All previous TES games had shortswords, why were they omitted? They were great for RP purposes. Bring back shortswords in TES6:Elsweyr please.

I'd love them to return too.
I miss the Oblivion Elven shortsword. I would love to dual wield them.

First of all, Elsweyr is not confirmed (and frankly I'd rather have it in Valenwood ) but that is irrelevant to this conversation. Yeah, they took out a lot of weapon types..Spears, halberds, throwing weapons. Yeah, they really should bring them back in.

I think it's fine the way it is with daggers, swords and greatswords. Oblivion had a bit too much imo with shortswords, longswords and claymores lol. Notice the "imo".

Because shortswords weighed half as much as longswords but were faster and did only slightly less damage with only slightly less reach? Almost no reason to use longswords.

Besides, have you seen the daggers in Skyrim? They're much closer in size to actual daggers rather than knives, so they're huge -- almost as big as shortswords were!

And frankly, I'd rather have fewer weapons with more differentiation between them than myriads of incredibly-similar toys.

Because longswords look better during kill cams ?

Why post a request regarding TES6 in a TES5 thread ?

Use this to talk about the future game

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1483221-official-beyond-skyrim-tes-vi-31/

Use this to talk about where the game should be

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1484786-tes-vi-location-and-setting-speculation/