Do NPC's have random conversations with each other still? All i've come across so far are scripted interactions.

I heard that the "organic" conversations of Oblivion are gone ("Hello There" "I don't know you, and I don't care to know you!" "I came across a mudcrab the other day." "Nasty Buggers" "Goodbye" "You Too"), in favor of pre-determined conversations seen in Fallout 3.

I wish Beth did not give up on the open ended conversation of Oblivion, sure it was far from prefect but that is the way of the future, not canned conversations. After playing for a while the canned conversation get so repetitive. Even after playing Oblivion for 300 hours the conversation never got as stale as Fallout 3 after 50.

Open ending was one step closer to the holo deck, canned is a step back.