Take a look at how many quests there are, and then re-evaluate how "very simple" it would be.

You call this 'very simple' as if it takes one person half an hour and every quest in the game is fixed. Think about it. To give a quest the ability to split in two directions, it essentially takes twice the work from the point the quest splits onward. So it's not a simple fix. It's taking the 50000 hours then collectively spent (Between maybe the 50 writers and designers) making the quests, and it makes it 75000 hours. It's not simple at all. Non-linearity is great, but rediculously taxing to do. You have to find a balance between linear and non-linear content. I agree they could have done a little more, but don't act like they are lazy for not doing in 5 seconds...

It's a great idea, but I doubt it'll happen. I've been wanting this since Morrowind. Where they had sleepers walk up to you and tell you that Dagoth Ur wants you to join with him and that you should go to Red Mountain to join him. Well after a couple hours running around Red Mountain I finally went on line to find out that eventhough they told you that you could join with him there wasn't actually any choice at all. Kinda like how I ran around in the original Deus Ex in that one board trying to find a way to stay with UNATCO and not betray them..... Damn these "Play how you want to play" games that keep the most important choices away from you.

I think a lot of young people don't understand the importance in human relationships, and that we all have a role to play in a society. If it hurts someone, it's bad. There's nothing wrong in understanding that everything is grey, just don't use it as an excuse.

He is indeed correct. "Good" and "bad" are merely labels that are conveniently allocated according to societal norms. The only way to state categorically that there is a "good" and/or "bad" is by using an objective measure, and the only objective measure that can be used is the existence of a supreme creator, ie God. Ah, but which God? Who knows! Most people conveniently use the one they believe in, which is, and we go back to societal norms here, the one which they were brought up to believe is true.

And no... I'm not "younger".

Well, I a disagree. You say good and bad are just concepts according to social norms, but I think you could take anyone, from any culture on earth and they'd agree that killing a child would be deemed "bad" and stopping someone that has robbed an old lady "good."

I feel that sometimes people are controversial for the sake of it. I think we can all agree on some of the ideas that would be good and some that would be bad. No need to be pedantic about it.

It's pretty much always been that way, and i've never liked it. It makes it very difficult to act the way you want, when your forced to take certain actions.

In ancient Greece any baby born with a deformity would be left in the wilderness to die. If the elders of Sparta judged a baby too weak they would throw him in a gorge or just leave him on a hill to die. So no you wouldn't be able to take anyone from anywhere and get them to agree that killing a child is bad.

I was talking more from a modern day perspective, but fair point you make.

I think the main story quests left to be desired even has some that are great quest, as the thieves guild.

Yes. So many daedric quests are overtly evil. Why not have the option of cleansing the evil? Boethia wanted me to do a quest so I killed all the cultists to break the quest and that's just what it wanted! Now it wants me to sacrifice a follower. There's no alternative like killing a daedric summoning and destroying the altar.

Got thief guild quests cluttering my list and my character ain't a thief. Can I kill all the named thieves and get those gone?

What throws me off immersion is the woman at war maidens asking me of I know about her father every time I see her. It's easier to give her a hundred different things to say if only a portion are recorded.

I'm becoming a fan of the idea of only some of the dialog being recorded. Comments made in passing, shouts in combat, pivotal scenes, yes. But not everything. Reading a good chat bot would feel more real than hearing the same voice bit dozens of times. And it would also allow for more context-sensitive comments. Like if followers could be nice or tough, locations could generate unique comments that would fit the characters without needing voice acting. Example: you have to kill four monsters in a cave, there could be a quip made at the end over who killed more and either being a compliment or an insult based on whether the character is nice or tough.

I love the idea of followers but it gets weird when they are oblivious to everything. Freaking out when I go wolf is fine but other times I do things that should give them pause and they don't even notice.

This is where you have to design the game around the limitations of the technology. Early shooters like Doom never did natural environments because it was impossible to not make them look terrible. Successful cgi movies use cartoon designs because realistic cgi is uncanny valley creepy.

You're overreacting, most quests have different endings. Guild quests and miscellaneous task don't have multiple endings. But most other quests do.

There's actually a great story there that was rushed through too quickly. It is a snarly and complex situation.

Can you name some, please? Besides In My Time of Need.