Official Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim thread!

[econ21]

I've pre-ordered Skyrrim, but more out of habit than expectation. Nothing about the advance notice has grabbed my attention (I am particularly non-plussed by the dragon theme, suffering from dragon fatigue with Dragon Age and WoW: Cataclysm. And I find the idea of taking defeated dragon's essences distinctly bleh.). However, these Elder Scroll games are always sumptuous meaty affairs, if not ultimately to my taste.

Not overly impressed with Beth's last two games in Oblivion and Fallout 3, nowhere near enough quests.

I don't want to be confrontational, but I find this comment a little mind-boggling. Oblivion seems to have a virtually endless number of quests. (I bought the official game guide which lists them all and it is not a short volume.) [EDIT: Google says something in the region of 180-200 quests in the game.] I think the root problem with Beth is that they go for quantity over quality. I burnt out long before I had worked all the way up even one of the guilds or finished the main quest.

Recently I have gone back to Fallout 3 and must say I was pleasantly surprised: it was a far better game than I remembered. I particularly liked the start and the main story involving your Dad (I admit, I am a bit in awe of Liam Neeson). I am wavering on giving up at level 16, but am pretty sure I have done only a fraction of the quests. The world seems very large and I have not explored most of it. I particularly like the feel of FO3 - it feels just like you would imagine a post-apocalyptic DC would - whereas I found Oblivion's generic fantasty setting did not grip me (unlike say Morrowind's more outlandish setting).

I've also gone back to FO: New Vegas, which may have more quests than FO3 but also seems more likely to induce exhaustion.

Small can be beautiful.