Khajiits : V - Skyrim

» Tue May 03, 2011 3:31 am

Khajiit, I would need to see the whole body, including the legs, I was always fond of the reverse jointed Khajiit from Morrowind, though not so much their faces.

I feel exactly the same way, I will probably play one anyways, but the legs are really what will make or break it for me; Khajiit with human legs in oblivion just really ruined the race for me.
Btw, the 'reverse jointed' legs you are talking about is called digitigrade, nothing is actually backwards, they just walk on their toes, so the backwards bend in their legs is actually an ankle.

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:35 am

Yeah they do look much better...NOW TO SEE THE FULL CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION!!

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:08 am

So far, I've been really impressed with the two Non-human Races shown so far. I'm not a greenskin player, but that Orc just struck a chord with me. Because of the product penetration with WoW, Orcs tend to look way too silly, almost like an army of Shreks. I'm glad to see something so ferocious and different, yet down-to-Earth (Nirn?).

Khajiit, I would need to see the whole body, including the legs, I was always fond of the reverse jointed Khajiit from Morrowind, though not so much their faces.

They aren't reversed joints (at least in real life, I don't remember the Morrowind ones off hand). The knee is just extremely far up, and the "backwards" joint isn't backwards at all... it's the ankle. Cats and many other animals walk tip toe. I'm not a fan of the look, but if they do it, a backwards knee isn't what happens anatomically.

See:
http://www.pictures-of-kittens-and-cats.com/images/cat-skeleton.jpg

Notice that cats don't actually have backwards knees at all. Their knees are just very high up.

Certaintly
because it's Skyrim!

I suppose they could just say fur color changes with climate if they wanted to, but the Khajiit aren't wild animals so there wouldn't be snow leopard variants in that way. I would expect fluffier fur during winter though as happens with real cats.

» Mon May 02, 2011 10:48 pm

do you think you will be able to make the fur black? then i might play as a khajiit for my stealth vampire character.

» Mon May 02, 2011 6:55 pm

I think its perfect that the eyes of the Khajiit are so much bigger. If you look at a cat in real life, its eyes are huge for the size of its head. Its awesome that the khajiit's eyes are closer in scale to the size of its face now.

I just looked at my cat sitting on my coach near by, its got reasonable larges eyes compared to its face, but its not a giant squid(its much cuter) .

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:26 am

I hope the tail just won't be like a stick sticking out of the ass. Seriously, that annoyed me a lot and was what kept me from playing as a khajiit or argonian.