Can you be a girl in Skyrim? : V - Skyrim

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:26 am

I'm sorry but male hips are slimmer than a female's hips because they don't carry babies. I'm still waiting for a look at a female in armor for the game...I've been watching intently for that.

And I think everyone was surprised when the Nerevarine turned out to be a female Breton.

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Whoopsies; I meant waist there

» Wed May 18, 2011 10:08 pm

Of course....

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:05 am

This proves a point I made a while ago about the whole 'Dovahkiin' thing. It gives the wrong impression about the game.

It gives the impression that this is a generic story-driven action-RPG with a set character named Dovahkiin who's a male Nord. When actually you can be whoever you want to be, even a female Argonian named Prudence who prefers frollicking in the woods than slaying dragons.

This.
Open your eyes, dear Prudence.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:25 am

It took me a while to find this but for the OP and everyone else. vsions, a character artist for Bethesda on the Pete Hines Tweets thread says females will be well-represented. Check it out.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?showtopic=1180281&view=findpost&p=17478424

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» Thu May 19, 2011 5:37 am

I didn't really follow any of the pre-release advertising of Morrowind. Were there theme songs about a male character named Nerevarine and pictures of him plastered onto the side of hotels?

http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/akqacms/files/tes/wall_downloads/mw_darkelf1024.bmp

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:29 am

Yes. There was a screen of a woman character looking at a city in the Playstation Magazine. The male nord Dovahkiin is just the face of Skyrim.

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:51 pm

As everyone has said, yes you can play as a girl. If you want evidence, if you look at the new screenshots, one of them appears to be a female in light/leather armor.

I must be blind...which screen shot is that please? link?

(oops, didn't mean to suggest linking to a forbidden screenshot...please disregard this suggestion. I wasn't thinking Playstation.)

» Wed May 18, 2011 9:11 pm

I must be blind...which screen shot is that please? link?

One of the Playstation Magazine ones, I guess. Nobody is allowed to link it

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:17 am

I must be blind...which screen shot is that please? link?

We can't. Not until PS Mag releases them on their site.

» Wed May 18, 2011 9:59 pm

I'm sorry but male hips are slimmer than a female's hips because they don't carry babies. I'm still waiting for a look at a female in armor for the game...I've been watching intently for that.

And I think everyone was surprised when the Nerevarine turned out to be a female Breton.

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Really? When was this comfirmed? I haven't been following the lore as I've been keeping track of Fallout.

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:46 am

http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/akqacms/files/tes/wall_downloads/mw_darkelf1024.bmp

Just looks like a random Dunmer to me. Could just as easily be a random NPC. :confused: Just looked at the official trailer for Morrowind, and there's no song about him, no narrator introducing him... in fact... he doesn't even appear in it. The trailer is just showing off the game's beautiful scenery mostly, which is how TES trailers should be - not showing a character the player hasn't made.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:45 am

You can be a female character if you want, but be aware that they cant do any of the professions like mining and wood shopping as they are only allowed to cook and clean.

» Wed May 18, 2011 10:26 pm

We won't have to option of actually being the Nord Dovahkiin, unless you go out and create him yourself. For advertisemant purposes, it's a face to a name. Commander Shepard is pretty much BioWare saying, "This is canonical! Accept it!" I mean have you tried making another character in Mass Effect? It's horrible! JUST HORRIBLE! D:

LOLz, You have no understanding of the character in the game, I'm afraid. And for the record, I'll take any of my Commander Shepard designs over the videogame version of a Dutch male model.

You sure about that? The arms look masculine to me.

That's a female, along with others that have yet to be shown outside of the new PS mag screens, apparently. You should expect more realistic variety in bofy types for bpth male and female characters in Skyrim. No more mediocre males and skinny females with oversized heads, a la Oblivion.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:18 am

One of the Playstation Magazine ones, I guess. Nobody is allowed to link it

Oh right and I wouldn't suggest linking to a scan if I had realized that it was for the new Playstation...I need another cup of coffee..

I'll just have to keep waiting patiently....is it a good clear look at the female armor?

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» Thu May 19, 2011 12:29 am

My first character will be a Dunmer Battle-Mage Character or a Dunmer Wizard Character (I know classes are gone, but I'll still focus on skills similar to the class of before).

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:08 pm

No.Bethesda took the option away.They also took races and all the RPG elements away.

» Thu May 19, 2011 10:44 am

Really? When was this comfirmed? I haven't been following the lore as I've been keeping track of Fallout.

It was just a joke, sorry.

» Wed May 18, 2011 7:46 pm

I can see how someone new to TES could easily not know that the dragonborn could be either gender.

1. No one, at least no one I know, has seen a female dragonborn.

Perhaps some of the elite, privileged people, like devs, or perhaps gamer magazine writers/testers have seen some.

2. In the initial GI article, In the Skyrim prologue, the Dovahkiin was refered to with only masculine pronouns (he/him, never she/her).

However, TES followers know from experience that the protagonist can be of either gender.

You pick the temperature - I want to see a cool/hot female Dovahkiin.

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:21 am

It was just a joke, sorry.

Oh ok.

» Wed May 18, 2011 10:00 pm

Just looks like a random Dunmer to me. Could just as easily be a random NPC. :confused: Just looked at the official trailer for Morrowind, and there's no song about him, no narrator introducing him... in fact... he doesn't even appear in it. The trailer is just showing off the game's beautiful scenery mostly, which is how TES trailers should be - not showing a character the player hasn't made.

People don't really want to see landscape, they want action scenes with the hero fighting all of the hellspawn the game has to offer. No-one is going to be drawn in and buy game where all they have seen of it is just scenery. I don't care what the trailer is but still the character and the trailer is just advertisment, a very very thin representation of what the game has to offer.

» Thu May 19, 2011 5:51 am

~~You can be a girl, but you are stuck in the kitchen with closed doors that have unpickable locks.~~

Beths can't afford to be sixist in a game they are trying to sell. There will be both genders available for all ten races.

» Wed May 18, 2011 10:02 pm

Just seen a magazine scan - there is a girl main character dead middle on one page

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:02 pm

You pick the temperature - I want to see a cool/hot female Dovahkiin.

Me too, would like to see some new pics of something other than the standard Nord male. :thumbsup:

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:21 am

I can see how someone new to TES could easily not know that the dragonborn could be either gender.

1. No one, at least no one I know, has seen a female dragonborn.

Perhaps some of the elite, privileged people, like devs, or perhaps gamer magazine writers/testers have seen some.

2. In the initial GI article, In the Skyrim prologue, the Dovahkiin was refered to with only masculine pronouns (he/him, never she/her).

However, TES followers know from experience that the protagonist can be of either gender.

You pick the temperature - I want to see a cool/hot female Dovahkiin.

Remember that any elder scroll fan, that is most of the members on this forum knows far more about the elder scroll than any game magazine reporter unless he also is a fan.

Two types of RPG, one is there you are a set character: Elder scroll or Dragon age where you select who you want to be freely and Gothic and Two worlds where you play a set character with a specified background, the later reduce freedom but let the designers use events from your past in the story.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:26 am

The whole Esbern-speech can be handled very simply:

*You realise you're a Dovahkiin*

Esbern:

Strange, I thought you'd be a lot... taller, and a man.

I GUESS PROPHECIES AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE.