Good episode. As a Bethesda hater (not really, but close), I just want to point out why I really dislike their products. I've played about six hours of Oblivion and I finished Fallout 3, both in the Playstation 3. The problems you discussed are also true to these previous games. Fallout becomes nearly unplayable after a while. I would have to reboot the game every 10 minutes to avoid it freezing in a slide show. As far as I know, Skyrim suffers from the same problems. The fact is Bethesda knows their engine will not work properly in the PS3 as it doesn't have as much memory as the PC in which it was initially developed. They know it for years now and they don't care to change it because they think the press, for most part, is to eager to bite the hype and objectively review their games and their customers are stupid enough to learn from their previous products. As the company appears to not care about their customers' experience, I stopped caring about their games.
Regarding Skyrim, I might be biased but I am not sure why so people are excited about it. The graphics are better than Oblivion but the characters still look pretty bad. Also, if the game follows Oblivion and Fallout and considering what I heard so far, the story should be mediocre at best without no emotional linkage to the player. Finally, I keep hearing praise for this game from the same people who complains about padding in Skyward Sword. Really? I guess Bethesda improved their quests design a lot since Fallout.
I thought Fallout 3, Oblivion, and New Vegas had better quests/overall story than Skyrim. In fact, Skryrim's story is pretty bad. Let's just say when the main quest ended, I had to go to my quest log to see if that was really it. To be honest, I don't know what happened. I don't know who is who. And most importantly, I don't care. The game is nothing but a big disappointment. As for Skyward Sword, the game is f'ing boring as hell. I know plenty of people (even hardcore Nintendo fans) who stopped playing the game. I'm sorry, but that game looks ugly, Link looks like an idiot holding the sword, the worlds are uninspired, the music is pretty meh, etc.