No please, I admit, the dragons of reign of fire were cool...but teh movie was crap.....anyways, I prefer more generic fantasy dragons over the long serpentine ones like reign of fire. From the screenshots seen so far, I really like the look of 'em .

We are supposed to be.

I make a request.
The symbol of Akatosh (TES logo) is more like dragons have so far seen on Skyrim or more similar to the one I posted?

I happen to like thier dragons alot.

neither , ya know it sorta looks like, oh i dont know...Akatosh!?
[img]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/272/a/1/akatosh_statue_by_aninsvet-d2zlq87.jpg[/img]

Somewhat.. if I understand what you're saying. :blink:
(Yes and No)





The TES Skyrim Symbol oddly enough is from Akavir
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Akavir

This is great...

"I know you spent years working on your dragon designs, but they just don't fit my ideas of what a dragon should look like. So you should scrap all your hard work, and make your dragons more stereotypical so they fit MY view of dragons"

That right there is all I heard from the OP. I understand you might not like the dragons and all... but your not making the game and Bethesda is not going to throw out countless man hours of work just to please you. Besides, the Skyrim dragons really don't look all that different from the ones you referenced.

Btw: Your pictures of the Skyrim dragons are from magazine scans. Thats a no no.

Well, platypi (no e) perhaps. I think it's mostly with latin words that they do that, but I could be wrong. Also, I don't know they etymology of the word 'platypus'. Me and my friends have a joke where we say that the plural of bus is bi.

@OP Those are very nice dragons, but so are the Bethesda ones IMO. Plus, we don't know what all the types look like yet, just that one or 2 (I think it's the same one, since they're shot in very similar locations and look the same as far as I can tell). Besides, having already put in so much effort, there's no way they'll be able to totally change it by 111111.

This, I have never seen someone be this audaciously rude towards the people who spend their work week making things to entertain the masses. I'm surprised this thread didn't get locked in the first page because the OP is basically just saying: "Your dragons look terrible, I don't like them, scrap the first two years of your work and start over because you are doing it wrong."

There are so many things I want to say but can't because it would likely result in me being banned for telling someone off hardcoe New Vegas style. So I'll just leave it at that.

In short we havn't seen nearly enough Screen Shots of the Dragons to even CONSIDER complaining about them...
1 screen Shot 1 concept art, and the screen shot is of an earlier build not to mention it was taken in live action.
2 years working on dragons, and there is defintely more than 1 type (confirmed.)


We can easily assume that Dragons will have an extensive breed of dragons like the Daedra... and well you know how unique they look to one another.


Edit: Im pretty sure the author of this threads main language is not english, before flaming him try to think outside the box. He's basically saying he's not a huge fan the wings in the screenshot and pleading with the staff to take that into note.
I think the screenshots he posted is from an official gaming site.

i like both dragon styles, but people, you do release that if you got rid of the meshes and textures, it would NOT be deleting the dragons AI, which im guessing was the part that took 2 years to make.
i seriously doubt it would take a team of 9 people, 9 months to redraw the textures and make new meshes.

again, like both bethesda's classic style, and also the wyvern-esque style.

• Guys give the guy a break, more than half of you are arguing over semantics with him when he clearly said his English is not that good.
  
• What he means by more realistic is that in his mind if dragons had existed in real life they'd need to be less bulky and have a larger wingspan to be able to fly.
  
• Todd Howard said in the Game Informer broadcast there will be several types of dragons, so there is still hope for more sinewy ones with broader wing spans, who knows?
  
• Personally I prefer the more animalistic, vicious, muscular and jagged look Bethesda Game Studios have created for their dragon, I think it sets them apart from the cliché that dragons are intelligent and arrogant creatures that talk with a british professor accent and sit on their ass all day hoarding treasure.

The dragons seem fine to me, I find the lack of forelimbs a little odd. In theory, dragons having six limbs is kind of strange, but in practice, I'm just used to seeing them with a pair of wings and four legs, and anything else just seems odd, but since the Elder Scrolls dragons have always been depicted as having only two legs, I'll give them a free pass in this regard for the sake of series consistency. Other than that, the dragons seem alright to me, minus having only one pair of legs, they're pretty much what I'd expect a dragon to look like, at least when we're talking about you're cliched burn everything and hoard treasure western dragons. Eastern dragons are a whole other story, but they'd be kind of out of place in a Nordic setting.



Except the dragons in the game ARE intelligent, you know, that's why they have a language, I'd also imagine them to be a little on the arrogant side. I'd think that would come naturally with being a creature as large and powerful as a dragon. I doubt they'll have British accents, though, and I don't know about hoarding treasure. They seem to be pretty proactive when it comes to destroying cities, from what we've heard, but it doesn't mean they can't hoard treasure in their lairs.

I'll put 5 septems down on the chance that you won't be wondering why the dragons don't have front feet when you're fighting one in first person.

Granted, they do have a runic language, you're right I'd just very much like them to be more beast like, and it seems alot as if that's the direction Bethesda Games Studios is taking them. I always found the ancient skinny intelligent dragon that speaks to you in the voice of a learned old man to be well... Pansies, never once in any game where I've encountered that stereotype have I ever been "scared" of one, or nervous about how the encounter was going to end.

The only game where I've actually been skeptical about fighting a dragon was Dragon Age: Origins, those dragons didn't even speak, which I think made them much more animal like and frightening. They had other flaws though which I won't go into too much detail about.

My point is, Bethesda Games Studios' dragons are looking really animalistic and frightening, which I think is a huuuuuuuuuge plus and a massive improvement to the ripped straight out of D&D pansy dragon they had in Redguard. They have a language yes like you said, so they will be more intelligent than most other animals, but I still hope they won't make that their main draw. If that makes any sense?

Such as? I just finished origins so I'm curious.

As for the topic at hand, no please don't change them. They look awesome!

Bethesda's Dragons have bladed tails. It doesnt get more awesome then that.

Maybe All dragons in TES have Innate "PARTIAL" levitation abilities that increase the lift generated by their wings?

Perfect sense. Think "Intelligent enough to outwit you...and outright brutal animal bad-ass enough to not have to unless it just wants to make you feel a damn fool on top of stomping your guts out."

What?

no he is not.

but serusly he is sooo wroong

Dude nobody likes your dragons, lol. You shouldn't make such dramatic titles btw, it's like if I made a topic titled "zOMG PLS tell Jeremy Soule to f off from Elder Scrolls, I want my younger sister's band to make the soundtrack!!1". You know?

I like his dragons. So do a bunch of others here. I just like the Bethesda ones too.

Okay, say levitation makes the lift generated by the Caster, EQUAL to the forces keeping the caster down, you walk up you go up cause levitation generates lift, but if the lift generated by levitation wasn't equal to the forces keeping you down, mainly gravity, then you would have something akin to lowered gravity, making it easier for you to do things like jump or somthing, having enough lift from something such as a partial levitation spell, a human COULD (Not sure if im doing this right) fly by flapping hir/her arms, normally that wouldnt work becuase of many reasons, but with significant help from and outside source such as a levitation spell it would (think of latching ALOT of balloons to yourself just barely not enough to make you float) same goes for dragons.

EDIT: just wanted to clarify, this may or may not be exactly right but it wasn't supposed to be, just wanted to give everyone a idea of how dragons may be able to fly.

Hey! cool dragons! why don't you go ahead and design your own game featuring the kind of dragon YOU want and leave Bethesda to design the kind of dragon THEY want? Sound good? Sounds good, ok.