The bugged dragon that flys in VERY AWKWARD flight paths near the place which is full of strange craters and waters, looks like Yellowstone Park lol...
You encountered him too! XD. I loved that dragon. He survived many many fights, trained my destruction skill about 10 levels all by himself. Beautiful.
Then he unglitched.
For me, the most annoying thing is characters passive dialogue.
i.e. Being called a sneak thief because I have sneak at level 34. When I have't actually sneaked in my characters life, it's just increased because I have been killed in combat, reloaded to a save where I am undetected but unsneaking and it increases through an apparent glitch.
Children commenting on ANYTHING. Especially the "Why are they hurting each other comment", when it is made about a filthy great big dragon that is currently doing its best to eat the town guard, livestock, the child's parents and the dragonborn. I don't know how stupid the children of Bethesda staff are, but you'd think in a land that is supposed to be as vicious as Skyrim that the 10ish year old children wouldn't be that dumb about an oversized lizard.
After killing a dragon outside Windhelm, one of the guards turns around, puts his bow away and says
"Guard might get nervous, a man approaching with his weapon drawn"
Horses come a close second. The lack of mounted combat and the horrible model of a horse they used irritate me immensely.
Most disappointing design implementation - Horses. A game like Red Dead Redemption and Mount and Blade are evidence that horses can be done well. I bought a horse on my first character and I haven't ridden one since.
I'm not even going to mention Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, where not only did the horses have good movement speed, but mounted combat was a go, the combat was generally very much like Skyrims is (as in small groups of enemies or individual enemies) and the horses could turn on the spot realistically.
When shopkeepers run out of gold
Oh yeah. This is second equal. Man that's a pain in the neck. I'd actually be quite keen to mod in Oblivion's system. Offloading equipment in Skyrim is a pain in the neck.
terrible navigation/layout of items when going through containers.
Like.. that was NO problem in Oblivion, perfect really. Did they just totally forget to sort items in containers - at least in the homes you buy???
*scrolls through non-alphabetical container for 5 minutes trying to find one thing*
Which makes this 4th.
Oh. And my most annoying glitch is the fact that items randomly keep getting assigned stolen status, when they aren't stolen.