One simple thing:

- Features from previous games like Morrowind which have nothing to do which leveling system or new ideas just left out. 10 minutes code work and the game would be so much greater

There was a surprisingly lack of bodyguards around Ulfric. I know the man can Shout and all, but still the Palace was oddly empty.

The inability to assassinate the leaders of the Stormcloaks or the Imperials was disappointing. New Vegas offered way more freedom for this sort of thing.

You can sell them to the farmers, so it's like you are a farmer as well and they pay you for it.



I've seen forks you can pick up.

What is probably not 'stupid about the game' but very annoying is that Followers block doorways and will NOT move. Especially if you go into a tent or similar and they stand in the doorway like dumbos.

What I don't like is that you can only train five times per level. I did not realize that because I was unable to afford paid training till about level 30 and saved up. So now suddenly I have the money but can only train five times per level - drats. So if I train blacksmithing I have to wait to level again to train alchemy, but cannot train important things like armor or weapon! So if you want to be a crafter your fighting and armor skills svck. But if you are a fighter and have decent armor skills forget about crafting.

Enchanting takes too long and too much training to be able to make any halfway decent enchantments, so it really is a waste of time and money unless you level till about 100! I would love to enchant some stuff but you can buy much better enchanted things and find things than you could ever enchant yourself, unless you are lvl 100 enchanter I guess.

Every guard used to be an adventurer just like the player, but they took an arrow to the knee and had to retire to being a guard.

OP's 3rd item, however, doesn't make sense in this list. Thieves wear thieves armor, assassins wear assassin armor... How is that stupid? I would find that stupid if Thieves wore Assassin armor and Assassins wore Thieves' armor.

Really? Can't say I've had this problem, when they do stand in the doorway I just keep walking into them and they back up. Summons like frosty are a bigger pita and won't move.

Torches can stay lit for centuries on a wall but when I equip it, it dies within minutes.

The fact that Citizens are supposed to be afraid that dragons are returning, yet have no problems running head long into one challenging it to a bare knuckle fist fight.

I think the OPs thing about the armor, is that there are designated ''Thieves" armor, and "assassins" armor. Thieves and assassins in real life don't dress the same...I think.

This is nothing... I once had a dead thrall spell active and this same daedric prince said "That spell looks Dangerous..keep your distance".

So not only does this daedric prince look like a simple dremora.. he is actually a wimp...

Dremoras are dark elves that want to look like Darth Maul. They are sith lord wannabes...

That being said... they are extremely cool. Get the twin souls perks and unleash them against any foe... they rarely lose.

This is one of the things that bothers me a bit. I saw someone else say this is not stupid. But think about this... Ulfric is not really that protected and you could simply walk into his throne room and kill him. The only reason you can't is because he is "essential". This breaks all immersion...

There is a fix for this. Fill his throne room with lots of guards. If you want to attack him and try to kill him yourself fine, but you should be ready to face 30+ stormcloacks. If you can defeat them, then the civil war quest should be changed. This is REAL freedom with real consequences.

I'll add Necromancer uniforms to that armour list. Who in their right mind would run around wearing a robe with a giant skull on it. Dirty bloodstained robes out in the wilderness maybe, not robes they all got from the same shop.

Thieves guild wearing uniforms is sillier than db wearing them, thieves have always been a very laid back guild not given to dressing the same. Maybe they thought they should all dress the same so it's easier to get arrested.

Chasing a Blue Butterfly that flutters by me before I loot an "Ancient Dragon."

Here's something that doesn't make sense...

Bethesda making every immortal NPC in the game also be a JERK. It's like either they do it out of spite - or being essential comes with the jerky-ness.
I'm waiting for the kids-vs-dragons mod. They're clearly better suited at fighting them, being immortal and all.
= Lazy quest design + false advertisemant (they said you'd be able to kill quest givers, and raidant AI would take care of the rest, assigning the quest to another NPC... this isn't the case, like, at all.)

For me it's mostly:

- the myriads of essential NPCs
- Followers in general (basically everything about them is somewhat bugged: they don't level, won't equip gear reasonably or switch back to their good old hunting bow, have a bad pathing, AI, are constantly in your way and either shoot you in the back or run into your spells/arrows).
- Smithing/Enchanting/Alchemy being entirely out of balance
- The whole "use skill to improve system" making a lot of quests rather obsolete and not rewarding.
- "Ending"

I don't know about forks but last time I picked (by mistake) some pot in the Whiterun market, the owner just came to me saying "Hey, leave that alone" and forcefully took back the pot from me. Looks like a correct reaction for me. No bounty was raised or the like either.

The point was that specific "job apparel" for thieves and assassins is stupid as everyone would be able to see who they are immediately. Then again, it didn't prevent Assassin's Creed from becoming a hit, people in Skyrim don't recognize clothes anyways* and instead can miraculoulsy see what skills I'm good at ... like a thief would have the words "pickpocket" and "lockpick" tattooed over his face or something.

* I had a really funny moment with that clothes store owner in Solitude. I went in there and bought fine clothes/shoes just for not running around like a bum in town, lol. I wore it, went outside and looked around, a few moments later, she approaches me and says that if I wanted to go see the castle, I should overthink my clothes. I agree on wearing the clothes she gives to me to talk to the Jarl about them ... only to see it's the exact same clothes I already wear and had just bought from the very same person! Wasted money and AI fail.

Another thing that doesn't make sense is NPCs killing someone and then standing there wondering who did it. Or when I cast rage on someone while hidden and far away, and the raging person is then killed by other NPCs, those will miraculously know it was me who cast the spell and come after me.

Has anyone mentioned that you can draw your bow and aim straight into the face of any guard, and all they say is some random stuff... Pretty damn stupid/funny.

How could I forget this:

If you aim an arrow at a dragon, he'll hover for you so you can get off your shot... but try to have the same opportunity with a spell and you won't get it as you'll be flinging fireballs into space.

you should probably test things and play the game before you provide "facts" with absolutely no foundation to support them

1) The solitude captain got an attitude with me, and then fought me, and I got an assault charge before even drawing my sword. Reason? because I was wearing stormcloak armor.

2) If you played the "Forsworn conspiracy" questline you would know the Forsworn still have an active presence in markarths politics.

Title should be "The exaggerated and nit picked list of things I think are stupid".

You can smelt a corundum ore and an iron ore into a steel ingot, but can't smelt a corundum ingot and an iron ingot into one (or two) steel ingots. (Dwemer/dwarven metal can be resmelted into ingots.)

If the player is too overloaded to run/fast travel, carriages won't work either.

Butterflies will block the player, can be ridden on, and one of their wings weighs more than a trillion steel arrows and a trillion gold coins.

Edit: One that I was trying to remember but couldn't... got reminded below. Not only are there too many essential NPC's, and they don't lose the status when they should, but there's not even any way of telling they are essential.

How in-efficient the house in Solitude is for all the money you spend to buy and decorate it. No barrels or chests in the enchanting or alchemy rooms? Come on man!!

Breezehome in Whiterun was way more useful and efficient for $5000 gold. Plus the smiths and shops are just outside making things quick and easy. Not so in Solitude.

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