I never played a single Elder Scrolls game before...untill now...
Just like Fallout 3, when I entered into the world of Skyrim the first thing I noticed is how beautiful and large the game world is.
There is so much to do in the game apart from just the main story, such stuff includes other Main Quests,Side Quests,Exploring,Clearing out Caves,Dungeons, and Bandit Forts, and so much more, I swear there is so much to do I have put in a total of close to 30 hours of gameplay and I only completed just the first 3 to 4 parts of the main story.
There is so much work put into the game that it is just nearly unexplainable, 9.5 overall, could be raised to a 10 if they fix the glitches in the game which they will do with a few patches.
Also on a side note, the NPCs aren't that bad.