I was overwhelmed by the size of Skyrim, but underwhelmed when it actually came to depth of story... lots of content, but much of it repeated and repeatable "fetch" missions, with a main story that seemed watered down because it was so stretched out.
To me, Oblivion seemed a better story overall... Morrowind... pffftt...
The thing with Elder Scrolls is that without Player Mods, those games wouldn't really be worth playing... the graphics are crap, the stories are thin and romances... without Sexlab are just useless, butt fucking ugly without additional mods, carry no real value and many of the characters are too annoying to want to bring the spouse around on the missions with you... rather just leave them home to rot with your loot chests.
...and... after around 3,000 hours of playing, you get tired of hearing the same voice actors chugging out the same tired lines.
If not for player mods, that told way better stories, made the game and characters look far, far better, gave women and men much skimpier clothing and allowed me to use Hearthfire to build and fill basement dungeons with slaves that I could train and have please me... I would've abandoned the game after a good 24-30 hours of gameplay.
