Never said I was good at it

It was more costly at the beginning but after a while I got trained in it.

I have been recapping my Skyrim exploits via email with friends since I got it and I have to say, except for a few major quests, our paths, even after such a short time, have varied a ton!! My character has spent a lot of time around Whiterun with a little jaunt over to Riften. My character is a sneaky thief type. Another friend went straight to Winterhold to work on magic. And yet another, who is a nutso heavy armor sword and board dude, has been unleashing havoc around Whiterun and Solitude. I don't have to worry about throwing out spoilers in our emails because none of us are doing anything even remotely the same.

I play a Melee that wears heavy armor, and swings a 2H axe. I promise you no one plays this type of character.

@OP, you're oversimplifying too much. Look at Oblivion; eventually it all breaks down to "Do you damage it with magick, or with a weapon?"

In that respect, the base level has not changed. But Skyrim has so many more choices...dual wielding alone expands the choices a huge amount. For example, i never played a Paladin type character before(one handed mace and shield+restoration and shield magicks), but in skyrim it's intense fun. Only heard of a few other people playing it.

Of course, a game can only have so many playstyles. With hundreds of thousands of people playing, it's nigh-inevitable that someone else will be playing the same way as you. But if you worry about it, it's not the game's fault, it's just yours for comparing yourself to other people in a singleplayer game.

I believe you are suffering from "MMOitis", the unstoppable urge to be the most powerful combat character you can be as quickly as possible. That's completely missing the point in TES games, which is why the difficulty slider is, like, RIGHT THERE. If you want to play a character that runs around naked as a vampire during the day and only uses absorb spells to kill his enemies to death, you can go right ahead! Just remember to turn the difficulty down first.