A little background about where I’m coming from here and then a quick question,
Ok, let me first just say that my first Bethesda game was Oblivion, this led to Fallout3, Fallout New Vegas and finally while waiting for this game to be done Morrowind with the Overhaul Mod and Master Head Pack, in Nvidia 3D. (Absolutely incredible detail!) Morrowind being the BEST so far but ALL games in my top 10 favorites!

SO playing these, up to 9 year old, games has probably skewed my opinion BUT I must know, WHY on earth the step backwards?
I mean yeah my Oblivion silver claymore had more texture detail than every weapon I’ve run across so far in Skyrim, and yeah the fires and lighting in the Modded Morrowind (in 3D) blows Skyrims limp fire detail out of the water…but I can over look that.
What I cannot overlook though is the game play depth, WHO’s fantastic Idea was it to make static barrels and boxes? I was able to look into EVERY box, barrel, cup, saucer, plate, nook and cranny in the 9 year old Morrowind and 5 year old Oblivion, but 15 mins into this game I have some guy rushing me through the first level and I'm trying to search EVERY spot I can…only to find the barrels static??

With all else aside about this being an obvious “Now 5 year old tech” console port, why make it a dumbed down game?? Are Console players (no offense to our Console sisters brothers…and others) so shallow that they would never think to look into every container? And I know that if something is empty that it’s basically useless…..unless you want to store something in it, BUT it makes no sense to make such a boundless game with limp boundaries on containers of all things.

I thought it was just effecting the first cut scene/level of the dungeon in which I can overlook this but the guy rushing me and I are at the first mine just past the wishing stones where I just killed a bandit with one swipe of my sword (I’m not even level one yet lol) and there are 2 barrels out front that seem to be full of concrete or something because I can’t interact with them at all.

Question:
Is this by design? Does it get better down the trail? OR is my game just screwed up?
I have the $60 retail game disk and have verified my game cache through STEAM, is this actually the way the game was designed OR am I still in a cut scene type of game mode? After all this time I am truly stunned at this, I hope it’s just may game and is fixable.

Thanks yawl!
JBB/ Player name: JBDevilsCut

EDIT for my system specs, (NOTE: using the Newest BETA driver fomr Nvidia made for Skyrim and BF3)

EVGA X58 3X sli Classified BIOS 82
intel i7 950@ 3.6gig/CoolerMaster Hyper N620.
CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 12GB (3 x 4GB) Tripple Chan 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) @9,9,9,24 1T 1700
EVGA GTX580 SC (285.79 BETA)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
450gig WD Raptor/System installed with Windows 7 64bit Pro
600gig WD Raptor Games ; 1TB WD/storage Programs and video
ASUS My Cinema-EHD3-100 PCI-e TV card
PC P&C 860Watt PSU (powerful single 12volt rail)
Coolemaster HAF 942
ASUS Burner /LG Blu-Ray Player/Burner
Thermaltake Max 4 3.5" SATA HDD Rack HotSwapabale AHCI activated
LG W2363D 23" 3ms Full HD 120Hz 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision Kit