User blog comment:Draevan13/Why the Elder Scrolls ISN'T being dumbed down...much./@comment-98.234.188.237-20130930184455

Just ran across this. I am definitely on the far end of the "it's not dumbed down" side of the specturm. However Jingles does make one huge error (which I'm surprised no one on the other side has mentioned): There are three kinds of NPCs in Skryim, normal, protected, and immortal. Protected NPCs cannot be killed EXCEPT by the player. Thus it would have been possible to make all the essential NPCs be protected instead, so that could not die accidentally, but still be killable by the player. Best of both worlds.