Played the game another couple hours tonight. Liking it more than my lukewarm/lightly positive impressions I posted last night. Skyrim is dense.
But man, I hate to harp on it, but... Bethesda really needs to build a new engine from scratch. It's not even really the engine. Just a side effect of HUGE open world games like this. It's disappointing to fight someone in the bar, literally beat them into submission until they are on the ground, then initiate dialogue with them 5 seconds later and have them speak to me like nothing happened.
Skyrim, like Oblivion before it, is full of little moments like that, and little bugs.
The game is at its best when you're just pure dungeon crawling, I think. For the record I've cleared two dungeons, and they were both quite long. But they also both had at least one copy/pasted room.
