Brilliant rationle you presented there.
Because TES has always been linear, it shouldn't bother you SKyrim is?!
Ah, brilliant.

?Terribly bias article??
Not the least.

Awful logic from your part?
Dead sure.

I'm not naive. IGN probably posts this kind of articles to boost traffic. But this a well thought out and well-presented opinion.
Deal with it.

Seriously? You consider them good characters? Characters you can't even talk to except in tiny preprescribed ways? Characters whose views you can no way effect or engage. Instead they just sit there an talk at you? A single companion in NV has more depth, motivation and interactivity than the whole of Skyrim's NPCs. Whatever you find out about Ulfric or the General in no way effects the outcome of anything. They exist in a bubble.

That was just example...
These are just examples.

I never buy a game without consulting IGN. Their reviews mean a lot to me in the sense that I read what they say carefully and then do exactly the opposite.

Its not how MW worked.
Only the Great Houses were mutually exclusive. There were some minor conflicts between other factions but nothing that couldn't be worked around
Very few decisions in MW had real consequences. Reform the FG or work for its corrupt bosses, either way you ended up killing and replacing the current leader
Much as I love MW in this respect it was not very different to Skyrim

Im saying there well-written characters, The best Bethesda has done, And you can Talk to them A number of times, And you can find Info about them.

The article is very true, and there are more flaws that are not stated. What it does, however, is ignore the things that make Skyrim so much fun. If Bethesda made consequences more interesting, NPCs or at least companions deeper, quest lines longer, dungeons less repetitive, Skyrim would be a better game. For all of those flaws and many others, it is still the best RPG out there.

IMHO take to blindly ignore valid criticism is foolish. Conversely, to laser focus on the flaws of a generally excellent product is also foolish.

Examine the game and look at the quests, they have always been linear in nature (Even more so in Oblivion), perfect example for Skyrim the 1st thieves guild quest. You always go to Goldenglow estates and burn the honey, there's nothing different about that quest everytime you do it, that makes it Linear in design, although thankfully we can pick and choose when to do those quests if ever.

I do prefer Skyrim over the previous games because the system is much better, we aren't restricted by a terrible overuse of Level Scaling system (Oblivion), or incredibly bad combat (Morrowind). Those are improvements over the previous games but the IGN writer won't say that, no he'll still be an RPG elitiest who wants D20 to be the rule set, not the player actions which is what TES is now being aimed at.

The lack of choices and consequences in general is disturbing indeed.

I have no problem with leveling, maybe BGS should tone it down a little bit in the next game.
Combat is okay in general, but magic is lacking.

What game wouldn't svck minus the area(s) you play in?

Great, but your not answering my problem. NOTHING REACTS TO IT! We don't see these leaders dealing with unruly populations their beloved Jarl was head chopped of fin a battle. We don't see a single Dark Brotherhood survivor attack us in a last desparate act of vengance and find his journal where he decries me for such treachery and laments th eloss of his brothers and blood sister or something. So it does change, but nothing does. It's static. Who cares who's on the throne, they all have about the same stuff to say. We defeat the dragon Alduin and yet there are dragons everywhere! They should be a finite amount of them or something. It doesn't make any sense.

Even with the things that change it can't hold a candle to how New Vegas did it. So no, it's all an illusion. It changes, but nothing does. There's never any real consequences we'll see in the game. Oh maybe later on in the next game, but they broke one of the biggest rules. Show don't tell. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowDontTell

So, basically what Morrowind fanatics/zealots have been saying all along?

While I agree with your sentiment I have to disagree with your assessment. The lack of restrictions is annoying to some of us but BGS is really smart. These kinds of changes are making their games more popular. People don't want consequences in their RPG's. They want lots of choices but no consequences. They want to be leader of every guild and run around Skyrim with their [censored] Generic Nord Warrior 1,000,002. They don't want to read. They don't want to have to "mess around with spreadsheety stuff like spellcrafting and attributes." They don't want to choose a birthsign at character creation, they want to be able to switch it up on the fly. They want to jump right into the action and "go play, hooorrrrayyyy!" [censored]s!

Delvin is very well connected. Then there's the Enthir's friendship with Gallus and Karliah. This doesn't apply to you.

At least now the industry is calling them out on it, not just the vocal minority of fans.

I agree that I think many game critics jumped the gun on Skyrim. The first few hours are the best. I think many critics did not put enough time into the game to give an accurate review. They saw the scope and potential of what Skyrim could be, but not what it actually plays out to be. I do find it very repetitive, especially the miscellanous quests. There should have been far fewer of those and more of the faction quests with much more time put in faction development. The article is right about the lack of consequences. But there's just an overall lack of acknowledgment about what decisions you make and what accomplishments you achieve. I mean even after I am Leader of the Companions I'm still being told by guards, " So you are the new member of the Companions? What do you do? Fetch the mead!?"

Give me a break.

Your seriously Linking TV TROPES!?
More examples...

I'd argue that the complaints regarding stealth are partially true, but miss the mark. The issue is not so much with constant dice rolls, but with Skyrim's awful level design. The dice rolls are absolutely necessary because every dungeon is highly linear with narrow corridors occassionally opening into larger rooms. But there's no alternative paths in 99 percent of these dungeons, no obstacles behind which you can place yourself. Everything is brightly lit and you are unable to extinguish any of those light sources.

And this doesn't just apply to thief activities. There should be different obstacles that can only be overcome by mages and others that can only be overcome by warriors. This is why levitation/climbing was awesome in earlier TES games. It allowed for truly inventive level design. This no longer exists in Skyrim.

Fix the level design. Give us actual options. Don't abandon the strengths of "open world" as soon as the player steps through a doorway. Then we can start talking about how stealth die rolls should be handled.
Confused, not confusing. The argument is that the system is poor at accounting for when a character improves combat skills versus when they improve non-combat skills. It has nothing to do with how difficult it is for the player to parse, but rather how the game world is effected by the player's leveling choices.

I agree, there's plenty of reaction in Skyrim to what the Dragonborn does although the reaction doesn't completely change the world though and that's fine by me.

I'd like too see more consequences in Skyrim. The article has a point even though I don't agree on everything but I'd really like to give mercy to the surrendering bandits.

It isn't so much the fact that the feature was bad in Skyrim, it worked better in previous games.

We know they can lift their game.

The assertion that the gaming world moved on but gamesas exists in its own little bubble is bang-on. From Gamebryo 2.0 to combat mechanics to the world at large, TES has grown but hardly evolved...

The effects of the Civil War are pure window dressing. Absolutely nothing changes in any meaningful way. People who should hate you don't care. Vendors that should no longer sell to you still do. There are absolutely no real consequences. You can still do everything you did prior to the quest.

In all do respect jagar...Morrowind had NO Consequence at all(Except of course the AWESOME "Alternate" Thingy for the MQ)

I don't know about that, Magic has certainly evolved, we can create our own weapons and armor now, the game engine is much more stable then previous games, the open world actually is open world and much more diverse from what Oblivion did, etc.