@johnd13: To be honest, I didn't invest much time in the beta. From the areas I only tried Stros M'Kai which is too desert-like for my taste. What area were you playing in? Was it the pvp Cyrodil? Because it was quite beautiful and reminded me of my time with Oblivion. As a Redguard I started in Hammerfell.
It's mostly the Glenumbra region of High Rock. The city he shows is Daggerfall, which is a very pretty town but not actually the capital like a lot of people are mistaking it for. The end battle is Cyrodil.
Stros M'kai is one of the starter islands that a lot of people have complained about. They're not good examples of the gameplay in the main world, as they're mainly to serve as tutorials. You'll actually be able to skip these starter islands in the final release.
Also, you need to get to level 15 at least before you decide on the combat. By then you'll have a lot of skills unlocked, a few morphed, and you'll be able to weapon swap. Swapping allows you to expand your available attacks by switching to a new weapon and hotbar, effectively allowing you to change tactics on the fly or chain attacks across weapon types.
There are definitely skill combo's. For example, the DK has this tether skill that pulls the guy in, and destruction staff has a fire based attack that actually launches the enemy...put those two together and it's like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Figuring out the synergies is part of the game. There are also skills morphs that can alter the way a skill functions when used after another skill. So, I mean, there's combos, but don't expect an action game.
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