Only pick Master difficulty if you're prepared to jump on a rock and stand on it for a while every time you see a bear until you get some heavy weaponry. You'll have more luck charging a dragon with a dagger than fighting a bear seriously, and you'll have a hard time outrunning them :p

If you go stealth with stealth kills, always stop before attacking, because if you're holding down a movement key, it'll use a movement attack and take a few non-sneak steps before swinging, making it a non-stealth attack.

The inventory system is kind of bad with a mouse. You need to learn where to click and to hover the mouse over stuff to make it register, and sometimes the mouse just doesn't work (the inventory/dialogue gets stuck on one thing and won't move no matter how much you wiggle your mouse), but usually it's manageable. I recommend mouse and keyboard, and especially if you're going to be using a bow or long range magic. You can use the inventory with the keyboard, and if it asks a Yes/No question, Y and N buttons work so you don't have to use the mouse even then. It's only my preference, though. My brother plays it with a pad, and says that the keyboard/mouse combo is a mess.

I see, what about the first person fighting? It's OK with a gamepad or it requires the good old mouse? Maybe it's just bad and third person is way better. :P

I see this game as some epic walking into the wild :D maybe my gamepad would be more comfortable to enjoy the landscape. :)

Edit: just read the Adzeth reply, thanks :)

What about the original english audio? Is it good enough to play with original language or I should not care about it?

So I finally caved and got this... and 20 minutes later quit out of it and installed a bunch of mods to improve the look a little I couldn't help it everyone looked like a plastic doll to me >.<

Mouse and keyboard by far... first-person, magic and arrows need aiming, much quicker to loot with mouse aim.

The menus are fine, just use WASD not the mouse.

Still better than Oblivion where everyone looks like one of their parents was a fish and they got smashed in the face with a hammer at birth.

Daggerfall looked better than Oblivion ;)

thursday for PC release of the expansion?

Oh boy, the HYPE for that game.

I must have gotten over 1500 posts in the beth forums last year.

What else will Oblivion's ... err, hate-base come up with? I for one do genuinly think Oblivion was better than Skyrim, not really by game system itself (even tho I'm not fan of Skyrim's levelling up and horribly unbalanced crafting skills,) at least Oblivion had proper guild quest and it's questlines were generally interesting, as ooposed to Skyrim's complete and utter shite.

Skyrim was filled with uninspired quests and characters, that was the game's main weak point (I mean, wtf, I don't wanna go to a dungeon in every single quest), but it excelled in art design and everything else.
Oblivion's art design was bland. What they did to Dark Elves will never be forgotten.

Personally, I think Skyrim's design is bland. Everything is ... samey, mainly it's the color scheme - it does the whole "grim" thing that's modern nowadays. I actually liked that Oblivion was colorful, and for the centre of the Imperium, it's art style fits perfectly.

Also, when we're talkign about graphical design, Oblivion's cities genuinly looked like cities, they were big, had a plenty of civilian buildings (and don't even pull Imperial City at me, just show me a TES city with higher population since they dumped procedural generation). What Skyrim's got is a joke. And exploration? There are a few locations worth finding, and you can be sure you won't find anything interesting in them since loot is almost entirely leveled.

And Dark Elves? They looked ugly. Just as all other NPCs in Oblivion. It's still better than Morrowind thanks to reasonable animations.

I liked Oblivion. It was my first Elder Scrolls game and it had some really excellent quests (though I find Skyrim's world as a whole more fun to explore). People were just ugly. :D

This bit is where Morrowint takes the prize. You just never know what you'll find, whereas in Skyrim there's
a) only ever so few unique items
b) everything's scaled anyway
c) there's no useless shit (this might seem like a weird complaint, but it added to beleivability and fun in Morrowind. Stuff like boots of blinding speed I mean)

Yeah, that's definitely Morrowind's strong suit (Oblivion's the weakest of the three in my opinion, but YMMV). Though I still think the best moment in Morrowind is finding the Scrolls of Icathian Flight from that dead wizard as a fresh-faced newbie and using it out of curiosity. xD