I miss the old way Swords where handled in oblivion. More choices and options. I don like this new "Generic" 1 handed sword to generic "Greatsword" thing. Seems fablish to me.

Anyone else feel the same?

I miss my longsword now I just get this flabby "medium" sword for one handed

Yes. And throwing weapons, and crossbows.

What shortsword-longsword-claymore system?

They should add catapults.

They've done it actually...

I soooo want to dual-wield short-swords. Like Daedric short-swords. And kill lots and lots of bad guys.

Oh well. Two Daedric dagger won't be so bad...if I can ever find any!

Really? I would think that would work better in Mount and Blade. But to each their own.

I liked short swords

Strangely, I do not miss them at all. I still see them in the game. Well they may not be called the actual names, but visually to me at least they are still in the game. After loosing crossbows,and spears, I don't see this as such a big deal. I think the one handed, two handed system is good.

I didnd't know that. In Skyrim?

All of the Elder Scrolls games I've played so far (MW-OB-SKY) tend to categorize weapons in a rather boring matter. Morrowind was almost the worst at this. Every "class" had it's shortsword, katana, claymore etc. etc.

Why can't they just design a set of weapons that makes it interesting to discover new ones? Instead the glass longsword is just like the orc longsword, only slightly better.

Honestly the difference between shortswords and longswords weren't more than the difference between a Falmer sword and an Orcish sword....


And who's idea was to make shorswords short-baldes anyway?

Yeah, I liked Short swords too. You could add a caveat that they're quicker to dual wield (making them preferable over dual wielding two unwieldly longswords), and that they're better for blocking/quicker to strike as the caveat for being smaller and lighter, so easier to maneuver your weapon.

...Same with spears...Bring back the primary instrument of war from B.C. to 1,700 A.D. Bethesda, kthxbye.

The length of the weapons didn't actually make a difference.

You had to be the same distance to hit something with a claymore as you did to hit it with a dagger.

So I don't really miss it since it didn't add anything other than visual flair.

Not true, Swish. In Oblivion claymores had longer reach than short swords. I'm 99% positive, at least.

Range increased from dagger>shortsword>longsword>claymore

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Definitely not true. With a claymore you could hack enemies to pieces when tyhey couldn't even reach you. With a dagger you'll have to be practically in it's nose.

I agree, shortswords should be used for dual wielding, with longswords used two-handed, balanced by having lower damage than greatswords, but higher speed and the ability to counter after a successful block.

The proper thing to do would have been to make the weapons different in practice rather than to simply scrap options. That's actually been a recurring trend in Bethesda's decision-making. Look at Mysticism; it was stretched thin in Oblivion thanks to the removal of a lot of effects from Morrowind (detect key/enchant, Mark/Recall, interventions, moving absorb effects to restoration) and then Bethesda said "Well people mostly just use it for 3 spells now anyway so let's just scrap Mysticism and move those 3 spells into other schools". A better solution would have been to help bring Mysticism back to being on par with other schools rather than to just remove it.

Same thing with the shortsword/longsword ordeal. Rather than remove them because the difference was only aesthetic, why not put some more fine tuning in to make the differences more clear cut? It wouldn't have even taken a lot to do, seeing as how most players would probably be satisfied with a difference in weapon damage, attack reach, and swing speed.

There's a bastilla in a Thieve's Guild quest.

Aye. I wish I could dual wield 2 shortswords, or a longsword and a shortsword.

I miss spears.

Yeah, really. In Skyrim. You should try the Civil War quest line on the Stormcloaks' side.

I miss shortswords, but I'm fine with the system. If they were lumped into one handed I would be happy.