/tesg/ in tears. To be fair, would rather have my fantasy characters look as nice as possible, logic be damned because we sure as shit can't trust Bethesda to make nice looking characters for the most part. Most of Skyrim's vanilla NPCs pretty decent looking but modern day Bethesda is a different question, and that question comes in the form of:
Are we forgetting about Thomas the Tank Engine?
I mean...Skyrim *was* meant to be more low fantasy. Conan the Barbarian was a direct inspiration per Todd Howard himself, which is why I find most character model overhaul mods annoying and gay.
Really? Given the rest of the series I can't see Skyrim being low fantasy. I can see parts of Conan being an inspiration for some parts of Skyrim but otherwise...eh.
I believe it is in the "first design document" that was released a few years ago for Skyrims anniversary, and Todd said he kept a Conan statue on his desk for inspiration.
It certainly wasn't as high as Oblivion and I hope I didn't imply that it was, not every High Fantasy is the same. Tamriel is a high fantasy world, I'm not sure if you can even have low fantasy in a high fantasy world unless you retcon all the High Fantasy elements. Skyrim is lower on the High Fantasy scale but it's definitely still High Fantasy. I'd argue that's because Bethesda were too fuckin' lazy to make some of the more fantastical elements that would definitively place it in "High Fantasy" with no arguments, RIP Sky Whales. I also don't trust that snake Todd to even know what really Conan was nor anything about it with his sweet little lies.
Oh yeah, no argument there. Like I said before, you can have very distinct variations of High Fantasy based on design philosophy alone. Bit of an extreme example but compare Tolkien's work to The Craft Sequence, both very High Fantasy but very different. Speaking of Tolkien, going by his coined definitions that I see to be widely accepted, primary worlds tend be Low Fantasy (if Fantasy at all) while a secondary world is a separate world (like The Elder Scrolls) and tends to be High Fantasy. Forgive me I'm rambling about topics I'm probably not knowledgeable enough to speak on.
It's funny that for all its gameplay faults the art did feel like a step back in the direction of Morrowind, pic relevant. I like Oblivions art and its a very pretty game but it's certainly a bit... uninspired. I don't usually mind retcons given I come into things way later but shirking the written-about Jungle aesthetic in favor of Oblivions LOTR-lands certainly is a loss. Should've just said "it's Valenwood" and it'd've worked
What's annoying and gay about every character being turned into some airbrushed OF thot, including the guys? That's so hekkin realism bro!
Idk. But Serana vanilla is the most cute character in Skyrim.
Too bad she's completely insufferable. Between her "goth girl with daddy issues" schtick and the fact she's forced on you regardless of what side you choose in Dawnguard, she's probably my least favorite character in the game.
I'd say that almost every NPC in Skyrim is annoying and gay even without mods. The cat traders are the only exception - they are fun little furry faggots. "Khajiit has wares, if you have coin."
She's also fuckin annoying because she kills shit with her ice spear and sends everything flying. Good luck finding that quest item the NPC has, they got blasted to fuckin Vvardenfell by Molags cumrag.
Just follow the quest marker, dummy.
WHEN SOME NPCS GET KILLED THEY LOSE THE ARROW YA NUMBNUTS, TRY FINDING THAT MOTHERFUCKER ONCE SHITRANA SENDS THEM TO FUCKING AETHERIUS WITH HER FROZEN MOLAG BAL CUM SPIKES.
Looks like we got a solid idea for KF Skyrim modpack on our hands, fellas.
Some of the more muted body mods actually look nice other than the fact that they make all the grannies in the game look like runway models.
"This is a great advert for Daedric Online!" Oh God there's another one? Anyway, yeah admins are usually shitmins by default that seethe and cope at people having fun because...who the fuck knows man. I guess this time it was like the other guy said, the admins didn't want to actually do any work and make a storyline so they just said "fuck it, event cancelled because it takes me away from my gooning sessions." Then when the players protested and decided to do the event on their own terms, that counted as RDM and was going against the word of the admins (after all, admin = God or some gay shit like that), thus "failRP."
I suppose if you want to play Skyrim multiplayer you'd go to DO until they inevitably get swarmed by autistic trannies that want to suck the life out of everything.
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