Hello,
Quite an old fans here And I personally found this series is the best CRPG ever come out since those old Ultima series, My suggestion for the new game for the series is....
- Stick with reallity as possible, Altho everybody knows that RPG is fantasy, Theres no harm in making it with some "Logical" gameplay also annd let all the Magic, Monsters and non human as the "fantasy" part... Exp. Ability to loot Your fallen enemy/comrade, Limited numbers of enemy & NO magically spawned enemy (Make a camp have 100 orcs or even 200 but you always have the chance of cleaning it out), NO magically dissapearing body & stuff.
- No level scalling... Make the enemy wich is supposed to BE skilled and deadly to be like THAT from the start, And easy enemy stays easy 'till the end ( Whats the point of training Your character when a every single lowly bandit is as skilled as you with level scalling)
- Make the design more medieval than Gothic-ish over doed things, every RPG now Looks like Diablo styled.
Thats some of My suggestion, I hope the new game using new engine would be out soon, Miss playing REAL RPG... Instead of some over claimed RPG that ends up nothing but half life with sword called Oblivion ( I might as well bought dungeon siege 2 than THAT... Atelast its more straight action)