What game features do you want to see in Elder Scrolls IV?

ElderScroller27 · 30-11-2005, 03:43 PM

I have 6 things I want to see in Oblivion which will aid the atmosphere of the world greatly.

#1. Sinking to the bottom of a lake or river if you are carrying too much weight to swim. I Love Morrowind but I just hate seeing my Character with 190+ pounds of Armor and Weapons on him as well as an Inventory of items that can easily be 100 to 200 pounds more, just jumping into the water and swimming across like a swam. He should sink like a brick and be forced to strip off gear and drop it on the bottom of the river or lake. Then you would have to swim ashore drop some gear and make a few trips back to the bottom of the lake/river to recover your gear. This would make people respect the environment they walk in and give added reality to the world.

#2. Rivers in the game, Give the rivers a current that sweeps Items, Bodies, and untethered boats away down stream. This way a river could be a real living part of the environment. As well as having a use in some quests. I'm thinking mabye you get an assasination contract where the dark brotherhood wants someone dead...but for it to look like they just left town. So you have to kill the mark with a blunt weapon (no blood splatter) and steal their clothes and toss the body and clothes all in the river to sweep away the evidence. Mabye another quest to cut a rope tethering a boat to sabotage a fisherman or ferryman?

#3. Food & Sleep, Please add a nourishment meter and sleep meter to the game, I want to be required to eat food and get sleep, in order to stay at full strength. Having a masterfully detailed world and then never having to eat or sleep just totally breaks the atmosphere. It would really add to the game by making you carry some food rations with you and mabye carry a bedroll with you so you can sleep in the wilderness rather than having to come to an Inn every night. You would need to add some form of accumulating stat damage per hour when you start to starve or become highly exhausted from lack of sleep. I can easily see a quest where you have to carry 100 pounds of food to some besieged forts soldiers. Or have to stay awake for a LONG time getting exhausted then having to fight a battle. There could also even be an expensive potion that satisfied your need for food & rest, for those times when eating or sleeping would be tough, such as deep in a monster filled cavern, or when you have to walk to a distant city on a deadline.

#4. Clothing and Shoes. I want to see cold damage from traveling in snow and ice without wearing a Robe, Cloak, or Shoes/Boots. In Morrowind you could pretty much run around in nothing but pants and never take damage unless you were drowning or hip deep in lava. I'm Really wanting to have the game require you to wear something warm to avoid some temporary stat damage. Mabye even add in the ability to stack up some pieces of wood and start a camp fire? which would let you unroll your bedroll and sleep next to it in icy/cold environments. A campfire could cut both ways by mabye keeping some types of monsters away and attracting other types.

#5. Hiring Mercenaries/Body Guards to travel with you for a limited period of time. You could easily add this into the Fighters guild. Mabye have differnent levels of Hirlings with different prices? 100gold for 24 hours to hire a level 10. 500gold to hire a level 20 for 24 hours and 1000gold to hire a level 30 for 24 hours. something like that. they would travel with you overland but would avoid natural hazards like falling off cliffs or drowning in lakes and would fight at your side, until the 24 hour contract expired then they would travel back to their guild hall. Also you would have to make them refuse to enter dungeons so that people are not abusing them to accomplish all the quests. and mabye have a LARGE cash penalty if they died while under contract to you? something like. the guild officer saying to you...."the last mercenary you hired died so you have to pay us the 5000gold penalty before we'll hire out to you again.

#6. Traveling People. I want to see people travel from town to town. in the form of lone travelers walking on foot or riding horses, Or A trade Caravan that travels a loop between a few towns. the Caravan could be an awesome part of the game you could mabye hire on as a body guard. or join up with some bandits to ambush it. The caravan could roll into a town, then the merchants will walk from store to store selling/buying and mabye even spend a night at an Inn. then they return to the caravan and they travel to the next town. Also I want to see soldiers patrolling the roads as well as small groups of bandits setting up ambushes along the roads. it would be utterly amazing to be climbing over a ridge and look down to see a few bandits hiding behind trees and boulders. then to look over and see a patrol coming down the road. so you stand there to see what happens....the bandits jump out and fire some arrows at the patrol which then attacks the bandits...and you can stay back or jump in to aid one side or the other. and hopefully you have some way to distinguish yourself as aiding the Guards rather than being a bandit..

It may be too late for these ideas to be put into Oblivion....but mabye just mabye... they will become popular and make it into Elder Scrolls V......

jt_mares · 30-11-2005, 03:57 PM

cool ideas, but as far as i know the game was finished awhile back, they are just tweaking it to get all the bugs out. just fax them that and in 6 years or so elder scrolls V just might have it all!

theelderscroll · 30-11-2005, 04:42 PM

Who knows. Maybe they did put some of those things in after all. We will find out soon enough.

citizen X · 30-11-2005, 05:03 PM

I love all those ideas, it would feel like a real life quest and not just some game where your playing some made up character, it would feel like real adventure. I love the idea of having to survive in the wilderness for days, having to eat and rest, making your own fire for days on end, And yeah the game is pretty much finished, there just fixing some bugs and some frame rate issues. They said that they already cut the load time in the game by, some where around 700%...now that’s what u call, tweaking the game.

Quiz · 30-11-2005, 06:22 PM

Hey ElderScrools27, did you try to email them and tell them those ideas. i bet some people have gave ideas. by the way those sound like really cool things to see in Oblivian.

