Just to throw out something that randomly occurred to me:

We all want levitation to return in the next game, but how about also including something in a similar vein, and having flying mounts?

Before anyone freaks out, I'm not necessarily talking about dragons here; if we were talking about Morrowind, I'd go with domesticated cliffracers. Even if they didn't come up with something unique, there are plenty of mythological flying creatures that could work: griffons, pegasi, manticores, rocs, and so on.

Cliffracers where driven out of Morrowind by Saint Juib, as for the others, I am no lore buff I have no recollection of any of these animals existence in the TES universe.

Just to throw out something that randomly occurred to me:

We all want levitation to return in the next game, but how about also including something in a similar vein, and having flying mounts?

Before anyone freaks out, I'm not necessarily talking about dragons here; if we were talking about Morrowind, I'd go with domesticated cliffracers. Even if they didn't come up with something unique, there are plenty of mythological flying creatures that could work: griffons, pegasi, manticores, rocs, and so on.

Post of Minor Issues.

Small things that does not break the game, but should fixed anyways.

1) Enchantable Arrows - Was this just forgottent or what?

2) Beards and Hair - We need beards in thigs game. I mean, why did Morrowind have beards, but not the newest installment?A Huge bunch of Immersion thrown just out the window. Hair was just boring in Oblivion. Not even females could have long natual looking hair.

3) Beast - Make 'em look like beats. Do NOT make them remind me of humans when I see them.

4) Voices - DO NOT spend a bunch of money on a few voice actors, but use as many as possible. 1 female and 1 male for each different race.

5) Journal and Inventoy - Oblivions journal took days too learn. Morrowind = One button, and all information shown at one. I don care if they have to use the exact same inventory screen as morrowind, just do it!

6) Dialogs and Font - Make a dialog screen show op when interating with npcs. Oblivions fonts look like computer text. Dark brown background dialog box with a light brown font is fine. Npc's should have interesting conversations with the player and eachother. A rumor should be a mystery, not "Pray at chapel to get blessing" that sounds more like and advice.

7) Cities - Cities looked like villages. Make more buildings, npc's, shops and other things. I dont care if it is unimportant, just add a crap load of all that stuff, and it looks like a city.

8. Landscape - Make an interesting landscape. Make lost caravans, lost chest and barrels in the woods for loot, and abandoned houses in the wilderness. More cliffs, hills and a crap load if trees in the woods that make the pathedic forrest of oblivion look like a little park!

Thats all I could think of for now.

Number 5 is a bit off. First did it really take you days to learn that simple system? Second Morrowind's inventory was clustered. Way too much stuff to go through. Especially if you had a bunch of ingredients.

In Morrowind and its official expansions, there are more total "sets" of armor, including the entire Medium Armor class, although many of the sets are only partial. Many of the unique items had their own distinctive style and shape. Some partial sets, like the Imperial Newtscale cuirass and Templar bracers, included only a single item or pair, while others such as Dreugh, Duke's Guard, Trollbone, and Imperial Dragonscale included a "reduced" set of usually a cuirass, helmet, and sometimes a shield. There was also more flexibility in terms of mixing and matching seperate left and right pauldrons and individual bracers or gauntlets. The game included all of these items in the world from the start, although the better ones became more common as it went, so it was possible to get just about anything early if you knew where to look. More importantly, there was often a tradeoff between protection and weight or other factors, so you might use something "less than the best" with good reason to do so.

In Oblivion, there was a painfully obvious "progression" of armor types as the game went along, regardless of whether you chose Light or Heavy. The higher forms of armor and weapons simply didn't exist in Tamriel until you reached a certain level, and then all of the lower level stuff started to become rare. Failing to progress made no sense, because everything about the "next" armor that came into existance was just "better". Many of the "unique" items were only uniquely named and re-statted, and looked like any other item of their type, or at most had a different texture for an otherwise identical mesh.

My MW characters usually find something that suits them, and stick with that for the rest of the game, with the possible exception of an occasional unique or unusual item being mixed in or an enchantment added. In OB, I felt like I had to keep swapping armor and weapons to keep up with the "rat race", not use what I felt best suited the character. I really lament the "simplification" of the series into a linear character progression in an otherwise non-linear worldspace.

In Morrowind, you can't do all of the quests with a single character, although there's more than enough to keep a character busy for months or even years in spite of that.

A little suggestion, whoever made the concept drawings back for Morrowind, especially for the elves, THEY'RE AWESOME.
BETH... you have those drawings... why don't you try to stick to them, they're GREAT and actualyl make the races look unique.

Personally i wouldn't mind if they go more stylish than realistic.

Number 5 is a bit off. First did it really take you days to learn that simple system? Second Morrowind's inventory was clustered. Way too much stuff to go through. Especially if you had a bunch of ingredients.

http://www.uesp.net/image.shtml?morrow/preview/viveccity.jpg is how Vivec should have looked. It would have been so awesome.

... OK that only makes me think one thing, WHAT HAPPENED IN BETWEEN?
Those concept drawings are awesome and you can't tell me "they where impossible to translate into the game", hell i did see early screenshots that did appear to have some elements like that. Morrowind was still awesome in design but honestly if they had kept closer to those concept drawings... In fact that trend did continue into Oblivion, they had some nice conept drawings specially of the towns (like Leyawiin being apready over the whole river with a small island in between housing the castle) but again, NOTHING LEFT.

What the hell, Beth?

one of the limitations on the early game engines was the inability to draw terrain in 3 dimensions. The engine was only capable of supporting vertical elevation changes. Granted, the technicalities of 3 dimensional customization would be too much for modern computer hardware, but an alternative to the current "round" terrain brush would be a brush with customizable shapes and elevation angles. This would allow for a greater variety of shapes to be sculpted vertically without the need for horizontal shifting, which could lead to significantly more realistic terrain with larger rock formations (e.g. cliffs, fjords, mesas, glaciers, etc). While it wouldn't be possible to create one of those overhangs from Morrowind, it would be possible to make some extremely vertical ledges which could easily be modified using static objects to creat the illusion of overhangs.

This kind of a world-creation tool would be great for Skyrim.

It would also be interesting to see some innovation with how trees could be made into terrain, should Elswhyr or Valenwood be the setting for the next game.

But honestly the limit is not technical, it's simply effort.

Basically. Heck, it was pretty much done long ago in http://www.pirates.retreat.btinternet.co.uk/Vivec.htm.

Awe-sweet-cool-some, now i gotta dig out Morrowind again :dance: