This is a thread for listing all of the good things about Skyrim to counter lots of people complaining about this and that. Here's my list so far:

Dual Wielding
Dragons!!!
Dynamic Snow/Weather
Realistic Mountains and Forests
Spiders that aren't scary
A NEW ELDER SCROLLS GAME.

Feel free to list anything else that you are excited about for this game!

The spiders aren't scary?

No, I'm arachnophobic and the Spiders didn't bother me. Makes me really happy and not afraid to play this game :biggrin:

Problem, spiderman?

finishing moves, I will be the first one with a mod that yells Finish him!! whenever you kill someone

Everything. Really I don't have a problem with anything so far.

I think all people here are really excited about the game. And it's taken as something obvious that the game will be utterly awesome.
People (including myself) complain about things because it would take too much time to mention everything good. And because we care so much about this game that we care enough to mention what we think needs to be done better.
It not necessary something negative. Although I do agree that some people basically "flame" anything, without explaining or elaborating, which I think is wrong :confused:

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Anyway to contribute to the "good" list.
Very unique landscapes and dungeons.
Utterly awesome story.
Awesome combat system.

Not http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy297/b_harrison/skyrim/skyrim_gameplay_spider1.jpg, or http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy297/b_harrison/skyrim/skyrim_gameplay_spider2.jpg, or even http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy297/b_harrison/skyrim/skyrim_gameplay_spider3.jpg?

Well, I like everything about Skyrim so far, save a small number of pretty minor things. Really pleasing things so far:

• Overall theme, content and storyline
  
• Art style and influences
  
• Elegant, classless character progression
  
• Character design (concept and game)
  
• Character animation
  
• Creation Kit availability

I dunno if a "counter" thread is needed though... the positive reaction to the gameplay trailer seems to've been pretty overwhelming everywhere I've looked. (And look at YouTube; half a million views and 13500+ likes in a day or two.)

Open towns (probably)
Dark Brotherhood confirmed
Dragon Shouts
Everything else

Well when it's paused it is, but when moving it isn't.

You'll see... you'll see hihiihih

Nah, seriously. You will see.
I bet the spider will come crawling slowly from a dark corner, or from the above...
Then we will get stuck in its spider web, desperately trying to flee.
I think it will be really scary...

SHHEEEELLLLOB

Spiders won't be that scary for ya..
Especially with the massive sword you'll be dragging around. haha!

I'm looking forward to,
-new weapons and armor
-fighting my way up snowy mountains
-my character having an actual sweet beard without it looking weird (oblivion)
-finishing moves with my sword/s (SO happy about it)

actually, i'm just stoked that it is out this year.

Uh, what would constitute a scary spider then? I'm not arachnophobic, but I don't look forward to fighting that!

lol I was thinking the same thing when I saw those pictures.

Anyway, so far I can't seem to find anything that isn't appealing to me in Skyrim.

I'm happy with everything i've seen,apart from the magnetism thing.
But i'm not as bothered about that now,i don't think it will be that bad.
I may be wrong,but another reason i think magnetism is there is because.
1: Finishing moves
2: Friendly fire
3: Air attacks...this is what i mean......in the trailor look at the swing he does when the dragon flies over him.
It allows him to swing in a different manner that couldn't be done in oblivion,like the game knows the target is above him,so he does that.
I think that is another reason why it's there...hope that makes sense.
I also believe aiming with a bow will be all our own,and not magnetised at all.
Just my view.

Unique looking races, so the Mer and human races do not look the same. I could never tell the difference between a Breton or an Imperial female in Oblivion, same with a Nord.

ASSASSINATIONNNNNNNN
AND
DECAPITATIONNNNNNNN

hehe, well just wait until they jump you in a pitch black cave man xD

Yeah it is not scary now, but when that thing jumps behind you from a wall in a dark dungeon you will see that it is scary! :ninja: :bolt:

Think I get what you mean, same as not hitting giants in the knees.
Stoked about most things, except not particularly fussed about Dragons anyway, but that's cool, it's Elder Scrolls, I can avoid them as long as I like.

Smaller spiders. When dealing with venomous critters in general, the smaller the critter, the more deadly the venom.

Kinda of like how acrophobics (fear of heights) aren't so disturbed by game heights since depth doesn't translate well to games.

The less realistic the danger, the less disturbed someone is by it.

Ah, makes sense. Of course, it doesn't apply to everybody... there have been many threads made by arachnophobics to express their concern here.

Yes there have been. And before I got the GameInformer mag and saw the Spider for myself I feared we were going to get creepy Nehrim-Style (tarantula) ones, but these ones just look funny.

The armor actually looks like it has character in this game. This pleases me, as it would reduce my need to try to find good armor and clothing through mods.

And about the arachnophobia topic in this thread, I used to be arachnophobic... Then I learned that I'm bigger than they are, and thus much more of a threat to them than they are of me. In video games they never bothered me though, in fact I think they look amazing in Skyrim.

Mountains are also a big plus. I actually am on a snowboarding trip right now and seeing some real mountains (Not like the wimpy foothills of the Appalachians I have at home in Ohio) and I personally am looking forward to seeing Skyrim's mountains. They are always a fun adventure location when portrayed correctly. And to me, they never get old.

Dynamic snow: self exclamitory.

Advanced battle mechanics: This will definitely increase replay value. To me, TES have always been about the adventure. And with Oblivion and Morrowind, which were lacking in the combat mechanics, thats all they were really. The new fighting though looks as though it will add a brand new element to the game in its own right, and add a strong element along side my endless adventures.

The locations I see are exactly the sorts of locations I have wanted to visit when I heard Oblivion was coming out. Just look at how flavored they are!

Dragons: I have always been impressed by how carefully Bethesda has approached dragons in TES lore. It excites me to see how they are handled in this game.

The dragon shouts look like they were carefully considered, and I am loving what I am hearing about them so far.

I have a lot more, but I also have to return my snowboard and go out to dinner.