racial conversation influence

Lynx7386

Has this ever been considered? Currently we have intimidate/influence options in a lot of quest conversations when unlocked, I think that some quests should allow a race-based option.

So for example in morrowind we might be talking to a dunmer slaver. A dunmer player might have a racial option to agree with the enslavement and get on the slaver's good side. An argonian or khajiit character might have options to denounce or even attack the slaver.

Think it's worth implementing?

Mettaricana

Like it

Only thing similar I seen so far is starter zones of game some npcs reference your race like in ebonheart the argonians protecting the hist tree will tell tou "you don't belong here " if a dunmer
And sometimes say " keep away friend" if argonian

Turelus

I would love to see it personally, but I feel it's going to be too much work for little reward in the eyes of ZOS.

Also they would need to go and record whole new VO lines for the NPC's involved.

AshTal

It does exist but it can be really hard to notice and its a change in words and response. Argonian's get a few when talking to other Argonian's. However I don't recall seeing any for a high elf or Imperial. Also it doesn't appear as a separate option but as your only option.

However I agree I would like to see more options based on race.

Alpheu5

There are already a few instances where racial choice already alters the dialogue. There are plenty of times in the game where I, as an Argonian, get told things like "your kind", "[something something about Argonians], no offense", and things of that nature.

Glaiceana

Yeah this is great idea! As AshTal said, there are some in the game already, but most often the NPCs do not know what you are.
I was pleasantly surprised that several quests in Bangkorai (DC zone, but I am EP on my main) recognised me as a werewolf when I came to complete them.

It would be awesome if this happened more often in other ways.

KerinKor

Lynx7386 wrote: »

Think it's worth implementing?

Not really, it may be an interesting bit of 'local flavour' but the time to do it IMO would be far better spent on new stuff rather than re-hashing old stuff, especially when such a change would really only be noticed by a trivially small percentage of players I would expect.

theher0not

As almost everyone above has said, this is already in the game, and not only for Argonians, as a khajiit when I did the quest about that abusive school in Auridon I was met with "sorry, we are full on khajiiti students". It would be nice to see more of that, small lines from different NPCs.

But if you are talking about quest choices then no. I don't want my race to limit my choices of what I can do.

Rouven

theher0not wrote: »

As almost everyone above has said, this is already in the game, and not only for Argonians, as a khajiit when I did the quest about that abusive school in Auridon I was met with "sorry, we are full on khajiiti students". It would be nice to see more of that, small lines from different NPCs.

But if you are talking about quest choices then no. I don't want my race to limit my choices of what I can do.

One could potentially look at it as expanding, not limiting. A little bonus, a little easter egg - not in terms of unique quest reward that is not available to others.

Lynx7386

I'm not saying they should go back and redo voice over work and quest dialogue for past content, but when adding new content like morrowind, this should be something with a little more focus

TheShadowScout

I would love that sort of thing, when the game actually took your charater chopices into account during quests!

I mean, there are some dialouge variation right now, but that's about it.

I for one would love quests where one race got some special advantage because they are "one of our people"...
I would love quests where one race would get a special disadvantage because they are "one of our enemies"...
I would love a quest that can -only- be done by one specific race.
I would love quests that go differently depending on your race instead on a dialouge choice as we have now.

I also would love to see the same for class and gender... some questline where a dragonknight gets a different sidemission from a nightblade, and a templar a different then a sorceror, or warden... some quests where a girl character has different options from a boy character...

it -would- raise the replayability value of the game immensely, and make alt-happy people even happier.

BtW, I absolutely loved it when thieves and assassins got an extra dialouge option in the "A Friend in need" housing introduction quest in reply of that orc in the outlaw den asking for a bribe... when my main character just looked at him and stayed silent... and his reaction when he realized... that made me know I am in the right MMO with ESO!