Oh... My.... God....
Someone else played Lionheart!
I used to love that game, but sadly my installation disc broke and I haven't been able to install it on any of the newer computers.
I've played that game to death a hundred times over, just re-rolled another character last week
Maybe like yourself I'm clueless as to why it got such bad reviews. Too much walking I think was one reason but....c'mon....Morrowind??!?
I have no idea why I thought this but I could have sworn KS was asking for funding for a sequel but now can't find any evidence of it. Probably dreamt it.
Canderous was well written but imo, the voice didn't do it justice and also failed to etch any sort of nuance half the time apart from 'I'm well 'ard, and I hate you, and I hate everyone else'. I think someone like Mark Strong would have owned the character, British accent would have been a little different, he has great nuances in films such as Rock n Rolla.
For the ES games, picture this: You're a writer and have just finished writing about an archetypal hero who saves a land from civil war, trawls through dungeons, shouts trolls off cliffs and slays dragons. Good times. Now you're asked to write this 'A Gazillion Lines of Generic Fantasy World Conversation'. Then you think how the hell do you start that? So you just write 'I saw a mudcrab today, horrible creatures' along with one less than a gazillion other lines and never expect the developer to put it into a game. Even the best VO can't make that sound good
The writing for a game like ES is different. ES has no cutscenes after you start the game. With kotor for example, they can force you to talk to someone you need to by making a cutscene where you character walks over there and starts it. In ES, the player has to find quests themselves by walking up to someone so the questgivers have to be 100% obvious* with lines so bad it makes your ears bleed. 'Torolf, Torolf, have you seen my Torolf?' Shut up lady, I'm here to sell you a necklace of fortify block, go find him yourself.
*They don't have to be at all, but Bethesda/Zenimax/Whoever thinks they do, because we're all morons obviously.
This is another topic of conversation though. I could do a webisode on it but EC already did. These guys are awesome
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_UydgAnd just for lols
http://www.totalxbox.com/36456/features/skyrim-15-most-annoying-npc-quotes/