yea that would be awesome! i really loved doing zone stories with Mirri and hearing her comment when i was near Vivec and Sotha Sil. Isobel's comments in the high isle quests were nice too

I wonder if they just assumed their audience were dude bros and were only interested in the womens lol. I will give them the benefit of the doubt tho since Isobel may be cute but she's not available in the way Mirri is so to speak.

They definitely didn't seem to give him as much care tho.

But yea even if they don't give as much care as the new ones, giving them something every now and then in new dlc imo will go a long way into making the entire companion system feel much more dynamic. Hell I'd even get a companion update pack for just that sole purpose throughout the rest of the game, i.e. just a dialogue pack for old and new content if that was necessary. Some may complain but they do have to pay the voice actors and actresses for their work each time.

And this would of course include hopefully the letters that the new companions can give as a furnishing item

Perhaps not directly related, but what Khajiit would like to see is his companion friends being duelable - make them perhaps as tough as a dungeon boss combat dummy, but with their combat skills too. Perhaps have them stop at 1% health or something like that - is friendly duel, after all. Would be really fun, this one thinks, and really not that difficult to implement - they already fight, just have them fight against player and give them lots of Hp.

Companion romance, updated voice lines for new content, more skills/skill lines added like psijic order...etc. being able to have a battle arena where companions can duel themselves, make companions not as much of a grind and allow them to gain xp from completing quests instead of just combat, I play alot and I still haven't gotten 1 out of the 4 companions to max level or rapport yet, let alone all the skill lines with two more on the way it's becoming way too much of a grind, It would also be nice to have your companions go on a "quest or mission" while you are not using them like send bastion to go clear a bandit camp and put a timer on that so that he's away on a mission and passively gaining xp/gold/crafting resources kind of like fallout shelters system when you send a vault dweller to the wasteland, also I hope they reconsider certain actions that cause companions to get angry with you and cause negative report like for example, mirri getting angry when you interact with a torchbug even if you don't put it in your inventory she will still consider it as if you harvested it, that is just annoying and makes me want to avoid certain content like interacting with torch bugs, at least fix it so she only loses rapport if you harvest it instead of just interacting and leaving it alone.

A good example of how they should do companion rapport is what that they did with ember, its completely skill based instead of annoying, ember only gets mad if you get caught breaking the law, but if you are good at sneaking when committing crimes then she will never get mad because you don't get caught, which makes it feel more rewarding being good at doing something rather then being forced unsummon your companion when doing certain activities in-game if you don't want to lose rapport, and if you aren't good at sneaking when pickpocketing for example just unsummon ember until you get those legerdemain passives up. The point I'm trying to make is that with ember its actually hard to get negative rapport doing regular activities in the game and you only get negative rapport if you aren't good at it (Sneaking/breaking the law) and you can do any activity in the game without ember ever getting mad, you want to use blade of woe? go for it, enter dark brotherhood sanctuary go for it, break into houses and steal/pickpocket sure! just don't get caught and you are good, where as with mirri/bastion/Isobel, you get negative rapport if you do regular in-game activities without that option of avoiding it through using your own skill as a player (ex. using blade of woe, entering dark brotherhood sanctuary, stealing...etc) doing those activities makes your companion hate you and when doing them you just have to unsummon them and then resummon them when you are done which is annoying. Those are just my thoughts and what I would like to see with quality of life for the companions system, anyways have a great day everyone!

As for the other features here, I definitely agree with all that was said, especially duels and such because that would give me further use and entertainment for my arena house lol.

But for now I just want zos to focus on the bare minimum lol which is dialogue and the same features the new companions have. That said, all those features for them are probably easier to implement than dialogue.

I imagine developing more quality of life companion features is less expensive because it doesnt really require extra VA lines, vs having to rehire actresses who get paid per piece of dialogue unfortunately. And if their recent decisions in eso show anything, its that they're very concerned with how much money they're making from the game atm, probably due to Bethesda as a whole not having put out much of anything in the last decade that wasn't mmo related nearly.

edit: or a card game

As interesting as the new DLC story looks I can't help but come back what you and other have been saying here. There won't be any new comments from the oldest companions - nothing new there at all by the sound of it. I have no particular interest in the new companions so that doesn't really help the situation.

It's just disappointing that requests for updates continue to be ignored. It's going to be so jarring travelling a new plane of Oblivion and still hearing the same limited dialogue I hear stepping outside my house in Wayrest....