I have been playing Dark Messiah recently and have been having a lot of fun with the rope bow (pretty much a grapple hook type of thing), and was thinking how fun it would be in Skyrim. It would also make for good substitute for levitation IMO, if you could stick it into anything that's not made of stone, you could use it to climb mountains or certain buildings/caves, and get some really good use of the verticality of Skyrim. If you guys could add any gameplay mechanic from another game, what would it be, and why?

Ninja Gaiden's combat.

Force Unleashed (3rd) + Modern Warfare (1st)

lol, you didn't say why! Also NG 1 or NG2?

Mixture of both because it's dynamic and fluid. BTW, there's an active thread for this. Here you go... http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1190903-what-games-should-influence-skyrim/page__pid__17697143__st__60#entry17697143

I made a thread smilar to this...

I'll say freedom to choose which faction you want to be associated with of Fallout: New Vegas.

Yea, I just linked it for you.

Mount and blade warband: archery. :foodndrink:

Dragon Age's sustained spell system.

About 90% of the stuff in Red Dead Redemption, and a hardcoe mode that turns it into The Sims 4. :foodndrink:

Ultima and Arx Fatalis interaction with items and world

minecraft's advanced physics.

Bulletstorm's skillshots!

A thread just like this already exists, I'll find it for you.

EDIT: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1190903-what-games-should-influence-skyrim/ it is

I already linked it.