So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[Frag]

Hmmm... out today everywhere BUT rural North Dakota

You have to have Steam anyhow, you may as well just buy it from there.

The Steam requirement really bugs me. So far I've held off on buying it partially because of that, partially because it's only partially threaded (wtf is with building a CPU limited engine and then disabling using more than 2 cores? If they eventually update the engine I'll probably jump in then).

Not terribly impressed with the graphics (running everything on Ultra) - there are some truly ugly textures.

This might help, Tom's showed that enabling hardware Adaptive AA / TrSSAA apparently helps out quite a bit with the ugly outdoor textures w/o making everything blurry by just enabling FXAA, the is difference shown on the linked page and four pages forward you can see the hardware requirements for enabling hardware AA.

Regards,
~Frag