On the discussion of "dumbing down" as falmer stated, (and I have, repeatedly, like a goose) is when you remove the functionality of something and do not replace/improve it, ON THE PREMISE, that somehow players can't figure it out, or its too "spreadsheety" because thats where dumbing down came from. the moment Todd called making spells or handling attributes spreadsheety of which why they were handled that way was NO fault of their own but level scaling. is where the term dumbed down came from.
Can I...atler my chars strenghts, weaknesses...make them faster than anyone else? jump higher? Punch harder? since everyones unarmedmeleedamage = the same base value.
can I make my own spells tailored to MY playstyle and situations MY character gets into?
can I play the game without requiring the Quest markers in every shape and form? read that again WITHOUT REQUIRING THE QUEST MARKERS as in besides the HANDFUL if even amount of quests where your pointed to where you need to go (once) or you follow the quest giver (like 5-6?) you can RELIABLY get somewhere based on directions? oh no?
what do we call this? because apparently its not "dumbing down"
in response to Nazzeh
but I do, does that mean I deserve to be put at the stake? does that mean I'm self entitled whiny nut that needs to sit down? does that mean that anything I have to say is utterly and completely moot even though what I am asking for HAS BEEN DONE already in Past games? that because I desire the options I had before no I don't want them EXACTLY as they were before beacuse much of them were flawed, but is it because I want them back and Improved I am somehow an abomination?