I had to google that. If you're implying that i'm using a racist undertone, i'll clarify that post a bit.

I'm of african descent, you see. My parents and my grandparents, and their grandparents were born in africa. My parents immigrated to Canada at young ages. When I look at myself in the mirror i tend to see a dark skinned guy with black hair, because you know, thats my ethnicity. I've had enough racist jokes thrown at me as a child growing up in Canada's richest suburb, but I dealt with it by making fun of myself. Probably not the best way of going about it, but it shows the people around you that they cannot verbally inflict pain on me for a laugh.

And it worked. For the most part.

I've never played an Imperial in "Oblivion". I don't like the Oblivion forms of Argonian compared to Morrowind's versions, so I haven't played an Argonian since "Morrowind". Haven't tried playing as Khajiits either; not sure why. I never tried playing an orc or Altmer until the past year or so, but my characters turned out better than I expected (battlemage, in the orc's case).

Just curious, but is your avatar a picture of you?

I was being silly, gawl.

I've played as all of them. They're all playable. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses. The balanced races like Imperial, Argonian and Dunmer are the best for beginners IMO, but they're all a ton of fun.

I intend to use a Nord Battlemage for the next game, since my favorite character from Morrowind and Oblivion was this set up, but I'll definitely experiment with other combinations of race/class.

Khajiit is the only race I've never made a serious character with - no particular reason. I simply prefer Argonians, and they excel in most of the same areas. I'd like them a little more if you could choose their morphology, i.e. catlike or almost meric.

I stopped using Nords in Oblivion, because I don't like how their faces are rendered in chargen. The ugliest race in the game, in my opinion. They always look like they swallowed something sour.

On a completely unrelated note, I find it amusing that Redguards are the only race that people really defend their dislike for - as if admitting you dislike Redguards is the same as admitting you dislike black people. "I don't like Redguards. That is, I like them. I don't hate them. They're O.K. Um, they're awesome! All my best friends are black!"

Seriously, though. Redguards rule. The only melee race worth playing.

i would play as an orc but they are worse in this game i love orcs in morrowind in morrowind they looked more buff too so in oblivion i would never play as an orc the hair is all messed up + no war paint like in morrowind and never altmer too week twards magic and im not a big magic fan i mostly like stelth carecters who snipe you with a poisend glass arrow from a roof top than jump from roof too roof and disapear also altmer are just too snoody and uptight kajjit argonians bosmer all the way and for warriors nords or demora (have a mod) and dark elves were nicer in morowind kinda they are chubyish and human like in oblivion sometimes i kill dark elves and altmer for fun because they are so snobish

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amusing? definitely but at the same time, it's also a little sad. No one would raise an eyebrow if you said that you dislike Nords for obvious reasons.

The whole "i don't like redguards for obvious reasons" comment was stupid but it dosn't neccessary mean the guy is a racist or anything. Perhaps he is like me and just prefer to play as characters which has the same color as himself? But perhaps that is also considered racist now? He has to be pretty damn stupid if he seriously think he can get away with racist [censored] on a board like this, which is why i doubt he meant anything with it.

I usually don't play orcs very often, because they are way ugly. The Morrowind ones were kinda cool, but the orcs from Oblivion just look too bad.

...but there are no TES races that I NEVER play.

EDIT: I usually don't play Nords in Oblivion either, because of the way they look... but in Morrowind I think they are the coolest human race.

I never play as a Redguard, and my characters strut around in white robes holding torches....

I don't play Nords either - 'warrior' classes always seemed pretty dull to me.

That would be the Argonians, never have, never will.

Any warrior class, I don't really like the current melee combat, I feel like I'm wii boxing when I do it, usually I play as one of the elven races, though I did try both argonians and kajiit, they're not bad once you get the skeleton key, though sancor tor was a [censored].

Only race I've never played was Orc. But I'm not really that interested in Redguards, Bretons or Nords either.

I have played as every race apart from a Khajiit. I never will play as a Khajiit. Stupid fur balls.

I never play as orcs or elves. And my first character was a Kajiit. For the speed and agility.

I've tried each race at least once in both TES3 and TES4. In most fantasy games I actually like magic-using races/classes, but the way they did magic in the series really turns me off. It's more of a hassle than anything. Maybe one day I will try to make a really great magic-based character but until then I stick with a warrior character. And I absolutely hate stealth characters. So with that said, the only races I actually play as are Nords and Argonians (the latter mostly because they're awesome, even though they're considered stealthy). I like Imperials,Redguards, and Orcs in the game, but I really don't play as them. Bretons are okay, but I really dislike all 3 elf races. I don't mind seeing them in the game as NPC's but I do not play as them. Over the last 10 yrs there have been elves in almost every fantasy game and quite frankly I'm sick of them. Most of all though, I HATE the Khajiits. I hate the way they look, the way they move, and they seem so scummy and untrustworthy. I hate them. They make the ideal thief...and I have always hated thief-like characters in games. I usually tend to love "beast" races moreso than ones that resemble humans, but the Khajiit I cannot stand. Come to think of it, I really hate the Wood Elves just as much for pretty much the same reasons. But Argonians are amazing and Nords are great because they're the ideal barbarian race.

I never play as a bosmer because they are annoying, and i don't want to play as a character thet i hate.

Argonians were the bomb in Morrowind. Their bonuses were rad. Super agile and fast with Spear and Marksman augmented by light magical abilities made them really unique, kind of a light fighter. Awesome for guerilla warfare type of thing.

I always make one Khajiit character per TES, name it Curious Khajiit, and just go around looking at things. I break into people's houses and then do not take anything. I just wonder what's behind every locked door and cabinet. This can be pretty time consuming in Daggerfall.

I usually go with Imperial characters, though. I like the whole relying on your wits and charm deal. I usually pump Speechcraft, Mercantile, and Personality, and then maybe throw in some Short Blade and Sneak.

I don't think I've ever used Redguards, and I only used a Nord in Arena.

Forgot that I also pretty much never use Bretons because I like that Altmer have better destruction magic, and they are just cooler lol.

never used an altmer.... magics not my thing only use bretons when i want to use a lot of magic, i hardly ever use nords and i only use redguards when i want something that will bull through the game with a ton of weapons. :flamethrower:

All of them except khajiit. Humans are boring, elves are ugly, and argonians are lizards.

Altmer i hate them i want to drag them into Oblivion bliviongate: bliviongate: bliviongate:

Let's see, My favorite way to play is as a pure mage or a spellsword hybrid. So my very favorite races are the HIgh Elves or Bretons. Plus High elves tower over the other npc's and make you feel cool. I also really like playing as the dunmer. I first got into them in morrowind because they had more face options than any of the other races, and they suited my swordfighter with magic as backup idea. now i still play them just because they're blue and look awesome.

I've played warrior classes, and it's not really for me, the combat gets kinda boring after a while, but i have played orcs, nords, and redgaurds. Bosmer i've tried when i'm feeling sneaky.

Guess the only ones i haven't really played are argonians/khajit. guess because I'd have to be a skooma addict to play as them.