Make a horde mode! It would be great! A massive, constant battle in the city of your choice? Sounds fun!

Edit: The term "Horde Mode" has been being used to mean both A). Gears of War styled horde mode and . A massive battle that can be played over and over. Just FYI. I originally meant just a massive, long battle that can be played over and over when I said horde mode though

Here is my personal idea for a horde mode. It takes place in a massive battle in TES history (yes, I'm a new blood). Players can choose whether they want to be attacking the city or defending it. Once they've chosen they could choose a various role to play. For instance: one play you could decide you want to be in sword fights with people and fight on the ground and fight in and around the city (defender or attacker), the next you could choose to be an archer and fire arrows as they charge the gates, kill people when they got onto your wall by placing ladders, and knock the ladders over (defender), or ride in with the attacking troops on horse back with a single handed sword (attacker).

Or

I'd also be happy with a Roman gladiator type mode where you're thrown into a pit where you have to fight. It would have three modes within, one where you fight wolves, bears, trolls, etc. Another where you fight one enemy at a time. These enemies grow stronger and stronger with each one you kill (You'll of course receive a magic/stamina/health fill up after each fight and a change to recharge weaponry) and finally A 20 NPC (as in like captured guards, bandits, etc) free for all to see who will be the last man standing.

Just start a big fight in the city it's quite similar. Or do the civil war questlines, the fort takeovers are quite fun if you want large scale fights with NPC's.

Just be careful of the spawning points in the fort. Some enemies just pop-up right next to you out of thin air.

Yeah I noticed that.

Forgot about those...oops haha Thanks bud

NO! Go back to playing CoD.

I'd prefer W hore mode and a few stripclubs would work a treat.

CoD has horde mode as an optional mode that is fun. I don't see why a horde style thing wouldn't be bad. You're just acting all cool because you are afraid of the unknown. The only real fun combat is the civil war questline, but that's rather short.

Um...

You do realize Horde mode is not from Call of Duty, right?


o.O wut?

For a Elder Scrolls game it just wouldn't work however you can make it as a mod.

I'm afraid of the unknown?

No, I just don't want one of my two favorite series ruined but co-op, multi-player or a horde mode. If you want any of those things there are thousands of games that will give you that type of game.

To name a few, WoW, CoD, Army of Two, Left for Dead, Team Fortress 1 & 2... I can go on.. and on... and on.

Leave TES and FO alone.

Does it honestly matter?

You want hordes, go play Left for Dead. You want hordes with co-op? Go play Left for Dead. You want horde multi-player? Go play Left for Dead.

Seems one game already fits what you want to play. Go play that.

Right, because optional modes, especially if they are made single player (as Horde mode can be single player) would totally ruin TES and FO.


Fairly certain none of those games allow me to fight with a sword and shield trying to defend a place in a scene that could be much like Helm's Deep.

I think it could be a great way to test out your combat effectiveness. Perhaps it could be in the form of an Elder Scroll, you go to a scenario such as a fort or something and just hold until you "die", then you go back to where you were.

Is Skyrim your first Elder Scroll game? Are you new to the series?

I'm really sick of people like you. For the last time, I do NOT want to play those games. I WANT to play SKYRIM! That's like saying "Oh, you want a little more gore in Skyrim? Go play Gears of War. It's totally the same right?"
People like you contribute nothing to the thread. You have no real argument against whatever is suggested so you just point people to games that have the same concept as what the OP is talking about and expect them to play that.

Don't come back until you come up with some valid reasons why a horde mode would be a bad idea, especially if it was a singleplayer game mode.

So much this.

It's a complete waste of development time that could be spent working on making large DLCs with deep, intriguing storylines and other actual content, instead of a generic wave mode.

This is an RPG, not a game where the combat is its main focus and therefore requires a mode that degenerates the gameplay into nothing but combat.

Because clearly Skyrim has loads of deep and intriguing storylines... like say, the Nightengales for instance, very, very deep that one is.

Yes, it's an RPG, but as an RPG about half of the game is still combat because all throughout the wide world of Skyrim, you are going to find combat quite often.

It could be implemented as part of DLC. Maybe you have to be initiated into a guild or something and in order to be granted access you have to survive three waves of Draugr attacks they sent at you in an arena. They could just add on option to return there after and play an unlimited number of waves (or a limited. You could have a person standing there that asks you how many you want, 3, 5, 10, 25, unlimited) and save the game before you enter the arena so when you die you don't loose anything.

Actually... you probably don't even need to do that.

Why not simply replicate something akin to what has actually happened in TES history; a large scale battle to defend a particular city, say for instance like the Empire had to do in the Imperial City?

It doesn't need to be a "one man army" thing in the least. Help NPCs, lots of NPCs, defend the castle, if too many NPCs die it switches to a once again "open world" where you can stay and fight or flee and allow the castle to be taken.

If modders do a "horde mode" i accept.Now an "official" Horde mode from Bethesda HELL NO!Homever if they introduced a new Arena in some sort of DlC i would accept.

Now, an arena mode could work. Arenas have been in every TES except Skyrim. In fact, the first TES was originally going to be a game about travelling from area to area and proving yourself in the arenas. I support the idea of an arena in DLC; I was actually rather disappointed when it was confirmed there wasn't going to be one in Skyrim.

A Horde mode is a completely different thing, though. Horde modes are when you have a completely separate game world (usually a much smaller, confined area) with never-ending waves of enemies that get progressively stronger. A Horde mode in Skyrim would mean loading a completely separate area where the only thing you do is fight enemy after enemy, and that belongs more in an FPS.
Have you even played Skyrim? Check out the Civil War questline. There are sections that basically do exactly what you described.

Of course, there's also the problem of consoles and their inability to handle many NPCs at once. If you want Mount and Blade-scale combat, it isn't going to happen.

That makes little sense, especially if Bethesda released it free of charge.

Awwwww, and I'm sicxk of the "Oh my gawdz! We needz da multiplayaz and co-opz and hordz modez!" threads and people . Why do I need to echo what has already been stated as to why it'd be a bad idea?

And no, you don't want to play Skyrim because you clearly want something Skyrim isn't. You're not happy with just Skyrim you want a co-op, multi-player, horde game that Skyrim can't give you so you want it added. Well skippy, it won't work in a mod, it won't work in a DLC. TES and FO are NOT the games you are looking for. You want an RPG that more resembles World of Warcraft and maybe Lord of the Rings Online; though I can't vouch for that one.

You don't like my opinion? I don't care. I'll keep coning into these threads voicing it.

So again, you want all those things? Go play WoW or LfD or CoD or something else. Because again, TES is not for you.