You choose to either cast a spell or swing the sword, but not both at the same time in Dungeon Master or Ishar or Skyrim or Captive. All those games play fundamentally the same.
No.
You can't play Wizardry with three fighters, two thiefs, and one priest, and say "I want each character to cast one healing spell". But you can play Skyrim with a fighter/thief/mage hybrid character and say "I want to cast six healing spells in a row".
That's what I mean: at any given point in Skyrim, you can choose to use any of your character's abilities. In a party-based game (ignoring "blobber" at all), you can schoose to use any of your character's abilities... but only
that character's, not the ones from the rest of the party, at any given point.
You can
choose to treat Skyrim as if your character consisted of multiple different characters. Indeed, because the game is so shit, nothing stops you from saying "for my first attack, I will unequip all armor and cast a healing spell; for my second attack, I will equip heavy armor and attack with a warhammer; for my third atack, I'll equip light armor and run away from battle like a thief would", etc. (and even then it still wouldn't be the same, because your character still has the same basic stats and perks which provide different bonuses at all times).
