I dunno about the rest of you, but one of the things I found most unnerving about playing Oblivion was the NPCs in shops and homes and such. Its not that they follow you about thats the problem...its the manner with which they do it. I was running about upstairs on a chorrol house, and its two owners eventually caught up. But they didnt follow past where they needed for line of sight. So I just saw two heads staring blankely from the edge of the stairs. Gah.

Its hard to explain but creepy!

Hahaha, yeah behavior and animations should be more natural this time around. Bethesda is paying close attention to it.

Maybe they were afraid of the creepy intruder?

They had a feeling you and them were about to become very close.

That is really creepy... but hey, it did deter me from going upstairs when they were around - they were just THAT unnerving.

I think they should verbally announce their displeasure at you going into their private quarters, instead of following you around silently and just staring blankly at you.

they should at least do away with the blank expression! lol

Yeah, I always found it kinda weird that shopkeepers would just follow you around and stare at you. I mean if you were the shopkeeper and a heavily armed dude just walks around where he shouldn't in your own house would you follow him around and just stare at him lol? I think they should initiate dialogue and give warnings in levels. The first level can be something like "Where do you think you're going?!" or "Hey! You're not allowed up/in here!" and then you have to reply. Lets say you reply "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know that". Then the shopkeeper will say something like "Well that may be, but I'd like you to leave anyway". Now if you don't comply the shopkeeper will go to the next level and say something like "If you don't leave right now I will call the guards! >:(". Then you can either leave within 30 seconds or the shopkeeper gets his wife to go get a guard or he does it himself.
If you're still in the shop when the guard arrives, then you will be escorted out of the shop unless you resist and then the guard will try to arrest you and the chaos ensues. After all this the shopkeepers disposition towards you drops greatly, I mean like it goes down to zero. Everything costs alot more and sells for much less and he looks annoyed.

Would probably have to be a mod. =P

Stare back at them!

Like the stewards in the fighter's guild?

I console kill them all the time. Damned creepy!

this.

just had a thought. you know the bar wench in those screens? seems to me that that's the expression they'll have again. there was a similar pic in OB.

I always wanted to murder them right away when they did that, but the guards wouldn't like it.

So I had to endure the stalking idiots.

Worst dialogue in the game. Always freaked me out.

And yes, I do hope Bethesda goes back to their intended animation and NPC behavior that they demonstrated in an Oblivion demo before they watered it down. I would like to feel like I'm in a "living, breathing" world.

I like creepy, but that may be due to a childhood spent watching Scooby Doo cartoons.
Seriously, though, there should be some npcs who make you nervous, just not because of AI shortcomings. I personally think the Oblivion AI was amazing at the time, and gets unjustly bad press, but they have had a while, even since Fallout 3, to improve on this, and I can only assume it will be much better.

The Fighters Guild porter always made me freak out. Seriously, when I went to sleep in the fighters guild he was there next to my bed all night... Staring at me...

I never slept in the fighter's guild....always thought if I wake up I'll see them just staring at me......while my body is tied to the bed and....they just keep staring...............Cyrodiil Staring Torture. Its all the rage in the Imperial Prison!

"I'm sorry; we're closing. You're going to have to leave now."

Closing what? :facepalm: That never did make sense to me.

hopefully though there emotions will show up better lucien lachances absolutly enraged speech when he finds you killed ungolim was ruined by the poor facial expressions in oblivion

The worst was trying to steal a lettuce for Sheogorath. I was creeping around, thinking I was invisible, and then realised the shopkeeper was standing right behind me, asking me what the heck I was doing! I leapt about three feet in the air!

Look at the muscles on you! :hubbahubba:

What the OP spelled out is pretty.....bizarre lol.

Although, I'd like to see more creepy characters. Like Crassius Curio, he was freaking creepy. And it wasn't his behavior it was his personality. In order to join House Hlaalu you had to take off all your clothes for him.

That's why I gave up on playing Companion mods. I'd go to bed and there they'd all be the next morning standing in a line. Smiling.

Creepy.