» Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:17 pm
The Nords and Orcs are really stupid, but at least the Orcs aren't boastful and pretensious about it. The Nords are more like "Yeah, well I'm a BIGGER moron.....", and proud about it. So far, I've found it impossible to scrounge up the motivation to play a Nord. At least I gave an Orc character a try for a while, before boredom struck.
I've played and enjoyed Imperial, Argonian, and Dunmer characters immensely, as well as played Redguard, Breton, and Altmer characters with reasonable enjoyment, and played but not really "gotten into" the Kajiiti mindset. I made a Bosmer character, but the squeeky voice (especially when hit) irked me to no end, and I deleted the character. I seem to recall that Fargoth had several "accidents" in the next few games. The Breton wasn't much better in that respect, but not so bad that I couldn't deal with it, and that was about the only thing I didn't care for (other than perhaps a curious lack of hairstyles that aren't half bald). I found a serious shortage of Redguard hairstyles that looked even "acceptable", but the characters were enjoyable to play otherwise. The Altmer's weakness to magicka was a hinerance in a lot of cases, and he never could deal with all of those MCA-spawned Mabrigash (Ashlander outcast witches) throwing Poisonbloom spells in quantity, plus I wasn't overly fond of the "attitude".
At the end of it, I'd have to rank Nords at the absolute bottom of the list, followed not far behind by Bosmer. Either Orcs, Kajiiti, or Altmer would be a distant third. I certainly wouldn't want to see any of them removed from the game, though.