We reloaded a previous save because an NPC wouldn’t progress the quest. He just stood in the room looking like he wanted to attack a wall like it had wronged him. Or there was an enemy stuck in it.

We randomly attacked a ship’s captain, hoping the crew would join in our coup.
We weren’t all that surprise when the crew didn’t join in our coup.

Those make me sad. The rest is pretty damn great though.

We heard people shout for help in the wilderness in a fashion not dissimilar to Red Dead Redemption, except instead of needing to be defended from outlaws, they’re running from dire wolves or Orcs. Or dragons.

We explored the tops of mountains, and noticed that the snowfall increased as we got higher. It’s all rendered in 3D.

We saw a woolly mammoth lay dead, but just as we were about to get off our horse and have a look, we saw a bear that had been feeding off it. He'd seen us too. Run!

We were amazed as we rode through shallow water with a horse. Water ripples are brilliantly rendered in real time, and look straight out of a Pixar movie.

We broke out of our cell by smashing through a crumbing wall, and then took back our stuff and fought our way out .

We drank a potion and entered into an NPC’s memories.

We overheard a conversation about women in a town having horrid nightmares, and were given a side-quest to help end them.

We walked in snow so thick we could barely see where we were going.

We saw a fox while we were running through the forest. Quickly, we turned to it and used our magical ability to light it on fire. We actually laughed out loud and said “Heh, Firefox.”

We swung a mace at a wolf and hit it so hard it rolled down the side of a hill for nearly a minute. It was a big hill.

We tried to talk to a Ghostly Headless Horseman, but he wouldn’t have a conversation with us despite having a “talk' prompt.” Presumably, because he doesn’t have a mouth. That, or he’s a rude bastard.

We walked into a city we saw an executioner preparing to bring an axe down on a man’s neck. For no reason at all, we took out a bow and shot the executioner in the head – causing every guard in the town to attack us.

Pete mentions dragons are evil, though, if I'm not wrong, being animals means being leaded by instinct which isn't not bad nor good so, uhm, I don't know if calling them evil is totally right, despite Alduin that is a God, and as every God they have will and will isn't comanded by instinct but by thinking and motivation.

"We learned which ingredients do what. Snowberries and Silverside Perch resist frost; Dragon's Tongue and Strawberries both resist fire; Deathbell and Bleeding Crown both contain weakness to poison. When we mixed Snowberries, Silverside Perch, and Dragon's Tongue we created a Potion of Resist Frost."

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Special:Search?search=snowberry&fulltext=Search&nsnum=0&redirs=1&searchtitles=1

G4 said Skyrim has the best weather system they've ever seen.

Dayum... about time for self imposed media blackout.

Great info... but I think I want to retain some freshness and experience more of the game on my own.