One thing I'd really like to see is more realistic wildlife/creature behavior. Add more complex behaviors and "life" to the local fauna (fantastical and non-fantastical alike). Not all creatures and animals should attack on sight. Make animals have a food-water cycle throughout the day, with herbivores eating grass and such and predators actively seeking prey. And not all creatures should kill you or another creature purely for the sake of killing it: it should be for food at least half of the time. Having the creature eat you after it has killed you would be a pretty sweet feature too . Another really cool (though unlikely I presume) addition would allow animals such as cougars to stalk you before they attack, similar to a sneak attack by the player, instead of outright attacking face to face, which is something any big cat would virtually never do. All of that would at a whole new layer to the little virtual world and make it burst with life.

Also, add REAL dialogue, not just vague statements that are very "gamey" and offer little to no opportunity for roleplaying (which I feel is the single most important aspect of any Elder Scrolls game) and make the NPCs seem like robots. And on that note, add a little more choice to the quests, as it does so much to add to a player's character and makes roleplaying that much better. And on ANOTHER note, add some things for a non-combat oriented character to do and excel in. In a game this open-ended, there should be some room for characters that just want to LIVE in the world and not hack everything to bits.

If possible, tinker with the combat system to make it more fluid and immersive rather than just "generic swing, block, generic swing, block, power attack, block". And please, oh please, make the arrows actually move through the air realistically as if they have some sort of weight, not the foam arrows found in oblivion. Archery would be oh-so-much-more satisfying if that arrow zipped through the air rather than elegantly floated.

Make certain areas of the gameworld more dangerous and suited for a high level character and others more newbie-friendly, instead of the entire world leveled according to the player. It adds some realism to the world as not everything revolves around the player and its adds a much greater sense of intrigue and scale.

And add pets that level up and grow! That would be epically awesome. And let me name my horse (KEEP HORSES DO NOT EXCLUDE THEM FROM ELDER SCROLLS V. . .pretty please).

Just some suggestions. If I think of more, I definitely will post.

It would be nice to have an "aging slider". Similar to the difficulty slider, but it would determine how fast your character ages. As you age, you would get a more weathered face, and your hair would grey out. Pulling the slider all the way to the left would disable aging, and you'd continue as you would in any other game, and pulling it all the way to the right would be.. perhaps, a year aging per day? Aging would be race specific. Altmer would age slowest, and Orcs would age fastest. I wouldn't die due to aging, as it's a cosmetic thing (Who doesn't want to be a wise, all-knowing mage that's matured from the immature mage who thinks he can summon an Atronach?)

Perhaps aging would give different effects. Being older would make you "wiser", giving you bonuses to Intelligence, Willpower and Personality, but make you frail, giving you lower Strength and Stealth attributes. (Perhaps this would be togglable)

ok two suggestions that i may have posted in thread 100 or 50

1. Make some of the Npcs more attractive its really killing me that my character is the only one

2. More voice actors

What is the chance that anyone from Bethesda will ever actually hear about any of the ideas in this thread? Just curious?

Assuming there is some chance I'll just say the following:

1. Designers should check out http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx game "Mount&Blade Warband" and see if it gives them any ideas for practical ways to improve the combat system. Horse mounted combat in particular would be neat. [ADDIT: Just wanted to clarify, I'm _NOT_ suggesting something like the multi-player part of Warband. Just suggesting that the some of the combat dynamics in single-player Warband might spark ideas for improving combat for SINGLEPLAYER play in TES V ]

2. Basic needs (hunger, thirst, sleep, tiredness) as in some of the mods, but seamlessly integrated into the game and balanced with magic, etc.

3. Alchemy should be "nerfed" by making it more realistic. Making potions should not be possible in the dark in a sewer tunnel. Instead, you should have to take the gear out and set it up, get the bunson burner lit, a little mini-game as in the NPC negotiations would be cool. (toggleable for those who just want alchemy to be easy). Making potions should take time.

4. More detailed training (will come back and add a link to a discusion I contributed to in the Gen Discussion forums).

ADDIT Here is the link to the thread http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1108023-real-life-leveling-system/page__p__16231286__fromsearch__1&#entry16231286

and I quote myself from there to make it simple



5. Fix the Levelling/Major skills system so that the game does not reward out-of-character builds (e.g., Mages with all but one or two Major Skill that they never use, such as: Athlethics, Block, Blunt, H to H, Armorer, Hv Armor, Marksman).

6. Change the training system so that there is less impetus to just do tedious gamey things like jump repeatedly under a dock (see #4 above). Not sure how to do this, but I think TES 5 would be improved if they can do it.

7. Sparring, non-lethal combat, and interactive training with trainers (also see #4 above).

8. More randomnicity to location spawn creatures, less predictability to dungeon populations.

I know alot of people disagree but i would love 4 player co-op so you could make your own guild and have your own guild house (Starts off very bare but all of your members can pay for each upgrade eg one pays for the armoury the other the sleeping area and so on) and you can choose the guild house like an underground assassin base or a knight of the nine chapel and mage and other classes based guild hall and the player can name the guild and the guild master ( the creator of the guild) can give contracts (maybe) and advance people using the guilds message board any member of bethesda game studios working on the elder scrolls please take this seriously i also have alot of friends on xbox 360 who feels the same way

It worked pretty well in games like Sims 3. But those are the games you sort-of imagine it being implemented. I honestly think most people will choose 1 age and then keep themselves the same age.

