OldFatGuy: Just turn the lights out, turn the background music off, and walk around in that fantasy world and it feels like you're really there. At least to me. I don't think any game has ever made me feel like I was really there the way (...) Skryrim did.
It's really interesting that you feel that way.
Skyrim is the one of the games that violently breaks my immersion at any possible time:
-When I open the ("Google Tamriel") map
-When I hear the NPCs saying the same thing no real person would ever say to a stranger for the twentieth time while doing the same thing they do every day
-When I do these identical quests that for some unintelligible reason involve killing everything in an ancient dungeon to find a generic quest item in the last chamber
-When I simply can't do something that my character clearly would do in a certain situation
-When I have to do something my character clearly would not do at all
-When I hear that sub-par audio quality and at times atrocious voice acting
-When I come across those many minor things like nobodies calling me a milk drinker and the enemies shouting "I yield"
-When I can't find my way to a city because the signs point in a completely wrong direction
-When the city guards make their most stupid comments
...and so on.
Man, I really wanted to like the game but I can't and the reason why I write this comment is because I fear that Bethesda will keep these horrible short-comings in future games because most people don't seem to be bothered by them. No offence of course. :)