ElderScroller27 · 01-12-2005, 03:15 PM

I never E-mailed the Ideas, I was just replaying Morrowind "as a thief" and I was carrying almost 500 pounds of gear and I jumped into the ocean so I could drink my Swift Swim potion and get away from 3 guards that were chasing me and I realized that I weighed 500 pounds, Plus whatever my body weight would be, something like 120 due to being a Bosmer....and there I am calmly paddling in the water. IT struck me as WRONG that the world mechanics did not have gravity in the water, other than dead monsters floating and the rivers had zero current. So I put together some ideas to make the experience more realistic. I understand that some factors of adventuring get smudged over so people can just play and have fun...not worrying about eating or making camp to sleep. But they could still have the game be newbie friendly as it is and then add in optional realism factors that could be enabled or disabled. thus making the Nourishment meter a really important thing...such as...If you are walking on level ground carrying minimal weight your nourishment lasts longer....but if you are climbing up steep inclines carrying 200lbs then your nourishment would decline faster. I know there is a point in Morrowind where you are just going out reapeatedly gathering loot and carting it back to town to make cash so you can train up your skills.. but for a true gaming fan like myself I see the easy easy game world with streamlined reality to make it easier for ANYONE to play as not always a good thing. I want the challenge of playing the game and surviving not only monsters but the elements and landscape...having to eat and sleep to be at my peak... They could even roll all of my ideas into a single option in the game that can be enabled and disabled. that way EVERYONE can be happy. I don't want to see the video game industry fall into the same trap as the starwars movies....having semi-retarted characters with lines that only appeal to children. thus maximixing the market base for merchandising.... Oh mommy buy be a Jar Jar Binx Lunchbox....."puke"

Big_P · 08-12-2005, 06:02 AM

Dude those are the sweetest ideas ever!!! i to am a fan of morrowind i liked the last one but it should of came with alot more realistic features like you said.

Big_P · 08-12-2005, 06:18 AM

Elderscroller27 post some more of your ideas on here. you have the best ideas ive ever heard.lol and i thought i had good ones.lol

Dragonuk · 08-12-2005, 06:53 AM

if just some of them are in will be a great game

Big_P · 09-12-2005, 06:17 AM

ya i know. i dont know how he somes up with these ideas

ElderScroller27 · 11-12-2005, 10:54 PM

When I play first person type games, I like to get in-character and think
in-character as if i'm there. It's especially fun travelling cross country. moving from cover to cover, when i need to sleep I walk under some cover. be it a tree or next to some boulders to be out of the wind.. and the same goes for crossing rivers and mountains. It's a fine line to maintain while knowing that I can just reload if I die, But when I get really into character and enjoy a game I have more fun. The radiant AI in ES4O is going to be great. All those piles of heavy look I left laying around so that i could sell off my treasure and come back to get them will be gone when a wandering monsters senses the armor/weapons/treasure and puts it on or equips the weapons. going to be GREAT!

g-unit95 · 08-02-2006, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ElderScroller27

I never E-mailed the Ideas, I was just replaying Morrowind "as a thief" and I was carrying almost 500 pounds of gear and I jumped into the ocean so I could drink my Swift Swim potion and get away from 3 guards that were chasing me and I realized that I weighed 500 pounds, Plus whatever my body weight would be, something like 120 due to being a Bosmer....and there I am calmly paddling in the water. IT struck me as WRONG that the world mechanics did not have gravity in the water, other than dead monsters floating and the rivers had zero current. So I put together some ideas to make the experience more realistic. I understand that some factors of adventuring get smudged over so people can just play and have fun...not worrying about eating or making camp to sleep. But they could still have the game be newbie friendly as it is and then add in optional realism factors that could be enabled or disabled. thus making the Nourishment meter a really important thing...such as...If you are walking on level ground carrying minimal weight your nourishment lasts longer....but if you are climbing up steep inclines carrying 200lbs then your nourishment would decline faster. I know there is a point in Morrowind where you are just going out reapeatedly gathering loot and carting it back to town to make cash so you can train up your skills.. but for a true gaming fan like myself I see the easy easy game world with streamlined reality to make it easier for ANYONE to play as not always a good thing. I want the challenge of playing the game and surviving not only monsters but the elements and landscape...having to eat and sleep to be at my peak... They could even roll all of my ideas into a single option in the game that can be enabled and disabled. that way EVERYONE can be happy. I don't want to see the video game industry fall into the same trap as the starwars movies....having semi-retarted characters with lines that only appeal to children. thus maximixing the market base for merchandising.... Oh mommy buy be a Jar Jar Binx Lunchbox....."puke"

dude same thing with me but i had 600 pounds and got away like i was carrying nothing its retarded

g-unit95 · 08-02-2006, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Big_P

Elderscroller27 post some more of your ideas on here. you have the best ideas ive ever heard.lol and i thought i had good ones.lol

same here you should definatly post every idea you got

I AM Bones · 27-02-2006, 12:15 AM

I find the amount of money in morrowind to be unrealistic, within twenty hours, i had over 300 thousand dollars, I was also able to jump across the entire map in one jump, although i had to use levitation right b4 hitting the ground, so i wouldnt die, and i beat the game in way less than 100 hours, they said it has 200, but it also is kinda fun to mess with stuff like that.

Liquids · 27-02-2006, 12:22 AM

100 hours is still VERY impressive for a offline game. Did you finish ALL the side quests etc...?

purp · 27-02-2006, 09:44 AM

the game should have battle rifles and warthogs. sniper rifles and ghosts, plasma swords and rocket launchers.

Big_P · 27-02-2006, 10:53 AM

lol wrong game buddy. lol

Shotty · 27-02-2006, 11:48 AM

Ability to steal whatever I can see. Also be able to enter every house in the game.

KamiKaziKlown · 28-02-2006, 08:45 AM

in Oblivion i have heard tell of being able to hire mercenaries for a price from a new guild