What I would do
- Bring back stats to at least 7 stats that mean something
- Have the player pick a class, and lock out some skills based on class. That is, skills only available to certain classes (armor/weapon smith to fighters, magic crafting for mage types, etc.) Best armor, weapons, and spells are only craftable
- Make some areas inaccessible to players without said class
- Make some weapons unusable to players without said class or stats
- Add random powerful items, but make them appear in random places so fags can't go directly to certain key weapons/armors
- Add factions that lock you out of other factions
- Create a dialog system that doesn't suck, and base reaction on race/class. No more fully voiced conversations, just the intro is fine
- Make the player a small part of an actual world, not the chosen one/savior of everything/the linchpin to the fate of the cosmos
- Just make the characters naked under their clothes, saving modders and every other pervert the time of having to do this on their own.
- Multiplayer co-op and have the players working together to enhance the story
- Ability to play passive. Select Pilgrim class and get spells for placating enemies or moving unnoticed. Whatever. Just enough with the mighty axe fighting.
What they will do
- Health and magic will be given each level. Stamina will be removed
- Player can do anything and will continue to specialize at levelup, but players start at being able to do everything moderately well
- Fully voiced conversations where the player just clicks to continue the conversation (ok, this is already there.)
- Feats like Fallout 4
- Less player responsibility. Piss off the guards? Press X to bribe!
- More epic content. Player is a god who was strpped of all powers, and your enemy Daedra Lord Bowser is taking over the world! Only at the end do you find out that you are a Daedra god! And it was you who stripped you of your own powers! Something to do with a prophecy of some sort!
- No death. Player dies and respawns at checkpoints, or is knocked out and gets back up after the screen fades for 3 seconds
- Player has a third arm, so the player can swing a sword, cast a flame spell, and heal themselves at the same time.
- Oblivion gates
- Player can only play as a female, or better, player can be a tranny or select other for gender, where you can type in up to 512 characters describing your associations
- Less races, and all races are treated exactly the same, just looking slightly different. Redguards, Imperials, and Bretons? What are we, middle ages Europe? This is 2017! (Argonian chicks will still have big juggs, for some weird reason.)
- More cool bad-ass killing moves! Maybe one where the player bites the enemy on the neck and chews off its head.
- Money will continue to have no use whatsoever, or be even less useful
- A high score table kept at Bethesda, published online, with a ladder system
- Online required, but no multiplayer
- Dragons! DRAGONS! DRAGONS!!! They are everywhere! (ok, this is a given.)