My Nord will have fine, loreal cleansed, flowing locks and the latest in whiskers fashion. Because he`s worth it... :blink:

Shame his face will look like a bulldog chewing a wasp though..

I had to install a crap-ton of mods to get rid of all the ugly people in Oblivion. I don't think they were deliberately designed to look like ugly people, it's just those were the tech limits Bethesda was working with at the time.

I certainly hope the screens we've seen so far is an indication that the NPCs will be much more appealing in Skyrim.

If the Creation Engine is sufficiently advanced to allow different kinds of body types with fat and skinny and realistic looking ugly people, of course, that would be great.

But if not, I hope the character designers will be able at least make the faces

(1) more realistic than Oblivion (as in, more human looking, not necessarily any realistic ratio of beautiful people to ugly people)
(2) more aesthetically appealing than the Oblivion faces; and
(3) sufficiently different from one another that you don't feel you keep talking to clones of the same Altmer or Dunmer etc. in every city.

I think TNR shows that Oblivion could make perfectly fine looking faces - it just didn't.

I wouldnt mind fat or scarred or peg legged NPC's.
Ugly NPC's, yeah, why not.

But I want to be stunning, I cant relate to a character thats uglier than I am in real life

You're either far too forgiving or you play with too many mods to not have noticed how ugly everyone was. In Oblivion everyone looks all doughed out, and in Morrowind a rather large number of the faces were just plain ugly.

See - I really quite liked the Elves in Morrowind... Dunmer in particular.

I agree with the OP on this... 'pretty' faces everywhere will be a sad sad thing in TES... it will be horribly anachronistic to see the current fashionable tv-and-movie look (ie revoltingly vain, pretty, little Emos) in Skyrim. Oblivion's character models were horrific but as you say that was terrible tech and design.

I don't really care about NPCs, but I want my character to be a hottie.

What are you talking about? just about every character in ob looked like they had been hit with teh ugly stick. Morrowind's faces were pretty bad as well. If anything we need some beautiful people running around. not everyone will be slim and trim, so maybe that will help out with the uglyness.

Also saying a race should be stereotypically ugly is kinda rude, i think orcs should look more like elves personally