[Lunaryon]

That is so true, but wow. I haven't played Oblivion in a good while. I've been working on like thirty other games.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh, something else I hope they improve in Skyrim. Clothing. Like... ten times as many outfits, at least, please. I like playing dress-up. :D

[Lunaryon]

Especially if you can dye clothes different colors. I would be the only barbarian completely covered in hot pink.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I'm certainly hoping my laptop will play Skyrim, though knowing me I won't end up getting the game until the next comes out anyway becasue I'm cheap.

I haven't played Oblivion at all but I'm still into Morrowind. Never really bothered to finish the game though I suppose I could. I think I'm level 40-esque now and will probably cap our around 60 before my main skills max out. I love the open-ended ness of the elder scrolls games. Our Daggerfall copywas was glitched so the game would screw up when we hit a certain point in the main quest so we never bothered.

Fast travel was available in Daggerfall. All you had to do was go to the map, click where you wanted to go, and select mode of transport. I miss not being able to buy horses in Morrowind, but I usually used the mage's guild for transportation anyway. As to getting in, yeah, it's a pain. My sister I and learned back in DF that if you wanted in the mages guild you had to join them first since it was much easier -and quicker- to improve fighting stuff than magic.

I liked the none scaled aspect of some of the dungeons and what not in the games. It forces people to rethink some situations rather than strong-arming their way through everything, which is what I usually tended to do until I figured out this stealth thing. I cleaned out an ebony mine by sneaking past a horde of astral thingies that could all one-hit-kill me at the time. Not so much now.

Morrowind did have a number of throwing weapons, Lunaryon. Suriken, throwing knives, and darts at least, in different styles. There were not so common though. In the entire game so far I've found 2 daedric darts and 6 glass throwing knives. Did get some enchanted suriken a few times though.

[Lunaryon]

That is so awesome! I need to get another copy of Morrowwind and play it! Throwing knives and Darts!

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I just did some digging, it doesn't look like there will be throwing weapons in Skyrim, but possibly crossbows. Also, polearms are apparently in.

Oh, and there's a possibility that mods will be compatible with the console versions. That would make me very happy.

[Lunaryon]

If mods are console then I will cry my happiness to the world!

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Hrm... apparently there are only 3 core statistics, now, Strength, Magic, and Endurance (or something like that, I can't quite remember the names). That... is going to have to be really well implemented, otherwise, I fail to see how that could possibly be an improvement.

[Lunaryon]

Three stats... I don't see how they can use that as a point of improvement?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

In the interview I read, the guy was basically touting it as simplified and streamlined, skipping the middle-man. If you want to be goon at magic, don't wring your hands over intellect or willpower, just increase Magic and have done with it.

I personally think that's a terrible idea and that it cuts down on character versatility. Which one of those three covers social interaction, for instance? Or sneaking? I just can't see how that would ever work.

[Lunaryon]

How can I act as a sneaky, sneaky man without the ability to sneak. That's going to totally throw my mojo off for the rest of the game.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

You'll still be able to sneak, the question now is what attribute will govern its success. We're going to have to wait until more information is available to see if it's as bad as it sounds, or not. We just don't know enough yet.

On the skills front, apparently acrobatics and athletics are out, mysticism has been abolished and the spells distributed among the other schools, and enchanting is back in from Morrowind.

[Lunaryon]

That actually sounds like it might be pretty cool.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh, I forgot to mention, there's no more major or minor skills, they're going with a different leveling system that's less restrictive. As a consequence, there's no more classes, either, though I think archetypes (warrior, mage, thief) are still in.

[Lunaryon]

That sounds like they might be on to something, but I'm not sure. I hope that what they do ends up being awesome, but as of reading some of these things, I have decided that the best thing that I can do is withhold judgement until more information comes out. But i fear that I may not have the heart to Condemn Skyrim to hell, even if it turns out to be a horrid game. The Elder Scrolls series is just too close to the heart for me.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I can't imagine what they could possibly do to ruin the game, unless they deliberately tried to. As long as it keeps the spirit of the old games (exploration and fun character development) anything else is really just icing on the cake.

Not to say I don't want it to be better than Oblivion, but even if it's just "different," I can't imagine I'll be displeased.