I think that the "Everything stop and zoom in on the character's face as they stand still" is a bit redundant. anyone hoping for more movement and animation in NPCs in general?

honestly i wouldnt mind it being more like fables but i'd rather it be unique and not like oblivion

I hope we get a lot of conversation options when talking to people. Kinda like Fallout but more in depth.

Uh, how is Fable's?

if they stick to the one in Fallout then they should be fine

I'd prefer the camera to continue to focus on NPCs, but I want very minimal zooming.

It would also be cool to have conversations in real time, but I'm not sure how that would work when you have enemies chasing you at the same time.

I would love to see a system that doesn't make the universe halt whenever you talk to someone.

The zooming doesn't really bother me, but the people frozen in time behind or in front of me do.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R probably has the best baseline model for conversations for this sort of game: took place in real time and the actor wasn't locked into any specific animations or anything, mostly text-only but with voiced dialogue for important conversation topics and non-text bits for when it wouldn't quite work. Nice, simple, efficient.

Yes. But not too drastically. I basically want two things: More detail in conversation topics and responses (like in Morrowind) and better reactions and persuasion. What I do not want is a Mass Effect style conversation mechanism. That sort of thing is well suited for a linear game, but it just wouldn't work for a TES game. Not at all.