Just because their wearing light armor doesn't mean they have to dress like their at a bdsn convention, it's just silly.

Eh.... maybe it's just Beth, as so many people have desired over the years, incorporating elements of some of the most popular mods.

And maybe in that light, we should be glad that it's not g-strings and high heels.

It's called http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/conan-thebarbarian.thumbnail.jpg.


Lmao bdsn? You tell Conan that...

Pretty much this.

But I would like some full cover leather and fur patchwork armour.

Obviously the opposite is true, but does it hurt to pay a bit of attention so the armor doesn't look completely useless up to the point that it threatens your life even outside of combat because you might die of hypothermia?



True, but they certainly never wore something like on the screenshot(s). No one ever wore something like that in real combat except for Conan the Barbarian and Chuck Norris. And I think Chuck Norris is just a legend and never really lived.

Hmm, I find it hard to believe people are actually complaining about the new armor. It all looks 10x better than anything else I've seen in TES thus far...

True. However since "skimpy" armor does have some historical validity the presence of armor like those in the screenshots does not really bother me. To each their own.

We only have 2 trailers and a handful of screenshots, it stands to reason that they are keeping the good looking heavy armor till E3 trailers. Right now the draw of Elder Scrolls Advertising is the whole 'One man of legend/fate against a horde of dragons' thing. So there not gunna show him in the uber non skimpy badass daedric heavy armor. They need him to seem like an underdog battler at the moment.

you know what? i agree.
it makes no sense to be going around with no sleeves in such a climate, and a sword would not be stopped by what is shown.

i hope they have better armors. like a thick fur armor, or a cool looking hooded leather armor.
and i think we should be able to wear clothes under armor also. that way its more plausible in such a place.

You don't need armor if you can dodge.

No this barbarian armor http://wessixsociety.org/images/p004_1_01.jpg

and no, I'm not going to tell Conan that. I value my life!

No one here is questioning that there is heavy armor in the game (whether it's uber armor or simply low level iron armor doesn't matter). This is all about the skimpy armor shown on the screenshots, which is basically a few leather straps with a piece of leather squeezed between the straps so it looks like a pauldron.

no thats viking armor.

what conan was wearing was armor of ancient kings and powerful gods from cimarian legends of old.

Thundarr the barbarian wears barbarian armor him an uklock the mok...... and lets not forget Aireal the sorceress.

I really don't think that khajits armor is skimpy. He's got metal covering pretty much all his vital organs on the torso. His pauldrons look like they have 4 metal lames with some fur type decal stuff between the bottom two. That armor looks like it'd weight a ton to me.

wow where did those screenshots come from, feels like i missed alot...any way i think that the leather armor is designed to have a conan feel to it.

What are you talking about? It doesn't cover his belly or his armpits which, besides the heart itself, are the two most vulnerable parts of the torso.

I honestly like that there's variety. I mean, if people don't want skimpy armor, and don't want spiky armor either, at some point we're gonna get the same damn model with a different texture...

And you know, any armor is better than no armor at all (protection wise).

And to be honest, that armor really looks like the kind in which you dodge, but that can stop a few blows if you messed up.

Actually it's Saxon armor. Barbarians were real, Conan is not. What most people think of when they think barbarian is made up stereotypes.

EDIT: nevermind

Legions of naked, woad-covered, screaming Celts, would like to have a word with you. :whistling:

(I'm also thinking that some of the Ancient Greeks probably weren't covered head to toe in armor. And then I'm reminded of some of the historical armies that a friend of mine has painted up for the miniatures game De Bellis Antiquitatis - a game where people care about their accuracy.... armies that have plenty of the lesser crappy troops with exposed skin. All the way down to the armed Hindu peasantry, going to war in just loincloths.)

:shrug:



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Edit: in the end, they'll give us the same basic kinds of armor that they always have. And none of it'll be particularly "skimpy" compared to your average mod armor or Boris Vallejo painting.

The problem is that this skimpy armor all looks low end. So basically for the first 5 hours of the game I'm going to be forced to run around almost nvde.

Conan the Barbarian, yo.

And well... pretty much every Viking ever.

The armor we've seen a lot of so far has to do with adding the Conan vibe into the game. In one of the screenshots with Draugr the Nord is standing there holding his sword exactly like Arnold does in the movies and Conan does in the comics. It was the first thing I thought of when seeing that screenshot.

There will be plenty of armor pieces that'll "look like they should" the other armors are there for those who might not have a lot of encumberance to carry stuff but still want to be protected by something. Heavy armor is heavy and some of us don't want to lug it around but aren't satisfied with just wearing plain old clothes. I think it's an attempt to add a lot more variety in character appearance than previous TES games which is a good thing.

It's an RPG. Deal with it.

/thread.

I was looking at some of the later screen shots of Skyrim, and it appears that Bethesda themselves agrees that it's to skimpy, at least a little bit. Look at this http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/93394/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/images/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-20110415033045237.html?page=mediaFull It appears to be the same armor that was in the original trailer but now it has a back. They must have decided to change it. I still think their going to have some skimpy armor in the game, because that khajiit one is new.