deleted_user: Finally forced myself back into Skyrim. I love the game, but its frustrating (and likely my least favorite of the series).
I find the voicing, story, and visuals to be very good. However, the leveling system is atrocious, the penalties for leveling against what the devs had in mind can be game breaking, and the bugs are the worst in the franchise (YMMV). They also further dumbed down gear options... one ring? really?!?!?! THAT is what you needed to fix to cater to a larger audience??? Some of this is moddable... some of it is so entrenched in the system I haven't found decent mods to correct yet.
I found it interesting that the reason Eidos gave for not hiring Steven Russell was that they needed someone young to make all the action grunts of Garrett... (which we all knew was smoke), but then I hear him giving blood curdling screams and grunts and all sorts of awesome vocals on several characters in Skyrim. Oh well, Eidos' loss. He made Skyrim much more tolerable. ;)
I played patched vanilla Skyrim for about 20 levels (new character) and then added the community patches and they did not fix the issues I was having. They aren't game breaking (so far) but they definitely make me take more breaks from it.
What frustrates me is that when I'm done with this game, I"ll likely go back and play Morrowind. And, at first, I'll breath a sigh of relief over how much more open and free that game was... and then I'll start getting frustrated because it lacks some of the polish and more advanced features of the newer games. Morrowind, would likely be in my my top 5 picks for an official game remake (since that is all the rage these days).
Morrowind is one of my favorite RPG too. but I always wanted that this game has a nice journal like Skyrim has.