But, it'd be easy enough to add with mods, it's just that when you're aging quickly you have a sense of a "ticking clock"" and that you're going to die or that your character's life is passing by too quickly even though they aren't going to die... Just my personal opinion. They had an interesting alternative system in Sims 3 though, if you have aging turned off you can still buy a "birthday cake" to advance to the next stage. So in that game it went Babies > Toddlers > Kids > Teenagers > Young advlts > Old advlts > Elders.

In TES you could, for example, choose to say that you've gotten older by a similar means. So then if you're the youngest you can be... and since the lowest slider for characters actually gave back an age of 15... I'm guessing characters are meant to be about 18-19 for legal reasons at the youngest. So if you have a "birthday" of some kind you could age into an older advlt, maybe by 10 years in aging appearance every time?

So 20 > 30 > 40 > 50 > 60 > 70 > 80 > 90?

And then 0 > 10 would be NPCs... which they've shown they may do VIA Fallout 3.

You know, it's really sad that people can't play games with mods on consoles....

Speaking of which that's my #1 wish. If Bethesda made it so that people could download "X" Amount of Diskspace for mods on consoles, I'd be ecstatic; and I use computers so it's not something that I'm just asking for to get personal gain. It's just that a large part of the community is missing out on a lot because of those limitations. :[

They'd just have to set up a site and have a bunch of people to approve the mods being sent in, once they did you could just download the ".esp" on any system... wouldn't that work?

I also absolutely LOVE this idea i never really cared for the horses because somehow i can run faster than shadowmere(NO MODS)

Maybe add the ability to import your character from TES IV and bring back werewolves? Maybe make it so you could shapeshift to?

The TES games run on a time scale. So how about your character ages one year per in game year.

But I dont really see a point in that, because my absolute longest game in Morrowind lasted 2 in game years, and im sure barely anyone played for more than 5 in game years. And over 5 years aging is only just noticable. So this effect would only just be barely noticable to the most hardcoe of players.

The idea of having your character age faster than the game runs at could be quite problematic, imagine a year per day, and the player plays for 2 or 3 in game years, they would look hideous almost liek a zombie. NPC's wouldnt age, because they dont have children, else slowly over the games progress all NPC's would become OAP's and there would be no young NPC's.

I like the horse and cart idea. It could have a bedroll in the back, or give you the ability to set camp.

I was thinking of Knights. If you're in a knigthly order and do quests, you're supposed to show some dignity and high moral stantards.

For example, you help a lady in distress. You get to choose a reward:
A. Gold
B. Her most precious item, maybe one useful in combat
C. sixual favors
D. Nothing

Picking anything but D. could have bad consequences, especially C. if the word gets out. You could get demoted or kicked from the guild if you keep doing such things. In TES2 knights didn't get quest rewards in cash no matter what kind of thing they went through. You only earned occasional armor parts, and finally a house. Other guilds always paid you, knights do it 'cause that's what they do.

This sounds great, but not onlu knights, but every class should have the same choices.

I just think horses add an even more adventurous feel to the game. All hardy adventurers should have a faithful steed .

You can go so much further with this. Examples:

1. You help some poor sod but turns out you've been lied about the reward. He doesnt have the money you were promised. Let it be, make him pay for it (kill him, or just beat the living it out of him) , or make an arrengement where neither of you loses face. Like, taking him as a companion for your next quest. You get help and he get's his debt paid.

2. Quest involves something profitable but illegal. Say, you find a pack of refined Skooma. Supplied to street worth 100.000 gold or so, but high risk getting caught. Sell as one heap, worth 25-40.000 gold, less risky. Bring it to authorities, no money but you're considered very lawful. Promotion in Imperial Legion or such order. Negative effect for Underground disposition. Get caught selling, it's jail for you and kicked from guild.

3. Example from Gothic 3: In a nutshell, orcs have taken over some cities, some humans work for them, some are rebels and hiding. One orc leader in a town asks you to get an update from a group leader deep in the forest. You've considered trustworthy by the orcs after completing some minor tasks. You find the group and are able to get the leader's message to be delivered back. What the group leader doesn't know is that you've stumbled upon some rebels on your way, and have already agreed to help them by killing the orc group. Being an actual rebel working undercover, you slay the group and let none flee. Rebels reward you and you gain even more of their trust, and you still posses the message you can deliver to the orcs in town, earning their trust also, not forgetting the rewards from both sides.
There are several opportunities to actually betray your quest givers, or do like Yo-Jimbo and play for both sides for your own benefit. What makes it possible is the quest structure: no hand holding, no restriction to HOW do it, as long as the job is considered done. No one has magical knowledge of your actions, so as long as you don't leave a trail of bodies behind, you're innocent until proven guilty. You can even talk your way out of some situations if you're caught. This is the main reason I love that game. You can actually use your own brain.

