Just thought it would be cool to see everyone's thoughts... So give Skyrim a letter grade, and then a list just a few pros and cons. I'll go first:

GRADE: A-

PROS:
- Endless things to do and see
- Beautiful atmosphere
- Fun and deep combat system that provides great replay value

CONS:
- Bugs (primarily PS3 related for me)
- Voice acting a inconsistent

A++

Does everything I wanted and a lot more

U

Grade: B

Pros:
-Several improvements of game play mechanics,
-Art Style
-Modding
-Animations

Cons:
-Horses are ridiculous
-Dragons are less polished then the "Alpha" preview we say almost a year ago.
-Bugs overall from CTD to missing textures (usually followed by the CTD)
-Steam integration (yep love steam hate AAA publishers other then valve using it vs their own DRM)
-Economy isn't as malleable as hoped

Play on xbox. As apparently your pc can't handle it. My pc doesn't do all that.

Strong C+ nearing a B-

PROS:
Nicely crafted world
Aesthetically pleasing (even if not on a technical level)
Construction kit (this is bonus points)

CONS:
Shallow systems (combat, economy, crafting, guilds, etc.)
Interface
Interface
Interface

A lot of my cons fall under systems or mechanics of the game, so no need to really list them all out in great detail. There are just a lot of problems where they're not really jiving with one another and I believe that creates a strong element of inconsistency and unbelievability within the game and can even draw you out of immersion.

I wish my Xbox did not break...PS3 Skyrim has way too much lag once that save file gets larger and larger

Hopefully Bethesda decides to fix this for you guys in the coming patch. I've a friend return his yesterday with a full refund because of this bug. It's happened across two characters of his and he said he'll end up just waiting until the GOTY edition comes out. Shame that they've been so careless with their PS3 releases. They took an entire year with Oblivion and it still had issues.

I have to agree with you on the immersion part, I never really thought about it... I hate having to constantly pause to find weapons, potions, magic, etc mid fight! Not to mention...why no asterisk or star next to newly picked up items?

THIS
especially the fact that i cant hotkey stuff to left/right hand makes some potentially awesome tactics not worth playing because they require too much effort and kill the otherwise good pace of combat

A. Interface is the only thing holding it back from an A+, and if this were any other game I'd rate it a lot lower due to such a big drawback. But, this is a Bethesda game, and because they release the CS, my problems will all be gone soon, so they maintain an A for an amazing game.

C

PROS:
Wonderful detailed world, physically
So much to do
Can look great in the right areas

CONS:
So many details missed. Why do you let the PC in if hes a Khajitt but not the caravans?
So much detail but so little detail also. Marriage was basically "HERP DERP LETS MARRY", so many things but lack of care given to them.
Animations kill immersion
Lack of polish
Only looks great in the right areas

A+

pros

have you played it? like seriously

cons

UI blows
Textures broken.

Greatest time sink before the long wait Diablo 3

A++++

C

Utterly beautiful game held back by softcoe rpg mechanics and level scaling.

An arcade style bash em up with allusions of rolelpaying.

Developers failed yet again to grasp the potential presented in Morrowind.

Next-gen 3d graphics, legacy 2d gameplay.

Diet rpg. Won't lower your cool.

A+

Pros:
World design/Art Direction - Tenfold better then Oblivion. A true successor to Morrowind in this department.
Dialogue/Voice Acting - Occasional bad VA'ing, but muchhhh improved. Dialogue scripts are much more mature. Lots of voices.
Animations - Not perfect, but improved.
Graphics - Not perfect, but improved. Some moments though.... my jaw drops.
Combat - Best combat yet in a TES. Granted, this was not hard to accomplish.
Detail - Brimming with it. Every location has something new to add.
Lore - Skyrim seems to be adding an incredible amount of lore to TES, and I'm loving it.
References to old TES games - They're all around, an it makes a long time fan smile.
Perks - The good part about leveling up, see cons below for the rest.
UI - Maybe I'm in the minority, but I really like it.
Dungeon variety - Huge upgrade from Daggerfall/Morrowind/Oblivion.
Main Quest - Much more interesting this time around.
Dragon Fights - Crazy stuff happens every now and then.
Smithing/Jobs - Nice little touches in the game. Good to see NPC's chopping wood and the like.
Radiant AI - Improved.
Difficulty - I have died tons of times with my pure mage. Never to a dragon, but still.... I died like twice in all of Oblivion with a pure mage.

Cons:
Bugs - Seriously, how did the bug testers miss all the weapon racks being glitched and unusable (PS3 version)?
Leveling up - The 3 attribute system is beyond lame. You call this an RPG?
Factions - The College was way too short, but it was fun while it lasted. Heard the others are the same way.
Balance - Why have I died more to Sabre Cats (once) then dragons (none)?
Spellcrafting - Or rather, it's absence.

My score is boosted by the fact that I've never considered TES games to be RPG's. They've always played more like adventure games to me.

