So many unarmed threads keep popping up. I dearly miss the skill from Oblivion, indeed. If I had to choose between spears, crossbows, or unarmed, I'd choose unarmed. When Skyrim was first announced I had planned for months to make my first character a badass unarmed Khajiit. So much for that.

I actually had the same idea with a stealthy snap-enemy's-neck type cinematic kill as well. I think it'd be a cool idea, although the only way it could possibly happen is if the punch would have been a sneak attack one shot, though...which, without unarmed skill, would be highly unlikely.

This is true, but it ruins any sort of RP if you're forced to take up enchanting, heavy armor, and play only a Khajiit to make unarmed even slightly viable. Alchemy too, if you want to bring the unarmed damage to more respectable levels.

i wish there was magic stealth kills. this might sound strange but i would love to sneak up behind someone and put my hand on them and electrocute them before they even knew i was there

The ONLY reason it wouldn't make "sense" is because they (annoyingly) removed on-touch spells. If on-touch spells were in, I'd definitely love to see this.

That one where you grab their face and smash it into the ground makes me want to make a pugilist so bad...

Was for me... the 1.6 update overwrote/removed it and instead substituted the in combat kill camera (it svcks and I believe it's unintended).