New Skyrim Screenshots - Races

[DirgeNovak]

This Orc looks fugly. But the one they revealed a couple months ago looked badass, so it's all good. That means we have a greater number of appearance options.
Both "beast races" are really good, too. I didn't play as them in previous games because they weren't really interesting to me, but now they're serious contenders.
And surprisingly, Wood elves don't look like total dorks this time around. Still don't really like them, but they're better.
I also really dig the new Dark Elf (who's clearly white, so I guess the "Dark Elf" nickname will have to be dropped...)

So... Imperials, Bretons and High elves are left to be revealed. The most boring races...

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

So is this game going to be a sausage fest or are they still deciding on how to best model girls? =p

 

[rt052192]

looks soooo much better!

 

[ms_sunlight]

So... Imperials, Bretons and High elves are left to be revealed. The most boring races...

Hahaha. Bretons make incredible mages. In Morrowind and Oblivion at least you could pack a whole lot of badass into one Breton. Don't mock them!

Anyway, regardless of boringness of races, it's a sausage festival. Hardly any female characters have been shown. Where are the women? Seriously, female who likes playing female PCs here. Show me the ladies.

 

[aarontg]

I'm surprised how human the orcs look now. But I prefer that over the stupidly round faces they were given in oblivion. Also the more detailed the argonians get the more they look like garrus from mass effect.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Argonians look awesome.

Always did like playing a lizard.

 

[kasperbbs]

Perhaps this time i'll pick something else than human, they all looked terrible to me in previous games and even then i had to install a bunch of mods to make the characters look better.

 

[ChupathingyX]

If the Argonians are giant walking, talking lizards, then why are they walking around a blizzardous Nordic tundra? Lizards are all cold-blooded, and need sun to warm themselves up. Now, I can imagine cold-blooded talking lizards walking around the swamps of Morrowind, but how do they survive sub-zero temperatures in an arctic wilderness. As far as I'm aware, the North Pole isn't renowned for its reptilian fauna.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaagiiiiic.

But seriously the Argonians aren't exact replicas of real world reptiles, they have their own anatomy and I assume bodily fluids. However, I do recal an Argonian in Solshteim mentioning he didn't like it because it was cold...

Plus this is Bethesda they aren't very good at explaining things.

There are 70 different voice actors confirmed, you can find it in the link I provided in the first post.

It isn't how many, it's how good they are.

So is this game going to be a sausage fest or are they still deciding on how to best model girls? =p

The Argonian is a female, look at the shape of the body and the...chest.

 

[Double A]

IMNSHO, Orc looks too human. I enjoy my burly, big jawed green motherfuckers.

The orc looks too human, but the rest of them are pretty damn awesome.

That's because the Kotaku reviewer made him look like that. Usual orcs still look badass.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6037250736_d2815db9b5_b.jpg

That is like taking the old orcs and multiplying by the inverse of the orc in the OP.

In other words, holy shit that orc looks badass!

Please tell me I'm not going to be the only one rolling an Orc male warrior who can cast elemental spells, carring a two-handed Ebony warhammer and wearing Ebony armor, killing dragons while screaming "LOK'TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDE!" in this game.

Please?

I don't play WOW. Why are you asking me?

 

[axeman157]

damn, I'm digging the grittyness.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

IMNSHO, Orc looks too human. I enjoy my burly, big jawed green motherfuckers.

The orc looks too human, but the rest of them are pretty damn awesome.

That's because the Kotaku reviewer made him look like that. Usual orcs still look badass.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6037250736_d2815db9b5_b.jpg

That is like taking the old orcs and multiplying by the inverse of the orc in the OP.

In other words, holy shit that orc looks badass!

Please tell me I'm not going to be the only one rolling an Orc male warrior who can cast elemental spells, carring a two-handed Ebony warhammer and wearing Ebony armor, killing dragons while screaming "LOK'TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDE!" in this game.

Please?

I don't play WOW. Why are you asking me?

Actually, I was asking everyone. All I did was quote one of the two people who had the badass orc picture and added in my two cents and you happened to be the one I quoted.

 

[Double A]

IMNSHO, Orc looks too human. I enjoy my burly, big jawed green motherfuckers.

The orc looks too human, but the rest of them are pretty damn awesome.

That's because the Kotaku reviewer made him look like that. Usual orcs still look badass.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6037250736_d2815db9b5_b.jpg

That is like taking the old orcs and multiplying by the inverse of the orc in the OP.

In other words, holy shit that orc looks badass!

Please tell me I'm not going to be the only one rolling an Orc male warrior who can cast elemental spells, carring a two-handed Ebony warhammer and wearing Ebony armor, killing dragons while screaming "LOK'TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDE!" in this game.

Please?

I don't play WOW. Why are you asking me?

Actually, I was asking everyone. All I did was quote one of the two people who had the badass orc picture and added in my two cents and you happened to be the one I quoted.

