The more stuff you do, the less it is repeated. I rarely get the same lines in my playthroughs.

Some of them seem to trigger as low as 25, which is just shocking.
The sneak related comment in Oblivion always annoyed the hell out of me, but you needed around 80+ to trigger it, it still felt like a bad line, either all guards could see my stat sheet psychicly and massively favoured this one line of dialogue over anything thing else they could say (it feels like thats 70% and the rest is shared between the remaining 30% chance) or I had this dark cloud following me all the time once I hit that level of sneak that everyone could see. But now, after hiding a few times, checking out whats ahead, planning and not charging in, I constantly called a thief with a 0 count on stolen items.

On top of that I tell someone a problem is dealt with and they'll go moan about it like I haven't to someone else.

I'll find them love and they'll right away be telling me how boring thier life is.

I'm equiped in mostly iron and steel and a guard berates me for the elven boots I have on.

And lets not forget housecarls undying, unchanging love for me when I've done nothing for them to earn it. Dropping stuff off in your home your just get barraged by My thane due to way to easy triggers and no condition where they will give it a rest.

would love to hear that !

Some times the dialogue and comments can irritate you,but i mostly laugh my ass off when i hear some cliches.

That or i find myself riding Shadowmere and accidentally bumping them off a bridge.

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There is a basic reaction yes, but beyond that there is no depth. NPC's react to some simple things based on your skills/accomplishments but it's extremely shallow and has no impact on the world.

Yea you can also walk through Winhelm in Imperial armor and even up to Ulfric and they won't comment on it either. It would be cooler, if you had to explain that, maybe pass a speach test to convince them that you took it off a dead soldier or something.

I agree with the post in general that it is cool that they react to your character in some ways, about his deeds and such, but it does get old after a while. I think maybe they should have put in more comments for the same events, so maybe if you have a leveled up skill there are 5 to 10 different things they might say. Same for if you have Ebony or Dragon armor etc....

We are watching you....scum.

You're either very new to Skyrim or you need extremely little to keep you entertained.

Some of the skill related comments trigger at extremely low levels. My Conjuration is about level 28 (started at 25 and I read 3 skill books) and I get the Conjuration line constantly.

oops. id fix that but im to lazy to find where i posted that.

They actually aren't very well done, especially when they never update regardless of your standing with your faction.

Skjor ress'd himself?

lol wut? When does this happen?

I think the guards are hilarious, even after hearing them a ton of times. It always makes me chuckle when I'm walking around in full dragon armor with daedric artifacts left and right and they ask me if ''someone stole your sweetroll?'' just because it's so absurd Or if you walk up to them with your fists raised and they'll ask ''are you looking for a beating?'' right after thanking me for slaying alduin. Ah, the guards, I love them.

Yeah. I've always hated the dialogue editor myself. Why center things on a topic, and then assign it to a NPC using conditions, when you have to record the VA with a spesific NPC in mind anyway? Seems like having different voice actors repeating the same lines of dialogue is an unfortunate symptom of this whole arrangement... NWNs system was much nicer. Plus it had a much better scripting engine.


That was different! They were Ordinators. Always watching...


Happened to me too. Found him wandering around Jorvasskr buck-nekkid, since I'd looted the armor from his corpse. I think it might be related to the dungeon where he died reseting because of a Radiant quest getting assigned there. *shrug*

I wish normal people would do this, too bad its almost exclusively guards.

It's a game with literally hundreds of hours of play time in it. Every single line is going to get repetitive eventually. Less whinging and a little more time recognising reality would be novel for some.

Only time ive heard comment about thieves guild is when i wear their armor
"You dont fool anyone, i know a thief's guild armor when i see it.."

Only thing ive heard about Dark Brotherhood is "Ive heard dark tidings about you and the Dark Brotherhood in Dawnstar, but that can not be correct can it?" (Or something similar)

It was nice, until the designers took an arrow in the knee.

This is one of the biggest complaints about Skyrim. The idiotic comments the NPC's make repeatedly. "I work for Belethor." Two seconds later "I work for Belethor." Later at the pub: "I work for Belethor." Reminds me of 50 first dates that guy who forgets he met you every 10 seconds. "Hi I'm Tom." "Hi I'm Tom,".

What annoys me is how they comment on things they have no idea about. Like your sneak skill and calling you a thief. Or that your an alchemist. Just because I make a few potions to augment my adventuring or assassin career doesn't make me an alchemist. How would they know anyway? Bethesda needs to put some more thought into the NPC's because currently they break immersion. They never talk about current events or discuss anything with other NPC's. Everything is player centric which is annoying and makes you everyone in Skyrim feel like those creepy porters from Oblivion who followed you around in the fighters guild and stared at you.

I find your avatar appropriate. Most of the people in this thread recognize the reality completely. The reality being, that there's dialogue you could use, dialogue which both takes less disk space than the current one, and sounds more natural. Namely, NPCs going "hello", "afternoon", etc. or just nodding to show they've noticed you. BGS just decided to not use this type of dialogue for some reason. Instead, the NPCs will go repeatedly into detailed non-sequitur spiels about their life without prompting, or give the player a psychic reading about their weapon skills.

Probably because if the NPCs just said "Hello", or "Morning", there'd be a fresh round of whinging, where all the whingers whinge about "NPCs only ever say hello to me, they don't even recognise my awesome Dragonbone armour Bethesda you svck and my game is ruined ragespasm spasm spasm RAWR!". Not to mention the ubiquitous "Bethesda, my immersion is ROONED!" No matter what they do, they can't win. There's the reality for you.

Like I keep posting, if anyone feels that strongly about the matter, rather than sit there and curse the darkness, light a candle! http://jobs.zenimax.com/

It would have added much replayability to give bonuses and restrictions for each race, quest-wise. Altmers could assist Thalmor, beast races couldn't join the Stormcloaks, a Dunmer would get discounts from Dunmer merchants and so on.
It annoys me a tad how race is just an aesthetic issue in this game. Not slitting my wrists over it of course, but even dialogue relating to your race and NPC disposition would have been really nice.

I find it interesting how guards can know what your main skill is..
For example
"Hail Conjurer.."
"Enchant this.."
"Destruction spells are nice.."
and so forth..,

There will always be some percentage of people complaining. But don't you think(a figure of speech. You obviously don't) that when people complain about a single issue repeatedly, there might really be an issue? [censored], the "arrow in the knee" line being so repetitive might be one of the most recognized things about this game in any media. TES games seem to be all about wish-fulfillment with instant gratification now, so I'd personally think that all the other back-patting, after not doing much of anything, would be enough to keep the people in need of constant praise happy.


Can't speak for anyone else, but I've worked in the software industry, and have no desire to go back. It wasn't the customers however who made me leave the industry. "Why don't you do it better yourself!" is red herring anyway. Most people don't have the skills to, say, bake and decorate a wedding cake, but they do recognize when someone's used motor oil in the recipe. Customers have the right to complain, give feedback and criticize the product. It's the company's business whether they'll listen.