Okay. this is gonna be lengthy. Ofc, lots of these things wont happen, but will be modded, provided the new engine is as easily modded as the gamebryo engine.

Warning, there are a few references to previous games, do not read on if you dont like spoilers.

1. General
A. Children and a better intro. I'll assume this will happen, as they made it in fallout 3. Imo, the oblivion intro was downright rubbish. The morrowind one was good, from a role playing perspective.
B. Being able to see my feet. This annoyed me in every single fallout and TES game T_T I dont wanna look to the ground and do a 360 and not see my freaking legs.
C. Morrowind style travelling around. I dont mind instant travel boats, or instant travel carriages, or teleporting, just not the instant travelling on foot.
D. Mission checkpoints! (as in, autosaves when certain objectives are complete etc).
E. Co-op! And online co-op for the PC (As I would have to squint if my 21 incher was split in half lol) I dont think this one will happen though.
F. Owning stuff and buildings of people that you kill. If people want to kill everyone and ruin their game like a kid, so be it. Bethesda, if you really dont want someone to die, just give them invincibility if they are that important.
G. I wish people wouldnt assume im gonna steal something when I pick up another guys thing. When I pick up a drink at the store and take it to the counter, the woman at the desk doesnt call the cops.
H. A hardcoe mode like in new vegas. That was hella cool.

2. Combat
A. Sword combat needs to be improved, it is very repetitive. When having a battle with another big group of ally's I have to stay back in case I hit an ally by accident. That happened a LOT.
B. Fallout bullet cinematic implemented in to arrows (Only while sneaking and not in combat, otherwise this could get annoying).
C. Decapitation! I'll assume Skyrim will have it as it was introduced in fallout 3.
D. More varied weapons and armour. I dont like the Fur ,Leather, mithril, silver etc system. I'd like more individual weapon types. Long bows that are more powerful but longer to reload. Opposite for short bows etc
E. I think I may have heard about this feature some where on another website... dual wielding?
F. More actual weapons. Crossbows, throwing knives, polearms, halberds etc.

3. Economy
A. Dunno if any of you have ever played mount and blade, but I liked the system it used, where the merchant would pay more for something that he didnt have/less of, and would pay less if he had lots of the thing that your selling.
B. Make hunting and treasure hunting actually worth it. Make pelts and gems worth more gold please. However, this could be easily modded.
Not much more to say on the economy...

4. Map/Graphics
A. Bigger, plox :]
B. Longer view distance with vegetation. I didnt like the suddenly appearing vegetation as I was strolling through the countryside.
C. Longer detail distance with trees.
D. More trees. I know oblivion was made in 2006, but at times the countryside felt like a green desert. Hell, look at what crysis did.
E. Sharper shadows [^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^]
F. More varied dungeons. Imo, this was oblivions weakest point, the dungeons felt unimaginative and repetitive.

5. Misc/Stuff that doesnt fit in to anything else
A. Hyperthreading support. Me being an intel user (I7 920) I cant wait till the technology is used more often in the future to push it to the limit.
B. BIG issue. Voice acting! the imperial city felt like it was being voice acted by 5 people.
C. More unique spells. I would like more varied effects.
D. Im not the biggest fan of the level scaling, I dont mind a little bit, but I still want certain areas to be full of harder monsters and other areas of weaker ones.
E. Ive just had a flash back. Anyone remember dark messiah? Anyone played it? By god, I loved the grapple. It made the game so good. Maybe... just maybe.... I can zoom up unto buildings in skyrim and run round rooftops and climb up trees to pick off enemies from distance with my crossbow... OMG!

Hope you enjoyed reading. This is just my opinion, dont be hostile please, or my pet rock will wet itself again

No views? You make pet rock cry Bump.

I agree on everything, I just hope:

- Children aren't immortal.
- NO level scaling, AT ALL

And I actually thought the Oblivion intro was pretty good! Awesome contrast when you get out of the sewers into the beautiful world...

Oh, and co-op doesn't seem like a very good idea...

I didnt like the way your just randomly in jail and you dont know how the hell you got there lol. Maybe a brief cutscene of you doing something and getting knocked out by the blunt end of a weapon wouldve made all the difference. And btw, I think the rule is, immortal children or no children. Its just that bethesda dont want people to kill kids cause they see a guy do in a magical world maybe? lol.

S'ok, give modders a half hour and we can kill teh childrens. And I will say I didn't care for Oblivion's intro but it was more the tutorial I had to do every time I made a new file.

The charm of being in jail is the mystery of it. Would you really prefer a cutscene at the beginning showing the player picking up a spoon and being arrested?

On 2nd thoughts, perhaps it was the tutorial that bugged me, not the intro. And yeah, agreed with the children MUST KEEL THE CHILDREN!

On 2nd thoughts, perhaps it was the tutorial that bugged me, not the intro. And yeah, agreed with the children MUST KEEL THE CHILDREN!

Edit : SORRY for the double post, I didnt realise, the website is getting massive lag at my end.