It's going to be great. We'll have to see how it goes and compare legendary dragon battles!

:tes:

I'll make my own.

It remains to be seen whether we can change character's height.
Or maybe I've missed something?

You can't even see all of his face. You couldn't remake him if you wanted to.

Absolutely not, I'll be making my own. I doubt it'll be like Mass Effect when the character creator is so bad you have no choice but to play default shepard.

To be honest I think he looks kind of lame. He doesn't even have facial hair, and he calls himself a Nord? Hahaha!
So no, I really don't see him as Dovahkiin.

It astounds me how many people come in here asking, what are the ten races? Will I get to play a female? Do I have to be a nord?

But it's mostly because I keep forgetting a lot of people are new to the game. Bethesda, if you are listening, you succeeded in gaining more fans.

The default Shepard was based off of a real person. Bethesda's Dovahkiin was made with the character creator.

A beardless Nord is not a Nord.

Especially if it is a woman

No way!

Haha, good one.

There is no reason for me to be an inferior, bone-head, Nord, I know what I'm going to be and nothing will stop me.

Or literally switched it to Commander Shepard.

No way. I won't even be playing as a nord until maybe the fourth or fifth replay.

No, I'll make all my own characters thank you. The default Nord doesn't seem all that great, but I didn't think default Shepard was all that great either. I normally just used MassEffect2Faces.com and used a face with sliders to play ME or just the top face codes for ME2. I shouldn't need face codes for Skyrim though, hopefully you can make your own character look the same or better than poster Dovakhiin without mods.

Creating your own character is what this game is all about! :shocking:

I had considered playing as a Nord my first time through, as they are one of my favorite races, but now I am sure that I will be going with Dunmer.

I would say that the default Shepard is more of a reasonable reflection of Mass Effect though. The customization is very limited compared to TES, and even though you can change the appearance or gender, you're still essentially who the game wants you to be - Commander Shepard. The background choices you make at the start of the game, and the choices you make later on between paragon and renegade only offer a shallow illusion of being in control of who the character is. It's not like you can choose to be a Salarian scientist or a Volus explorer.

TES is about being who you want to be. If I want to be an Argonian thief, I can be an Argonian thief. If I want to be an Orc explorer, I can be an Orc explorer. I don't even need to touch the main quest.

Showing a default male Nord named Dovahkiin constantly doesn't reflect that level of choice and player freedom. At most it reflects Mass Effect's level of choice.

This is my Evil Mexican from Mass Effect.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/100698657-4.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/101072578-4.jpg

Nah I'll create my own thanks. I'm not even playing a nord on my first play through.

I've got to say, I always crate my own character, and I prefer to play Sneaky, roguelike characters. It;s just awesome to drop creatures with one arrow cause of the sneak bonus.

The trailers and demo's however, makes me feel like kind of a wimp in doing that, Dovakhiin is supposed to be a big brutish Nord, not a wimpy skinny elf.

Could you imagine Bethesda marketing the game with a faceless, androgynous gray blob? I didn't think so.

You can create a brutish elf. :whistling:

I do hope he is the default male Nord he is very fitting for the atmosphere. Will be my first play through if this is the case.

That said, I prefer making my own characters, and don't often use any defaults, this would just be the exception.

They based him off a real guy, http://ui07.gamespot.com/710/shepardreallife.jpg.

In some pic's he does have facial hair :frog: wonder what that means.. :bunny: