Originally Posted by crpgnut 
I played a Breton that looked almost exactly like me, at least face-wise, in Oblivion. It took hours and hours of playing with the character generator to get it right, but it was eerie when I got done. There is something about the eyes in Oblivion that make your character look souless.
Indeed.
I remember being quite impressed with Oblivion at the initial stages. But the more I've replayed it, the more I think of the facegen as incredibly poor and, well, yeah - precisely "soulless".