2012-01-03, 21:58 | Link #1922 |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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See, it is just their intentional design choice. Because as we know, it is popular now to portray elves as supermodels. But TES Elves are anything but.
Bethesda just decided they are not going to populate the world with beautiful people like you see on TV shows and movies. One would say their ratio of ordinary faces vs beauty is very close to the real world. Of course it is slightly annoying that you might not find anyone you want to marry in game, but that's why Bethesda let you mod; if you want high fantasy where everyone's gorgeous, you are free to put it in.
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2012-01-03, 22:50 | Link #1923 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
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Skyrim is a drastic improvement, though not exactly Bioware good. Everybody's kinda rough instead. But that's fine since they're going for the rough and tumble Viking-and-Dragons theme. I wouldn't date any of them but, well, I can't date any of them anyway (Fable marriages don't count, sorry). However a mod to prettify my avatar is absolutely essential. The Elder Scrolls are lonely games anyway: the world revolves around you, and you don't make connections to *characters* so much as you do with the world. If I'm going to be the center of my own little world, I might as well walk around being a total goddess. :/ Last edited by Irenicus; 2012-01-03 at 23:02. |
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2012-01-03, 23:18 | Link #1924 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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What Irenicus says ... just bad modeling. These aren't "average people" being depicted, these are immersion-breaking bad art jobs.
Skyrim *is* a dramatic improvement for Bethesda on the human side .. though the non-human races still welcome a tinker assist. Well.. I was able to extract a decent looking dark elf and high elf out of the unmodded build but it took me about 30 minutes of tinkering. Point is, PC players can employ mods to get around such immersion-breaking and enjoy the gameplay and story.
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2012-01-03, 23:25 | Link #1925 |
Carpe Diem
Join Date: Dec 2009
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With Christmas Break over and my return to my powerful-Skyrim running desktop, I finally realized the Zombie Apocalypse on Whiterun... and boy was it fun and brutal.
I spent the better part of the day dragging corpses (permanent world ones, like "Nord" and "Breton" and "Corpse") from all over the world with Twin Souls + Dead Thrall, and pilling them up in my house. Killed countless Bandit Chiefs, Conjurers, Pyromancers, Storm Wizards, Cryomancers, Dremora, and a few random passers-by who were under the stupid LVL 40 cap (since I was 50 at the time, Imperials, Storm Cloaks, Guard, all were "too powerful" for Dead Thrall), and put them in my house too. In the end, I think I piled up (by cap) 15 of the latter since respawning bodies can only be stored at 15 per cell before the game deletes them all (I did this once by accident, had to rehunt down a bunch of Bandit Chiefs) and close to 40 world corpses and a few named bosses that also never reset. So in the end there were close to 60 bodies piled up in my house, in the Alchemy room, in Breezehome. I equipped all of them with smithed and enchanted gear (needed to level enchanting) where applicable and where the Thralls would accept the upgraded gear (mages do not accept upgraded gear, the little pricks, but I did pimp out a few Bandit Chiefs with Daedra Weapons and Twin-Enchanted Steel Armor). The final component was the Ritual Stone. Used that in my Alchemy room, watched 60~some corpses come back to life, stepped out side, shot a guard, and lolled as 60+ zombies annihilate every guard and citizen in a matter of seconds (while also conjuring/raising a small additional army of Atronarchs and Zombies (had some necros and a couple of Master Vampires)). Best part of it? Game glitched and that army is still alive and it seems that all of them are considered Dead Thralls. (Though if I fast travel anywhere all but two disappear, so I have to walk everywhere with my army in tow.) Makes the game fairly boring, honestly... but hilarious.
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2012-01-04, 00:38 | Link #1927 | |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
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Okay...even the servants of the royality are ugly. Even the ugly royals in life get pretty maids, because power gets you the pretty ones to play with. It is considered one of the perks. Also lets you sneak away from your ugly royal wife, if all royals are ugly. Or you have your designated royal concubine, which would traditionally be pretty.
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2012-01-04, 01:53 | Link #1928 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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2012-01-04, 07:31 | Link #1930 | |
Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
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If you can get any other version, get that instead, though I still think the game is good enough that it's still worth it even if they only have a PS3. They should hopefully fix those issues sometime in the near future anyway. |
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2012-01-04, 09:51 | Link #1931 | |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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We had to deal with bad polygon faces for as long as polygons existed in gaming. Immersion has nothing to do with having beautiful people. If we can deal with Princess Peach being 16 pixels tall, we can deal with Skyrim faces. As I say, Bethesda simply have different view of beauty, and they are sticking to it. You are free to disagree, and free to mod. Much like how there was arguments on how Argonians are suppose to look in Oblivion. People have never been happy enough with default TES faces, and never will.
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2012-01-04, 10:21 | Link #1932 | |
Juanita/Kiteless
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 40
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However, in Skyrim, I think that there are a good number of good looking female NPCs, and it was very easy to make an attractive Nord woman for my character. I think that the human type of NPC women can look good (depending on the character), and that you can make a good looking human female character easily. I think that the elves look kind of bad. I liked how they looked much like humans in Oblivion. Does the fountain of youth mod apply to NPCs? Or just your own characters?
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2012-01-04, 18:45 | Link #1933 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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The mods generally improve everyone's looks. Like I said earlier, its possible to get pretty good results with Skyrim's existing components with humans but I just liked the mods to make it easier to work with the other species/races.
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2012-01-04, 20:40 | Link #1934 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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2012-01-04, 21:27 | Link #1935 | |
Juanita/Kiteless
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 40
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If you have an XBox 360 or a PC that can run it well, get one of those versions. If you want it on PC, I recommend getting a wired XBox 360 controller to play it with. The game was made with controllers in mind, and I hear that clicking things with the mouse is wonky in the PC version (including picking up things).
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2012-01-04, 21:31 | Link #1937 |
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Currently thinking of investing in some mods now that my first character is already maxed out, and I'm already in the groove with my second character (female Nord Destruction mage wearing Heavy Armor). I'm thinking of Weapons of the Third Age, but maybe I'll get some of the visual tweak mods that Vexx listed.
Any word on the Creation Kit yet? That'll really open the options to more comprehensive mods.
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2012-01-04, 21:36 | Link #1938 | |
Ineffectual Loner
Join Date: Mar 2011
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2012-01-04, 22:33 | Link #1939 | |
Many RPGs, Little Time
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Same thing happens in Fallout 3/New Vegas. Well Stiletto, one more reason to speedrun Skyrim
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