Less armor pieces, gutted attributes, cut spellmaking, snipped the arena, trashed first person horse riding, cities are getting smaller, questlines are getting shorter, the coding in general is still embarrassing, skills continue to dwindle, and the list sadly goes on...

This series future is very questionable at this rate. It'll be nothing more then an action game if this continues. Skyrim is as shallow a RPG as you can get. Go back to the drawing board Bethesda. Save this once cherished franchise.

On the bright side, we have Health, Magicka, and Stamina to define our characters!

hm :intergalactic:

This is the best game in the series to date imo. It's certainly not worse than any of the previous ones. And people seem to agree, given that it's already won a GoTY award.

I've played far shallower RPGs (Fable III, I'm looking at you)

I'm loving every minute I get to play of Skyrim... I wish my parents would stop hogging the TV.

Every TES game gets that award.

People agree it's the best because it won GotY? Skyrim's award is more meaningful then Morrowind's and Oblivion's?