Oblivion VS Skyrim!

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Hello, I am making an RPG game (my favorite types) and I am getting to the NPC part. NPCs can make or break an RPG so I want to make mines right. I played all the Elder Scrolls games starting from Oblivion and I absolutely love the atmosphere, the NPCs, and my freedom in that game. The thing is, I enjoyed Oblivion much more than Skyrim and I believe these are the reasons why:

  1. NPC interaction was better! In Oblivion, you could see the expression in someone’s face, whether they liked you or not which made it very interactive. The people that refused to like me, ended up dead and robbed in that game. I actually felt really bad after a while and that is what made the game much more alive. In Skyrim, I don’t care who I kill because I never have that connection with anyone.

  2. There was always a conversation! Anyone you walked up to had something to say. It could be a comment or some back-story about themselves. I could walk up to a guard and ask for directions or rumors. I could talk to some peasant and learn about their family. In Skyrim, no one stopped to talk to me. Guards were so banal and said the same thing. People had absolutely no emotion and I couldn’t tell if they were happy or said about the subject we were talking about.

  3. I could see people’s faces! This was a major turn off for me in Skyrim. I couldn’t see anybody’s face as they were all masked. I couldn’t tell if they were smiling or frowning or crying or whatnot. In Oblivion, I could see everyone’s face and I could relate to their feelings.

Skyrim did improve on a lot of the things Oblivion couldn’t perfect. While they did fix all the problems, interaction was degraded. That really set that game back for me because I couldn’t live the life of a dragonborn. I don’t know what it is like because I cannot interact with people as well as Oblivion. I can’t believe such a thing could really put down a game like that. I thought really hard about this and I wanted to make sure I didn’t do these things in my RPG. What game did you guys like better and why?

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i think in oblivion they used FaceGen … and sometimes the faces you could make were silly beyond realistic

and in skyrim its something else i guess?? … it felt to me like they made sets of faces, but there was a facemaker in the game…
im guessing they made faces, but theres mutation points… or something … it seems like they are less mutable… but i could be wrong, i never played around with the faces much, just my 2cents…

lol… i always love Morrowind the most, but the reason i liked it more was simple: it seemed like there was more biomes in the game, and the cities were all built differently to accommodate the biomes, everywhere you go felt like a different place, different atmosphere.

mushroom forests, desert, lava desert, plains, mountains, forests, swamps, ash desert

oblivion and skyrim just feel like its: mountains, plains, forest, snow … and skyrim has geyserland

the archetectual difference (of the buildings in the game) is because the “lore” of the game… the island of morrowind was a melting pot of cultures in the TES universe, whereas oblivion is “the imperials” … and skyrim is “the nords”