Actually, the OP has not told me a single thing I didn't already know about Skyrim. Seriously, everything he's said can be seen in videos and in legitimate video gaming journals. I've seen dumbass NPC behavior, I've seen rag doll crap. I don't freaking care. I've had this game pre-ordered and paid off for months. I'll hold my judgements about crap animations and "Mountain Walking Simulators" (Seriously, if you were my journalism student and you ended a review or article with that I would have slapped an F on the paper for gross biased opinion your head would spin.)
I'm pretty sure they've done a good job polishing it up, but at the end of the day I'm as hyped as all get out and I still don't think everyone's suddenly going to have magical AI or more realistic death. I still know the animations aren't going to be Arkham City caliber. I don't care, it's still going to provide me a ton of stuff to do and I don't think two hours is sufficient to see the Radiant Story aspect in action. Plus, if it's done right you won't even know you've been radiant storied until you talk to someone who has the game or do a second sufficient play through.
Plus, there is a day one patch that could fix a lot of the small gripes. I played Oblivion vanilla for five years (no patch no mods). I think I can handle Skyrim.
I'm pretty sure they've done a good job polishing it up, but at the end of the day I'm as hyped as all get out and I still don't think everyone's suddenly going to have magical AI or more realistic death. I still know the animations aren't going to be Arkham City caliber. I don't care, it's still going to provide me a ton of stuff to do and I don't think two hours is sufficient to see the Radiant Story aspect in action. Plus, if it's done right you won't even know you've been radiant storied until you talk to someone who has the game or do a second sufficient play through.
Plus, there is a day one patch that could fix a lot of the small gripes. I played Oblivion vanilla for five years (no patch no mods). I think I can handle Skyrim.