What's actually wrong with this game? The only information I can ever find is that it sucks, but nobody mentions why.
1. Very unpolished for a game coming out in 3 months (4 at the end of last beta). By unpolished people mean: poor connectivity and system lag, many small bugs, unfinished game systems, lack of depth and diversity of content and graphics that had not really been tuned at all.
2. Annoying animations that at times were sort of herky jerky-ed around and at others made you feel like you were in water. The jumping animation in particular was poor.
3. Combat systems seemed poorly implemented - especially for melee. This was partially a problem of sluggish response to button pushes, partially a lack of impact when hitting and moving, sort of combat in slow motion and maybe even more a feeling that not much you did strategywise mattered. I personally played a caster and found it to be better than the complaints.
4. People also criticized the leveling system but I kinda liked it. Maybe others could help you with that one.
5. People did not like the unfocussed nature of the PvP and I think many of the poor connectivity and bad animations really came out in PvP due to needing good response times and good graphics against other players. I did not play much PvP so maybe others could reiterate their complaints.
6. The starting area was utter unfinished stupid crap.
7. Crafting was pretty stupid or not implemented really.
8. My personal complaint.... Elder Scrolls games are all about going off in a direction and finding interesting things to do in caves, towns, bandit camps, on the side of the road or wherever you travel. This game had none of that. Very little content outside the main story at all. Very little reward for an explorer.
Edit: (All that having been said, I will play it but then again, I leveled a toon to the top in Vanguard when it first came out)