User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/Two gameplay flaws with Skyrim/@comment-4975504-20121102181209/@comment-1967485-20121103015527

Agreed, Skyrim's combat is hardly unrealisitic, and for me, it's nagging. When a bandit rushes you, I understand that he is probably going to just try and bash you over and over again. But when I'm fighting and vampire or a vigilant? They know better than to AI button smash at you. At the same time, it does fit Skyrim's action over lore gameplay. It would be hardly fitting to have to block/maneuver/attack at the same time, especially when you're being surrounded.

Secondly, in real life, you do whatever you need to do to kill your opponent. I've talked to a few reenactors/weapon specialists and they've all told me that you can't just gracefully cut your opponents neck or smoothly parry an attack kill your enemy in a single strike. (So you can't go Achilles and cut everyone's neck, and you can't be an inheritance elf and flawslessy do anything). Of course fencing, jousting, and dueling are not to be taken into consideration, but in an actual conflict, you'd have a better chance of disarming your opponent and beating him to death than striking blindly with your sword.