After many more hours of play (turns out, I CAN put college h/w & studying till the next day, repeatedly!)
-Auto-leveling needs to go. My level 20 character has as much trouble killing bandits as he did at level 1. That isn't right.
-Of the dozen caves & dungeons I've cleared, none gave me anything unique. Staffed with the average generic enemies with a big bad guy at the end. Reward : Sometimes a word, mostly a "Generic helm of +5 generic".
-I don't feel unique. My guy has gone from stealth to 2 handed, 1 handed, stealth again, archer, mage, 1 handed. I don't feel like I'm specializing in any category - or need to. In oblivion jumping around so much would yield a terrible guy. Mine? Not very challenging.
-Oh my god, bethesda hired more than 2 voice actors. Hoozah!
-They hired 1 person to write the lines. It seems being shot in your knee is an easy way to a city desk job in skyrim.
-How am I not able to get myself below 250 weight? What is taking up so much room? I can't drop this, I need sell it! Ughhhhthhhh
-Traps seem pointless. Either it does no damage to you, or it's activated as you enter the room.
-AI still less useful than a baby full of bricks.
-Monsters are in 2 categories : Things you 1 hit, and things that 1 hit you.
Great game, and the modding community is already growing without the editor. When that's released..dear lord.
And there's work being done on replacing Skyrim's UI on the nexus forum.
Really I'm Level 45, and the game is much easier now, I can kill sabre tooth cats and bears and all that in like 3 hits and I'm pretty much invincible to alot of them, and I'm playing on "MASTER DIFFICULTY" the hardest difficulty, and when I played on master at level 1, I couldn't kill a bear or sabre cat at all. Pretty much each enemy has their preset level, is that when you level up, harder versions of enemies start coming, but the weaker enemies stay, and none of the enemies level up, except for bosses, and guards (and guards level up with you until LEVEL 50).
And bandits are friggin easy to me now.
And I can finally kill those Draugr Wights without any challenge, and I can kill a Draugr Scourge, they are less challenging, but still a challenge.
AND THEY HIRED 75 VOICE ACTORS, but yet it still seems like 4!!!!
And the AI, helped me alot, well allies, unlike most games your followers are actually helpful. But yeah the AI is much better than oblivion, but still pretty dumb, and the bounty system is better.
And I'm pretty good assassin, I can kill anything one hit with a sneak attack on any difficulty, thanks so much for shrouded gloves that makes backstab do double damage and the daggers do 15x sneak attack perk and two powerful daggers, well that HAVE NOT been improved by a work table. Yeah I cleared an entire Giant and Mammoth camp with no challenge, because of me doing 60x sneak attack, yes I mean 60x because I attack with both daggers at the same time, and originally I do 30x damage. And I was playing on MASTER and all of them died one hit, it WAS SO FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!
Dragons still are somewhat challenging.
But yeah the loot is terrible I hardly get anything good, I normally just get cheap Ancient Nordic War Axes and crappy weapons. I can't wait until I level up to Level 46, because once your that level you start finding DAEDRIC ARMOR AND WEAPONS as random loot. But I doubt I have enough room in my inventory to carry that.
Too bad, I have the xbox 360 version so I cannot use mods.
