The Ultimate TES game, What would you like to see Bethesda do? Options

[Vital]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but it's not directly related to Skyrim, Oblivion or any of the older games and is a general discussion about an RPG series (The Elder Scrolls) so it seemed the best fit

Just to clarify: This is not a "Which TES game is the best" thread. It is a thread to discuss the various features seen in any of the TES games, whether you liked them or not, how they could've been done better, why they should've left them out, what they should've had instead/as well, etc etc...

Ultimately it is a discussion about what would be the ideal Elder Scrolls Game in your opinion and how Bethesda could combine all the failures and successes of the previous games in order to create this. If you're already happy with one game, how could it be made better? (It can't be perfect )

Feel free to talk about different mods and games other than TES and how these could be implemented into the game as well.


To start:

I personally would love to see a combination of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim (these being the only TES games I've played in depth) put into one game. The alien environment, number of factions, lack of hand-holding and so on from Morrowind, combined with the brilliant questlines and general feel (I can't explain this one but it just.... is) of Oblivion and the better combat, crafting and mechanical superiority of Skyrim.

This is just a brief description of some of the things I would like to see. I could write a 30 page essay on this and if this thread gets response I will put more stuff up. Anyway, what are you guy's thoughts?

[Alexander]

Nice thread idea, and some great ideas here!


One thing I've always found TES games lacking in, is having a place to call home. I'll admit Skyrim did it better then the games before with the limited customization options and actually having a fast travel option there, but I'm always hoping Bethesda does it even better then they have so far.

I'd like to have a lot of customization options, no actually I'd like to have a giant load of options. From having a small hut or a bigger hut like you were able to have in Skyrim, to having your own settlement to rule over as Morrowind tried to implement but didn't really got right.

I'd like to be able to be able to place which room holds my storage chests, how many, up to a reasonable amount, of retainers I want and the matching number of homes around my mansion, whether I want a gate or moat or both.

The option to have all of my armor, weapons, books, ingredients, etc sorted automatically with the click of a button.

The option to either have a maximum amount of things to be placed in a store container or no limit there.

I could go on and on there, perhaps it's asking too much but I'd love to see Bethesda do this themselves rather then having to rely on mods to add parts of this.


Aside from that, it's been mentioned earlier in the thread, but factions could be done a lot better then they are now. I loved the idea of Morrowind being divided between 5 great houses, even if we only got to play with 3 of them, I loved the ideas behind the great houses, the vast differences in culture, history, approach to current affairs and whatnot. I would also love to see some more benefits to becoming head of a faction. Even as Archmagister of the Telvanni, I never really got the feeling of being something special.

I'd love the game to include the whole of Tamriel, and still being able to join great house Telvanni and travel to the Summerset Isles to learn magic from the Psijic order. That would be great :-)

[Callidus Thorn]

I could go on and on there, perhaps it's asking too much but I'd love to see Bethesda do this themselves rather then having to rely on mods to add parts of this.

As a console gamer I cannot state just how much I agree with this. It always pisses me off over at Bethsoft when something is being discussed and someone just rolls in and says "mods'll fix it"