The poor TES character system, once innovative, deep, and brilliant, has been tweaked and dumbed down from 36 skills in Daggerfall, allowing you creating any character you want, with specific advantages and disadvantages, to 27 somewhat plain skills in Morrowind, to 21 skills in Oblivion: 7 in each group (the immortal Fighter, Mage, Thief builds), 3 skills per attribute. As you all know, some skills have been merged - one Blade skill for all bladed weapons, one Blunt skill for all non-bladed weapons, some skills have been dropped, some concepts have been changed - enchanting is no longer a skill, but a service, staffs are "rocket launchers" and can't be used as melee weapons, crossbows are gone again, etc. - An excerpt from the rpgcodex review of the game, that for some reason the butthurt idiots at Bethesda won't let me post the link to.

D'uhm... Tha link dushn't work!

Fixed for you guys.

Calling people idiots won't assist you in your desire to further this discussion. The link is broken because we don't allow links to sites with censored language. Since this topic serves as flamebait to most of the members in this section, it is closed.

I don't really see the point of this thread. If the game had been released I could see discussing a review but that game has been out for years - at this point I think people have either played the game and made a decision themselves or ignored the game, in which case while the review may have informed this decision before it doesn't need to be re-affirmed now.