Pre-order is up and now you can be any race in any alliance if I am reading it correctly.

I am going to buy the Imperial Edition and build another Caius Cosades (the greatest NPC to ever grace a game).

I may just run around naked like he did in Morrowind (the greatest RPG ever).

I admit that I am somewhat confused about the any race any alliance thing. But hey, I always wanted to play an ally troll and never could, so...far out, man.

Maybe we've discussed this before, but I prefer the changes to the leveling/skills system in Skyrim and hated the old system used in Morrowind and Oblivion. You're probably talking about the other content though so I'll give you that. You did like Skyrim didn't you?

Skyrim was a masterpiece, as was Oblivion: but I thought that Morrowind and especially the two expansions was the best of the lot.

I liked Oblivion better than Skyrim, also.

I did not dig Skyrim's factional bullshit; choosing sides is well and good, but it should not remove large chunks of quest availability.

Why could I not choose to kill off the Imperials, the fucking Altmer, the Stormcloaks, the Blades, Vampires, and the Dawnguard.

Why couldn't I let Alduin consume the world and start again?

Why shouldnt I be able to choose which Thane to support?

Too many damn factions...

I didn't think of the factions in that way. I would argue that the factions are meaningless otherwise, but that's just devil's advocate; I agree with you.