Skyrim- the erosion of a once great series

[lestatdark]

Kantor said:

lestatdark said:

Kantor said:
Am I a terrible person for thinking most of that actually sounds good? Oblivion was full of clutter. A little streamlining won't do it any harm.

I mean:

"no medium armor, no mysticism, no hand-to-hand, no atheltics, and no acrobatics"

Is that REALLY bad? It means no more jump spamming and summon skeleton spamming to level up.

Or they could have taken another route that would also avoid jump and summon skeleton spamming such as you level up an attribute, you get even less exp per action, kinda like every modder did for Oblivion. But I understand Bethesda's line of thought, that would have been much of an hassle and modders will eventually put that system in place in Skyrim. 

Vanilla Oblivion was indeed full of clutter, but with the right mods (which Added things, they didn't streamline anything or removed anything) it became a bliss, even surpassing Morrowind in a lot of aspects.

It's Bethesda's job to make a brilliant game, and the modders' job to make it better.

They shouldn't be saying "nah, we'll leave that in, the modders will fix it", because that can only lead to disaster.

I'm not saying Oblivion wasn't brilliant, nor that Skyrim won't be as well, it's just a current trend with Bethesda. 

Heck, they even went to the lengths of hiring one of the best Oblivion modders to help Obsidian with Fallout New Vegas, though it was a shame that they limited his role to designing only the Hardcore mode (which a simple Hunger&Real Weight mod can enable a similar feature on Oblivion as well).

Also, if the information that Leatherhat posted is correct (I'd rather see it for myself when I play the game, i'll be getting it day one regardless), then Bethesda is taking out even more features that were in Oblivion.

For example, is quite a contradiction that they want you, the player, to be any kind of class that you want to be, then take out spell forging which is one of the most required tools to be a sucessful Mage or Battlemage. So if I want my character to be more magic focused, I can no longer create my own spells? That's quite a limitation, given that you could create a lot of useful spell that weren't available on any store nor quest reward.

Also (and this is just a personal opinion), I really do hope they don't take the Dark Brotherhood out of the faction quests. Dark Brotherhood is the best faction in every TES games.