User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim's Smorgasbord of Shortcomings/@comment-76.221.160.148-20130331014853

I agree with a lot of what you said here, especially the robotic followers, the "cold war" (great term to use by the way, this perfectly describes Skyrim) and the fact that Dragonborn gets little to no recognition whatsover when you do something seemingly impossible. [There is funny cartoon parody on Youtube that portrays this loss of recogntion when collecting a bounty. Its called Skyrim Parody:Part 2 if you care to view it]

To counter some of your other arguements though, I would like to point out that Skyrim is a victim of the classic RPG style game. In general, RPGs are supposed to have faceless main characters, extreamly long storylines driven by gaining power, and overall a game determined by the actions of the person playing the game. While these do have advantages, they inevitably lead to new problems (ie What do i Do know that I'm king of the world) Skyrim is a great expansive game based, as you said, on the journey not the destination; it certainly doesn't seem half-assed to me.