Let's get some menu and item wheels on the controller bumpers to keep combat from grinding to a halt whenever you want to select a new spell or drink a potion.

Maybe an enemy has on a big steel chestplate but their legs aren't armored. Or maybe you just take the risk and hope you don't get a warhammer to the dome. You probably want it on in battle but you'll want it off if you're just wandering around. Big heavy helmets? Hard to see out of those things.

I would want to lean more into the sim-ish aspect.

Armor, magicka, and stamina are the damage mitigation tools.

No pumping points into life and leveling up doesn't affect it. I've been playing a lot of Chivalry II and would love to see that kind of combat make a return (I know the early ES games played around with a simpler version of it). Blocking much more important now to melee builds. I want more individual armor parts and I want a metric ton of them.

Make the third person perspective viable or just ditch it.

Here are some pretty big and/or probably not so big things I would do: With the idea that the Elder Scrolls gameplay loop remains essentially intact, what changes would you make? Get as granular or vague as you want. That's a lot of time to think about how systems could be improved, how UI could be improved, as well as maybe mixing things up with some nutso fundamental changes that refresh the feel of the series. So Skyrim's been out for a decade as of this week.

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