what things do you miss from the past elder scrolls games?

i really liked levitation & the ability to craft your own spells

I miss having the pants and torso separate on Armor and cloths.

I miss:

Major Skills & Minor Skills
Mysticism
Spell Making system
Silence effects
Touch spells
Short Swords
Unarmed fighting skill
Factions that actually mattered
Athletics/Acrobatics
Pauldrons
Greaves
All the other item slots they got rid of

I miss Athletics and Acrobatics, sprint my [censored]!

I miss Baurus.

That's all. I'm playing Skyrim to play Skyrim. I'd play Morrowind or Oblivion if I wanted to play Morrowind or Oblivion.

I kinda miss making spells in oblivion it made playing a mage fun

Spell crafting, I played through Oblivion once as a mage and that made the game more enjoyable.

Levitation.

I miss the larger cities, but by comparison Skyrim has civilized pockets everywhere. Orc Strongholds FTW

Levitation would be broken. (Obvious reasons)
Spell making was exploitive. (Jesus spells+it wouldn't really work since magic has been reworked.)
Major and minor skills made leveling beyond dumb. ("Oh god I need +5!")

I miss the number of spells. (That were useful)

Spell Making. Mages are pure crap without it.

Mostly spell effects, and more weapon variation. Overall I'm really liking Skyrim, and what Bethesda has introduced. I love Smithing (not exploiting it), and the concept of Perks. I still miss the old Morrowinds Major/Minor skills classes though, and some of the skills like Acrobatics and Athletics (I could imagine some really fun perks for them).

i miss there not being children. seriously its little lamplight all over again...i want nothing more than to tie that one jarls kid to a giant fishing pole and use him as dragon bait.

Armor and greaves being separate.
Pants.
Cliffracers.
Fargoth.

Spell making of course.

And also the disposition system.

I miss levitation, BOOTS OF HASTE from Morrowind, and cats eye for seeing in the dark

The Big World or is it just me that Oblivion was a smaller world then Morrowind & Skyrim is smaller again you get every were allmost instantly

Available supplys of ingrediants for magika Potions Has also been getting less & health Potions Getting More abundent

Spell making

thats it i think lol

The intense amount of customization I had by using mods (it'll come to Skyrim in time though)
Spellcraft
H2H
Athletics and Acrobatics
Attributes (to some extent at least)

Spell crafting...i was hoping that they would improve upon it and was highly disappointed when I found out it was gone. I don't understand why they added smithing which is cool yet took away spell crafting which is basically smithing for mage's.

I also miss the item dupe glitch

I don't like antithreads, but with how that other one only really served as a "I like what beth has removed, screw anyone who doesn't" I'l make an exception. like seriously anyone who thinks removing options purely for their taste at the loss of others don't deserve crap.

Spell making, especially what it could have been in Skyrim.

Weapon Variation, especialyl what it could have been in Skyrim.

guild/faction stories that are longer than 2 pages.

All the utility spells that gave OPTIONS on how/what kind of mage you wanted to be.

Attributes, I'm tired of this monotonous character system.

a slower pace, damn I thought Oblivion rushed you into things, this MQ dumps everything right on you, not the haste, but..just everything, your immediately told who you are and what you should do >_>.

otherwise Its fine, the sense of discovery is there (kinda) their are what I believe to be an as sload of unaffiliated quests, Dragons add a new dynamic to traveling, and the people are somewhat believable.

I play a Battlemage. I don't mind picking locks, but for my style of play I miss the lock opening spells. I also liked the chameleon spell.

There are other things I miss but I won't list them all as they're more trivial.

If I had to pick a top 3, here it is:

1. Spellcrafting. They have to put this back in. Hoping for an expansion or DLC. The game works without it, but it's just so much fun that I want it back.

2. Attributes. Just give us back the attributes. Maybe they don't do awhole lot, but they do something. Whereas Health/Magika/Stamina do that and only that. I'm not expecting the attributes to come back in Skyrim, but hopefully the next game.

3. Solstheim. I just miss it. Now is the perfect oppertunity to bring it back! (even though it technically is in Morrowind)

Otherwise I miss Medium armor, spears and crossbows.

Came here to say exactly what you said... Spellcrafting and levitation

Came here to say exactly what you said... Spellcrafting and levitation

Attributes. I liked the attributes damn it! A little perseverance and Bethesda could maybe have came up with a better system and removed some of Morrowind and Oblivions flaws instead of saying 'screw it' and throwing the whole lot out the window. I was picking 'perks' in the Jason and the Argonauts game back in 2008 and that, my friends, was not a good game.

I agree levitating was fun in Morrowind, just imagine taking on a dragon in Skyrim-in the sky! Look out fire breath i'm coming to get you, flap those leathery wings all you like, your ass is mine!