Just want to know if I'm the only one who thinks Skyrim NPC's are really unkind and rude. It annoys me quite a bit, especially because you can't kill the majority of them. What do you think?

I really hate that kid in riverwood... the one that always says not to get on his bad side...

Yeah, the kids too. They're horrible

Yeah, especially one of the sons of Dragonreach Jarl.

Now only if NPCs can be killed!!

I must admit I've found some NPCs (the appalling kids in particular) so irritating I've actually resorted to disabling them so I don't have to see or hear them any longer. I don't think I've ever had to do that before. Well, there was some shenanigans trying to avoid Glarthir in Oblivion, but apart from that...

Sounds like a good idea. Haven't though of that. Sounds like the "Now get out of my face" got a new meaning.

Only the children. Oh, by the way, am I the only one who doesn't get the desire to murder NPCs willy-nilly? Maybe it's because I RP, but seeing people kill off characters for snide remarks seems incredibly harsh and brutal to me.

I viewed that as more an expression of frustration: even where the objectionable NPCs in question are killable, that doesn't fit my RP, which is part of the reason why I mentioned disabling them instead. They've gone on a long holiday. Somewhere. Anywhere: don't care, as long as it's far away from me...

If I hear that guard say I lost my sweetroll just one more time...

I feel the same (and don't find psychotic or unnecessarily cruel characters appealing), but I think it's that most players simply don't roleplay at all; their characters have no sense of being beyond what the players want to get/fight/succeed at in the video game.

But yes, the TES series and Skyrim especially seems to be full of dangerously rude, arrogant, and insanely brave NPCs. It wouldn't be a problem... if there were thousands of NPCs in the world rather than a few hundred.