Tamriel is a dangerous place, and fit people run faster; they also run longer...

CONFIRMATION:


http://www.airbornegamer.com/2011/07/07/elder-scrolls-skyrim-qa-session/

Stop dodging it people, it's confirmed. No biggy, just disappointing that they didn't reach such a level of development yet. That's all.

Imagine your character to look like http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=don%27t+worry+i%27m+from+the+internet&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=911&tbm=isch&tbnid=fIj9_md_fjqZMM:&imgrefurl=http://www.reoiv.com/random.asp%253Fimg%253DDontWorrySir.jpg%2526page%253D23&docid=era1NhVo24cAbM&w=600&h=800&ei=W3pVTuvhHoPtsgaYrpQN&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=369&vpy=63&dur=808&hovh=259&hovw=194&tx=62&ty=148&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=107&start=0&ndsp=35&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

Take a look at the presets of the imperials: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6074105220_99f6decff8_o.jpg

Look at the man in the middle of the second row and focus on his neck and shoulders. Now look at the man to his right.

This is the heavy/light builds.

I don't mind either, but excuses like this, which completely ignore the bulk of the explanation given, drive me mad. The size of wealth doesn't matter much, and if you read the explanation you'd see that it wasn't even mentioned. The mountain environment conditions themselves don't easily permit there to be people with excess baggage. I'm just going to quote myself:


On top of that, in Skyrim they're at a high elevation, which means thinner air, which means every action takes a lot more energy than normal and the body gets fatigued a lot faster than normal, which means it will rapidly burn off fat. And, considering the dynamic terrain, anyone who moves anywhere outside their own house is going to get a workout. They also don't eat fast food and the other garbage that contributes to obesity in today's world, so their nutritional habits themselves create a leaner populace. And, they don't sit around in front of computers and desks all day, there is always maintenance to be done to continue their mode of life, just as their is today by people who live within similar means. In those conditions, you live to work to live.

And fat people in the middle ages owned their own estates with servants enough that they had to do nothing. A single Skyrim town would be the number of people that would serve one such a fat person, ignoring the effects of the mountainous Skyrim environment.

Again, it'd be heavily unrealistic to have fat people in Skyrim.

lol@someone who joined in August-11 saying something like that to someone who joined in July-05.
He's not after views. He doesn't need them. He's saying "confirmed" in the sense its 95% likely. Please lower your pedantry settings, to something approaching "person you would wish to speak with".

Did you get your fishy stick yet?

<------- No fat people, this makes my avatar very angry :flame:

what about Yagrum Bagarn?? how could one forget the last living Dwemer?! :facepalm:

My first companion is going to be the fattest one I can find.

That way I can outrun him when we first encounter a dragon.

When you have to work many hard hours of mostly manual labor to eat, of course you stay in shape. I would like to see some pudgy nobles/people with courtly jobs, though.

"Lack of fat options a near certainty" might have been a better title, but it looks like the mods have fixed it. Not really any need for 'join date' elitism, since misleading topic title is misleading.

I don't think its been revealed how long we'll be a prisoner before we escape. If it was long enough, then there's a logical reason why none of the presets are fat. Might still be possible to make a fat character tho. I vote for a character creation video posting.

The most likely locations for fat people would be in the large cities, but we have no screenshots of street scenes anywhere except Riverwood.

He had Corpus and was living a rather sedentary life style. Corpus is probably why he had his overweight appearance due to the gruesome tumors it causes.

Technology issues. They've have to created all new clothing meshes for fat characters, depending on how fat the body was. Actually, they'd probably have to design meshes of armor and clothing that would expand and bend according to your characters body, and armor would have to be in many different sizes. I think it'd be too much time and effort for something that isn't that important to them. It's important to me and others alike because it adds realism but apparently not to BGS.

Wow, thin people don't eat at McDonalds? Maybe just everyone where you are from is fat, because every time I go to McDonalds the vast majority of people there are thin.

The chubbies all burned in Oblivion. bliviongate: :chaos:

There weren't a lot of fat people in times like these the only ones who got fat were the ones that had enough money to buy that much food and that was maybe 10% of the population maybe less.

Nobody ever said thin people don't eat at McDonalds. So far, you're the only person who incorrectly assumed this.

Check out 100% of the McDonalds commercials. All fit, all the time. McDonalds knows that hiring fat actors portrays their products in the wrong light, even though it would be truer to life.

They should be happy there are no "truth in advertising" laws which require them to take a visual anolysis of every customer they have and then force actors in their commercials to be at the average weight of those findings.

Who the FXCK honestly cares, really? You're honestly going to be that petty, that you create an entire thread about your quarrel with a lack of obese characters?

I can only assume that you're fat yourself.

Are you that bored that you read and post in a thread you don't care about? (by the way, I'm a soldier and a trainer, so no. I am not fat. Not that there's anything wrong with being a little fat)

Learn some manners kid. Seriously.

Really? You said McDondald's had to show people over 300lb people enjoying their food to not be false advertising. How would showing such a miniscule representation of their costumer base be a proper representation of their clientele. Not my fault you tried pushing a false notion. And you continue to insinuate that the average McDonald's customer is fat, which maybe they are in your area. If that's the case then I feel for you.

I weigh 140 pounds and go to MickeyD's every other day. Stupid fast metabolism keeps me at a consistent weight, though.

Because it's just a game? Because that's one of those "realism" things that isn't really all that important? Because the added verisimilitude provided by having a few fat people wasn't worth the effort it would take to make all the armor & clothing models fit onto a "fat" build? Because it's an idealized fantasy world of fit people? Because the biology of Nirn includes various more-efficient fat burning enzymes? Because the daedric lord of skinniness cast a fat-burning spell across the entire world centuries ago?

:tongue:

This is the first time I've ever seen anyone complain about a video game because you couldn't play your main character as a lardass. Is the lack of fat rolls really that immersion breaking?

Also, I believe the official buzzword of Skyrim should be CONFIRMED. It doesn't matter if the discussion is nothing more than wild speculation or an ambiguous or out of context statement by someone from Bethesda. It's....

CONFIRMED

hmm I'm thinking armor problems

meh its totally understandable, the time it would take to implement it with all the armors and cloths is just not worth it.

There are no McDonalds in the elderscrolls universe. Why are people fat? Bad food and not enough excersise is basically what it comes down to for us. Skyrimians need to walk more to get around and generally be more active.