No, because most of what you say is sheer nonsense.
This isnt an MMO, nor is it halo.

Levitation was taken out due to closed cells for cities. It had nothing to do with 'cheating' as that is a nonsensical way to look at the wonderful freedom levitation provided. There is no set path to a goal in Morrowind, by design, this is not a linear shoot-em-up.

All these things you mention never got adressed in patches because all of them were intentional design decisions.
100% magicka reduction in Skyrim is also here to stay, because the game is designed for it.

Calling an optional feature in a single-player game an exploit or cheat is remarkably unimaginitive and I will never understand the need to be boxed in with all these rules, regulations and laws.

The loss of spellmaking is horrible, just awful.
A TES game traditionally has the best magic out there, and Skyrim fails to deliver on that.
Other games by other companies have better magic, and its a crying shame.
Apart from all the sorely missed effects such as waterwalk, cure disease, open lock, the lowest tier spells become obsolete too fast and the master ones
never become useful.
I hate having to recast my magelight every minute, I want the spellmaker so I can edit its duration.

Thats a great thing about Skyrim, the main quest is not urgent, there are gaps in between where npcs have to arrange something and so on, so it feels natural to go off and do your own thing.
In Oblivion with daedra gates popping up everywhere it felt silly helping npcs with minor problems because you felt you were always on the clock and just wasting time. Skyrim gives you more space to breathe first which I like.

Instant decline

Is there any point or hidden message Im failing to see?
Why reply if its only going to be two words that mean nothing?

Did you actually read the quote I edited.

This man deserves a beer.

Taking this as a jumping off point, I would like to offer a critique: If someone wants to break the balance of the game to gain power I do not think that said option should simply be removed. Nor should it be consequence free. If it is possible for you to enchant armor to 100% invisibility... That should be something requiring 40+ manhours to do. If it is easy to do, there should be enemies running around with the same equipment in their inventory. If it is difficult to do, you should be recognized for better or worse for your accomplishment.

Simply removing something because it hurts balance is lazy. Working around it so that it is still there but it is significantly harder to gain, or will have some game-changing effect on how you play, that is what makes something a masterpiece.

I'll keep using the 100% invisibility thing you mentioned above, because I like that as an example: To get this, you should need some significant power. If your going to be 100% invisible, you should need the help of some powerful forces, or maybe you will suffer some sort of personal effect. If your invisible most of the time, your skin would bleach out if you used it too much, your allowing all light to pass through you. What does that do to YOU? I mean taken to an extreme you could start experiencing vampire like symptoms when your in sunlight and your visible. Or it is more: "Makes people around you not percieve you" then maybe you get that enchantment that happened to the Grey Fox in Oblivion: People just stop acknowledging you exist.

Balancing difficulty with reward would be something that could satisfy both worlds: Casual gamers would be happy because hardcoe gamers are happy. hardcoe gamers would be happy because there was more challange in the game. Min-maxers would be happy because you could actually GET those game breaking items or enchantments.


I've said time and again, Beth experiments in every new game they make to see what they can get away with and with what works. Skyrim was a great departure from their other titles. They have logged the results of their experiment. I hope they take this game and combine it with older titles to make something great in the future. I do not think they have to sacrifice hardcoe gameplay/hardcoe mechanics to the gods of compromise in order to appeal to Casual gamers.


On and on a side note: this whole post is opinions, and here is one of mine: Anyone who says Oblivion was greater than skyrim...no. I am willing to accept Oblivion modded was as good as vanilla skyrim, but when Modded skyrim comes around, it has the potential to be on par with Morrowind.

I disagree. It's not nearly as crappy as Oblivion. If FO3 is Oblivion with guns, Skyrim is Oblivion 2.

Remember all the talk about reinvention? You might not, it was some years ago. After Oblivion they forgot about it, have used the same engine, made the same mistakes over and over again. World is tiny, no realism whatsoever, timescale is screwed up, GPS shows you everything, POI's even. Fast travel. Immortal NPCs. Maxed out hand holding. It's exactly like playing Oblivion, with an added boss-enemy: dragon, some crafting, and added shouts. Feels like a classy community mod for Oblivion. But, there's hardly a mod out there that removes so many elements. Absolutely no choice in character creation, only race and six. No attributes, even less skills. All your characters are identical. Only after you spend many, many game hours into them you can feel the difference.

If you look at the sale numbers and people around talking about it, you must admit TES5 to be a great game.

Ask a TES veteran who is waiting for a Daggerfall 2 or Morrowind 2, they say it stinks. Simplified game for the masses. I was a dumb teen when I started playing TES, and Daggerfall was at times overwhelming. I like to think I've become older and wiser during the years, but seems to me Bethesda thinks I've become younger and dumber.

Yes, and I still fail to see the point.

Spellmaking, the wonderful freedom it provided, is the reason we have a TES series in the first place.
Without it, Arena is a slightly above mediocre dungeon crawler, and without it there never would have been a Daggerfall, let alone Skyrim.

The sheer freedom spellmaking gave you, before it was severly gimped in Oblivion, was unheard of.
I could literally affect any and all stats, dispositions, I had great control over my character, the world and the interactions between.
Anything from base stats, flee or alarm rating, disposition, awareness, all open to do with as I please, and cast in the manner I see fit. Area, duration, potency, target or self.
In Morrowind I could for instance permanently make peaceful NPC's out of most hostile ones, by first calming them and then getting their disposition to 100.
I could also permanently cripple an NPC by reducing its strength to zero and having it glued to the spot.
Anything.
That is why Daggerfall and Morrowind are worlds, and Oblivion and Skyrim mere games.

Thank you for proving my point (and much more)!

Bro, I only used spellmaking to make nuke spells and make myself a god in Morrowind. Well, I did have choices and no one was there to complain about "balance"... right?

Exactly.
But now that choice you had, and all the choices I and many enjoyed are gone.
Traded in for a poorly balanced, poorly thought out and very summier magic system.
Dragon Age 1 has better magic by far.
Spells do not become obsolete, branching paths ensure unique characters, two spells may combine to produce a tertiary effect, a lot more unique and varied spells.
For a TES game, the magic is the biggest let-down of the entire series.
Bigger than the level scaling in Oblivion.

I haven't played Morrowind or Oblivion so I have no comparison for skyrim, maybe Baldurs Gate series, but I was overwhelmed by the world of skyrim and I thought that this was the best game ever made. but now the honeymoon is over and as the game is no doubt beautiful it lacks lot's of depth. I haven't even searched every corner of Skyrim yet but I don't know if I even want to. I don't enjoy running around doing the same quest all over again. Fetch this, go kill that.


There are lot's of factions in the game, like the Forsworn (who I as a Breton would have liked to join and kick the living crap out of those Markarthians) but all they do is automatically think you're an enemy and your only choice is to kill them (even though I released their King from the prison). I still have high hopes for the Stormcloak rebellion.

Like someone mentioned before the conversations are always the same, there are no relationships to begin with. I would have expected to be able to communicate with people more and build relationships and the world to react on my actions and have lots of options that would affect the outcome of the game. That's what I loved at Baldurs Gate 2. The conversations and relationships between companions were amazing and how they reacted to characters actions. Now I roam around Skyrim and bash thugs who are sent after me if I do something unpleasant. Maybe I have just played too much in short period of time and need a little cool down. But all and all, basically an awesome game, but the multiple little disappointments really eat out the experience.

I'm always amazed how you put this whole difficult discussion into a single, spot-on sentence. This is exactly what I feel.

QFT
Eh, I really hope that Bethesda made Oblivion and Skyrim just to make enough money so they can eventually make a truly legendary gameworld like TES used to be.