The game looks and plays fantastic. I'm 5 hours in and nothing wrong so far. Good job bethesda keep good games coming.

Ive been playing nonstop since I got it. Bethesda, you are geniuses.

I'm with you guys this is one hell of a game

Yeap, Skyrim is a big win. I'll have to give my travel agent a bonus for sending me to the north of Tamriel .

The graphics, gameplay, and audio, are superb and the mechanics are becming more comfortable the more I playit. Performance is right up there even with everything (except Anti-Aliasing which I have turned off) up to max and running at 2560x1600. I'm still getting used to the interface. But, even that's getting easier to deal with the more I learn about where everything is and what it all does. Great job, developers.

This is an amazing game. I swear, this topic is literally the first positive thread I've seen in awhile. I popped by the forums to see what everyone was up to in the game to find about 300 negative threads created since last night. This game is everything I've waited these few years for, and I can't wait to sit down and play it again. Thanks, Bethesda, for delivering on my most anticipated title of all time.

P.S. Thanks OP for creating a positive thread. Now, let's all head back to Skyrim and leave the negative Nancy's here to complain in the forums.

I agree with what I've seen so far. Out of the "box" (Steam) this is the most complete game I've played in a long time. I was so happy that it just worked and was pretty easy to get into... I can see myself losing many hours in this magical world.

Played for an hour, when I get home from work I will be loading that first autosave because I forgot to customize my character appearance, and I can already tell I will play this game for all time. ALL TIME.

13 hours in and just finished the Companions questline. Good stuff. Way, way better than the generic quests the Fighters Guild provided in Oblivion and Morrowind. Also, I'm loving the little random encounters on the road. Nice little touches like that make you feel like the game world is really alive.

I feel like I'm going to cry.. seriously.. I went all the way to the gamestop only to find out they would probably only receive Skyrim in like a week.. I'm dying here!

WTF?? What GameStop??

Why don't you go to Walmart or something?

I agree. I played for about 5 hours and I'm having a lot of fun, plus it looks great. Love what I've seen of the dungeons so far. Bethesda you did a great job.

I have one problem: I haven't got the game in the mail yet.

Yeah...

Yeah this game is amazing to be honest. I played for 5 hours just doing side questions
You can tell the story is going to be good just by the intro, the graphics look amazing to me and NPC's actually act realistically.

i have just literally started playing skyrim (just got back from shop).have only just started playing around 15 minutes,but by the gods is the game stunning or what i am speechless.i must admit to taking my 360 with me to install the 1.1 update (no phone line at home).i just cannot wait to really get into this game

4 hours in, and it's better than expected DD

I'm really enjoying it so far, haven't done much questing just wandered around talking to people and earning some cash by chopping wood.

I had a bit of a frustrating start because my keyboard started playing up and I had to find another one but that was a hardware issue nothing to do with the game, once I swapped it for a different one I was off - stumbled a bit over the controls at first but that's to be expected especially since I am a bit cack-handed and the Steam dl version doesn't have a manual so it was all a bit trial and error!!!

But yeah lovely game so far, very easy to lose yourself in

I've played 13 hours now, and haven't come up with anything to complain. Maybe the interface could be a bit better on PC, but nothing else. At first I thought the compass would ruin the feel of exploration, but it's placed so that you don't look at it if you don't need to. Many things in the game are done so well I almost wept while playing.

Yeah someone should make a forum for Bethesda so those people can voice their concerns.

Oh wait.