Same, but my feelings about the UI are more raw; perhaps because I'm a left handed gamer and on top of everything else, I have to run a 3rd party app (Autohotkey) in order to even use the numpad to move around, which I've been doing for 15 years. That, and the fixed UI keys are mostly righty-based, such as "R" to stuff something into a barrel. The UI as it exists right now is an ergonomic disaster.

So, even though I'm totally immersed and lost withing this fantastic gameworld, my rating is capped at B+ until these issues are sorted. I cannot give it an A right now.

D+

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoDfO1pWto

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Because most you you cant type it.

Seriously i give it a B, its not the best, but it lived up to my expectations.
Bugs are to be expected in new releases.

But seeing the laggy playstation video, thats just not acceptable.

? - Cause for the most part it seems like an A, but theres a few problems with it which make it something else entirely.

If you quit out of the game and reload it's fine again for another 5 hours or so.

I give it an A. I'm not going to let little things cloud my judgement, but the UI needs major help.

A

A very open game, not chained down with number crunching. Cons are mostly small bugs.

B

It's not perfect, but it has so much going for it, and I don't use +'s or -'s


Pros:
- Great Main Story line - Favorite story line even above Morrowind.
- Beautiful Graphics - Better than most of the graphics mods that had come out for Oblivion PC.
- Radiant AI - Sure, it's not perfect, but it was one hell of a task and they took it on with such ambition.
- Variance in Dungeons - In my first four hours of Gameplay going through pretty much only caves, I think the only thing that made me think of other dungeons was the fact that I ran into two caves that had rivers running through them. The ONLY thing I could find that was similar in terms of layout and style was the fact that they had a natural feel? That makes me laugh with joy.
- NPC interaction - Every time I've walked into town some NPCs have been somewhere talking about something relative to the actual atmosphere and times of the game. In Oblivion I felt like every NPC only conversation was a boring non-informational gossip chat. In Skyrim I have not had the feeling that any conversation has been pointless. In fact every time I come across NPCs talking to each other I pay very close attention to what they're talking about, I've even taken to taking notes.
- Smithing/Enchanting - So easy, so smooth so wonderful. I am glad that they have taken away the constant repair necessity and given you the opportunity to craft your own weapons and armor and then improve them from their.
- Perks - They brought back the sort of level planning that I enjoyed in Morrowind. Oblivion was so streamlined that I didn't even care what skills I had because I could still just sneak and kill most bandits with one shot of an arrow even if I didn't have much skill in sneak or archery.
- Environment/Art Style - Not only does this place have an art style that makes it feel like a place that you could stumble across in your travels in say Canada/Alaska, a realistic place with realistic transitions from marshes to mountain peaks, but it also manages to actually put creatures and armor and weapons and people who FEEL like they belong in this icy tundra. TES has always done a good job of making me feel like what existed, where I was, was actually a place that made sense. Even in some of the crazier places.
- Combat - Intuitive. Flexible. Fun. I have not been bored by combat. I see people complaining about how easy Dragons are and everything but I'm playing on Expert, I've taken time to build up my combat stats and I'm a pretty strategic player and I take advantage of every thing I can (without cheating or abusing glitches.) Still when I fought a Dragon all by myself, just a regular Dragon, and I died six times without much of a difference in how much of the Dragon's health I depleted, I realized that this game was wonderful. Combat is simple and intuitive, but that doesn't mean it's easy.
- UI - Freakin love it. It's so simple, it's so smooth and it's so pretty. Especially the skills/perks menu.
- Difficulty - In general, not just in combat, but the world in general seems pretty hard to survive in. Money seems harder to make, enemies harder to kill, health harder to replenish, travel takes longer (mainly due to getting sidetracked) and loot harder to stockpile. I felt GREAT when I got my first house and the ability to store all of that excess gear that I'd been piling in random corpses. That feeling of accomplishment was great in older games.

Cons:
- Alchemy - It seems like it's trying too hard to make it difficult. Which I kind of understand since people abused the hell out of it in Oblivion.
- Glitches - Not terrible, but trotting along and then looking off into the distance and watching in horror as an Elk slowly gets pulled at awkward angles off of the map and into the abyss below the map just happens to be less than fun.
- Balance - I find it less than humorous that I can slay dragons who breathe fire and rend flesh from bone with their claws and teeth but when a Bandit Outlaw shows up with a great sword, it only takes a couple of swings before I'm dead.
- The lack of spell variance - Sure I've got nearly 160 combinations with destruction magic alone, but I miss spells like levitation and open lock or disarm trap. There were so many miscellaneous spells that could have still been implemented.
- Misc Skills Gone - Acrobatics and Athletics are the most noticeable to me. Even if they'd only had one of the two they could have easily made some amazing perks allowing people to run around and have fun all over.
- The Overall Cost for me to own it for myself - Need a new computer and the game itself. Currently forced to play it at a friend's house.

That's all I can think of for now, maybe after another 20+ hours I will feel a bit differently.

C

Pros:
-The world looks nice
-Combat slightly improved over Oblivion
-Crafting exists
-Dwemer ruins returned

Cons:
-Too easy
-No 'radiant story', dumb NPCs
-No immersion
-Hardly any wildlife
-Game runs like an arcade shooter, should not be listed under RPG