So if you want to climb up an old, 'handholdy' church: When you walk up to the base of the church (presuming that your climbing skill is very high) your will get the option to switch into climbing mode. In climbing mode players will not be able to use weapons, potions, spells, etc. Instead the player will use the right and left mouse button for each of the MC's hands in game. The player will aim at where they see a handhold and use the left and right mouse buttons to determine which hand to use in order to scale the building. For example, if you are mid-climb and see a series of handholds to your left, but none to your right, you obviously want to go to your left, right? XD So you grab the nearest handhold(which is to your left) with your RIGHT hand, to give you momentum to reach the other handholds. You follow?

So if you want to climb up an old, 'handholdy' church: When you walk up to the base of the church (presuming that your climbing skill is very high) your will get the option to switch into climbing mode. In climbing mode players will not be able to use weapons, potions, spells, etc. Instead the player will use the right and left mouse button for each of the MC's hands in game. The player will aim at where they see a handhold and use the left and right mouse buttons to determine which hand to use in order to scale the building. For example, if you are mid-climb and see a series of handholds to your left, but none to your right, you obviously want to go to your left, right? XD So you grab the nearest handhold(which is to your left) with your RIGHT hand, to give you momentum to reach the other handholds. You follow?

That would be a rather immersive system. Maybe it's the better idea, but I'm not sure. I was just thinking along basic lines, like automatic based on the direction you're supposed to be moving, and I'm not sure you should be able to do that sort of level of climbing.

It would be awesome if it would range from Oblivion to Mirror's Edge/Assassin's Creed.

100 acrobatics, athletics, climbing, agility, speed, endurance, strength = Mirror's Edge/Assassin's Creed (and getting 100 points in a skill would be more difficult to achieve than it is in Morrowind and Oblivion).

I hope they don't have perks like Oblivion like: X skill in acrobatics = Wall jump. You can try everything from the start but you will probably fail and in the most extreme cases kill yourself (don't try to jump from a rooftop to another, distant rooftop if you are slow and non-athletic, you will fall). And there isn't a point where you suddenly can do something if it was completely impossible before.

Multiple skills and attributes should play a role, some more than others. You need strength to pull your self up while climbing, endurance and athletics to keep on going, speed to get enough momentum for a long jump and your agility is key to some tricks, but they are useless without the right skills. The attributes and athletics skill determine if your body is physically able to do a certain thing, your climbing and acrobatics skill determine if you will do it right.

I really hope they will put something like this in Skyrim, it would make playing a thief, assassin or acrobat much more interesting.

So if you want to climb up an old, 'handholdy' church: When you walk up to the base of the church (presuming that your climbing skill is very high) your will get the option to switch into climbing mode. In climbing mode players will not be able to use weapons, potions, spells, etc. Instead the player will use the right and left mouse button for each of the MC's hands in game. The player will aim at where they see a handhold and use the left and right mouse buttons to determine which hand to use in order to scale the building. For example, if you are mid-climb and see a series of handholds to your left, but none to your right, you obviously want to go to your left, right? XD So you grab the nearest handhold(which is to your left) with your RIGHT hand, to give you momentum to reach the other handholds. You follow?

Climbing? Bethesda can't even do ladders dude.