Personality Animations

Nutronic · February 2015

So some of the new animations aren't quite sitting well with people, while others are quite content. Since I doubt this will be the last time we'll get animation tweaks during the life span of the game I'd like to suggest keeping older animations (even from way back in beta/last year) and adding them into the character creation screen as personalities.

I can't take credit for this idea as it's something I saw used very successfully in another mmo; but the point is that they had several "personality" options for characters which would define idle animations, various emotes, and of course combat animations. I feel this is a nice compromise between the players and developers because it means in a few more patches if there are more animation tweaks they could just keep adding more "personalities" for players to choose.

Either way by my count they already have about 3 sets to work with at this point, so maybe something for ZOS to consider. What does everyone else think?

baratron · February 2015

I don't know much about the various animations which have been used and removed, but I like this idea. You should be able to show that your character is "lazy" or "energetic" or "scholarly" through what they do when idling, and by their default animations for various things (e.g. how your default option for /dance is linked to your character's race, but you CAN do any of the racial dances for your character's gender).