Does anyone feel when their sitting at the bar, drinking their ale, they wish it would show them drink it (animate it), and not just play a sound. When ur eating food, don't u wish it would show some type of animation for that as well. I think this should be featured in Skyrim and would be cool. For health potions though idk how that would work if ur in combat. This would add on to roleplaying and be a cool feature.

Thoughts?

Ps: sry if already exists

Animation for every potion and beverage I drink would become quite annoying after sometime, especially because it's a first-person RPG.

I would either have to experience an animation in first person blocking my field of view and allowing NPCs to attack me while I stand there waiting for the animation to end.

Or the game would magically switch to 3rd person and display my character drinking. This, would also interfer with gameplay.

I think there should be an animation and a timer, especially for potions, it would add more diversity for potions. For example you could maybe make a large flask of a healing potion that takes 5 seconds to drink and heals you for 100 and another that takes 3 seconds to drink and heals for 60, then perhaps with a raging monster on you it would be better to drink the 3 second one if for example you spilled a bit of your drink each time you got hit, but managed to drink a 3 second potion without getting hit wasting no resources there, also a better alchemist could perhaps make a potion that is small but strong, healing 100 as you drink it over 3 seconds.

For long term effects like 30 seconds of healing you could maybe spend 3 seconds drinking such a potion that healed 90 over 30 seconds, or 5 seconds drinking one that heals 150 over 30 seconds, and of-course as a good alchemist you′d be able to make a 3 second drinking potion healing for 150, so you′d not run the same chance of getting hit while drinking losing perhaps 40% of the potion and its effectiveness.

Also there could be weak potions that are so small you can drink them in a instant gulp, but to make those strong you could perhaps need to be a master alchemist, and for "food" like meat... well you don′t eat a whole pork-chop in an instant, no matter how big your mouth is, you could perhaps speed eat it in 15 seconds but even that is pushing it, chewing on a flower could be instant however.

Well those are my thoughts on the subject.

Jeez, if this ever got implemented, it would ruin my day badly. Imagine when you are on a combat situation, and you need to drink a potion to restore your health and it needs to be quick, and then you just realize that it will take 5 seconds to drink it and by the time it's over the enemies would have swarmed and killed you.

This is something I've always wanted in TES. Perhaps not for potions like you guys said, but if I go into a tavern, it'd be cool to be actually drinking in first person. Also when going to bed and mounting your horse instead of going into third person all the time. If these small things would be added, it add a level of immersion never before seen.

I wouldn't mind a quick gulp animation that means that you can't use your secondary hand slot for one second while you drank. Other than that, not really fussed.

There should only be an animation when you consume an item while sitting. This way, it wouldn't interfere with gameplay when you're out in the wild.

I think 5 seconds is even a bit generous, go put water in a small glass vial and put a cork on the vial, then put on a protective suit and put the vial into one of your pockets, now if you walked into a lion pen with starving lions, how much time do you think you′d need to open and empty the vial of water into your stomach after getting hit at least once by one of the lions ?

Not saying I want RPG′s to be 100% like real life, ofc not. But I want them to be as real as they get within that particular fantasy world, from the books I′ve read and such in Morrowind and Oblivion nothing has hinted at the people of Nirn being able to drink and eat everything instantly, and you even see people eat slowly in taverns in Oblivion.