Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-12277465-20140317033727

NPC recognition. Yes. It would make you feel like an actual person in an actual world.

See what I'm trying to do on my current Skyrim character right now is play the questlines in precisely the correct order to preserve immersion. I started out mainly with the Civil War line, because even by the end of that you're not that famous. Basically, I just joined nearly everything early on, because they always treat you like dirt when you join. But it's just ridiculous that nobody knows who you are once you're in charge of basically everything important in the nation.

Sure, it could get boring. But it could also be done correctly. Let's see. NPCs would learn to recognize your outfit. If you changed armors, it would take a while for the populace to adjust. Unless you were flying around on a dragon or something, because that's just really obvious. Fights with low-level opponents would involve either them running away lots, or trying to kill you for the prestige. Oh and by the way, I'm just going to throw in here that having large numbers of weaker enemies is preferable to a few strong opponents. Seriously, play a few of the Civil War battles, and then an average bandit encounter. It's a lot more fun to take out lots of enemies that only take a few hits, because the fight actually moves along rather than spending twenty minutes pumping arrows into this guy in a robe who should have been killed by just one.

And on that note, I kind of feel like differences between high and low level gear should be less significant. I mean, even if someone's wearing the bestest armor ever, that doesn't make them invulnerable to an iron dagger in the right spot.

Anyway.