containing a few main quest spoilers. read at your own discretion.

I've just finished the main quest and nobody seems to care/recognize what I've done.

Guards won't talk about it, nobody even notices that Alduin is gone.

I've tried to talk to Elisif(since I met her husband), General Tuilus, Ulfric, and no one says a thing; did the temporary truce even end? I can't tell.

There are only 3 NPCs in the entire game that recognized my deed. the talking greybeard guy, and two remaining members of the blades. The latter did mention my victory but then they went on how I'm unwelcome in their base as long as Parthurrax lives.

This is the way it's supposed to be? In Oblivion people on streets of recognized me as my title and expressed admiration. I've seen no such thing in Skyrim, and Skyrim is supposed to have twice as many lines recorded as Oblivion....

Hahahahahahahahaha... no.

Pretty much every quest gives the same amount of recognition: the next town guard you see will have one new line that talks about it.

What he said, you are not proclaimed anything like Hero of Kvatch or CoC. The guards are the only ones who make random mention of your exploits. BTW the guards seem to be omniscient, they know things about your character and make observations on things they should NOT know, things that would be best kept secret depending on your faction.

So there is absolutely no post-victory dialogue other than guards' generic statement?

REEAAAALLY? Not single extra "congratulations" sort of speech even for the main quest?

Bards occasionally dedicate the "Tale of the Tongues" song to the Dragonborn, but outside of that and what everyone else's mentioned, nope.

After completing the MQ, one will recognize your accomplishment and then back to the same old same old.

May have something to do with the fact that dragons continue to spawn after the MQ, also even if you have completed one side of the civil war everyone acts like it is still going on. No one will recognize your completion of the Dragonborn or Dawnguard DLC either.

Same with the civil war story: at the end, you'll keep seeing camps of the opposite faction still active, and *drum roll* you can't kill the generals!

I'm afraid not. Paarthurnax will preside over a really good 'closing' scene, if you spared him, once you return from Sovngarde. That's pretty much the 'epic' closing dialogue, and it is good, but not enough.

This is something that Morrowind did very well. I enjoyed having a long chat with Vivec about what had happened.

There is a post-victory recognition. Once.

After that? Nope. While they know you're a Dark Brotherhood assassin, they seem to forget that you're the dragonborn