To say what "Skyrim lacks" is just saying what they thought of but didn't have enough time to get into the game really.
I will say there are a few things I think that could have been done better (but very few and everything else I love about Skyrim)
But my ONE Big Pet-Pieve with Skyrim is..
...The Blades.
The Blades were always the "CIA/Her Majesty's Secret Service" of the The Elder Scrolls. They were as Noble of a Rouge/Assassin that you could find while still being a bunch of
Bad-@sses. Even other Fantasy games copied the idea. (Wow's SI:7, etc)
But it kept going down hill. Their Presence was spot on in Morrowind, but then In Oblivion they kind of became more of a Royal Guard for the Emperor. There were still some "Cloak and Dagger" -ish quests with them in the main storyline, but after that came Skyrim.
Now they are "Glorified Dragonhunters of Old".. I mean "WHAT?!!?".. "Seriously?!?!". It hardly makes sense. I understand that Tiber Septim was a Dragonborn so to speak, but He never fought Dragons!!! That throws the whole Storyline away no matter how much you retcon it. As well as the whole, "We Originally Fought Dragons and then Served the Empire later" is just not working for me.
They didn't need to make them "An Ancient Sect of Dragon Hunters" and they didn't have to change the state that Blades are in for Skyrim (aka getting wiped out by the Thalmor) to make their original dynamic make sense. It could have just been as easy to say that they are still sworn to Uphold the Old Septim Empire and will fight for it and against it until it is rid of the Thalmor. It's not so hard. Even the Dragon Menace is still in those motivations. The Empire siting on a World being Eaten by a Dragon God can still a Bad thing for the Empire.
And in the invention of all of this, they tried to create a "Heart Tugging" decision for the Player: To Kill Parthanex or to not kill Parthanex. That was the Dumbest idea ever.
The Player should be able to Join the Blades and experience that small part of the content as well as well as Be in good with the Grey-Beards and experience that small part of content on the same Character.
They tried to say "Well there would be a conflict of the Characters intrests". Well how about becoming the Harbringer of the Companions and the Arch-Mage of the Winderhold Mages College on one lazy Saturday. That to me is more of a Conflict of Character Intrests, yet they don't care about that one. There is NO Reason to create a big "OH Whatcha Gonna Do?!?!?!" between the Blades and the Grey-beards. The Motivation that they took with all of it ruined the Blades abit who used to be such a Cool, awesome Elderscrolls Faction.
Maybe I'm the Only one that feels this way, but I am prepared to Nerd Rage on that Subject.
(I do still love the Embassy Infiltration Quest though. That was very Blades'ish
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