Elliott_Ness

I have had some problem with TES over the years and despite my rant below, I intend to get the game I can only hope all my issues with TES are solved or at least addressed.

1. They make lofty promises: I remember Radiant AI and all its splendour that is was supposed to give, now it is Radiant Story, with the first one tweaked and the latter being introduced I expect nothing short of miracles at this stage.

The reason given for adjusting the Radiant AI in the Oblivion release had merit but it still affected the final product negatively.

2. The main story was never compelling. It was never personal and not very engaging. I think the underlying soft issue is that the director, story writers, and programmers ignore or can t fully model or mimic is Destiny?

They need to do an in-depth study on the topic of Destiny, the game is based on free will then you try to introduce Destiny, which are contradictory in nature unless you believe in Micaic Destiny.

By the nature of the game, I would lean to Micaic Destiny and try to fully understand it, so that the main story becomes a character that imposes its self throughout your shenanigans.

It is not a quest to be written in your quest book, more like events that are participated and noted in your diary some events may be quests other are found by what may be seen as chance. Others meticulous choreographed that span over several side quests or some things hinted at in the books, which do not add a marker to the damn map while others do.

That way understanding lore and history becomes important, hell some clues could be placed in spell books that way those who just open and close the books may miss a clue and with all of this, you still could just be at the right place at the right time or in the right dungeon without reading a lick.

This way it seems like Luck , Kismit , Chance until it reaches a point of some kind of Armor Fati, at that point the player is supposed to be invested for whatever reason then the player actively searches out elements of the main quest .

I think the present way the main quest is derived is Epic + Long + Difficult=Legendary when all that does is make it boring, tedious and degrades into a series tasks collecting powerful items, some that you hope to keep for your own gain.

3. Skill progression never seemed natural along with item and monster leveling in the Oblivion release e.g. the average highwayman who donned a full suit of rare glass armour was just baffling to me, not being able to find a regular skeleton after a while etc.

At some point, an adventurer wants to feel awesome and that never occurred almost EVERY quest could easily become a matter of life and death, hell just walking down the damn road at a point in time was life threatening,.

The modding community had several fixes for those issues and others but in my opinion, the community should not FIX YOUR GAME they should add to it.

I know Bethesda works hard and I appreciate the product but it seems that they reduce scope by cutting things that would boost the overall quality product and then focus on technical issues and shiny things. The game then ends up being a great platform, but needs a few mods to be just right. Therefore, to enjoy the product one needs the official game + community mods.

I can go on and on at this late stage in the Skyrim release and hopefully all the negative issues will be mute in this version since they have departed from some mechanics and upgraded others, but I cant help but feel deja vu as I feverishly await Skyrim