All three of those ideas are amazing. :bowdown:

That's why there's a slider to change how fast you age. The ideal aging would likely be a year a month (for a Man, perhaps Orc), at around 50% of the slider.


There would be a limit to how much you can age, of course. It's more realistic to stop aging at a certain point to end up as a decaying monster, without magical means.


It wouldn't apply to NPC's. It's purely a cosmetic thing for the player, with perhaps a few skill alterations. I think we can forgive the lack of realism, in this case, can't we?

Those are really good quest ideas. I hope Bethesda follows that structure.

What kind of computer do u have? because i can play Oblivion on very high with very little or no lag but Gothic 3 i cant play at all. as to the ideas it would be great if they would implement quests in that way.

You need not only Community Patch but also .ini tweaks. You find plenty of them googling "Gothic 3 .ini". Then it's just try and see. I propably got a much older PC than you, and it's very playable imo.
What a shame another great game was put out buggy and unfinished. Like Daggerfall

alright ill try that, cause the community patch was worthless in getting it unlaggy so ill try googling the ini and the patch again. even with the community patch i get like 2 fps in that first fight, havnt changed ini yet though, what do i change on it the only things i could find on google are things to increase visual stuff.

Aha speakin about Pokemon thats what track's for, what my whole team did at states lmao

I’ve been thinking about alchemy, and how to make it more useful and more interesting, how about adding synergetic alchemical interactions?

The idea is to add effects that are not predicted by individual ingredients. For example, if you take sugar (an ingredient that hasn’t existed in TES, but lets assume it restores fatigue and health) and we mix it with yeast (another ingredient that isn’t in any TES game, but lets assume it has other equally mundane effects) you get something completely different, alcohol.

An alchemy system where some ingredients mix together to create potions stronger than the sum of their parts, or with effects not predicted by their constituent parts could be really interesting.

The player would have legitimate reasons to read alchemy books, to find combinations to stay away from, or to find combinations to attempt.

Lower level players would not be able to see the effect of the synergisms until the potion has been made. The game play effect of this would be similar to the failed spells of Morrowind, but would be slightly more interesting. Higher level players will not be able to see what the synergetic effect will be until they select the two ingredients, but can see the effect before pressing the "make potion" button.
Or maybe no character can see the synergetic effect until they have made one of those potions, after which it gets added to the player’s recipe list, and each time they make that potion again it gets displayed to them. It’s a bonus of experience, beyond levels.

There are loads of possible effects that could be created with this system, some could just be certain ingredients which make a particularly strong version of what you’re attempting to make, and some could make something the complete opposite to what you’re attempting to make. Other potential effects are:

• The creation of drugs (Like Alcohol)
  
• Mixing some poisons with certain medicines could increase the rate at which the poison works, or slow it (As we all know, in sufficient quantity that which cures can also kill)
  
• Similar effects with medicines, you could create slow cure medicines which heal you very slowly but over the course of an in game day.

While I’m on the topic of Alchemy, I would like to see alternative ways to administer poisons or potions. In Oblivion all that you could do to poison someone was to shoot them with an arrow or strike them with a coated weapon, that’s not very subtle. How about being able to lace food with poison (or medicine if you wish to be nice). You could coat a training weapon with poison so when people are training one of them could get very ill. I would like to see it possible to put poison on pretty much anything that could apply that poison to someone*. Or how about with a high enough sneak skill I could put drops of poison into someone’s mouth while they sleep.

* This game me a thought for another synergetic effect. How about poisons that can be absorbed through the skin, so you place poison on the hilt of someone’s sword then when they pick it up and use it their health starts to drain, or they recoil in pain and drop their sword (a good way to rig combat to your, or your allies advantage).

One of the things that one of my friends has a beef with is the G-Rated entertainment mentality. Most every Filmmaker or story writer suggests that in order for a story to be believeable it must be real. A G-rated TES game is a game that is a lie. Pure and simple. Morrowind worked because you're in a believable world. People worked for their own agendas. In Oblivion, it didn't seem real even if there is the illusion of being real. TES: Oblivion was a game I couldn't complete mostly because it fails to be believable to me. I tried to do Shivering Isles, but it seems to bizarre or something like an upside down Alice in Wonderland. Although Sheogorath was the most lovable character in all of Oblivion. What I am trying to say is that I don't want a PG-rated lie in TES:V. The lies angle has already been explored. Tell an R-rated truth this time.

I think you should be emporer because at end of game (SPOiLER)>>>> Martin says the fate of the empire is in your hands

My wants

-More Level Scaling

-More High Level Monsters, I dont want the game to max out at level 30.

-More Arena Matches!

-The same fast travel system as in Oblivion, itd be wonderful.

-More Quest Markers

And, before anyone thinks so. I do not need to add a "[/sarcasm]" because im completely serious.

PS:



Its the world of madness.... OF COURSE ITS BIZARRE!

I want the exact opposite of all of these, except High Level Monsters, I agree with you actually :blink: on that one.