For being such an Elder scrolls fan, I bought this purely expecting something similar to Skyrim as that was its most recent Elser Scrolls release before ESO. It wasn't like that at all. Nor Daggerfall, Oblivion or Arena. It's a game on its own, and it's really, really good!!!! It's got loads to do, 100's of hours gameplay (from my own experience) It's graphics are beautiful. The game is set waaaay before all the above games and explains why all the races are in this big hateful war throughout Tamriel. I highly recommend this game, it got me hooked. The only bad thing is that if you really want some decent mounts and followers you have to use real money to buy them.