Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith, who also contributed "significantly" to both Oblivion and Fallout 3, has shared two things he'd like to see in The Elder Scrolls 6 now that it finally has a name—Sentinel.

As reported by Insider Gaming, in a discussion with Steven Lake for The Examined Game, Nesmith was asked what things he would like to see from TES6, and he had a pretty simple answer: mounts and ladders.

"The number one thing I would like to see—actually, I'll give you two things, because they've been missing or short in previous games because we just didn't have the bandwidth to do them," Nesmith said. "I'd like to see a much better implementation of mounts, and it's been a common complaint. I'm not alone in that, but it turns out mounts are tricky."

Skyrim's horses could vertically walk up mountains, but occasionally their legs would give out, and they'd turn into Eldritch horrors that flung in all directions as their limbs spooled like spaghetti. They were so janky that it became a pretty common tactic to rush for Shadowmere just to have an immortal steed that could weather the game's physics engine. Then again, in 2011, how many games had good mounts?

"They're really tricky," Nesmith continued. "There's a lot of hard decisions to be made in those. But you can ride a horse, but that's all you can do in Skyrim. That's it. You just ride the horse.

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