In every game since daggerfall the developers have "streamlined" the game. daggerfall had to much and needed a genius to work out, morrowind had a little to much and required intellegence, oblivion had not enough and was comprehensible to my brother when he was 8 years old, skyrim would probably be even simpler if not for the awful ui! (at least we have cooking- you have no idea how important that is right? Spears are too much effort but cooking and kill animations are what we needed!! )


anyways

dagerfall to morrowind- removed language skills, made the map smaller, removed random generation, universal crime, renamed and changed some magic skills

Morrowind to Oblivion - simplified skills, removed spears,crossbows, throwing weapons and medium armour. removed pauldrons and clothes and enchanting and culture and reasonable villains and interesting vampires and added that level scalling that we all loved. Removed most of the magic (literally and figuratively)

Skyrim- less creatures, less weapons, less spells, less attributes, less decent quests, broken smithing, broken enchanting, Fallout style perks that are clearly done wrong, Broken magic (restoration is good at least!) No greaves and one ring

tes 6? - alteration and illusion merged, conjuration and destruction merged, one mellee skill, one handed axes and warhammers removed, five enemies, no water, no bretons,skills completely replaced with perks, one questline.. i realy should stop,shouldn't i? I am probably giving bethesda/tod ideas!