I believe that, besides being set in Nirn with that lore, to be aproper core TES game, it must be predominately an action-adventure stat-based open world first person RPG with quests and a system based on the 3 playstyles of stealth, magic and combat.

I disagree.

I agree, however, with most people around here stating that the overall definition of Elder Scrolls is freedom. Something that other games don't have.

With Oblivion, everyone thought that TES gets worse and worse in the sense of simplifying the game. However, if we look hard at the facts, truly, we can see that is not the case at all.
Attributes removed after they already had them in the Creation Kit, why? Not to simplify the game, if that was the case they would have removed them entirely and not replacing them with other methods. Now your progress is strategic, whereas before it wasn't. Beth asked themselves "What can we do in order to grant the player with a wider variety of choices that actually have consequences?" and there they got the perk system from Fallout, only wider, smarter and harder to build.
Why would Beth create 280 perks and replace a few attributes to simplify the game? Logic states that they might as well stayed with attributes, but they saw that it gives that player no real choice at all. Due to the fact they could be maxed (if attributes stayed the same then it would be a different matter, but it's not the case).

The way I see it, with improved... well... pretty much everything, and replacing new systems to match today's standards, TES is growing, going deeper and pushes exactly the buttons it's supposed to push. Beth knows our disappointments with Oblivion, and now they combine Oblivion's new systems, Morrowind's older gameplay feeling and style + new systems.

Change is hard for everyone, but actually look at the facts and ask yourself the bigger question, as to "Why would Beth create more complex systems to simplify TES?"
Make a list of features, if you have to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf7muYYQkJQ#t=2m06s

That sums it up nicely.

My post said nothing about perks or attributes or simplifying or complexity

Yes it did.



Do you even hear yourself talking?

I don't know...

ES is just IS its like the sun or the earth it exists and a world without ES would be .... wrong

not just exploring a wide open world but interacting with it as well.

Skygasm

It is all about the experience and memories. That is what defines The elders scrolls. Oblivion is the only game that managed it to give me great memories even after 5 years. Unlike the other games that I have played and I instantly forgot after 1 a 2 weeks of not playing it anymore.

The expansiveness of the world, and the breadth of ways in which the players can do whatever they want in it.

Discovery and freedom.

Spears.

But that's the point, right? If you don't want to slay dragons, you could still spend hundreds of hours exploring the world and ignoring the main quest. Try doing that in a Bioware game.

Two words. Open world.

For me TES is the ultimate dungeon master. It sets up a world that reacts believably to my actions and allows me to explore it to my heart's content and be whoever I like.

I'm fairly liberal with setting and time - I wouldn't object to a steampunk TES, for instance, which would be some peoples' worst nightmare. However, I get annoyed when BGS retcon stuff. Thankfully they don't.

change

This, for me. Every major-numbered-title gameplay faculty, while desirable for the particular TYPE of game I enjoy playing, can go by the wayside so long as the what the game brings to the table flows and it at least connects to previously-established lore.



Witness the Red King Once Jungled.

Argonians

Argonians and Khajiit are together the unique selling proposition for me too :foodndrink:

what does that have to do with simplifying? I said changing and going for a wider audience, I didn't say how.

goodjob :thumbsup:

and if you want to be smart about it, no at that instance I didn't because I wasn't talking, i was typing. like now.

From everything I've read in your post you were referring to the simplifying of TES, there's no other meaning but that for your post.
If you still claim it's not, then you might as well rewrite your comment and explain yourself better...

Nope I think not, TES never had the easy to learn hard to master bit which is why I said I'd be impressed, and that it "was not in currently" and Im not the one that came up with obtaining a wider audience, Beth was, never said a thing about simplifying anything. take of it what you will, that wasn't the point of my post.

For me, it's...

-The freedom
-The more you use an ability, the better you become at it. I love that system.
-The lore/cultures found in the games.

"Easily accessible" is a community coined term that means "dumbing down for consolers" and Bethedsa has never used that term so back pedal all you want, we know exactly what you meant by your post.