I've been playing Oblivion from it's release - off and on of course with lots of Fallout 3, Skyrim, Morrowind etc, but far more 100s of hours than I want to admit.

So today I was leveling up my character's Destruction skill by locking an Orge in place with a few Damage Speed poisons, and then frying it with a stream of flare spells.

I've done that before many times. But this time I guess I was closer, and the Orge was facing sideways.

And I clearly saw it breathing! It's chest was heaving in and out in a natural breathing motion.

After all these years I missed that!

Did other people notice that?

The little things in this game are amazing (another example is the water trails, and splashes rain drops make in standing water - but I noticed that long ago.