I never played Oblivion, I'm early into the remake and having a blast, it feels new and exciting and still nostalgic. I don't game that much these days but I'm really into it, so Im not going to let the modern bs ruin it for me, I bit my tongue about the body type bs.
But I have to say the multitude of black NPCs is immersion breaking. I don't remember it in Skyrim so I asked chatgpt and it said they added them in for diversity bs. One or two black NPCs in the world is fine and doesn't ruin the lore/logic, but when you have tons of them it does. It makes zero sense and immediately pulls me out of the world I was just being immersed in and reminds me it's 2025 and everything is infected by this shit.
I'm going to just enjoy the game but I'm tired of blacks being inserted into fucking everything. its never Asians or Indians or something else either, the obsession with blacks in the media is insane.
If we're excusing them for lore reasons, you could say Cyrodil is the center of the empire so all the peoples would be mixed there maybe? Whereas despite the proximity I wouldn't expect a black dude from the desert to ever go to Skyrim willingly. But we all know the real reason.
If it's supposed to be like Rome it wasn't crazy that there would be individual traders or warriors or something from all over, but it just feels like every other modern media with the diversity where it doesn't make sense. Just going to ignore it and enjoy the game