how much do you think it's possible to make combat more similar to dark souls?

I think that it's possible to make similar animations for weapon attacks, although weapons of the same type will have the same animations (only slash/regular/thrust attack), and there is no spear in Skyrim.
Also, parry and backstab scenes are very hard to make, because they require more information to work, and they should not kill your opponent if your attack isn't strong enough.

I mean for mechanics like stamina usage for the various combat actions. animations should come in a second time
maybe spears/polearms will come in a future dlc?

another good dlc idea would be the lock-on target...

Could you be more specific? Many people haven't played Dark Souls.

I love the idea of lock-on target though.

also a special weapon, the pyromancy flame (spells could do the same here...)


here is combat explanied

http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Combat

I cannot say a lot to it since i am failry new in modding but Spears might very well come for DLC's later since crossbows and spears both were made during the "Creation Kit week" the developers did to show off what you can do with the creation kit. They made things like huge swamp-crabs(not in), changing seasons with winter, summer, fall and so on which made less and more snow and falling leafs and such(not in), riding combat(Patched in), vampire lord(DLC in) a undead horse mount (DLC in) and killcams for spells and arrows(patched in). So it looks like they are slowly putting all the things they made in, and thus spears have a good chance to come in too

EDIT: Just saw DLC 2 which will feature constructible houses which was part of the week too. So another proof ^^

changing seasons+spears and polearms (schythes) would be awesome. but first of all I mean more stamina-intensive physical (?) combat, ala dark souls, which has been released for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls#PC_version as well

Stamina is used for block and power attacks, so it may be possible to do it, but it can be hardcoded. Did you look into it?

not yet, I have been doing other things and planning. and raging because of the MERP C&D letter from WB.