User blog comment:Draevan13/The streamlining of the Elder Scrolls series, and some Skyrim flaws./@comment-1600847-20121114020756/@comment-3492791-20121115223426

CoD is has linear level based gameplay. TES are sandboxes.

You can't directly compare the playtime involved as sandboxes can pad out gameplay by forcing the player to walk from mission to mission, usually providing distractions along the way. You are comparing apples to oranges.

The point was never trying to prove to you that CoD is better than TES, only that that the reasons you say that TES is good can apply just as well to CoD, and the reasons for disliking CoD are irrational or poorly explained.