As far as story goes , so open , but i love the idea of having a back story for your character , im tired of being some name less prisoner

You can still have game-play without shooting people in the face. Apparently no one told that to the reviewers.

I think thats it for now!

-K

I hated the marriage part too. So I give some dude and amulet and now we’re married and living together? Maybe since I’m a girl, I want it to be a bit more romantic than that but it seems like there should have been WAY more too it. Plus, I was not impressed with the options for eligible bacholers.

And for God’s sake, let’s improve the horses for Elder Scrolls VI…lol.

My biggest gripe about Skyrim was only the fact that it wasn’t personal at all and I would have liked to have seen my character develop friendships and perhaps a love interest. Again, that’s probably the ONLY reason why Red Dead Redemption is the first on the list.

Bethesda have never let me down before cannot wait for what they give us next.

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1) Contrast in environment; in Oblivion, you frequently traveled to different worlds getting to experience everything from the hellish Oblivion wastes, to the lush Cyrodilic woodlands, Mankar Camoran’s Paradise, a sleeping mage’s dream, and even the inside of a painting. Don’t get me wrong, I loved exploring Skyrim’s world, (travelling to Sovngarde was fairly epic) but once I’d explored everything it all started to look the same. Excluding the area around Riften and the polar ice caps in the far north, I felt like there wasn’t much diversity in environment between one end of the map and the other. Even the cities all looked the same. So please, take us to unique places.

2) Voice acting; after playing Shivering Isles I wasn’t that impressed with the voice acting in Skyrim. I noticed that there were more voices, but they all either said the same thing over and over again, or had embarrassingly bad accents. Please hire less voice actors, but invest in voices that are distinctive and actually good.

3) Characterization; I know some people could care less about getting to know their companions, but for those of us that do it was a disappointment to learn that you couldn’t get to know more about the people who followed you around, carried your stuff, fought dragons with you, and flipping helped you save the world! Companions in Skyrim weren’t nearly as unique as they were in Oblivion or Shivering Isles, not seeming to have personalities or back stories. I was especially disappointed that you couldn’t have any distinct characters from the Thieves Guild as companions, because this is where the most interesting characters were. I’m not expecting anything like Dragon Age Origins, but it would be realistic and meaningful if you could at the very least get to know your spouse.

4) Story and world development; Guild story lines seem to move too fast in Skyrim. In Morrowind you’re treated like crap when you’re first starting out; there are many guild ranks and in the beginning you take orders from the lowest ranked people in the guild. You do the smallest of quests, and it takes forever to prove yourself. When you finally do, you’re trusted enough to contribute to the main issue of the guild and you still slowly advance. This is more realistic than the guild advancement in Skyrim, and I think it’s something that the next elder scroll game needs to revert back to.
- The Civil War sucked. It didn’t matter which side you picked – both had the same bland storyline. The Altmeri Dominion didn’t seem to get involved even though they were responsible for the civil war in the first place; there were no assassination attempts or information leaks via spies that you would expect in a war; there were no consequences or unique bonuses for achieving your goals; npc’s talk about the civil war being inconvenient but your introduction to the game excluded, you’re never given any clear example as why you should choose one side or the other; if you never start the civil war story line, it doesn’t impact your game at all because the civil war doesn’t inconvenience your character in any way. Unrealistic much? If there is a war in the next game, please make it feel more like a war.
- And please, in the next game, let our actions have impact. Nothing you do in Skyrim matters; when you do the main quest no one acknowledges that you’re the Dragonborn, or that you saved the world – when you complete the civil war, people seem to still complain about that pesky war.

5)Dcl and Modding; one major complaint I had about Skyrim is that there wasn’t enough climax/reward/resolution when completing both the main quest and the civil war, and after it was all over I was left feeling empty and expecting more – aka good downloadable content. Dcl and modding are really awesome, but they’re also examples of the fact that the game isn’t as good as it could be. If your game needs add-ons in order to make the game complete, then that should be an obvious sign that the game wasn’t very good from the start. I know it brings in good money to have dcl, but is it worth releasing an incomplete game?

6) The little things.
- Bandits; when you have a really high bounty on your head I think you should have the option of becoming one and joining a bandit group, almost like a guild.
- If your character has the option of becoming a bard, they should be able to play music in pubs for coin; and please give them more than two songs to play.
- Attacking from horses, the fact that you can’t do this makes horse travel kind of tedious.
- Better hair options; I don’t know why, but in Bethesda character creation, their hair choices always suck with only one or two exceptions (Skyrim has done the best job so far at character creation).
- More unique features, such as weapons and armor, and perhaps more unique animals.
- It would be cool to have game-mode where you need to eat and sleep to survive (like Fallout’s hardcore mode) it would make people feel less like they’re ‘playing house’ when they actually do eat and sleep.
- Being able to attack underwater would be nice.
- Bring back weapon and armor damage and repair, so that when your blacksmith skills are maxed out you still have stuff to do.
- Clans, similar to bandits there should be vampire and werewolf clans that live remotely outside cities.
- Bounty hunting, I think it would make sense for there should be some kind of bounty hunters guild to track down people who have broken the law and made a run for it.

I can fully comprehend why you’ve played through Shenmue over fifteen times, Chris.

There is almost always something new to find, and the experience of travelling through the game is markedly different with each play-through, because the world feels so alive to me.

I make sure to play Shenmue at least once a year, and I can’t recall how many times that totals to. :s

1) Those high elf jerks. Seriously DLC #1 should have been set exactly after the civil war was won or lost with everyone marching on wherever you gotta march on to mess up some high elfs.

2) Dwemer! We still dont know what happened to the dwemer, except they left a bunch of bitter twisted falmer behind. Whatever the case is, the answer should acompany a return. Steampunk dwarfs, who are trying to ascend to the gods, what could possibly go wrong!

3) What happens to the empire after the dark brotherhood do a certian bad deed at the end of skyrim.

4) And with the return of the dragon born. Doesn’t this mean that by right, our hero was the true birthright king of all tamriel?

I’m not much of a fan of Twitter, myself, but if there’s any way to help make Shenmue III a reality then this is wholly worthwhile. Yu Suzuki did say that Sega would be willing to give him the licence.

I’m still waiting patiently. There’s clearly a resolve in Yu Suzuki to finish what he started.

Fans still longing for a conclusion to this beloved series are invited to join our campaign of monthly Tweetathons, pressuring Sega to either make Shenmue III or, if they can’t/won’t, then release the license to creator Yu Suzuki, who shares our desire for a solution to be found. Please see TeamYu.net for details.

You nailed it on the second paragraph.