I didn't think Skyrim was that good. It was really huge, but scale was about the only thing that was exceptional about it. The writing was adequate, the main plot was a bit of a joke, but some the guild quests were okay, as was the civil war plot line. The graphics were good, but I've seen better. The sound was fairly good.
The gameplay was fairly lackluster for a game of that length, first person melee has always sucked and, while third person melee was okay, it needed a few more animations and fluidity. The controls were a bit unresponsive (In particular I got stuck in sprint mode a few times). Magic was poorly balanced in higher difficulty levels. Archery was a little strange, in particular, if you were close to cover, the arrow would often clip it when it looked like the path was clear. The arc took a bit of getting used to as well. I thought the stealth system worked well.
It's not to say it was a bad game, I'd give it a 7 to 8 out of 10 in every category apart from writing (5 or 6). But because it's just so huge I feel inclined to give it an overall 8 out of 10.
Best RPGs for me would have to be Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1 and 2, BG II and the Witchers.
Edit: I think ME3 came out strong in the gameplay category, but I wasn't really impressed by the rest of it. I'd probably give the gameplay an 8 or 9 out 10. The writing was better than Skyrim (7/10), but I don't think it was as good as Bioware's other titles. While curing the genophage was nice, the two sides of the argument didn't get as much discussion as they did in ME2. Maelon's lab, talking to Mordin, hearing the desperation of the Krogan, they took away a lot of the depth of the issue in ME3. The Geth/Quarian war was handled better, hearing the Geth perspective was new and IMO Legion was the best written character in the game. The rest of the writing and plot was a little hokey and standard action-movie-tug-on-the-heart-strings stuff. The graphics weren't as good as Skyrim, but for a console port they were pretty good. The sound was better than Skyrim. If it weren't for the ending and the involvement of multiplayer in the outcome of the single player game, I'd give it an 8/10 too. If the ending is what they intended, I'll give it a 7/10 (though maybe it should be lower, because in the final chapter of a trilogy the end counts for a lot more than it would in another game). If it's a fake ending (Indoctrination theory) and they always intended to sell the real ending as DLC then I would have to rate it a 1/10 because that's a really <insert pejoratives> disingenuous way to do business.
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