The only way I won't buy the game is if they change the genre of it.

When the box comes booby-trapped with a cloud of anthrax and ground up glass.

No jumping.

Deal Breakers:


No Co-Op

No Multi-player

If there are dragons in it

If they have perks instead of skills

If they have kids

Marriage

finishing moves

dual-wielding

and Argonians... stinking Argonians...



If Skyrim has any of the listed- I'm not getting it.

deal breakers are
if it never comes out on pc
takes away first person
hands me a firearm
and the biggest one:

If I ever see, hear or smell another cliff racer.

for Skyrim nothing, since everything's good. in general? it's obviously NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, but purely hypothetically - if they ditch first-person.

the only reason i put up with the [censored] i have to put up with to play these games (both the games themselves and discussing the games with other people) is because they're among the very few first-person games that aren't shooters, and also have good production values. if they went the way of like Gothic or Risen or whatever the [censored] and made everything third-person because I GET MOTION SICKNESS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES then i'm out. it's not worth the hassle.

Broken quest lines really irritate me. There's no need for them

Multiplayer (There isn't one (tihs time round), yay)

If the game becomes too linear (I think Skyrim is looking good to me)

Peter Molyneux has any involvmemt (Never going to happen)

They go back to Arena's original plan. A fighting game *shudder*

Deal Breakers:
Skyrim is an MMO
Skyrim is a first person only game
Skyrim adds guns
Skyrim is not moddable

That's all I can think at the moment.

If Skyrim got a voiced protagonist or loses it's customization I would quickly start losing interest.

Of course I can. In my case: Steam = No Deal.

If they dumb it down, ignore the lore and add multiplayer

I'm so totally agreeing with you.

It's an Elder Scrolls game, that's enough. I've started with Morrowind, with absolutely no idea what the Elder Scrolls series was.In my 25 years of computer gaming, I've never played anything before which provided so much awesome gameplay. Oblivion had it's flaws, but it's still a superior game. So are Fallout 3 and it's offspring New Vegas (though the last one was much weaker than the original). Bethesda has the skill to create the most awesome open-world RPGs and there's no doubt for me that all the gameplay-changes will affect my experience with this game. I'm watching the trailer at least 3 times a day and I'm still getting the goose bumps every time the Elder Scrolls Theme starts playing with the Nord yelling "Fus-Roh-Dah!". The only game which provided me such emotions was òkami on the PS2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY could propably me.

PS: Some of the "deal breakers" here are so ridiculous..."If this is not in the game, I'll not buy it"....errr yeah..."this coffee machine can't clean my house, so I won't buy it."...or maybe "I'm not going to watch the new transformers movie cause there isn't godzilla in it."

The deal breaker is if they pushed the release date back

No, but in all seriousness, I would like to see the horses(mounts) integrated more seamlessly into the game, Maybe have them more easily accessible at all times, cuz I used to just run and jump everywhere in Oblivion; it seemed faster and more efficient- but if the mounts were somehow more convenient to ride that may be a plus.
:cheat: I'll probably just end up doing the same thing lol.

Deal breaker? Too many bleeping essential NPCs.

For me its if it was a set character and no open world....or if it was a poorly made and poorly received game , none of which looks even remotely likely to happen

no creation kit would be a massive dissapointment but I dont think it would stop me buying the game...after all I've bought other games without one....

there isn't really a deal breaker though (other than a bad game), just things that would make me wait tilll its mega cheap on a steam deal

lol

MY deal breaker is if they don't release the game.

This. That's why I play Beth RPGs and why I didn't enjoy FO:NV as much as the others : it wasn't that open.

Nothing of what we have heard is a deal breaker for me as I still plan to pre-order the Collectors Edition.

I agree fully.
It kind of bothers me that there's so much stuff of it on TESNexus. I want to ignore it but it's pretty hard, since it's so much of it. Still, no offense to those who like it; I'm just saying that I hate it ^^

If TES went anime, it would be the downfall of the series.

meaning -50% possibility of chainmail bikini :clap: :clap:
screw those jrpgs...with their erm unrealistic outifts only held by glue or something :tes:

ok what were we talking about again?

There is no single deal breaker for me, but for a while I felt like the multitude of smaller things will be - I can live without spears and crossbows, I can live without attributes, I can live without spell making, mysticism and so one... But without all of it? That remains to be seen.
I do feel like Bethesda started to listen to the fans a bit lately - what with the traveling system and romances... I think they would have added back more things they discarded previously if they could at this point, but attributes, magic schools and so one are much less "modable". ES series are already unique in the fact that they can add new content this close to release date and I'm glad they are making an effort. Just because of that I'll give Skyrim a honest try - if Bethesda is listening to feedback than at the very least it may allow for a better ES:VI

If they oversimplify things making things (quests, items, how you fight, etc) not very customizable which is essential for an TES game.

Agreed anything that will get on my nerves will be minimal and being a PC user I can most likely sort it out if it annoys me that much.