I am of course talking of setting style and music. I just feel Skyrim needs more scary in your face moments. The falmer for one are terrifying the first time you see them. More stuff like this would have been nice. Having a Chaurus latch itself to your face and try eat at you would have made for great combat and scary as hell struggle. As for music, some of the dungeons that are supposed to be scary are often not because of the ambient music, they should have definetly gone the dark goth route of having distant shrieks, headless undead just plain more scary creatures. Is it too much to ask to walk into a daedric lords temple and find legless corpses clawing at you, or demon like avian creatures that try and svck out your soul? Even the armors could have used a darker fantasy touch, the Banded Iron, Orcish, and Daedric are fine. But the Ebony could really use some work especially with the pauldrons helmet and boots and the gauntlets need a size reduction They should have had more good and bad diversity especially among bandits thieves and knights. Like the guards of morthal should have worn armor that reflected their towns dark disposition. Same for falkreath. I like that Bethesda keeps the games realistic but a little more fantasy never hurt anybody. And a dark fantasy would be rather nice for a change in a tes. Could you imagine walking into falkreath and seeing guards wearing armor that resembles the many tombstones that the town is said to have. Hell the town should have been designed much like a cemetery itself with buildings made of stone that resemble mausoleums. Winterhold should have been a city on a crumbling slope with ruins around it and spires of what could have been the old city itself. Its the main reason I love Windhelm, it feels so dark. Something along the style of Odin Sphere would have been nice. The cities were rather dark and the world itself while filled with the same creatures was extremely dark and demented. A little dark never hurt anyone did it?

In the wise words of Kevin Durant : "Man that's messed up."

Neither did paragraphs, mate

There could have been some more horror elements such as the daedric quest in Markarth. And the ghosts in Skyrim are a bit of a joke but overall I thought Skyrim was dark enough. Decapitations, torture, lots of blood, charred bodies, heads on spikes, etc. are all around you. Isn't that enough?

Oblivion's Dungeons and Caves were a lot more dark to me. Maybe because there were Headless Zombies chasing after me in complete darkness.

OP wants The Elder Scrolls VI: Amnesia?

I like.

Do not want, sorry. I hate being scared. And trust me, I scare easy.

Dark room? Oh hell no I'm not going in there.

Dungeon crawling alone in a typical Draugr crypt still scares the [censored] out of me.

W..What?! LOL xD

Sometimes I forget Skyrim even has ambient music. Not heard it ever. One of the first things I did when I got the game was turned all the music off.

Falmer dungeons still have the ability to freak me out if I haven't played in a while.

I feel like the subject matter is quite dark, but the music is sometimes too twee for my liking as well. Too Oblivion. Not that the music is not beautiful, it is- but I think Skyrim could have used a heavier edge.

Do you have Sounds Of Skyrim Installed?

So you want darker dungeons? Watch Gamejam video, it will come out soon enough...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4zcxpybi1qkrz4o.gif

But you got to admit that it could be a bit darker, if anything it got more PG13 than ever. I remember walking through dungeons and seeing zombies on the ground and strung up and hung, and remember when the dark brotherhood was dark? Instead its replaced by the band of pussies. Please, I wanna see another lechance barbyque anyday. And to be honest it could use more goody goody weapons locales and armors too to be fair of course.

@Celan, exactly it got to the point where the falmer dungeon felt to me like a scooby doo villain chase. because of the music. You know what can be exceedingly creepy, the sound of a single droplet of water hiting the ground over and over and then hearing the belowing of the undead and the screaching of the falmer, hearing a falmer chow down on some poor sod couldnt hurt either.

Yes. Draugr is creepy enough for me.
And you know what most creepy thing for me? The woodcutter's wife.
You'll feel it too, trust me.

Yeah very much this, but for a different reason. I will never be frightened of pixels and there is plenty enough "dark" entertainment out there (I swear if I have to listen to Game of Thrones/CSI/Cold Case in the background again while I'm trying to play a game I'm going to break the TV...) and there's plenty of "dark" elements in Skyrim already as someone already pointed out.

tl;dr I just don't like it.

Have you actually found that trick? I have been searching for that horror forever, all I found was her husband and his axe lol had my laugh and then got paranoid so i ran like [censored] XD But thats more akin to the stuff I wish was in the game lol

No, not that, dark dungeons are murder on the migraines. I know people like them but I don't miss that aspect of the previous games.

Draugr dungeons can creep me out, if I'm in the right mood. The ones that have their heads turned to look at you...

God! That game again!
That ghost.. Somehow I want to punch him or crush him with warhammer, but the only thing I get just a latern. Damn game!

I love the ideas.

I can't take Draugr seriously anymore after seeing a few of the http://i45.tinypic.com/1603o14.jpg.

Not "found" actually.
But her shrieking sound... It was damn spooky.
I hope I could meet her. Ah.. No.. Nevermind

The Falmer used to scare me when I first played. And imagine, I first encountered them at........Kagrenzel...*shivers*

Seeing those monsters jump out of no where from those holes wasn't healthy for me.

Picture Falkreath having a darker part of the wood that immediately surrounds the town, its filled with Witches, Werewolves, Vampire covens, undead restless souls whispering, "So...hungry...I...dont want to...die....." Picture your hero on a horse walking through all of this, and with the brotherhood base being smack dab in the middle of it all it fits. Imagine galloping across the landscape of morthal and seeing dark foreboding castes that look evil in design. imagine happening upon an undead skeletal dragon emerging from the marsh attacking you. Imagine traveling to Markarth and seeing Dwemer war machines half buried and dense thickets of dark forest covering them. Picture avian creatures like bat demons or goat men parading around at night in specific unholy sights." Now there would be a reason to use a torch at night not only to light your way but to see what lies ahead.

More horror? Goodness, I'd say Skyrim has quite enough of that already. Head westward from pretty little Riverwood and there's a necromancer tending to a bonestrewn altar hardly two feet away from the main road; the hunters taking a leisurely dip in the hot springs south of Windhelm are a stone's throw away from a ruin swarming with skeletons. Just about every path you can walk down has been a witness to some form of carnage or other. Considering the current state of affairs, I'm surprised those Nords have the courage to leave their houses. Throw in a few more legless corpses and soul-siphoning demons and you'll have the poor fellows rocking back and forth in their basemants!