I don't think anything should scale. I like how it works in OOO (the mod for Oblivion I mentioned earlier), which is how it works in WoW as well. Certain areas have certain level bad guys. At the start of the game, you have no business wandering in to the HQ of the world's most well known and fearsome bandit group, smashing your way through 500 fearsome guards and then besting the fearsome boss for epic loot, all while level 1 and wearing a sack and weilding a chair leg for a weapon.
Played through the "Fallout" 3 etc releases, those wernt Fallout though. Played 1 + 2 to death for over a decade.
Thought perhaps im just missing something, maybe not!
I always think the Gothic series (not 4...no, just no) is in line with TES games. That is to say very open world, good story driven content, kick ass gear etc
But to answer your question properly Gorman, TES games are a lot like Supreme Commander, so you should buy them
Wonder where elder scrolls failed and these succeeded.
RPG's i loved / played to death, the ones i can think of at the moment anyway
Secret of Mana / Gaia
Secret of Evermore
Zelda
Fallout, originals
Legend of Legaia
Icewind Dale
NeverWinter Nights
Dragon Age, the first one, not Mass Effect Dragons 2
Witcher 2
Wonder where elder scrolls failed and these succeeded.
NWN was a great game/series TES games are bit more open than that style of D&D stuff, but the premise is often the same, so am sure you'd get a kick out of Skyrim (not point going backwards now, just get the new snazy one!)
Not to derail the thread (ok, we dont care really, but thought i'd be nice)...
...OMG BD! Loved that game (even tried to play it years later...wow graphics really do matter dont they? )...although I can only ever think of one word when I think about BD...Drizzt...and I dont even know what it means!
BD? Where'd that come from? Heh yeh meant BG...call it typing fast at the end of the day
More focused storytelling and less freeroam (aka mindlessly walking around)?