This thread is for ideas and suggestions for future Elder Scrolls games, and to keep all the discussion in one series of threads.

We also have an official thread specifically for http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1408168-tes-vi-location-and-setting-official-speculation-thread-3/ suggestions for future games.

Now that Skyrim has been released the number of suggestions and ideas for the next ES game are starting to show up. We have a long way to go before we get another ES game and all topics like this will be closed and either transferred or referred to this one.

Please keep any discussion of Skyrim in the correct forums.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1442688-official-beyond-skyrim-tes-vi-20/

Here are my most wanted features:

- attributes and birthsigns come back
- spears with perk tree
- open cities like Balmora
- bigger distances between cities (large map)
- bigger cities with more life in them and platforming for thieves
- more quests outside in the open, less quests that send you to dungeon crawling
- more things moving on the water (ships, boats, rafts) and creatures to fight underwater
- longer questlines and harder to become guildleader

I think the density of points-of-interest needs to be something else for the next installment.

It could go down: same number of locations in larger space, so there's actual wilderness where you're not in bowshot of 5 different manmade structures at all times
It could go up: a Thief or Dishonored kind of experience entirely in a big city (Rimmen would be great for this)

It just needs to get out of the uncanny valley of world size/density that Skyrim was in.