Dragons have a good side
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I'm talking about our followers, pets and summoned beings.
I strut into any town in my best suit of armour and get admiring comments from the guards. They praise my latest conquest. I stride nonchalantly up to the Jarl and he or she almost makes me blush with embarrassment because of the simpering comments.
Meanwhile, my follower, pet or faithful atronach stands like a school kid in the background (except for Serana who always butts in and would sit on the Jarl's knee if her programming allowed it). Nobody comments on them and they are not included in any dialogue. I think it's a shame.
Not only that but there are times that I would expect them to be noticed. For instance, you would think that if you walked into Riften with a dwarven sphere, an armoured troll or storm atronach in tow that someone would say something about it. Heck, I'd expect small children and even hardened warriors to run away screaming. Do they? Of course not.
I wrote this because I've just had a quest to destroy a vampire masquerading as an advisor in Dragonsreach. I summoned two dremora lords to distract my doomed foe and blasted him with dual cast incinerate to make sure he went down quickly. Afterwards, everyone in the court started commenting on how dangerous my spell was and that it made them nervous. I had my spells sheathed at the time but had these two hulking, horned brutes standing beside me. It really struck me then that it would have been a nice touch and so much more realistic, if NPCs did occasionally make a comment.
"Whoa! whoa! whoa!" exclaims a guard, "Get those things out of here or there'll be trouble!"
"What's that thing?", said the shopkeeper in a puzzled voice, "A spider? A mechanical spider? Can you make me one?"
Even a dialogue option would be nice, so that I could be modest and honest when accepting praise, such as, "I couldn't have done it without Lydia's help."
What do you think?
I strut into any town in my best suit of armour and get admiring comments from the guards. They praise my latest conquest. I stride nonchalantly up to the Jarl and he or she almost makes me blush with embarrassment because of the simpering comments.
Meanwhile, my follower, pet or faithful atronach stands like a school kid in the background (except for Serana who always butts in and would sit on the Jarl's knee if her programming allowed it). Nobody comments on them and they are not included in any dialogue. I think it's a shame.
Not only that but there are times that I would expect them to be noticed. For instance, you would think that if you walked into Riften with a dwarven sphere, an armoured troll or storm atronach in tow that someone would say something about it. Heck, I'd expect small children and even hardened warriors to run away screaming. Do they? Of course not.
I wrote this because I've just had a quest to destroy a vampire masquerading as an advisor in Dragonsreach. I summoned two dremora lords to distract my doomed foe and blasted him with dual cast incinerate to make sure he went down quickly. Afterwards, everyone in the court started commenting on how dangerous my spell was and that it made them nervous. I had my spells sheathed at the time but had these two hulking, horned brutes standing beside me. It really struck me then that it would have been a nice touch and so much more realistic, if NPCs did occasionally make a comment.
"Whoa! whoa! whoa!" exclaims a guard, "Get those things out of here or there'll be trouble!"
"What's that thing?", said the shopkeeper in a puzzled voice, "A spider? A mechanical spider? Can you make me one?"
Even a dialogue option would be nice, so that I could be modest and honest when accepting praise, such as, "I couldn't have done it without Lydia's help."
What do you think?