I think i know what exactly makes Skyrim a good or even great game.
Sure, the scripting blows, npc's AI is Homer Simpson caliber, UI is almost the worst i ever seen, level scaling world is terrible but...
Theres something in the woods that makes me feel like i would be playing P'n'P rpg.
Technialy the game is good but far from what media claims ("RPG of decade" - rubbish). but it leaves much for your imagination, or should i say - roleplaying. A huge part of this is the graphics and eviroment. Just look at th mountains picks with fog crawlng on their edges. OR the aurora in the night. Jesus, this alone makes you stand in place just freaking watching the show. Like a screensaver or something. Seriously, i dont rememeber a game THIS beautifull that it made me stop playing and just look around. So far my jaws were broken several times by the landscape but this sent me directly to the hospital
the dungeons, the woods, animals, secret stashes, abbandom houses in the middle of nowhere with lore and story, the ways you can play the game...
Seriously.
I make the room dark, i put my headphones, i start the game and... i am there. Sometimes you really can forget for a brief moment that you are playing a GAME.
I sharpened my two swords and choped some wood for the Riverside. Then i gone for hunting. Ive seen a deer so i crawled in the bushes to get to the right position to have a clean shot from my hunting bow looted from some bandit. I aimed carefully and suddenly! A wolf jumped out of nowhere and attacked my deer. Headshot the deer then i grab my swords and sliced the wolf. Both skin and pelt will give me lots of lether. On my way home i bumped a nice iron ore, saved some Khajit mage from beign eaten by pit wolfs, foraged loads of herbs and found a secret Nirn Root (!!!) just by the Riverside, glowing in the dark with creepy whispers around it.
Lether became a lether armor better the the iron one ive looted from that imperial scum.
Dam what a nice Skyrim day that was!
btw:
the quest magic collage when you are beint sent after some staff that the quest giver sold and wants it back. theres a puzzle with that 4 turnable pillars, with eagle, whale and snake.
how many of you figured out the right combination by themself?
that surw was a tricky riddle