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.
The original game was the same, Cyrodil is supposed to be a big mix of different races. There was no political motive behind it back then, although I can understand how it might seem and feel differently under today's fatigue. For any named NPC, check what they looked like in the original; I bet it's the same.
Far too many people treat ChatGPT/AI as some omniscient resource. It's not, and it's not an authoritative source on anything. Especially for recent events that don't exist in training data yet. ChatGPT "research" is worse than citing Wikipedia.