Here is a non-comprehensive list of everything I hate about it:

1. What the hell is this leveling? ¡Tontería! Who came up with this and why weren't they fired? You guys know what I'm talking about. That ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ where you set your major skills as the things you AREN'T going to do, because leveling up is bad for you. Why, you ask?

2. The level scaling. ¡Tontería! Look, you get so badly outpaced by monsters' stat growth that by level 10, the game's combat is literally you run in, swing your sword wildly for six seconds and run for your life, only to spend the next four minutes repeatedly casting cure and waiting for your Magicka to refill.

3. The combat. ¡Tontería! Speaking of running in, swinging your sword wildly and running away... it's not fun [citation needed].

4. Encumberence system. ¡Tontería! It would be a passable idea if it weren't so stupid. If you could hold enough stuff to actually loot a whole dungeon at once, for instance. Or even half a dungeon. Enough for you to eventually have to be like yeah, maybe I should prioritize this over that. And the way it works just encourages you to do dumb nonsense like dropping stuff, walking forward, turning around, picking it up, turning back around and dropping it again.

5. Uggo city. ¡Tontería! No, it's not just dated. People have been ragging on how damn ugly every single possible custom character and every single NPC is since day one. It's simply not possible to make a character that isn't an atrocity. Screw this, we'd be better off letting the daedra take over. At least those effers wear helmets.

"But Devsman! None of that is true!"

Oh really? Why do you think that?

1. "Because I spent four weeks reading a damn textbook posted on GameFAQs dot com about how to build a character before I even started playing my first time! It's very much doable to make a decent character if you just dedicate your life to learning it!!!"

2. "Because actual competent people later took the crappy game and made it better by replacing its inate crappiness with betterness!"

Ok, alright, so what are some things I did like about it?

1. The worldbuilding is great. It kinda has to be, since it's literally just Lord of the Rings.

2. The way the NPCs walk around with intent is actually pretty impressive. It's a small thing, but I'll take it.

3. The audio is cool, and iconic.

4. It actually does feel kinda nice to just buy a house and have a life in said town. I feel like that's more something in my own imagination than in the game itself though.