way you could easily cycle through a characters save files and find the specific one you require without having to load each file one by one and check your stats each time yourself.
Thoughts??
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