Well that explains it.

I love if you do the quest for the priestesses of Dilbella, and you take the Dad with you to get his daughter from the forsworn, if the dad dies the and his daughter sees him she is all like "Oh no! By the gods this couldn't have happened" Then she stared at him. I like gently pushed her along and then placed flowers over the her father's body. Very dramatic moment. THough she got annoying cause she screamed every dead forsworn she saw.

Mundane tasks like working the sawmill and mining ore.

I also love the water effects. They look so natural!

top of the water is really good especially if you use one of the water mods and up the resolution to 1024 or higher......under the water just svcks though. this isnt 1999 they can do better than that.

low end weapons and armor some of the best ive ever seen......high end gear is awful though.

random mini quests, i actually like doing those.

the feel of magic although i miss spellmaking itself

combat is lots of fun although DW is OP. not a huge issue for me since i started using blocking and have come to enjoy that even more than DW.

main quest was fun.

gameworld itself is fantastic. bethesda may be average or at best above average in many things, but they outdo everyone in gameworld design by far.

side jobs are fun.

even after 160 hours still dive in and catch fish and butterflies. you would never have caught me playing a fishing game or butterflying netting game prior to skyrim

alchemy is better

probably some more but thats all that comes to mind for now.

have anything useful to put forth or are you just going to moan too?

The Shout systems and Standing Stone system is really cool. I am a lore FREAK too! Its the best game I've ever played, with some imagination I can role-play my butt off.

the northern lights for sure there breathtakeing

I like a lot of the random events I seem to encounter in the game just things out of the ordinary that i did not expect and with experimentation never seems to be truly scripted into a planned scheme of things.

guards would always say that to me at the beginning when I started, now I havent heard it in a long time

I also dislike how they still managed to make the water in a way that we can see a straight ugly line between it and dry terrain.
They could be taking up some tips from guys who work on Morrowind's Graphic Enchancer, that water is bloody epic- http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1641/waterwaveetwatercaustic.png

I love how you drop things and people start fighting for them sometimes.

I like how some stores open their doors around 8 or just before 8 maybe but they're not ready to sell to you yet. Just little details like that are lovely. Just the overall sense that its NPC's living out real lives, rather than just spawning out of thin air and walking a very basic scripted path ala Assassins Creed/GTA etc.

And of course the overall visual and audio atmosphere is incredible.

I really love the misty valleys of the Reach. They just feel so mysterious and haunting, and the lore is quite fascinating with the history of the strange Forsworn tribes and the ancient cliff-city of Markarth.

I like all the little details as well, like how the insects change at night from butterflies to torchbugs and lunar moths. The odd treasure maps you find are fun to try and work out, and the little story notes scattered about in the wilderness on dead npcs, in camps, and so on.

I'm still trying to work out how to use many of the mysterious artifacts like the lunar forge and atronach forge. The game keeps throwing little surprises at you like that.