I don't know about you guys, but I really hope that ZOS plans to do something about how the armors look in ESO.

Looking at all the videos, and the most recent pvp video, it looks like the armors are mostly "painted" on the characters and have zero feeling of bulkiness or consistency. Just look at that pvp video again and look at the guy wearing heavy armor on the top of the building and shooting fireballs with a staff. He looks like he's wearing a skin tight spandex suit and not bulky heavy armor the way it should look.

i must disagree with you, i have no problems with the armor, well at least the ones i have seen

You ahve been playing too much WOW. Those Armors actually look pretty realistic, Heavy armor the size it is in most games would kill a person.

Well.. I don't think they should look like skin tight space suits either lol

From the way they look in the video's, they do not.

Matter of taste, I guess. You're not going to get a consensus on this any more than on any other question of fashion. Take a look at the armor mods for Skyrim, for instance, to see how wide the range of tastes is

I'm happy with the armors, and as I mentioned in another thread... every one comes in nine (!) different racial styles... what you get in ESO more than other games, including the SP ES games, is variety.

Its not about the racial styles. They all seem to be skin tight. Its just how it looks like the armor is painted on instead of worn by the characters. Look at this Screenshot: http://www.gamefreaks.co.nz/wp-content/gallery/elder-scrolls-online/the-elder-scrolls-online-2.jpgLooks like the Chest is completely skin tight.. and has no textures.Also look at this one: http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/the-elder-scrolls-online-pic-5.jpg%20You have light armor and heavy armor side by side. The Everything looks okay.. except for the chest and upper legs on the heavy armor guy. Looks like he's wearing a tshirt instead of a plate chest piece. because there's no consistency. Both of them have the same size Chests.. don't you think the guy with heavy armor should look heavier than the guy wearing cloth?

Hmm.. looks like the links don't work. Lets try this again

http://www.gamefreaks.co.nz/wp-content/gallery/elder-scrolls-online/the-elder-scrolls-online-2.jpg

and

http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/the-elder-scrolls-online-pic-5.jpg

Remember, everything we have been shown is a work in progress... It may well be that we are seeing the graphical skin applied to a placeholder model. Remember how people got all bent out of shape over the giant orc in the first preview video we were shown? I said back then that it was likely using unoptimized scaling, or was there to show the what the system was capable of in terms of extremes... There was also another character in that scene that was very small by comparison. We, the general community will not know for sure how everything will really look until the game officially launches in a few months...

you're right. It could be place holder. I really hope it is because "painted" armor is not something we should see in a 2014 MMORPG.

I have to disagree. Armor in real life cannot be gigantic because it is very restricting. This is besides the point though.

As someone who may have / may have not played the beta, I think the armor is spot on. It looks very much like the armor in Skyrim, which I haven't really heard much complaints about.

Also, from what I have may or may not have heard from a supposed friend who may or may not have had played the beta, they only had access to the lower tier armor. Armor, that looks pretty much like the armor in most screenshots.

So maybe the higher tier armor is more bulky.

I agree... However, I do need to warn you not to expect highly detailed models for armor. Especially for an MMO that is boasting the ability to have 200 characters on screen at once. Expect a sacrifice in terms of max poly-count per character at any given time...

Another thing we might have been seeing in the video you mention is the low-poly rendering mode for the game. I have to say that if that is the case, I think we can admit that the game will look good even in low-detail mode for systems that are skirting along the edge of "purchased within the last five years"

We have to remember that MMOs are a whole different animal from single-player games. There is so much that has to be processed both server-side and client-side that sacrifices have to be made to make sure it all works correctly.

Are you telling me that in real life shoulder armor was not the size of a small child?

Jokes aside though, I agree, I think the armor looks really awesome, stylish, but not over the top. To give the OP some credit though it could have more form, but from a design and performance standpoint that's probably difficult.

It doesn't look painted on at all. Have you never seen real life medevil armor? The bulkiness is fine as it is.

Yes even the iron armor in Skyrim and Oblivion is far to bulky and heavy to be realistic.

The normal steel armor is more realistic, the orcish, ebony and steel plate armor very much so.

I think the show armor is the final version, the placeholders used Skyrim armor, we will probably get more armor types and has probably not seen all the high end ones.
Grapic in the game is more like Oblivion than Skyrim to be able to hold more characters on screen, remember worst case setting is 200 players all in different armor and all casting spells at once. It this crashes weaker computers people will use it as an combat tactic

As I understand we will get an high detail texture pack like we did for Skyrim.

However I'm very happy with the armor, add that we get more armor slots than even Oblivion. The missing paldron is found.