Oh.

Well then allow me to say that I plan on copypasting Obould Many-Arrows as my character.

 

[Owen Majkowski]

Argonians look pretty good . They look a little more "dinosaur-ish" than other games. Everything else either looks outright fugly to just alright... mainly due to the repulsive graphics engine more than anything. Yuck... even Oblivion characters looked better than some of these.

Just more reason not to waste my money on what is going to be a colossal disappointment. Of course Bethesda fans are too blind to realize that the dev's MO is overhyping their buggy, poorly designed pieces of garbage in hopes that someone will buy into it hook, line, and sinker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI9lvWMONt0

 

[I Max95]

wow!

all the flaws i found in Oblivion appear to be slipping away in Skyrim

these faces all look awesome, while in Oblivion everyone was ugly

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Gahhhh! This game looks more and more amazing with every post about Skyrim I see. I...want...this...game... D;

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

IMNSHO, Orc looks too human. I enjoy my burly, big jawed green motherfuckers.

The orc looks too human, but the rest of them are pretty damn awesome.

That's because the Kotaku reviewer made him look like that. Usual orcs still look badass.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6037250736_d2815db9b5_b.jpg

That is like taking the old orcs and multiplying by the inverse of the orc in the OP.

In other words, holy shit that orc looks badass!

Please tell me I'm not going to be the only one rolling an Orc male warrior who can cast elemental spells, carring a two-handed Ebony warhammer and wearing Ebony armor, killing dragons while screaming "LOK'TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDE!" in this game.

Please?

I don't play WOW. Why are you asking me?

Actually, I was asking everyone. All I did was quote one of the two people who had the badass orc picture and added in my two cents and you happened to be the one I quoted.

Oh.

Well then allow me to say that I plan on copypasting Obould Many-Arrows as my character.

Am I too much of a nerd if I say I know who that character is? Only because I know him through one Drizzt Do'Urden...and suffice to say even though I wanted Drizzt to win, Obould was not only a badass, but an honorable badass, and captured a little place in my heart.

 

[Double A]

IMNSHO, Orc looks too human. I enjoy my burly, big jawed green motherfuckers.

The orc looks too human, but the rest of them are pretty damn awesome.

That's because the Kotaku reviewer made him look like that. Usual orcs still look badass.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6037250736_d2815db9b5_b.jpg

That is like taking the old orcs and multiplying by the inverse of the orc in the OP.

In other words, holy shit that orc looks badass!

Please tell me I'm not going to be the only one rolling an Orc male warrior who can cast elemental spells, carring a two-handed Ebony warhammer and wearing Ebony armor, killing dragons while screaming "LOK'TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDE!" in this game.

Please?

I don't play WOW. Why are you asking me?

Actually, I was asking everyone. All I did was quote one of the two people who had the badass orc picture and added in my two cents and you happened to be the one I quoted.

Oh.

Well then allow me to say that I plan on copypasting Obould Many-Arrows as my character.

Am I too much of a nerd if I say I know who that character is? Only because I know him through one Drizzt Do'Urden...and suffice to say even though I wanted Drizzt to win, Obould was not only a badass, but an honorable badass, and captured a little place in my heart.

Assuming you've read Ghost King, why aren't you happy with how everything works out? Or at least you sound unhappy.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

IMNSHO, Orc looks too human. I enjoy my burly, big jawed green motherfuckers.

The orc looks too human, but the rest of them are pretty damn awesome.

That's because the Kotaku reviewer made him look like that. Usual orcs still look badass.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6037250736_d2815db9b5_b.jpg

That is like taking the old orcs and multiplying by the inverse of the orc in the OP.

In other words, holy shit that orc looks badass!

Please tell me I'm not going to be the only one rolling an Orc male warrior who can cast elemental spells, carring a two-handed Ebony warhammer and wearing Ebony armor, killing dragons while screaming "LOK'TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDE!" in this game.

Please?

I don't play WOW. Why are you asking me?

Actually, I was asking everyone. All I did was quote one of the two people who had the badass orc picture and added in my two cents and you happened to be the one I quoted.

Oh.

Well then allow me to say that I plan on copypasting Obould Many-Arrows as my character.

Am I too much of a nerd if I say I know who that character is? Only because I know him through one Drizzt Do'Urden...and suffice to say even though I wanted Drizzt to win, Obould was not only a badass, but an honorable badass, and captured a little place in my heart.

Assuming you've read Ghost King, why aren't you happy with how everything works out? Or at least you sound unhappy.

...and that's where this conversation draws to a close, because I have yet to read Ghost King. I own everything R. A. Salvatore has done with Drizzt - the trilogies of Dark Elf, Icewind Dale, The Hunter's Blades and the books Siege of Darkness, The Legacy, Passage to Dawn and Starless Night. I think the Transition series is my next book buying spree and, if memory serves me correctly, Ghost King is the second to last in that series?