I thought Sims 3 handled this aspect pretty well. I felt it was easy to move things around in that game. Personally, I'd love it if houses in TES V offered the decorating options available in Sims 3 (floor and wall textures, wall placement, etc).




This would be a great idea for console users. It's probably less important for those of us who play on PC. I know in my case, after the first month I'll be making all my own houses for my characters.




It almost sounds as though you're suggesting that this could be a bad thing.

Wait, the Elder Scrolls series aren't decorating games?! :blink:

Agreed completely. The houses one can purchase are very nice. However, when playing a character who has less than favorable scruples she does not want to ask permission and PAY to sleep in a house when she is perfectly comfortable with killing the owner of a free house and sleeping there with out fear of any valuables stored in containers vanishing one day.

I agree with this. ^

Plus, I'd have fixed the obvious lighting probems in Benirus Manor, and allow you to get more servants/room-mates. Also, houses are a bit too expensive in my opinion. I'd like to be able to buy a house fairly soon after starting my game, rather than saving up thousands of septims over the course of about 120 game hours. It's a bit crazy when the Champion of Cyrodiil can't afford a house of a better quality than the Leyawiin house. The most expensive house should have been (my opinion anyway) about 10,000 septims, with another 8,000 or so for furniture and such.

Aside from that, I have few complaints (I voted it 'great'). The furniture is all placed pretty nicely in my opinion, and the variety of houses available is generally good. About the complaints people have made about putting books and stuff on display - I am on the console and it is perfectly possible, albeit tricky and occasionally frustrating, to place books on bookshelves, weapons on weapon racks etc. Once they are up, they generally stay there.

Every fule kno it's actually 3d Kisekae - just look at the mods on Nexus for proof.

there should be more remote locations to live in.

If I want a mountaintop shack I should have one.

a small shack in the middle of the huge landmass between leyawiin and cheydinhall would have been perfect. all that space wasted.

I agree!
Such as a house on a mountain top were it snows, a house on a beach looking over an ocean, et cetera.

I agree with this too. Maybe a woodland camp for Rangers also. And a tree house for Druids.

So after looking at the poll, very small minority found the housing concept to be perfect or horrible.
The majority, however, found that the housing concept was well put, but needs some adjustments.

Thanks for voting everyone
Hopefully Bethesda takes a look at this for the next TES.

I voted decent. I loved the houses that were rewards for quests and the battlehorn dlc was a cool house cause it took effort rather then money to complete. I would have said bad but i just recently discovered how to pick up and place things. i used to spend hours trying to drop somthing into display cases from out of my inventory.

Doesn't matter to me, I have Battlehorn and I'm happy with it. Only thing I would change is adding a Throne to the center of the trophy room.

A shame battlehorn DLC isn't free anymore I did some Major Computer Breakdowns with my last computer ... Anyway lucky there are plenty of mods to fix such things .... My current character is happy with his Imperial Shack in the Imperial City ...

Bethesda added housing to Oblivion, as the lack of housing in Morrowind was one of the most persistent complaints against that game.
The inability to decorate ones house and make it ones HOME, is the most persistent complaint against housing in Oblivion.

Jenifur Charne

While I don't like MMOs, LOTR online's house customization is pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing that. In fact Id like a lot more customization across the board; Tattoos, scars, dyes, height and weight etc. For us platform dudes without the ability to Mod, this would be a welcomed feature.

I'd welcome it as well, it'd save the pain of downloading all those mods.

I were to pick Perfect because I don′t see the need of any changes, I like it just fine the way it is. But that may be because I just don′t see it. If it were to change I might like it even more so I left some space there for that little extra I′m not aware of
So Great it is for me

I'd say I'd was done good, it could have been better, of course, but overall I liked the idea. Since each major city, other than Kvatch, of course, seeing as it kind of got destroyed, has a house availble, so you get a fair amount of different options in terms of where you live, and the fact that you need to buy the houses ensures that you can't get the best house from the start. My main complaint with the housing options in Oblivion is that other than Rosethorn Hall, none of them really offer much to satisfy a player like myself who likes to collect various items in the game and put them on display in the house, it was the only house that had display cases in it, I would also say that in future Elder Scrolls games, Bethesda should take a look at some of the features from popular house mods that help to make houses more practical and useful, hopefully if Bethesda implemented some of those concepts into the game by default, it could make houses useful for more than just providing players with their own personal stash, not that I don't have having a place to stash my things, but houses are supposed to be more than just a place to put anything you don't want to carry with you, they're supposed to be... homes.

Also, I really wish that there had been at least one, preferably two, houses in Shivering Isles as well, one for Mania, and one for Dementia, because I like the more exotic environments of Shivering Isles over those of Cyrodiil, so it would be nice to be able to live there if I so chose. Besides, considering what happens at the end of the expansions questline, it seems only reasonable that the player get a permanent residence there. So in short, if Bethesda makes one or more expansions for future games, they should be sure to add housing options in the new location added by it too.

I don't mind not being able to custom decorate houses as I figure that such a thing would be hard to do well, though I wouldn't mind if there was a little more choice in terms of buying furniture for your house. Like you could have two or more options of what to put in a specific location, and you could only choose one (Though you should be able to buy the other one at a later time to replace what you got before if you should decide you want it more.) I'm thinking of things like being able to choose whether you want a chair or a shelf in a certain place, or something like that. This could give the player a little more room to personalize the houses without either making some system of interior decoration that is unnecessarily complex for a game of this type, or making the furniture items with actual physics, which could lead to utter chaos if Bethesda doesn't improve the physics, or allow the player to lock such items in place after putting them in the right location.

Another problem I have with houses in the game is because the way Bethesda implemented Havok Physics can make it difficult to decorate at times. Items have a tendency to float in the air a couple centimeters off the ground, or fall off, or through, objects when you enter the room, I'd say that in future Elder Scrolls games, Bethesda should either give players some sort of option to "lock" items in place on shelves, or make the behavior of the physics less wonky.

I pretty much agree with everything you said. I bought Oblivion for the PC specifically so I could really make my own houses (and mod other stuff) even though I already had Oblivion on X-box. Sadly my laptop svcks and couldn't run it without overheating and dying. Plus I prefer playing on console anyway :shrug:
Anyway... I voted "decent" I would like to see more choices of housing and decoration options. At the very least make it so when I kill the "owner" of a house it becomes safe for me to use.