Five Things The Elders Scrolls V Shouldn’t Do

PC World’s Matt Peckham breaks down a series of gameplay elements he’d like to see omitted from the next installment to The Elder Scrolls series.

3. Don’t keep the same first-person combat engine. Lay Fallout 3’s optional pause-based limb-targeting combat on us. Some of us like to plot our battles in lieu of crash-‘n-smash brawling, especially seeing as scuffling takes the lion’s share of game time in these games. I’m a lowly level 15 Nightblade currently, and with 39 days under my belt (game days, that is) I’ve slaughtered over 300 creatures, mostly by wading in and pulling the trigger mindlessly. Add a little more tactical depth than just strafe-slashing or spell-casting. Tailor the game to third-person with a first-person option (instead of the current reverse emphasis) and reboot the combat system Dynasty Warriors style. Medieval hand-to-hand in first-person’s kind of bland after you’ve whack-block-whacked your thousandth foozle. Third-person works infinitely better if you want a truly kaleidoscopic (and thereby more gripping) combat engine.

I’d have to agree that I’d really like to see more emphasis on the third-person viewpoint. In Oblivion and Fallout 3, it’s practically unusable.