Your first real quest is to kill a dragon

I don't think there is, really disappointing

the same reason the first quest in FO4 has you in a suit of power armor and fighting a deathclaw, they want to frontload the experience with EPIC moments to hook the peabrains while introducing new mechanics, in skyrim them being the shouts, in FO4, the new power armor.

>Fallout 3: Kill this giant fucking behemoth
huh? fucking where?
I just met my dad in the "ol' timey matrix" simulator after blowing up megaton, killing every living organism inside vault 101, arefu and the gay vampire sex dungeon.
When does that happen?

Bethesda has frontloaded all their games since Oblivion

>Walk up to it
Left mouse left mouse left mouse left mouse
>Dragon awkwardly floats up and spins in the air for a few seconds before floating down
Left mouse left mouse left mouse left mouse
>Dragon awkwardly floats up and spins in the air for a few seconds before floating down
Left mouse left mouse left mouse left mouse

If you do the Megaton>GNR route like 99% of new players, you fight a behemoth with a Fat Man outisde the GNR building after going through a heavily scripted Brotherhood encounter.

>Because it's tied to a gameplay mechanic
They could've handled the shouts in some other manner. Not too brushed up on TES lore but even other characters can use shouts to a degree. For shouts they could've just introduced the player as someone who for some reason learns and uses the dragon language easier than others for unknown reasons, rather frontloading the "wow you're the mega epic chosen one" reveal right at the beginning.

IIRC it doesn't happen right at the beginning, but still pretty early on. The part where BoS (?) gives you the mini-nuke weapon to kill the huge super mutant.

neither Oblivion nor FO3 were frontloaded

>For shouts they could've just introduced the player as someone who for some reason learns and uses the dragon language easier than others for unknown reasons, rather frontloading the "wow you're the mega epic chosen one" reveal right at the beginning.
problem with that is that lorewise, to learn shouts it requires alot of mediation and time. not exactly an easy thing to gameify, so they had to come up with an excuse and tied it to the super special boy plotline.

all wyverns are dragons

>rather frontloading the "wow you're the mega epic chosen one" reveal right at the beginning
The entire game was marketed from the get-go as
>wow you're epic horned helmet viking man who can dual-wield axes and kill monsters in Norway
There'd be no point delaying the Dragonborn reveal, everyone already knew.

96% of players only play the first hour.

More importantly, 100% of journalists only play the first hour.

>everyone already knew.
Yeah from the players' perspective it doesn't make a difference since they already know, but I'm talking more about how the story works. There's really no satisfying journey from a nobody to the hero of the realm when the game starts out with practically everyone of note sucking your character off by default and introducing you as the only hope that can save the world. Even if the "reveal" is obvious to the players there's no reason the writers couldn't have postponed it in some manner.

>Find dragon
>Hit legs a couple of times
>Dragon dies
American programming everybody

Skyrim is a game made for little Timmy so he can feel epic.
The entire world revolves around you and you only. Nothing ever gets done without you and every top position in society is waiting for you, all of them at once. Legendary beasts wait to be slain at level 3. It's designed to feed your ego from the moment you press "New Game".

Name a better dragon fighting game made by Euros. I'll wait

Dragon's Dogma, Eurasia