Agree with Kafein. If you're hating on new TES, you don't like modding them.
I think Skyrim looks more to my liking vanilla than Oblivion, but we'll see. I'm just hoping they didn't make this shit a pain to mod.
That being said, there's really not much else out there that has this deep of a melee combat system. CRPG will live.
Im pretty sure that they have said that skyrim is mod friendly. But I think the vanillia skyrim will be okay, I would have played the other elder scrolls, if the graphics wasnt that bad at the time I wanted to play them xD. When people start doing mods on skyrim then it will be even better probably.