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too many simplifications and too much streamlined....

That when exploring I often get stuck between rocks and I have to reload my last saved game…

my quibble would be how weapons are displayed in first person. when you have weapons drawn while in 3rd person view your character will be displayed holding said weapon in a proper fashion, however, in 1st person they become olympic torches directly in front of you. i don't need a visual reminder that i have my weapon drawn - get them out of my face.

#1 nothing to do with my gold. all that garnet collecting for what?

My biggest complaint really is a lot of complaints covered by one statement: Bethesda discontinued too many great things it had refined over its TES series. Those would be, IMHO, the Oblivion UI and leveling, armor/wep degradation, compelling story (and sub-stories), variety of quests, differentiation between guilds, interesting NPCs, player character design and the sense of purpose you felt in Daggerfall, Oblivion and Morrowwind. Skyrim looks great and has cool dragons. If I think of anything else it does better, I'll get back to you. And, just to make myself feel better, I have to especially hit how completely [censored] Skryim's UI is in every aspect. (No paperdoll; what were they thinking; why make armor and weapons look cool if you never get a really good look at them? Sheesh!)

Bethesda, I've always idolized you as a developer, please fix this clunky console port for those of us who really give a damn. A superior expansion would be a great start.

That's what kill cams are for!

Ah, Kill Cams. They are a nice addition. There, that makes three (for me).

If forced to pick one, I'd say the half way done role playing is what bugs me the most.

Go into third person and rotate? It's not that hard.

People keep telling me that, but you don't get the same degree of detail in third-person and the lighting is usually no good. Compare Oblivion's paper doll to what you see in Skyrim's third-person. Some people don't care about this feature, but I (and apparently many others) do.

No depth to followers, unlike the series.

I dislike all of the crippled guards...

I mean, almost every guard I've ever passed by has said that they wouldn't be pulling guard duty if they hadn't taken a career-ending arrow to the knee...

How are they supposed to chase down criminals? They're hobbled...

lol

Shallow quest lines.

Essential NPCs. Want to wreak a bit of havoc in city X for fun? Nope, half of the citizens are unkillable. Want to kill the leaders of an enemy military camp? Nope, bloke is invincible. I could understand it for super quest-essential people, but the rest should be fair game.

Primarily, the lack of Spellmaking.


Runners Up:

-Terrible balance
-Loss of Attributes and Birthsigns
-Weak/poorly-paced questlines

Killmoves on player.

Because it is strongly suspected that resistances (like armor or blocking... *especially* armor or blocking) are not factored into whether or not you the player get hit up by one.

Thankfully I'm on PC so mods exist to make the player char immune.

I was so going to `ITA` this until the last line.

the interface svcks on consoles too! even worse in fact - consider we have basically zero hotkeys.

No doubt about it. It's just not human compatible, regardless of the input device

The constant rehashing of topics such as this.

No dragon weapons.

Really? I can understand why PC players may not like it, but as a PS3 player I can safely say that I love the UI! The only thing that's even slightly hard to navigate is the perk trees.

I'm in agreeance here. I would have loved to pick about 7 or 8 skills and created a class with a birthsign. 8 skills would be perfect.

The stats system. It is too simplified imo. The perks that I like for my characters are often hard to reach, I have to pick a lot of useless ones on the way which doesn't make quite the 'be whoever you want' idiom. There are no birthsigns which is a total let down for me, because those were initial choices that did matter all your life and were great for character customization. I'm not comfortable with a system where there are no lifetime consequences for your initial choices. It makes sense that a person (fictional character) is born with some inherent abilities that can't be changed mid-life(game), and the birthsigns were a tool that served well that sort of notion.

Not to mention that race, class and sign used to provide a way to give you a radically different playthrough from the start.
In Morrowind I saw it as a way to tweak difficulty mainly.
A Dunmer with the Lady as sign would start with resistance to fire 75% and +25 endurance and personality.
This would be an excellent beginner build.
An Altmer with the Atronach as sign would start with resistance to disease 75%, weakness to frost and shock 25%, weakness to fire 50%, weakness to magic 50%, spell absorbtion 50%, no regenerating magicka and a boost to magicka of +350%.
Rather hardcoe.