1: Many people are complaining about bugs and glitches

2: while the engine certaintly has improved with rendering distant objects- Up close everything looks utterly [censored]!! I remember i sounded like a graphics ho half a year ago, i realy think bethesda should have listened to me. Im going to have to wait till some mods come out to improve things and hope that my pc can run such a poorly optimised looking thing

- textures are horid
-models are often low polly. The hand's look like they were from a last generation console!!
- water looks hideous
- animations look poor. They might have had a fantastic animation system but the great book was read by a blindman
^ a lot of this stuff looks like it was made by a mod team rather than a professional game company


3: the game is missing important things such as spears, ui, probably crossbows , werebears (although quickly checked a wiki and it said werewolves were in) and it could follow the lore a bit better (ice vampires for instance) . I want these to be modded in


4: lastly, on a more positivene note: i want to buy the game with all the dlc

Many of the greatest games ever had just average or even poor graphics for their time.

Zelda - Ocarina of Time
Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic I & II
And, oh yeah, TES III - Morrowind.

It's about the gameplay. You want graphics, go buy Forza.

Ahh, I see. So immersion, story, setting, graphics, theme, music/sounds are not The Right Reasons.

Well, 'the right reasons' are obviously subjective. If you want a game just for the graphics this ain't for you. But uh.. as far as I'm concerned all that other stuff is amazing in Skyrim. [censored] it, the graphics are too. You can't hold it to such an unrealistic standard - and not every game can be THE BEST LOOKING GAME EVER.

Yeah, it would be a big problem if the graphics were so [censored] that it totally ruined immersion, but they just aren't. they're pretty great and about the best you could possibly do considering hardware limitations with a game of this scale.

^This^

Wait a minute, I'm confused. You said graphics aren't a good reason to play video games. The OP obviously disagrees. It's so confusing! It's almost like a complaint that isn't universally shared can still be valid.