(I think it also helps, if you had started out with working your suspension-of-disbelief muscles on your stick-figure avatar ascending in Ultima IV or somesuch back in the First Era.)

Skyrim is the single best game I have played in my 20+ year tenure as a gamer: it has some flaws, but the immersion is remarkable and *addictive* - especially if you play in a dead-is-dead, no munchkin, no-reload, roleplay style.

I have spent 150 hours and died about a dozen times, never succeeding to get past level 20 or complete any of the major quest lines. I am determined, though, that *this* time my new character, a Nord battlemage/paladin who is also a dwemer scholar in the making, will save his lands and bring peace and justice to Tamriel.

while i personally think morrowind is the best game i've ever played..skyrim is easily the second choice...i mean this game is just a easy 10/10, because i have never experienced any quest bugs..

I agree with you there. I feel this way in all Elder Scrolls games. Like the poster above me for example, whether you prefer Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Daggerfall or Arena, it doesn't matter at all. Everyone has a favourite game, mine's Skyrim, but yours might be different. As long as you appreciate each game in the series for what it's worth, then that's what matters

The Elder Scrolls series is simply incredible.

Morrowind was also remarkable. It was better than Oblivion in immersion (except maybe for Oscuro's Overhaul).
Skyrim has better polish and better production values than both - not surprising; a budget upward of 100M will get you decent music, voice acting, and graphics.

I like how Elder Scroll finds *major* conflicts where YOU are a pivotal character at a time of substantial change.
Even at $100+ a pop this would have been worth the price of admission. (I still play Morrowind on occasion a decade after its release.)

Skyrim does have an enormous amount of fodder for roleplayers, true.

Hey, I think this character sounds fascinating. The fact that he's mortal and is in training to become a Dwemer scholar just give's his idea so much vividness for me.

By they way, I was stumbling through one of the Dwemer's ancient halls with my Osimer prince Turuk gro-Nazarizar when I found a chamber studded with chairs and diases. Upon investigation, I found it was a courtroom! How amazing is this game?!