Screen Tearing on Xbox 360 Version

if skyrim was identical to oblivion in graphics, game play, people, character creation etc.... then I'd be slightly annoyed but I lived oblivion so I'd get over it and enjoy the new story

Restrictive drm.

I dont think that you can say for sure what is a deal breaker to you untill you actually play the game and experience something that then makes you mad. People jump to conclusions way to fast.

Deal breaker? That the game is simply a recreation of this forum.

Short of completely ignoring all lore and being a console exclusive, nothing will prevent me from buying Skyrim.

Is that really a concern for people? Games are not that unscripted and dynamic to allow for entire towns to be randomly destroyed. They have already stated that the dragon encounters will be limited and semi-scripted to prevent them from overpowering the player/guards, and wreaking havoc with the world. It was the same thing with Oblivion and Radiant AI. People were actually concerned that NPC's would run out food and starve/start wars. This isn't exactly hyper-realistic high level AI here. They do a good job of giving the appearance of such, but everything is still pretty much scripted with minor hierarchical "needs" and AI patterns to give the NPC's semi realistic behaviors ...

As for things that would ruin the game for me, I would have to say QTE's. If the dragon battles (or any other boss battles) turn into simon says and have me following big, shiny, button prompts in order to watch a scripted kill sequence of an enemy..............then the Elder Scrolls will officially be dead in my book.

Deal breaker for me if its buggy to the point of being unplayable/unenjoyable. I could potentially look past any other faults.

The Mortal Kombat series is what started me gaming. I mean, when I was little I would play sonic the hedgehog on the old sega system and things like super metroid on the SNES. I also loved Banjo Kazooie for the Nintendo 64 Then my dad bought me an Xbox and got me Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance when I was like 8 Lol. I remember on that game it didnt tell you the fatallitys and they were also alot more complitcated ,unlike the newest one, so I looked it up online. My dad thought I was such a show off when I learned how to use one and I always used it on him and time I beat him. Those were the days...

If they bring back the slow walking pace, and horrible combat of Morrowind. I just find that game to be unplayable cause of those things.

Deal breakers for me:

• Linear world instead of an open one
  
• Fully voiced player-character
  
• Set character (or even partially set like in Mass Effect)
  
• Removal of first-person, leaving only third person POV
  
• Modernized setting
  
• No support for mods
  
• No PC version
  
• If the game became an action-adventure

Those are the main things that spring to mind which would completely kill the series for me and force me not to purchase out of principle.

There are a number of other things i'm really opposed to and hate the idea of, like merged armour/clothing, excessive streamlining, excessive hand-holding, mini-games, forced cinematics like finisher moves, etc. but they're not quite deal breakers.

If Shor isn't part of the main quest.

ADORING FAN!

Not RPG enough for my standards + anything securom related

You know it.

This.

There's no deal breakers for me, and I will be getting the game on the launch date, but that doesn't mean I'm happy with absolutely every change made.

*cough* greaves *cough*

Bethesda deciding sandbox games are overrated. Main reason I play ES is because it's the only 1st person sandbox RPG I'm aware of.

Simplified and overall weak magic system would break it for me. I almost exclusively play magic based characters, and that would just totally ruin the game.

dude , try mount + blade best combat sim ever

Don't have a dealbreaker
If I found the overall package even more of a disappointment and less of a RPG than Oblivion I'd probably give up on future games in the TES series but I don't think that will be the case

I have two:

-No paper dolls

-Poor character creation system

I agree with this, haha.

I've been playing Elder Scrolls games since Morrowind, and between Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and even Fallout: New Vegas, I've come to the conclusion that the Bethesda way of doing RPG's is, in my book, the best way a game could be made. I see so many people griping about Oblivion, but I just don't get it. Sure, it's not as good in Morrowind in a lot of ways, but the amount of customization and creativity it allows a player to have is still above and beyond.

There are certainly some things about Skyrim that I don't like on paper (the removal of Mysticism, as it's become one of my favorite skills, although at least the spells aren't gone; the removal of specialized weapon skills and instead getting 1 handed / 2 handed weapons), some things that I'm unsure about either way (the removal of classes, and level up just being skills in general plus perks), and some things that I'm excited about (dual wielding / 2 handed combat; inclusion of Enchanting once again). Overall, I know this game is going to be great, and it's going to be one of my all time favorites, just as my previous Bethesda RPG's all are.

If they took out modding I wouldn't buy. I actually can't stand to play an unmodded TES game more than once.

<3 you talented people who mod the game.