Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-168424-20140317014608/@comment-24750943-20140329195353

The people in TES games have always had that slightly goofy quality to them, and the animations in TESO are somewhat wooden and sub-standard for a modern game. I also don't like the way most vanilla NPCs look more or less the same, at least in the beta. It's as if the developers didn't have the nerve to hit the "randomize" button and also didn't have time to create NPCs with much variation in appearance. Besides, real people, even "unhappy, pasty-looking Europeans" (whatever that means), look very much more different in terms of facial features and body shape than what even player avatars can do in TESO. What disturbs me the most is the lack of anything but athletic bodies. For player avatars, sure, that's fine, but it seems like every single NPC in Tamriel works out, even the nobles and merchants, and everybody eats healthy.