Our four legged friends

Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:15 am

Well i think it would be cool if they could choose to sneak on 2 or 4 legs.
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Jake Easom
 
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:35 am

Argonians and Khajiits are built like humans. They would crawl on their knees rather than moving like a quadruped cat or lizard.
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Post » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:54 pm

Argonians and Khajiits are built like humans. They would crawl on their knees rather than moving like a quadruped cat or lizard.

They're only built like humans in Oblivion.

In the past argonians have much more lizard like legs, and as for Khajiit there are many different types. Most of which have more cat like legs.
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Post » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:05 pm

Argonians are definitely bipedal, and should stay that way. They could do crazy things in the water, but thats about as beastly as they should be.

Khajiits are a different matter. There are many different kinds of Khajiit, and not all of them walk like men. I'm sure that some could switch between two and four legs freely. But in the end, unless different types of Khajiit are available in character creation, I think two legs is just fine.

Things like attacking with claws would fit both of them, unless there is some Wookie-inspired rule that I don't know about. If you are fighting with only your limbs, you want every advantage you can can get.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:41 am

They're only built like humans in Oblivion.

In the past argonians have much more lizard like legs, and as for Khajiit there are many different types. Most of which have more cat like legs.

No, they're built like humans in Arena, Daggerfall, and Oblivion. They're only built with "beast legs" in Morrowind.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:17 am

Seti, it's a sub-race in Morrowind. The best one.
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Post » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:08 pm

No, they're built like humans in Arena, Daggerfall, and Oblivion. They're only built with "beast legs" in Morrowind.

And if you read you'll understand that's because it was easier for the developers and lore contradicts it.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:04 am

Seti, it's a sub-race in Morrowind. The best one.



And if you read you'll understand that's because it was easier for the developers and lore contradicts it.

What are you talking about? In the past, they were very humanoid. Morrowind does not represent the past, and lore supports the Ohmer-Raht Khajiit of Arena and Daggerfall, as well as the variations in Khajiit caused by moon cycles and the variation in Argonians caused by the Hist.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:22 am

haha. i wuld like to see that more so for khajitts. khajitts come in many different variety. In elswyr there are supposed to be some that even appear to be cats but have human level intelligence. Khajitt are awesome and i think more attention should be payed towards them. In fact They have hardly payed any sort of attention to any of the beast races. Orcs neither. they just seem to use them for comedy purposes and theif characters. I think they should hold more importance in the storyline. I wana see them working for the empire.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:34 am

I don't know about Angorians, but I don't see any reason why Argonians should. They're pretty much aquatic reptilian humanoids, maybe make them more clumsy on land, but at most they should just hunch over and drag across, like some sort of slimy amphibian.

Khajiits, maybe. Depends on which breed we get.
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Post » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:35 pm

Argonians aren't slimy amphibians. They're extremely evolved tree-lizard-amphibians!
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:56 am

I don't know about Angorians, but I don't see any reason why Argonians should. They're pretty much aquatic reptilian humanoids, maybe make them more clumsy on land, but at most they should just hunch over and drag across, like some sort of slimy amphibian.

Khajiits, maybe. Depends on which breed we get.


Why ? DO you know many bipedal amphibian ? All amphibian i know are fishy like or quadruped.

I think it would be an awesome idea, sneaking is about hiding and move stealthily, dont we double ourselves when we try to sneak to avoid to be at eye lvl ?
And about the Lore, as there are many sides of it, it wouldn t hurt that some would go on 4 and some not.

Althought i see kajhit in gelid skyrim, i don t see the cold blooded Argonian liking it at all.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:55 am

Far too many programming issues with making them walking on fours. Keep it simple and stay with two legs. That's only my suggestion. I've never played these races, and probably never will, as they are just too weird for me...
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:23 am

I think it would be cool for Khajiits to be able to toggle four/two legs, and for Argonians to be able to scale stuff if they're wearing light enough stuff and not carrying too much, IE an Argonian in steel armor carrying 200 pounds of loot shouldn't be able to scale successfully.

Someone mentioned Orcs, seeing them really be bigger and taller than the other races would be nice.
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:55 am

Now THAT would be entertainment!
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Post » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:23 am

Some Khajiit races do go on all fours, so if they are the Khajiit that is playable, then yes. but if it is the Khajiit we have been since Morrowind, or if they go back to the Ohmes Raht, then no.
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