If it bothers you that much, theres an easy way to fix it, if youre on PC mod, make the spell you have to cast to gain entrance a much heavier spell, one that costs 2-300 magicka, aint no warrior gonna be able to enter it, if youre a true warrior that is.
Or remove the spellcasting completly and let Falrada, whats her name, check on your magickschool skills if theyre high enough you can enter. Wich would make more sense then the first probably.

Oh I don't think anyone is saying that Morrowind was better, as a whole. In many ways, however, the quest system in Skyrim is significantly inferior to its predecessors. I don't remember the quests in Oblivion, for example, being this buggy. In previous games, the quest lines also felt a lot more fleshed out, requiring significant commitment to advance in the guilds. Even the quest log in Skyrim is inferior to its predecessors. How many times have you looked at an entry in your quest log and scratched your head about where you got that quest, what you've already done, and what your actual goal is? In previous Elder Scrolls games, the quest logs offered this sort of information. In Skyrim, you usually get a one-liner with a name you can't recall and, if you're lucky, a vague description of what you should be doing.

So I believe that previous games were superior in many ways, but Skyrim definitely has improved on a number of areas as well. Two steps forward, one step backward.

Once again, FORCED... lol...

The meaning being that anyone who likes Skyrim is a mindless fan boy who will defend it at all costs, yet the fan boys are in reality the ones who viciously claim Morrowind did everything better in every way.

Why waste time on writing stuff an what should be done when you can just program an arrow that the player can follow. This is it, blabla, go there, next go there when you done the first part, basicly every questlog entry. It becomes really hilarious when one quest orders you to go find a book among a whole bunch of burned books. While there is a huge white arrow pointing down to where that book is located amongst all those other books. Oh but thats not all, next you gotta do the same, but with a potion of some sort, hey dont look around trying to find it, ITS RIGHT HERE, SEE THE ARROW pointing down to its location?, YOOHOOO OVER HEREEE.
But Skyrim is definatly GOTY, dont have to ask what crap all other games are

Maybe they like different things? I prefer a real journal, actual guilds and good quests, the stats, the abilities, the possibility of being a real mage and "research" for new spells, not being able to be and do everything in one character, the mushroom towers and the greater amount of dialogue. And I like the smithing, the dual casting, the user-friendly interface in alchemy, people moving (although I find Oblivion has better NPCs), the flamethrower spells, the constant casting spells, the zombies, and the new movements (shield bash). But as a whole I prefer Morrowind because I feel more like an RPG than an action game with PC creation. Does it mean I'm a fan.boy?

First of all, It was a gameplay decision, If you personally don't want your character to join the college then don't. Not to mention that the gate keeper type character (( Her name elludes me.)) demands you give some show of magical ability dependent on level. Not to mention making the dragon-born archmage isn't really that bad an idea, The dragon born is the single most powerful user of the voice in the entireity of skyrim, So not only is the dragonborn a master of a school of magic, He's the master of a long-dead school of magic.

yap

In my case because I wanted J'Zahrgo as a follower. And because it was a really fun quest.

A lot of people are assuming that we all go to Winterhold as the Dragonborn, but some of us went there before even retrieving the golden claw, so no one knows what we are.
Also, the spell you have to cast isn't level dependent and nearly anyone can cast it.

That's true. Beth would have to go back to guilds that are actually interesting and involved where you have to work and advance up the ranks; instead, of the current join guild, do a quest, do a quest, you're the leader now crap that they have.


it's not perfect, but it's infinitely better than a system where a mentally challenged Orc that can barely cast any magic becomes an arch-frelling-mage.


It's hard to not "blow through" a quest line that has a pathetic number of quests and is constantly telling you "DO THIS OR UBER BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN!!!!"


That sounds like an awesome idea. You being the trainer for a change.


Regardless, she had the knowledge since there were skill requirements. Whether you put that to use or not doesn't change the fact that you knew how and were a master in at least one of the schools of magic they taught. Again, it's not perfect but it's better than what they have now.


Yes Oblivion has this same flaw.


If you were an administrator they'd call you an administrator. Since when do paper pushers have to practically save the world to get a job? If all the quests had you filling out paperwork and other bull like that then maybe I'd buy this administrator crap.


A simple reason for that would be that Morrowind did some things better; like it's guilds.


It's not a long-dead school of magic. Plenty of others use it just fine. It is also not an area of magic that the College of Winterhold studies, teaches, or practices. There are already two other places in Skyrim that teach and practice the voice. Again, if you were putting together a baseball team would you pick players based solely on how good they are at playing basketball? They're both sports right? That one guy is an insanely good basketball player so obviously he should be made MVP of a baseball team right? Eventhough he's never played baseball before?

In this thread: The basic difference between the sort of people who look at anything and everything, asking "Why?" and the sort of people who ask "Why not?"

Some of you here do not seem to be playing the kind of game that suits you. I suggest you try something else.

I feel sorry for some of you, especially the topic creator.

In this thread: The basic difference between the sort of people who enjoy some kind of logic in a game and the sort of people who like seeing a giant doing macrame with Alduin while a Thalmor Justicar promotes him to leader of the Thieves Guild.

lol

Yeah doewnskitty, why not? Why not have a button the successfully completes all quests? Why not have all skills rise whenever you take a step? Why not let players be a Jedi or Sith or Yautja? Why not have Mickey Mouse as a companion? Why not any other number of things that makes little to no sense?

To be fair the system in Morrowind was just as illogical.My char could have all magic skills at 89 and not be considered good enough to be Arch mage but one with one skill at 90 and 2 at 35 would by Morrowind logic a better choice.
Yay logic

Maybe cause green is in this year?

It's because people want to be able to rise to the top rank, regardless of what that means. Look at all the complaints how civil war doesn't earn you the position of Jarl, or how you can't become the Emperor after the main quest in Oblivion.