» Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:54 pm
Why not a dlc which would introduce a wider variety among trolls? In the game Dawnstar, there were many kinds of trolls (trollkins, bone breakers, bone crushers,...). Why not reintroducing them, alongside with the ice tribes (I am not sure they're the Falmers) and the Gehenoth(s)?
More generally, I would love to see more diversity in all the species featured in the game. Subspecies, for examples.
Another way to add diversity would be to make some features random.
Making some face or body features of the creatures the player encounters random would then allow more diversity in the game in the sense that you wouldn't encounter twins or clones of one and the same individual. I think this would contribute to deepen the visual realism of the game as well as the feeling of walking into a living world.
Moreover, given the amazing results obtained with the character creation tool with the playable races, I have no doubt that some creatures we encounter in Skyrim, could become very charismatic as well, in case they would benefit from such a tool, randomly used when they are spawned.
Such a partially random spawning could also be used with any creature, generating, for example, black spots in the fur of light-grey wolves. Or a scar in the skin of a horker, or leucistic foxes and ravens.
Further generalization could make such a partial randomness available to vegetals, or even to various in-game items, leading to peculiarities in foliage or to items with slightly differents adornments, more vivid or faded paintings, or some crackles...
Also, I'd love a better name management. I find it disturbing to see a name appear the firs time I see an NPC. I'd rather like to see "Whiterun Citizen" before I talk to them. Then, the NPC could reveal us a name, so that the name appears when we talk to them afterwards. Or we could have had a depiction of the guy, in which case his name appears with a "?" until we have had a confirmation. Also, they could lie, so wrong names may appear.
Again, for generic NPCs, a random name could be spawned, which you could discover upon enquiry. This could allow for nice random quests, where, for example, you'd have to find a bandit who stole something to you.
What would be nice, too, would be finishing moves for spells. And a way to make the finishing moves trigger at will, rather than at the surprise of the player.