PVE is a major improvement over the combat in Skyrim, which was just spam sword and Thuum, but TESO creates a need for you to get skilled at timing your weapon swings, blocks, and magic if you want to survive. I played as a Dragon Knight (which i later learned is considered OP), and I still had a fairly challenging and fun time in the combat situations.
Smithing and creating things is slightly different from skyrim, but still simple enough (and you cant make OP equipment, because they put a minimum lvl needed for each thing to balance that).
PVP is amazing. With-ought going too into it, its better than battlefield... just kidding (but probably is)
The Quests are AMAZING (compared to skyrim). Don't know how much to say, but they're definitely not copy-paste draugr/bandit killing quests.
I actually went ahead and bought the game
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My biggest issue with it was the price, but someone on Reddit found a coupon for 25% off, and its definitely worth $45 to me.
http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonl ... ?context=3
My second biggest issue is the dungeons, what with the impossibility to do it alone, but that seems to be an MMO thing, and I haven't played an mmo before so ill get used to it.