I hate to get too carried away, but it's possible that Skyrim is a serious contender for being the best game ever; up there with Civ2, Deus Ex, and the original Starcraft.
Whoa, you are getting a little carried away. Skyrim didnt put anything on the table other than full-scale fightable dragons. Its a great game, but there were so many opportunities to make this game remembered for many years to come but Bethesda clearly sacrificed quality for quantity. Even saying that is an understatement, one point that stood out to me was that the factions in this game severely disappointed me as most of them dont qualify as quests. Quest-lines feel like 3 quests with several objectives that they branded as "quests" to extend the amount of time to finish it and make it seem like a complete story. Not to mention perk variety, level scaling issues, glitches, and one part that couldve have been epic and made a lot of jaws drop that refers to a dragon flying you across Skyrim, but instead they chose to black out the screen and teleport you there. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Ill continue to play the game because its great and there are alot of cool moments, but I feel like Ill pop in another RPG sometime in the near future and never look back to Skyrim like I did with Morrowind and (seldom)Oblivion.