I played it without mods at first, then I downloaded a few mods like a weather mod, and used that, the last time I played Oblivion I have over 100+ mods, improveign everything in the game, and I have become dependant on mods. to raise it to the standard of games that I play these days. I'f I play it now without mods, it looks very dated and full of game play issues.

EDIT: Just so people don't understand wrong, i KNOW they aren't monotunous acording to lore but acording to that Cyrodiil was suposed to be a jungle and not... what it is now...

Bethesda, if I can count the number of joinable factions in TES V on one hand, then you're doing it wrong. :stare:

Not if they are really well done. They should rather focus on quality than quantity.

What do you mean by "console-ified"?

[The console demographic] seem to, generally, be more interested in beating games than really playing them.

I'm going to skip irrational fears like exclusivity, no mods, no first person, etc. There's no chance in hell that Bethesda would consider such things.

It's not the things that would obviously lead to Bethesda making less money that you need to worry about, it's the things that they might think would lead to them making more. For instance, I wouldn't buy the game if:

- The amount of initial content was cut short so that Beth could charge us for DLC. I hate paying for an incomplete game, but this kind of thing happens all the time. If they released TESV with fewer guilds, etc, than Oblivion, then announced later that, "hey, you can still get just as much content, you just have to buy the DLC" that would be a big red flag for me.

- If the game incorporated more hand-holding to gain a wider audience. It's been happening for a while now, and it will probably continue to happen. It's hard to get specific on this, but there's an invisible line here, and if Bethesda crosses it, us hardcoe fans will leave (and just stick with modded MW and OB until something better comes along). TES fans want to feel lost in a foreign world. We want to feel that there is danger around every corner. If the game holds our hands so much that those feelings disappear, then there's no point.

And on a more personal note:

- If the game world becomes full of damage-sponge enemies when you are high level. I hate enemies like albino rad scorpions. By all means, make the enemies more dangerous. Make them faster. Make them deadlier. But for God's sake, don't make them damage sponges that simply take forever to kill. There's nothing FUN about tapping the attack button for fifteen minutes against some dumb-as-a-brick AI that just bum rushes you forever. That's not entertaining. A dangerous enemy encounter should feel suspenseful, it shouldn't feel like a chore. I should want to avoid enemies out of fear of the treat they pose, not because I see them and have the feeling "Oh God here we go again...".

To add my own opinion I think I would be dissapointed if they made the main story revolve around Daedra again like they've done with oblivion,shivering isles, and the infernal city. I've been reading a Game of Thrones and it reminds so much of Morrowind in a way, I hope the next Elder Scrolls game has more emphasis on politics like Morrowind did. I also agree with the usual about Bethseda taking away factions,skills,having you join all the factions in a playthrough,etc.....

Aye. The Daedra are being flanderized into generic concrete evil. I know numerous people who have not played any installment of the series besides Oblivion, and they have the idea that the Daedra are always evil and are always trying to invade. I'd rather we push them out of the spotlight for this next game...

Loss of skills

Making it linear

I don't think this is a threat, as Oblivion showed no signs of becoming more linear than the previous games, but I think this would completely destroy the point of TES

So you'd really skip the game only because they remove a few skills? I find that hard to believe.

Making it linear

I don't think this is a threat, as Oblivion showed no signs of becoming more linear than the previous games, but I think this would completely destroy the point of TES