It got boring way faster than that. :|

Sequels getting worse and worse seems to be some kind of trend..

O'well...

need to disagree with that one. Oblivion was a slip in quality when it came to visuals despite the resolution, but other than that the game was great. Skyrim kicked enough ass to jump into the mainstream market, hence most of us from before the "memestream" era didn't like it all that much.

I don't like how they removed spear weapons in Oblivion. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was so they could save on animating the character models - for instance, just about all the 1h weapons share the same attack animations, and same goes for staves and 2 handers.

Same thing goes for Skyrim. Same animations for all 1 handed weapons (worse place this sticks out is decaps with a blunt mace) considering they're all around the same size. I don't know whether there's a backstab animation for maces, but that would be an awful example of it if someone gets stabbed through their stomach with it.
2 handers also share their animations, spells have about 1 or 2 which get shared over all of them (not quite sure here), and staves just get lowered and pulled back up again.

When you go back to Morrowind, they had a different animation for whichever direction you were moving, so any weapon could be swung, or thrusted, or swung overhead. Also, Spears!