Saints Row 3.
it's pure, simple, unadulterated fun with no bullshit stat building standing between me and the hobo i'm about to pummel with my purple dildo bat.
if it were skyrim, it would have an awkward swinging animation followed by a series of repetitious blocks and attacks before finally him falling over.
No skyrim. no. i want to immediately be able to kill everything and do it in fun and stylish ways, not spend 40 hours getting to that point like oblivion made me do... (and even then, the scaling levels made it impossible for me to feel like a badass)