i would like to see a eating/drinking animation when i consume food just like the npcs.

YES YES YES this bothered me to no end in OB

I would like if one needs to eat, drink and sleep in order to function properly.
Also, yes, animations for that stuff would be cool.
Same for potion consuming and alchemy potion making.
Alchemy is one of my favorite skills in TES, but that rapid potion making and potion consuming made it simply too good.

inb4poopinganimationplz.

Personally, I wouldn't mind, but I can always assume the hero character simply assimilates with his/her food/drink rather than actually eating it, digestion is so inefficient.

In 1st person and in 3rd person, yes, definitely.

yes this would be awesome for roleplaying. ie sitting at a bar table with a few mates drinkin beer and playing cards.

that would just take the fun out of getting a cookie D:

Breathing animations would be nice.

The trouble with Oblivion was some npcs had a 'ponder object' in their inventories, part of the way the game handled such actions, which they looked at when the AI told them to eat or read, and you wouldn't want one in your inventory. You would see this if you killed some members of the Mage's Guild, a weird green square in their inventories.

I would like an eating and drinking animation, it would make the experience more realistic.

This is a good idea if it takes a few seconds, and makes you completely vulnerable while doing so. It would solve two problems: 1) ingesting tons of potions within a split second (bad for immersion, amirite?), and 2) combat as a measure of how many potions you have.

Now, if you have some kind of limit on the amount of stuff you can ingest, that would be nice, too. No more drinking half your bodyweight in potions within a few minutes. Maybe a max limit on total weight of stuff you can ingest per day or per hour. This would fix gameplay, and add immersion. What's not to like?

Then the only thing that needs to be fixed is healing magic, but suitably long animations work well for that.

3rd person would be easy and its absence in Oblivion was pretty stupid.
A first person one would be EPIC, if they pull it off

oh no .. please no hardcoe mode.. at least not one with no real rewards for it

But what is you are in a fight? That wouldnt work -_-'

Um, don't decide to eat an apple when you're fighting?

personally I would like to take a s#it behind a tree when suddenly all the CH4 explodes cause of the dragonfire!
that would be utterly awesome... in some very... very... strange way

Were you trying to be a [censored], because like every game has breathing animations now.

Who wouldn't want this?