Video games cannot consider themselves art forms i.m.o. unless they start releasing developed games. Skyrim might be ok in a year. I’ll wait till the modders to the work of Bethesday. Here is a few reasons why. Aside from game breaking quest bugs, the other problems with visuals and such didn’t really bother me that much. Luckily I didn’t play on a Playstation. What DOES bug me about what could have been one of the greatest games of all time? Minor: FIX THE HOUSES SO STUFF DOESNT FLY AROUND. Give me a break, you had it down 10 years ago with Morrowind, how did you get worse at it? To own ones own house and to really live in it, to make it your own is part of really getting drawn in..I know that Im old school that way, I like to be there in the game and not in my head…. Minor: why do the guards know more about me then my therapist? It’s a total immersion killer when they make little comments about my skills unsolicited. No reason for it. This along with other random dopey comments that you hear seem unduly janky, and draw my attention away from the fact that I’m in Skyrim. Major: lazy, and I mean reeeeeallly lazy writing is not really masked by explaining them in fancy terms like “radiant quests”. I get the idea, but fetch this from the dungeon without any back-story or real reason turns into an overblown Diablo crawl. The characters are shallow, the dialogue is simple (not the good kind), and the voice acting though wonderful in parts is so pitiful in the other parts that I wonder if someone was hired as a favor to a family member. The guy who does the voice for Brynjolf’s wizard Farengar couldn’t audition for a high school play…which would be nice and quirky if he was only there that one time…but he shows up all over the place. Major: It is extremely difficult to suspend disbelief in the world of Skyrim without at least an effort to show some real armies either engaging, or heck even just parked somewhere to see….I mean it’s war right? I need more than 3 imperials and a man in rags or 2 people joining the fight etc…populate it, even if just a little more. Major: The new skill system, while it did grow on me a little, was so poorly developed that I just didn’t care about getting better at anything…add to that the uselessness of two of the trees (lockpicking, etc.) and a limit to the kind of spells that can be cast (more “streamlining” which actually equates to boredom for those with longer attention spans. Now before I gain the label of “hater” or whatever the kids are saying thesedays to denote someone who thinks differently than them, consider this: We paid for a game with money that we earned and we have every right to ask for more. More and more game companies are pandering to a “wider audience” which means roughly that they don’t have to put out games that are fully developed because they know dopes (yes like me) will take them on their word that this is the best offering. Glitches are to be expected (though Skyrim was pretty bad even by Bethesda’s standards) but I really miss the days when you got excited about a game and it was worth the wait…