Dinosaurs. Plain and simple. I want to fight a T-Rex with swords and magic. Barely any games combine fantasy and dinosaurs.

Because dinos are way too ordinary. Everyone from little kids and advlts know about these creatures that implementing this into fantasy is unimaginative. Unless, they are mutated to fit the "fantasy" world. I've always thought the cliff racers in MW were a spin-off of the Pterosaurs.

LOL. Dinos wont even fit into Black Marsh Lore at all! Black Marsh is a Marsh Land full of Crocs, Zombies, and other nasty little creatures like those. I don't think Dinos will live in that area.

what are dragons? They are the mythological version of dinos.

I agree that dinos won't fit in. Maybe a few later prehistoric lizard type creatures. As in more the mammoth / sabre tooth tiger era of prehistoric.

I would settle for all the Argonian subraces, seeing them in the natural habitat would be great. And truly rich underwater content: treasures, caves, predators

There's a trope about assuming dinosaurs and dragons are the same. Apart from both being reptiles (at least most versions of dragons claim this) there is little consistently in common between dinosaurs in dragons. There is no single species of dinosaur or even dinosaur relative that shares all of it's basic structure elements with a typical fantasy dragon, even without taking special abilities like firebreathing into account.

Of all the TES provinces Black Marsh has the best potential for a darker experience, with horror elements. The feelings of fear, torment and claustrophobia would go hand in hand with water predators, swarming flies, rotting flesh, violent tribes and weird ceremonials. Alien fauna, alien atmosphere, hostile land all wanting you dead in a magical synergy. I surely hope they don't screw this up, it's too original and beautiful when I think about it. Big predators like dinosaurs (or some sort of big cliff-racer pterosaurs) would certainly fit that sort of deadly atmosphere. I'm also thinking of some supernatural enemies (like the smoke thing in Lost) that make you shiver when you see something cutting down the trees in your direction and nothing else. As impatient as I am to see Black Marsh (the mmo doesn't count, does it?) I hope they do it when they are ready (creatively and from a technology perspective) to make it truly alien and unforgettable.

Take a trip to Morrowind. Plenty of Alit, cliff racers, Guar, and Kagouti. There still is some lore left in the Elder Scrolls series, hidden underneath it all. A T-Rex? What next, and MMO?

No, please, just no....

How about no?

How about yes?

Mixed opinions? They don't have to resemble dinosaurs as we know them. They can have fantasy elements like Morrowind. Dragons only slightly resemble dinos and they wouldn't fit Black Marsh.

One of the advantages of Black Marsh is there's not much known what's inside... so Bethesda will have a lot of freedom to surprise us in all aspects, including the fauna.

maybe raptor like creatures but no t-rexes

Black marsh should be full of poisonous insects and reptiles as well as other weird and strange critters.

we better have the worm traveling also!

Well, there's sabre cats, mammoths and cave bears, so other extinct animals aren't much of a stretch.

As far as dinosaurs go, I'd like to see some archeopteryx, some (feathered) velociraptors, and yeah, maybe something bigger like a stegosaurus. It could be fun, although they definitely need to put a proper Elder Scrolls spin on them.

I think some sort of creepy looking giant quadropedal lizard thing maybe with some fins on it's back or something similar could be cool. I don't know about dinosaurs. Sauropods and similar large dinosaurs would be too big, maybe some sort of smaller carnivorous dinosaur, but I'm not sure they'd look nice. Black Marsh is supposed to have some freaky birdlike creatures that might looks something like pterosaurs. I'd like to see some really thin, gangly creatures wandering through the marsh, almost like a spider, but a vertebrate (I mean like a spider in the sense of the sort of movement it has with long spindly legs). And real spiders too. Some giant millipedes and centipedes. Maybesome mososaur style aquatic creatures. And giant anaconda type snakes.

I say when it comes to Black Marsh, think Avatar.

I'd say think Avatar meets Vietnam meets jungle of Amazon

Nah, not Vietnam. Not enough Agent Orange...

Honestly though? I would say http://www.complainerman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ARPic3.jpg meets http://www.astonhotels.com/assets/slides/690x380-Kauai-Wailua-Falls.jpg meets the http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/029/cache/congo_2936_600x450.jpg meets the https://sge.lclark.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/San-Rafael-Falls-Quijos-River-Amazon-Ecuador.jpg meets http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/images/23606-2-1238971669.jpg meets http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/322/d/7/Oblivion___Mystic_Swamp_by_Nova225.png meets http://coolvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/misty-swamps.jpg.

That will do it I think lol.

I think the sounds of the march should be Important too. Some swamp sounds that were recorded from nature to screams heard off from the distance. It should be very creepy.

There are mentions of feathered serpents in the lore.

Indeed. The smaller, fast hunting dinosaurs (ahem, clannfear in TES? ) might fit the swamps of black marsh.

Scaled fantasy monsters, but no real-world dinosaurs.