... svcked all my free time and wishing I were really in the game. Reality svcks.

Having just come off of Oblivion a short while ago, I finally purchased Skyrim and told my wife "Sorry, dear, you're about to lose me again for another 300+ hours."

For that, I have to say Thank You. This game is truly beautiful, both in game play and in visuals. With so much going on, I can easily forgive the very few "bugs" I've come across.

Since we all know there's another game in the making, I'd like to take this opportunity to offer some options to the team for possible inclusion in the next version. Hopefully, this doesn't sound dissastisfied with the game, not at all, but a few tweaks will make things ... easier.

+If the next version allows us partners again, I'd love for the ability to allow them to ride the horse with us. I know they don't "get lost", but it's always nice when they're around when dragons just drop from the sky without warning. They make for great targets. >:]

+Please adjust the stamina of the horse to be far greater than our own. It's really weird to only get a few seconds from the gallop before it slows to a crawl again.

+I loved the armory opition in the Windhelm house. Can you make it bigger next time? I love keeping special weapons I've earned as trophies and displaying them is really nice. Oh, maybe not a house, but an armory we could buy? Yeah!

+A menu option of "Soul Gems" would be tremendously helpful rather than grouped under Misc. If this is a burden, a renaming of the gems so they're grouped together, like the Spell Book: [type], would also help. I don't add them to my favorites because of all the possible types there are.

+I was a little surprised the carriage ride was another fast travel tactic which also takes my gold. Can the next version actually display the ride? That would be sweet! (just make sure it doesn't lead us to another beheading )

+In the compass view, can you add a small dot to icons of places we've already cleared out. This would REALLY be helpful so I'm not constantly going into the map to check.

+Sepaking of the map: This is the only disappointment I have with Skyrim. The mountainous terrain has been difficult to navigate (I'm on a main road but to get to the top lies on the other side, and that map doesn't show me a path, and I can't count the number of times I've had to backtrack to find one) and without paths/roads clearly outlined, this map has been useless to me when I travel. I rarely fast travel, taking advantage of the wonderful attention to detail this game delivers, so a 2D map is, for me, priceless. Either that, or let us steal the map that's hanging in the wizard's quarters in Whiterun on a future patch?

You are sworn to carry our burdens, after all.

That's my list. Pretty short, huh. Yep, that's pretty much the only things I'd like to see improved with... hmm... where will the next game take us. Heck, if the next version of consoles are that powerful, we'll see all of Tamriel, won't we.

Thanks for reading, and again, a huge thank you to everyone who helped bring us (clearly) the game of the year for 2012.

Unfortunately the new game in production is an online MMO and isn't made by Bethesda at all :/

Expect the next TES around 2016.

Inb4 "ZOMGZZZ HOW DARE YOU LIEK THE PILE OF RUBISH THAT IZ SKYRIM!!!!1!2!!2!eleven"

What's that?

Real time carriage ride would be awesome, like taxi's in GTA.
Press A to instantly arrive at your destination.
Press B to dismount carriage at any point in the journey.

I would love this!

And being able to have conversations with the carriage driver would be neat as well.

Driving our own carriage would be good too. Add to this the possibility of unloading our stuff in it. Underwater combat and mounted combat would be great too. Even without these, I love this game anyway!

Most of the stuff you ask for can be "fixed" with mods but i like the ideas

I seem to have misplaced my Falmer translator... anyone have a spare?

I'd rather not to...

*hands over a babel fish*

This would be a nice addition.

I would also like a separate section for arrows as well.

I thought I saw a mod for this on the Workshop....

Mods make me sad D:
(Console)


I believe they have to make Fallout 4 first, so expect it to be like 2021 before the next TES.

OT : like the Idea's
I've wished of some of these previously

Not to sure on that one as it did go Oblivion(2006)-Fallout 3(2008)-Fallout New vegas(2010)-Skyrim(2011).
Although Obsidian did make new vegas so you could leave that one out but i would say maybe 2021 at the latest maybe 2018???

Exploration in this game is key.

seriously, just walk around. I missed this sorely during my initial playthrough and finally have had to time to finally explore a lot of the Nordic ruins or caves I come across naturally and it by far destroys anything I had experienced beforehand.

ZOMGZZZ HOW DARE YOU LIEK THE PILE OF RUBISH THAT IZ SKYRIM!!!!1!2!!2!eleven

But seriously I agree, it's a damn fine game.

probably due to random encounters, this wasn't viable, but yeah, would be awesome.

I dont use fast travel and carriages, only mount (+60% speed with mod). After all those travels I can easily navigate in the world without looking in the map

It is fun playing adventurer in an Elder Scrolls game.

If there's one mod that needs to be made into an official patch (for consoles), it's the Unofficial Skyrim Patch. So many fixes there, which I doubt Bethesda will ever get around to. Luckily, I'm on pc.

I literally cannot fathom how anyone can stand playing Skyrim on consoles at this point.

with stuff like this coming to fruition it just seems foolish, really: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAALSMnkt9w

Yes, there is a really great mod that allows you to ride in the back of a carriage. You can even stop the carriage, kill some stuff and resume your trip. If you get bored of the scenery you can instruct the driver to wake you up when you arrive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3aw_yqQwQ

getting bored with the scenery is not that common

You are right, but it's nice to have the option if the ride takes too long. I think most issues people encounter can be solved by mods. Same goes for Oblivion, it's almost bug free now after all the official and unofficial patches.

In Skyrim I would say its safe to say thay the unofficial patch is a must for this game to be devoid of game breakers for sure, that will be my first mod.