All the children appear to be born with a North American accent. I can only assume, owing to the lack of teenagers ingame, that once a denizen of Skyrim reaches puberty they are sprirted away to boarding school to be taught how to speak with a Scandinavian accent like their parents. Personally I love the game - so much I spent £150 upgrading my gfx card to get the most out of it. Yes the speech menus are f**king annoying, not least because of the clumsy anti-PC interface, but its escapism, I don't want to know the life story of the man with the cabbage stall - I want to go and kill sh*t. Looking at other popular posts on here it seems most people just want to go around commiting genocide everywhere - why worry about an NPCs social skills when you're just going to slaughter him? I like that there's only one route up a mountain to a dingle or grotto. It wouldn't be a mountain otherwise - it would be a hill. Besides there's often many strange delights to discover while you try to navigate the wrong dface of said escarpment. The alchemy system is a massive improvement - the only way you discover an ingredients attributes is by experimenting. - not by going up a level. Smithing is better, now i don't have to weigh myself down with hammers when on a dungeon crawl.