User blog comment:Morrowindman94/Was Alduin cool enough?/@comment-1450770-20120307130809

His final fight was painfully easy. He obviously doesn't scale that well with the character or have any special moves that are actually life-threatening to someone with good defense. As a character I thought he was present enough, but the main story is EXTREMELY short and can be completed even with ignoring ALL side quests. Don't take this as a slight, the story itself is quite good. However, if you were to write out your exploits as a novel and they only consisted of the main quests, the story would only need be a hundred pages or so of eleven-point font. It only gets really EPIC when the player starts doing the side quests and writing their own story, which is one of the reasons Skyrim is so great. The game lends itself to RP in a way that is really special among games.