There's way too much obsession over a "hot" NPC...

I've said it before.

I has little to do with the fact that she's hot. There are lots of "hot" NPCs in Skyrim. What matters is that she's iconic, recognizable, and associated with the excitement (hype) of waiting for Skyrim to come out. She's one of the reasons we all looked forward to playing the game.

The locations in the trailer are another thing. Myself and many others have put on little quests of our own to find each spot in the trailer. I have yet to find them all.

It's a scavenger hunt, unrelated to how hot she is.

(She is hot, though)

Thanks. Didn't realise it was one of those statue heads. I thought it looked different in the trailer.

This reminds of Rockstar when everyone was looking for the ratman and bigfoot... or some of the girls on the covers. Lol

Meh, she had nothing to do with the excitement of Skyrim for me. I mean, seeing a new screenshot is great and all, but I was excited about the fact that it was a new Elder Scrolls games. Videos that actually showed the gameplay (like the QuakeCon footage that eventually made its way to an official release with Todd Howard narrating) got me excited.

Not a "meh" screenshot of a well designed, but otherwise uninspiring bar maid.

And I just can't wrap my head around the "hot" NPC mentality - I mean you might not be giving in to it, but obviously people are since this isn't the first thread about her, and every thread is based on the fact that people think she's hot and want to in-game marry her.

I mean, I guess I can see how if she translated into real life, she'd be an attractive woman, but I just have no desire to "check out" an NPC, a virtual character that is not real, when I can go out into the real world and look at hot real women, or [censored] just call up my girlfriend and go see her if I really want to see an attractive woman.

I just don't get the "hot NPC" dynamic.

Hmm. If I may digress, the "hot NPC" dynamic is related to the "porm" dynamic. Virtual people can be very attractive, and are certainly a lot easier to "meet" than real people. It's a path of least resistance. Want to meet a pretty girl? You can sign up for speed dating, or you could just fire up the old interwebs.

lol? Yea. But sometimes people just don't have the drive.

Meh, while porm is viewed virtually, at least it's pictures and videos of real people.

True enough, but it does demonstrate that a good facsimile can be sufficient for plenty of people.