Okay, I've clocked about 40 hours in Skyrim so far, and it's fucking epic. Just fucking epic. The world is beautiful, the missions are fun, the monsters are hard and the dragons are monstrous. There's tons of variety and plenty to do. The interface is shit, and that's all I can really complain about... except for the Thieves Guild.
In Oblivion, the Thieves Guild was great fun. The people were nice and the missions seemed to be mostly about protecting their own and sticking it to the man (while stealing baubles owned by people who could afford to do without) and every mission was epic. Challenging, delicate, and skillful, it was about stealth