Because I am a `turtle` adventurer (I don`t FT and don`t always do the MQ until about level 20) I tend not see some of the more major parts of a game until much later.

I was in a village I`ve passed into many times, when suddenly i heard people shouting and actually looking distressed.

"Get inside!" shouts a guard.

I`m like, "Eh?"

Then I see a Dragon flying overhead. men, women and children run, the dog barks and my Follower and guards start shooting arrows at it. the Dragon flies about, firing fire at various things for a while, then lands on a roof and fires fire from there. then it landed near me. I ran behind a house, looked back just to see a huge wall of flame going down the street where I just was.

Anyway, I thought the people`s reactions and all that was very nicely done. I also think the Dragon animations are well done. Each flap of its wings actually fly it and the sounds are good, a bit of a cross between a Tyrannosaurus and something else.

Very good Bethesda.

p.s. i had to make the Dragon tougher with a Mod though for it to be truly awesome!

I've never seen crowds react so realistically. Used to seeing old women charge them with their iron daggers out.

Yeah, old women shouldn't even be carrying weapons, even less should they use it to attack a huge firebreathing monster. Instead they should run inside as quickly as possible. So yeah, I think the dragons are great, but NPCs reactions kinda svcks.

Too bad they don't react realistically according to your faction rank....

Certainly there should be some old women in the game that do that.

Most evil old women in the game use magic instead of weapons.

On the topic of cool npc reactions. I was in riften pick pocketing people. Got caught and attacked by my intended victim, npcs whom I had helped previously came to my defense and killed my attacker as well as a guard who tried to arrest me. Sadly one of them, the jeweler Argonian, died defending me. Made me feel like I helped these people for a reason.