When they first announced Skyrim, I first started thinking about how the different carry-overs from older games would look like; In particular, the lesser daedra. I saw the flame atronach and was really pleased with how cool it/she looked. Then I saw the frost atronach...lame, but he looked pretty dumb in the previous games too. Storm atronach? Better than Morrowind but not as interesting as in Oblivion where it flies off in a billion havok'd directions. I looked at the skill tree and noticed something very...odd.

Where's the scamps?
The clannfears?
The spider daedra?
The golden saints?
The dark seducers?
The Xivilai?
The Aurorans?
The DAEDROTHS?!

A ghost wolf, a flaming ghost wolf, 3 atronachs, a dragon priest (?!?), and a dremora that looks like a dunmer with red facepaint...that is all we get in terms of summoned helpers besides being able to raise npcs from the grave.

At least two of those examples are DLC!
But yes there are many less creatures we can summon.
At least there is room for adding more through mods. I want a ghost bear or baby dragon.

I want a ghost baby bear-dragon.

omg
*faints*

I had hoped there would be more than Oblivion, but there are much less. Which is disappointing, but hopefully we'll get more in DLC

Hey, did anyone ever use the ghost wolf apart from seeing what it was like. I tried it twice, before switching back to flame atronach.

I agree there's room for more variety, though you get a few summons from shouts as well.

Streamlining?

It dies faster than you can summon it.

The flaming familiar is fun however. It is NOT considered a hostile attack. Just imagine the possibilities.

Also, I'm waiting for a mod to recreate Stark's Bankai using that.

I would suspect Deadra are almost gone becuase the last two main games practically focused on them.

I didn't care for conjuration at first, but i do like the Dremora...its kinda okay when you don't have a follower and get into a tuff spot. you don't like it...go back to Oblivion or whatever.

I assume the next expansion, in the same way Bethesda gave no comment to the (non)existence of Werewolves right up to release date --oho, it was part of the If not, then I suppose that's a bummer. But the new necromancy does open a lot of other-servant-bodies than earlier titles. Maybe they wanted to get away from the daedra-flavor of Oblivion.

Go back to Morrowind and ask :
- where are the dragons?
- where are the skeevers?
- where are the saber tigers?
- where are the bears?
- where are the bees? (ok not this one)
- where are the butterflies (this one stays : you can kill them!)
etc

The truth is that it isn't streamlining, dumbing down or whatever. The truth is that nowadays making a beautiful game like Skyrim takes a lot more time and resources than the ugly things back then. Place an ascendant sleeper from Morrowind in Skyrim and you will wonder wth is that thing. So basically, they have to focus on the Skyrim-est creatures they can put. That means to have awesome dragons (several models) rather than Morrowind specific fauna. They know you love nix-hounds and cliffracers, but this is Skyrim.

I miss daedroth and scamp the most I think, seems like they should be in every TES game to me. Seeing how well they handled argonians, I imagine had they made daedroths they'd've looked awesome in Skyrim.

I really hope they add more creatures in DLC.
Those ascendant sleepers are creeeeeeeepy cool.
Oh, and bonelords. Another cool looking thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeKxe4knhKw
Need more stuff like that.

Where are the cliff racers?

In terms of Skyrim-flavored conjuration, maybe more familiars (even if it ticks off the lore forum). Spectral bears and sabrekitties. We could have a subset of players rolling the "shaman" class. Also, Necromancy spells that turn any (fleshy) corpse into bones--like all the skin melts into an ashpile. All you have left is a skeleton warrior, rather than a zombieblue follower. It could have a different set of properties than a normal corpse follower. Finally, ghosts; though, that goes with familiars, I suppose.

I just love the apathy on this forum by certain individuals. Valid criticism => Tell them to get out.

Extinct. The cliffracers and skylamps killed them off.
Not native to Morrowind.
Not native to Morrowind.
Not native to Morrowind. See Solstheim.
Not native to Morrowind.
You get the idea.
Unlike all the ones you posted, where there is a perfectly logical reason for not being in TES V, there's no excuse for no lesser daedra besides the atronarchs and dremora.
Never said it was. Rushed on the other hand...
Overrated, but that's not the topic at hand.

Except this topic isn't about nix-hounds or guars. Daedra have been in every TES game since Daggerfall and are all over Tamriel. Cutting out 90% of an entire mob set is like having the only type of undead being skeletons or having all bandits being either bosmer archers or orc warriors.

I want my staff of Everscamp back, those little guys were awesome.

It would be more interesting with more variety in my opinion.

Variety is spreadsheety, statistics are spreadsheety, basic mathematics are spreadsheety, thought is spreadsheety. Resistance is spreadsheety, we are Todd, prepare to be streamlined to appeal to a wider market.

Lets hope that bethesda adds on a new store for spells that added on tons of new summons like they did in shivering isles.

So I look lame, do I? I think you're wrong, frost atronachs are better than ever.
Anyway, if you look at the amount of spells from other schools too you'll notice that the variety of spells in general is what's lacking.
My guess is they went for quality > quantity. That didn't really pay off too well I think, cause in fact the Dremora look rather unconvincing as a Dunmer with red facepaint.

He is just never going to live that comment down is he.

The problem with all the summoning they removed, is that they did not put new ones.