So, firstly, unscripted dragon fights aren’t emergent gameplay. They’re an explicit, expected part of the game, and moderately essential to one of the key advancement mechanics (Shouts). Emergent gameplay involves systems interacting with player intent in unexpected ways; Such as the players who choose to play the game as hunters, farmers or guardsmen. While the semi-random dragon fights are an excellent part of Skyrim, they’re not emergent.

Perhaps what you meant to praise is *dynamic* gameplay? Dynamic systems can often contribute to emergent play, but they’re not the same thing. Their primary purpose is to encourage play outside of the main quest lines, as well as replay and discovery, since the game will be different each time, and cannot be completely captured in game guides. Dynamic systems are one of the most exciting things about modern games, but also one of the hardest to do well; I expect that we’ll continue to see them in future Bethesda titles, hopefully with increasing sophistication.

I agree that the Oblivion character system should come back, but it was simplified for a reason; if you want them to go back to a more complex system, you’re going to have to make an actual argument as to why you feel it would be better, which you completely fail to do; mentioning the preferences of “several” players isn’t an argument. You need to make a case for how the older system would make the game more enjoyable for the series’ core audience, which simply isn’t the hardcore series fans; if they’re not attracting new players, then they aren’t going to keep making the money necessary to keep making the series at all.

I don’t have any cogent arguments myself, but I’m also not any type of games journalist. I’m not especially familiar with gamingbolt.com, so maybe I’m asking too much, but this isn’t even a fluff piece, because it’s just too short. I came here hoping for a look at several aspects of older games in the series that can and should be brought forward into the next one, but I’m leaving here severely disappointed.

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