I hope I'm wrong...
- All racial abilities will be removed, races will only be cosmetic.
- There will be three skills: Combat, Magic, Thievery.
- Perks will stay, mostly they will be things like: Destruction spells cost 20/40/60% less magicka.
- You will gain a set amount of Health, Stamina and Magicka at each level.
- It will be set in some exotic province, but not too strange and alien seeming like Morrowind. Let's say Hammerfell, since that would also allow them to continue that war with the Aldmeri Dominion. Expect Hammerfell or whatever province they choose to look somewhat different then how it was described in lore, with most of the cool souding ideas having an underwhelming execution or being outright retconned.
- If they pick Black Marsh instead of Hammerfell, you will be able to travel anywhere you want, even though in lore only argonians can survive in the southern parts of Black Marsh. That will be either retconned or handwaved with something like how you are the "Histborn" or something like that, even if you are not an Argonian.
- If they do pick Hammerfell, there will be some sort of "curved swords" meme again.
- There will be a lot of retcons and additional lore that doesn't mesh that well with the old one.
- There will be some kind of world-ending crisis, but no one will really care about it that much. Let's say that the Thalmor will somehow create the Third Numidium and an army of dwemer deathbots, but somehow, they lose control over them and thus they start rampaging all around Hammerfell.
- No one will really care much about that world-ending crisis, save for some NPCs involved in the main quest. Everyone else will mostly go about their daily lives and the Third Numidium with the army of rampaging dwemer deathbots will just be a minor inconvenience they will sometimes complain about.
- At the start of the game, you will be a prisoner of war. You will arrive to Hammerfell on a ship again, in order to exploit Morrowind nostalgia.
- The first NPC you meet will be a fellow prisoner that wants to know your name, kinda like Jiub. But this time, Jiub will be a pretty female elf, most likely a high elf, in order to show you that they are not all bad.
- In addition to all the other sliders during character creation, there will now be a gender slider and a list of prefered pronouns, with an option to define you own. While potentially interesting, don't expect the game to actually explore any themes related to that. It won't really matter as everyone will treat you the same no matter what and just call you "hero", "daedraborn" or "you", but it will be great for publicity!
- There will be one NPC you meet at the start of the game that will actually use your preferred pronouns to convince you that the choice actually does matter. Most likely female Jiub, who will be a major NPC and a companion. She will also be voiced by someone famous.
- Both you and female Jiub will be verbally abused by the racist Redguard soldiers in order to show you that this war isn't black and white.
- Of course, you will have to be special somehow with cool abilities, so during the tutorial you will be reavealed as "daedraborn" or something like that. You will have cool daedric abilities that are supposedly really powerful, but their actual effects will be underwhelming with long cooldowns. Most of the time, you will forget you even have them.
- The unskippable tutorial will end with a flashy boss fight, where you and female Jiub fight against some giant dwemer deathbot. You will almost die, but then you will discover your "daedraborn" powers and use them to annihilate the dwemer deathbot, in order to make you feel really cool and special. Female Jiub will be amazed and spend the rest of the game telling you how awesome you are.
- Female Jiub will turn out to be a secret member of the Blades, sent by the Emperor to sabotage the Thalmor. She will lead you to their secret hideout, where you will be accepted into their ranks instantly, no questions asked.
- You won't be able to romance female Jiub, unless you pay for the Female Jiub Romance Mod on the creation club.
- There will be 2 more voice actors then in Skyrim.
- Cities will be smaller then in Skyrim, but more detailed. They might also be split into several sections instead. Of course, just like in Skyrim or Oblivion, they will exist separately from the main game map.
- The game will feature the army of dwemer deathbots rampaging through Hammerfell like an exciting new feature. Stop them before they consume everything in Hammerfell! It won't actually matter that much, they can't attack the actual cities, instead they will attack really small and unimportant villages with maybe two or three NPCs that have a name and those three will be essential and thus immortal. Female Jiub will mark the settlements that need your help on your map whenever you talk to her or even walk near her.
- Dungeons will be linear corridors that loop back to the entrance.
- During the final battle against the Third Numidium, female Jiub will sacrifice herself and it will be very sad. There will be a paid mod that ressurects female Jiub and allows you to use her as a companion even after you finish the main quest.
- It will have VR support, but it will suck.
- Modding Tools will be sold separately.
- Console Commands will be a part of the Deluxe Edition.
- There might like one or two cool weapon and armor skins and there won't be much visual variety in equipment, cooler skins will be offered as paid mods on the Creation Club.
- Daedric Armor will be a pre-order bonus.
- Daedric Horse Armor will be a paid mod on the Creation Club.
- Survival Mode will be a paid mod on the Creation Club.
- You might be able to become a vampire in the base game, werewolves will be a DLC, Wereboars and Weredragons will be mods from the Creation Club.
- There will be a DLC that takes place in Cyrrodil, to exploit Oblivion nostalgia.
- There will be a DLC that takes place in Skyrim, to exploit Skyrim nostalgia.