I hate that people complain about this, considering the markers are optional. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I enjoy the uncertainty and adventure, sometimes I just need to get shit done. Playing Morrowind in the past week, the directions can be tedious. Me looking at the map in the menus and then at my minimap as I walk and then my physical map to find territories can be frustrating. Morrowind hasn't aged as well as people act like it has. Not to say that its a bad game, it's fantastic and the setting is mesmerizing even after a decade, but people act like its untouchable and Skyrim is some sacrilegious casual lite-version of the ES series. As someone who started with Daggerfall and was a big fan of it (though I didn't play it as much as some of the later Ultima DOS titles), I enjoyed Skyrim more than any western RPG I've ever played. I feel like as a sequel it did what it needed to and more, taking what was good about Morrowind and Oblivion and streamlining it into something just as fun and expansive an not as unnecessarily frustrating as the last two, as an RPG had an almost overwhelming amount of elasticity and catered to many playstyles, and as a game was an immersive experience thoroughly. I will never understand why some Elder Scrolls fans complain about it.There seems to be this connotation that complexity means quality and that if a sequel to any game is less complex than the last, that's a bad thing. Fortunately, that's not true, as developers learn what works and what doesn't through experience, and cut out portions that lack necessity. Bethesda has done this marvelously, but we bitch like ungrateful children for anything that we don't like about someone else's creation, as if to anger over the Mona Lisa's lack of smile. If we wanted a game not to make changes in it's sequels, then why warrant a sequel? If a developer doesn't shake up a formula a bit, then us whining bitches call them uncreative and complain for not cleaning up the non-necessities. If developers remove non-necessities, we cry over the tainting of something godly. Every sequel ever released to any gets an insane amount of backlash from certain fans whether the game is good or not over SOMETHING, and we criticize its lack of quality in comparison to its predecessor, until the next in the series releases, and then we move on to criticizing the newest one while we refer to the last one we bitched about so much as godly and flawless. If art catered to the fantasies and preferences of it's patrons perfectly, there would be no point in art, as we can experience our preferences and fantasies in the recesses of our minds and never have to experience art to amuse us. Sorry, this got way beyond the Skyrim marker system. I just harbor contempt for the negative demeanor of the entitled community of gamers. People are way too spoiled and are unable to act like normal human beings when something doesn't go their way these days. I don't understand how people get millions of dollars and years of time poured into their games these days when there were people at one time who were satisfied and grateful for 3 moving dots on a screen in the recent past.