I think bethesda made a oops THREAD #3 : V - Skyrim

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:38 am

You mean other than a couple of wrinkles in common? The vampire has a nose, and doesn't have big huge pointy ears.....

Yeah, if this is a vampire, then it has to be some sort of special creature/race that is not your ordinary vampire. Because, from what i know, you dont grow magical pointy ears when a vampire bites you.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:56 am

Besides which having two images with the same name on the same page might cause one of them not load correctly in the viewer. Which might explain why there was a problem to begin with.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:53 am

This is making me MAD!!!!

:flamethrower: :brokencomputer:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:18 am

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4lrm97dBqNo/TUFlxQiW7CI/AAAAAAAAAZM/n_xn6TWnSA8/s1600/artofskyrim_013_femmonster.jpg

What do you think, does the screen match this concept art?

sweet, nice find!

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:40 am

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4lrm97dBqNo/TUFlxQiW7CI/AAAAAAAAAZM/n_xn6TWnSA8/s1600/artofskyrim_013_femmonster.jpg

What do you think, does the screen match this concept art?

Are we sure that she is an Ice Vampire? She seems more... ghostly.. to me.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:48 am

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4lrm97dBqNo/TUFlxQiW7CI/AAAAAAAAAZM/n_xn6TWnSA8/s1600/artofskyrim_013_femmonster.jpg

What do you think, does the screen match this concept art?

I would actually be disappointed if that was the outcome of the ice vampire concept art.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:30 am

Do you really think the guys at Bethesda are so stupid to not be able to think of a different name for two distinctly different screenshots? How about you think before you post.

It was obviously not intended to be called spider hero.

Absolutely not. I'm confident they're more than capable of coming up with different names for two distinctly different screenshots.

How do you know it wasn't intentional? Maybe the two pictures are part of a set. Maybe it's a creature that was intended to be somewhere in the original Spider Hero picture. There are endless possibilities for why they would intentionally name two different pictures the same.

Again, think before you post.

I seriously hope Bethesda has a better naming convention than the only relied upon by Google and millions of internet websites.

It's not Spider Hero.

~ Dani ~

I hope so, too, but we don't know anything yet. Also, I think you may have got some words mixed up in your post. "...better naming convention than the only relied upon by Google..."?

True. But did you ever think that the odds of finding two pictures with the same name on EVERY PART OF THE INTERNET REACHABLE BY GOOGLE is a lot higher than finding two images with the same name on the same website by a single company?

Think harder before you post.

Read above.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:35 pm

nvm

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:32 pm

a couple ideas why Falmer might be possible, despite the fact that his skin is not blue - I could be wrong - your thoughts?

Skin color can change, to accomodate cool new character designs. The skin color of the Orcs has changed significantly IMO.
todd specifically mentioned that the beauty of all the lore books is that they can be wrong.
ears look somewhate elvenish, and Falmer were a race of elves. If Draugr can be undead Nord warriors, maybe this thing is some kind of undead Falmer warrrior.
if that scary woman concept art from the Behind the Scenes video was an Ice Vampire, then this guy is not likely to be an Ice Vampire

You could probably move atronachs to the Ruled Out section. I agree with Goth about the fleshiness.

I think the strongest evidence for Falmer is simply the setting of the game.

They were supposedly the original inhabitants of Skyrim, so if we're going to encounter them anywhere it'll be in this game.
No one really knows what happened to them. They could have still been around, just in hiding.
Mer in general are sort of looking forward to the end of the world. They could be coming out now to thwart the player character's quest.
A reemergence of the Falmer in the middle of a civil war would be fantastically complex.

Also, Falmer skin is according to UESP blue-white. That could range anywhere from actual blue to a light grey.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:49 am

Amen to that :foodndrink:

Yes, I was thinking this is an intentional slip to distract us. But I'm glad they did it. :goodjob:

If you look at the two images closely, while they have some similar facial features, the first picture clearly appears to be a humanoid. What if they're not related? Then Summer's guess that' it's a spider cowl would make sense, and it would be on an elf of some kind.

