Why should this only apply to Argonians and Khajiit? We have so many different regions and if you were to look at it "realistically" then all ESO races would have their own language and many local dialects as well.

Honestly if i were you, for role play purposes i find other people to role play. I mean you can not get fully immersed with mixing in game mechanics and quests. It is like every alien talking English in movies.

The standard is that you may be of the race but not native to the area/ culture.

It does hurt my soul that Ta'agra isn't fleshed out more, and that the default language of the vestige implied by the game is Cyrodiilic.

Phanex wrote: »

My best guess is that the creators are trying to save time/money/resources and limit the voice acting, etc. to keep the game going.

As other say its not just those two races but also the others, PLUS Vampires and ww. I mean I'm stage 4 vamp and another vamp is like, your not a vamp you don't know what I'm going through..

I just look it as I'm a reborn husk of *insert race* from coldharbor and I have no memory of my previous life or culture. So, I'm basically neutral in the War, and people see me as a souless husk, not as a bret vampire, or an orc ww. /shrug

This was sort of the reasoning for Cadwell's Silver/Gold. You were seen by others as if you belonged in those other factions outwise of your own, so you could experience their stories and learn more about the War, etc. I guess he forgot to give you the off button and now everyone sees you as Generic Civilian.

WeerW3ir wrote: »

Consider this. You have an argonian character, or a khajiit. You do your adventuring in your HOMELANDS. Characters/Questgivers etc. so basicly the locals talking and using local language and words and you have no idea what are talking about. They have to explain the word to you endless times because you not learned it even after years in the game and story, not even mentioning that you should actually KNOW your own racial language. WHY?

I have this idea, that since your character was killed and then revived on the main story, that the character just doesn't remember the past or has legit mind problems/blackouts

WeerW3ir wrote: »

Consider this. You have an argonian character, or a khajiit. You do your adventuring in your HOMELANDS. Characters/Questgivers etc. so basicly the locals talking and using local language and words and you have no idea what are talking about. They have to explain the word to you endless times because you not learned it even after years in the game and story, not even mentioning that you should actually KNOW your own racial language. WHY?

ESO notoriously has a shameful lack of our character's race recognition.

That's why our Nord characters knows nothing of Skyrim Lore or basic culture, Redguard, Breton, Argonian Khajiit, etc. also lack basic recognition and dialogues that address their race and culture.

This is a huge falt on ESO questing stories, dialogues (aka "ZOS interest of put some work to change this").

Not even after the remastering of ESO original faction zones they did something. Oh well.

As other people have said this problem isn't specific to khajiit and argonians. There's all kinds of situations where who your character is and what they should know is ignored. Some are really silly, like a quest (on Bleakrock if I remember correctly) where apparently wearing the uniform allowed my argonian to perfectly blend in with a group of all-nord bandits. There's also at least one quest in Rivenspire where you're told you have to do it because you're not a vampire, even if you are a vampire.

Another very common one (which at least won't affect new players/characters any more) is base game quests that reference you not having a soul even if you never started the main quest and so do still have your soul.

(The one which bothers me most often is not having the option to correct quest-givers who act like you're some dumb barbarian who doesn't know what a book is even if you're a Master Wizard in the Mages Guild and a Master Antiquarian and whatever else.)

The annoying thing is the game is capable of tracking these things and changing dialogue based on them. Obviously it can track which quests you've completed because people in cities will yell at you about it, but there are a very small number of quests where things like being a vampire or a Dark Brotherhood member is acknowledged and I think some dialogue that changes based on your race. It's just very rarely used.

I suspect the stupid questions like "Who is Molag Bal?" are for the benefit of players who have taken long breaks, did things in an unusual order or weren't paying attention earlier, but if that's the case I wish they'd make it optional instead of required to progress a quest.

I'm not sure how much of the rest is because everything is voice-acted and it would be expensive to record multiple lines and how much is because the developers just don't think about it or don't want to spent the time to set up branching dialogue, or maybe because of technical limitations or something but I wish they'd do what they can to minimise it.

Especially since they're now hyping up ESO as an immersive world you can live in, and adding more dialogue options for the player, it would be really nice to see this addressed not just in new stuff but in existing quests as well.

It's probably brain damage from all the blows to the head we've taken.