User blog comment:Draevan13/Why the Elder Scrolls ISN'T being dumbed down...much./@comment-3217145-20130406070804/@comment-1600847-20130407020809

Those puzzles were such a joke. It's like doing an exam with the answer sheet right next to you. More of a time synch than puzzles.

As for the dungeon/cave crawling, that's been a thing with all three console TES games. Get quest, go kill/find thing A, come back for reward.