~ Dani ~

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:36 am

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4lrm97dBqNo/TUFlxQiW7CI/AAAAAAAAAZM/n_xn6TWnSA8/s1600/artofskyrim_013_femmonster.jpg

What do you think, does the screen match this concept art?

The ears in the concept art don't look very pointy, IMO, and the face looks more human.

I think I was the first person to say Ice Vampire. And I was talking about http://www.elderscrolls.com/assets/images/to_delete/media/thumb2.png In truth, they DO look similar.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:41 am

Absolutely not. I'm confident they're more than capable of coming up with different names for two distinctly different screenshots.

How do you know it wasn't intentional? Maybe the two pictures are part of a set. Maybe it's a creature that was intended to be somewhere in the original Spider Hero picture. There are endless possibilities for why they would intentionally name two different pictures the same.

It just doesn't make sense. The point of naming screenshots is to keep track of them. How does having the exact same name on two completely different shots help them out at all? It's completely moronic. If they're part of a set then they would most likely have the same prefix, or postfix.

Again, think before you post.

Can we please stop this?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:32 am

Why are they now gone off the sit??!?!? Someone just got in trouble....

Or they're just laughing at how easy it is to stir up the forums....

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:39 am

it's now been removed from the screenshots page.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:11 pm

Can we please stop this?

If you insist, though I do like to remind people

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:55 pm

The UESP is basing its "blue-white" thing on a single Skaal myth which is contradicted by other myths. The Falmer could turn out being blue, but there is no definitive evidence that they are.

Damn this thread moves fast, managed to end up on a whole different page than the post I was replying to :sadvaultboy:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:01 am

Yes, I was thinking this is an intentional slip to distract us. But I'm glad they did it. :goodjob:

If you look at the two images closely, while they have some similar facial features, the first picture clearly appears to be a humanoid. What if they're not related? Then Summer's guess that' it's a spider cowl would make sense, and it would be on an elf of some kind.

~ Dani ~

Im going to stop you and say that sometimes concept art is never finished. Not to mention these pictures were discarded. The second picture without the mask, very well could have been discarded before it had color put into it. Each of these probebly is the same race, but the artist decided to concentrate on different bits of it in each one.

Say for instance in the first one, he wanted to get a good planned drawing of what it would look like with armor. Seeing as how the only thing that isnt showing in the first one is the face, it would make sense that he would only draw a face in the second one to just get the gist, and mentally put it together. Also, he had the skintone down in the first one, more of a reason to leave it white in the second drawing.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:38 am

Be careful about how fast you post.Summer
warned us that if this thread goes too fast
it will be locked.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:14 pm

The UESP is basing its "blue-white" thing on a single Skaal myth which is contradicted by other myths. The Falmer could turn out being blue, but there is no definitive evidence that they are.

This.

So far the most likely things (IMO) are:

Falmer
Lich
Ice Vampire thing

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:58 am

nvm

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:59 am

Scamp In Daedric Armor. Always Scamp In Daedric Armor. Check the sig. :cool:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:26 am

Cut out the bickering. This thread is already skating on spammy ice, add some flames and it's out the window.

Besides, I'm already mad that my suggestion was only made once and didn't make the poll. :verymad:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:46 am

Though the image has been removed from the site, it can still be found at the following location:

http://elderscrolls.com/assets/images/to_delete/media/thumb1.png
and an alternate, armor-less one is at
http://elderscrolls.com/assets/images/to_delete/media/thumb2.png
(the numbers go up to 5, though the others aren't relevant).

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:50 am

Scamp In Daedric Armor. Always Scamp In Daedric Armor. Check the sig. :cool:

then why is the armor only black and no red, it is closer to dark seducer armor than anything

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:46 pm

Maybe the two pictures are part of a set. Maybe it's a creature that was intended to be somewhere in the original Spider Hero picture.

to put the final nail in the coffin of the Spider Hero theory....

if you do some google searches or take a look at the official pics on www.elderscrolls.com

- you will find that every single pic labeled "SomethingCreature" Hero has the Skyrim nord hero in the pic fighting said Creature.

Examples

Draugr Hero
Spider Hero

The hero isn't describing the creature, it's the PC in each case who is fighting the "Draugr" or fighting the "Spider"