Skyrim from Like/Hate

[Super Buu]

I'm referring to the actions and reactions of the NPCs

the 10 years since morrowind sure has allowed for some amazing advancements in character behaviour

Conversation flowcharts are not hard to program. Or "you attack me, I attack you" behaviour. And it's all well and good to have a bunch of objects in the game, but it's not like they do anything. I can't use a fork as an impromptu lockpick, or a chair as a makeshift shield. That'd be ambitious - physics engines and movable objects ain't. Call them forks and chairs, they're still just 3d models that you can move around.

I won't ever argue that the games have a lot of 'depth' in that there's an incredible amount of shit to do, but quantity =/= complexity. I do get what you're saying - there's a whole ton of shit in the games and it would take longer to do properly. I guess I'd rather they did less stuff and made it higher quality than aiming for a million quests and items that have little variation.