I’ve recently started playing Oblivion again, and I’ve forgotten how much more interesting, entertaining, and unique the NPCs are. They feel like they have their own individual personalities. Which makes me wonder, what happened during Skyrim’s development that took these colorful character’s away from us? Like seriously, they had everything from serious no-nonsense badasses, to cheese-obsessed shepherds. Why’d Skyrim throw that away?
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It’s cheaper
Colorful characters.
Hello
How are you
Goodbye
Begins to walk away
Turns back around
Hello
How are you?
Indeed
Walks away
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Because since then Bethesda has gotten more and more bland with every release.
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I ask myself that question everyday.
^^Yeah the convos they have with each-other are straight garbage unless it’s for a quest lol
Skyrim went to hell because M O N E Y
^^^^ Yeah, the radiant dialogue is terrible at times, but the characters still feel much more unique.
Have you heard of the High Elves?
To be fair to Skyrim, Skyrim had a different tone than it's predecessors. Largely, Skyrim was a far darker and grimmer experience than Oblivion which was very colourful and bombastic.
That being said I do think Skyrim had some good characters. General Tulllius is quite a dry character who I find entertaining, Delvin Mallory with his cockney voice is brilliant to me, and of course there are the characters in the Dark Brotherhood. Festus Krex, Babette etc. I do think there's good characters in Skyrim. It is generally however far more dour (just as you'd expect the Fatherland of the Nords to be, in my opinion), and maybe Bethesda wanted to make it more serious. Maybe they just didn't care. I don't know.
What do you think?