Will we have legs in Skyrim?

Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:42 am

Ah, Jurassic Park: Trespasser had an intuitive system to represent that

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/1480/311160-trespasser_02health_super.jpg


what does this have to do with seeing your legs in skyrim...? just want to know :P
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Connor Wing
 
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:57 am

I have legs but all I can see is my American tummy.
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Phoenix Draven
 
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:56 pm

So will this be the case in Skyrim?
Skyrim will have legs, but I'm pretty sure that the PC's will not. :)

(except in third person)
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:00 pm

Surprised nobody has noticed my post on the first page...
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:36 pm

Nope, when I look down...all I see are boobs. :shrug:

We can't see those either in-game..

But in all seriousness, when I look down and around myself, I seeboth my hands, from shoulders to fingers, both my feet and even my stomach and chest. :/ We are a mere floating camre in TES games and fallout (latest two) games.
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Post » Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:34 am

When I look down, I see my legs, torso, and arms while no matter where I look, I see my hair in front of my eyes. I need a haircut.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:10 pm

Surprised nobody has noticed my post on the first page...
Not overbearing enough. [wink]
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:08 pm

We can't see those either in-game..

But in all seriousness, when I look down and around myself, I seeboth my hands, from shoulders to fingers, both my feet and even my stomach and chest. :/ We are a mere floating camre in TES games and fallout (latest two) games.


i wonder how many people so far have looked at their feet since the beginning of this topic. I also wonder how many people started to move their head in a cinematic sort of way to make it feel like you are watching your body from a video game camera. haha
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:43 pm

Surprised nobody has noticed my post on the first page...


I chuckled a bit. Ive only been on these forums for a few weeks (been playing TES since Morrowind though) but that seems quite true from what Ive seen.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:35 pm

i wonder how many people so far have looked at their feet since the beginning of this topic. I also wonder how many people started to move their head in a cinematic sort of way to make it feel like you are watching your body from a video game camera. haha


Oh damn, now i'm thinking about it i'll be doing this for ages.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:09 pm

Arx Fatalis did it; no reason TES cannot.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:13 pm

i wonder how many people so far have looked at their feet since the beginning of this topic. I also wonder how many people started to move their head in a cinematic sort of way to make it feel like you are watching your body from a video game camera. haha


I just walked to a different room, for the sake of doing that.

I could see my feet even when I wasn't looking at them. That's peripheral vision, ya'll.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:00 pm

When I look down, I see my legs, torso, and arms....

That's because as a human being, you have a near 180 degree field of view. Skyrim almost definitely will have somewhere between a 60- and 90-degree field of view. What this means is that if they did include a body the exact same way it looks to your eyes in real life, it would be stretched totally out of proportion.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:46 pm

That's because as a human being, you have a near 180 degree field of view. Skyrim almost definitely will have somewhere between a 60- and 90-degree field of view. What this means is that if they did include a body the exact same way it looks to your eyes in real life, it would be stretched totally out of proportion.


Well I suppose it would be difficult to be completely realistic. You would need a TV that took into account your entire peripheral vision, but it's worked in other games and didn't look completely horrible.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:10 pm

Nope, when I look down...all I see are boobs. :shrug:

HA!So if I stay low to the ground,you will never see me coming.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:19 pm

You mean to say that if you stand up now and look at the ground you can't see your feet? I must say that confuses me.


Nope, when I look down...all I see are boobs. :shrug:


I just have to sig this :P
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:14 pm

Nope, when I look down...all I see are boobs. :shrug:

well but when you walk you should still be able to see one of your feet. :blink:
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:21 pm

There are also Mirror's Edge, Mount and Blade (Warband), Killzone 3, and others I can't think of at this moment. It's not an incredibly common feature, but the absence of it in some other games doesn't come across as a reason to not have in Skyrim, to me. If people like it, then people like it and it shouldn't matter if most games don't have it. :shrug:


Conversely, the presence of it in a small number of games isn't necessarily a reason to include it.

Honestly, I don't see why it's such a big deal. I have no problems knowing that my character isn't just "a camera and a couple forearms" in the dozens of games I've played that don't show feet.


The only game mentioned where it's actually got a use is Mirror's Edge.... because it's a first-person parkour/acrobatics/platform game. Without the whole "see your body" thing, the game would have been crippled. But in all the basic "walk around and kill stuff with your forearms" games? Meh, I don't see much point. :shrug:
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:01 pm

so basically people posting on this topic are
A- people who have seen this topic loads of time and talk about summer's comment
B- people who like to see legs, even hough you should insense see the whole body
C- cats
D- people who like to comment on every post they go into
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:57 pm

Conversely, the presence of it in a small number of games isn't necessarily a reason to include it.
True, but TES and those games seem to share the same overarching intent, and they have an edge of their own in this.

Personally, when I do play a first person game, I like to know where I stand. :P

(and http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj125/Gizmojunk/hl-no-feet.gif is very annoying ~and very commonplace too.)
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Post » Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:50 am

Sadly there is the tradition of first person view to not draw the legs, why only? in first person view we have only a head and arms :cryvaultboy:
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:59 pm

Apparently. we've seen nothing that would lead us to conclude that we CAN.... But the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:33 am

then i guess for girls there should be big [censored] when you look down and for men there should be normal feet summer? happy :P


Unless the guy is too fat, then all he sees is his belly button
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Post » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:07 am

Nope, when I look down...all I see are boobs. :shrug:


Is that really how it feels to be a woman? No sixism intended but that would feel so weird not being able to see my feet o.O but I guess its what we are used too.

On subject though, not seeing my legs is a bit of an immersion breaker, imo.
I don't know if any of you have ever played dark messiah (if you haven't, its an amazing play) and the first person camera in that game was perfect. You could see your legs, it looked great and helped with immersion.

Of course, you should be able to see your chest too if you can see your legs, and if you can see your chest you should be able to see your arms, and so forth it becomes more complex and hard to do.

Wouldn't mind getting constant cleavage when I'm playing a woman though :teehee:
but in all seriousness, its harder to make properly than it looks, that why even the huge companies like activision can't do it with cod games, etc.
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Post » Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:29 pm

Arx Fatalis did it and that game was released around the same time as Morrowind. Skyrim should be able to do it as well, in fact, they should go the Dark Messiah route and show the whole body. It adds immersion to the first person feature and there's no reason why it can't be in the game.
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