The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I think part of the reason is that you ranked up so quickly without doing much in the first place. It is something that I am hoping for in skyrim, a better guild system(You can include the Arena in this as well)

Hopefully, ranking up in guilds isn't as easy and you are given more difficult quests along the way.
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Redguard: Emperor of the Mudcrabs
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very good different types of arenas idea, anyway. i couldnt stand the same circle with 4 pillars setting tbh. i got bored of its total repetitiveness very quickly, and the poles were just in there for no real reason. other than messing around with long ranged chars.
and i remember the weapons they used were scripted. at higher levels u could run in with a daedric warhammer against steel shortsword ppl.

I pretty much solely used the arena to get a quick seven grand or so, or level some skills. Yeah it needs to be beefed up if it returns in Skyrim. Perhaps the radiant AI thingy could get random NPC challenging you to a duel in the arena? Or maybe scripted events in matchess, like cheating, interferance and so on...
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By superhuman effort, you can avoid slipping backwards for a while. But one day you'll lose a step, or drop a beat, or miss a detail and you'll be gone forever.

-Different arena setups as already mentioned.
~Some matches may be in a traditional arena.
~Others may have you fighting on a narrow platform over spikes (brings in environmental kills from knocking enemy off).
~Some may have you fighting on the arena with lava pits.
~Sometimes there may be spikes present on the ground.

-In important matches (eg. rank up matches) when you reduce the opponents health to 0 they should fall to the ground and you have the option to finish them or let them live. If you finish them you get a unique scripted finisher and if you let them live you may get the option to fight them again later on when they're stronger.

-Make it so you can't go through the entire arena in one or two days (game time). There should be a limit of matches per day (eg. 3) and the prizes should be slightly increased to accommodate this.

-Give us the option of switching to the yellow team and possibly add in a storyline to this aspect of it.
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Price had whiskey poured in his gutshot to revive him. Gaz got white lightning poured in the hole in his head. Nobody had any koolaid so Griggs died-Runner5676

From: GameGuy_5318 | #009
Make the last fight something other than a free ticket in to the dark brotherhood/5 minutes of rapidly pressing the trigger

That was probably the biggest anti climax of the entire game for me.
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Price had whiskey poured in his gutshot to revive him. Gaz got white lightning poured in the hole in his head. Nobody had any koolaid so Griggs died-Runner5676