Skyrim's utter lack of character vividness and expressivenes : V - Skyrim

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:49 pm

Bah, that was a forgettable feature. My character looked always like a dumb when smiling at random NPCs.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:39 am

so if someone doesn't agree with you is trying to pick a fight? how convenient...
well, guess what, you have your opinion and I have mine, and for me Skyrim is twice as better than Oblivion but a worse RPG than Daggerfall and Morrowind.
those two didn't have any facial expressions but they were great games, so I don't feel that feature is needed much, sue me

I think there's a difference between disagreeing and being a prat, sure. I think some of the folks in this thread have gone for the latter, while others have disagreed respectfully.
I'm with you. Skyrim trumps Oblivion. However, it'd be nice if our characters still looked at things. OP's right.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:49 am

Well i didn't found anything to change the Head tracking for the player. I tried to add the line from the Fallout ini to the Skyrim ini without result, so i checked the CK and there was an option "Uses Head Track Anims" but it doesn't affect the Player. So i think it must be something hard coded.

It didn't work in Fallout 3/NV either. It still works for NPCs, just not the player character, so it can't be disabled for performance reasons. If a NPC encounters a corpse, or any object of interest, they'll look down at it as they go past. In Oblivion the player character would too, but from Fallout 3 onwards it's been disabled and the player model just stares blankly ahead like a mannequin at all times, uninterested in the world around. I don't know if it's a coding oversight or deliberate, but I can't think of any reason to deliberately zombiefy the PC.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:23 am

Shallow game is shallow. The glory days are long gone and Bugthesda has abandoned the vets of this once proud series.

You made me cry.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:28 am

Shallow game is shallow. The glory days are long gone and Bugthesda has abandoned the vets of this once proud series.

Pretty Much,
The only way I ever see playing the game now is being heavily modded. Otherwise it is just stale and dead. As for what the OP is talking about. Yeah I have noticed in Skyrim your character seems to be a zombie. Even in other recent games, the PC actually looks around and acknowledges the NPCs around it.