Little more lighthearted of a topic here.

ESO character models. What are your most and least favorite things about them? The changes from other versions in other games.

My least favorite thing would have to be the loss of the ridges in the brow on mer. A lot of people found these "ugly" in Skyrim, but they were there in Morrowind and made the races more their own. Oblivion's portrayal of mer was just... disturbing imo.

My most favorite? Khajiit and Argonian tails.

Skyrim had this really *really* big problem with stiff as a board tails. And not just the clipping through armor. Take a meterstick. Tape it to your backside. There's your tail. Flops side to side a little bit when you run, looks great when it's sticking out and you're sneaking... but rigid and stiff as nails every other time.

Annoying.

ESO fixed that. /yay

You guys?

Hey guys,

I was quite disapointed, because I could not create a character that I wanted to.

I always played Elrond-like Altmer sorcerers. ESO does not let the High Elves have

black hair, I could only choose between white, brown and blonde types. But there

are no black hair for Altmer My Altmer always had black hair and I would really

like to continue that legacy of my TES characters.

Past TES games allow the Altmer to have black hair, so why not let

that in ESO? If you guys at ZOS are reading this, please consider

adding more color options for the hair. Or at least add black for every race.

I will love you so much if you add that option!

Thanks

I'm so glad they didn't make mers like in skyrim. Altmers looked nice in Morrowind and Oblivion, but when I saw them in Skyrim I tought it was some kind of monster! They are perfect like they look in ESO for me.

So I guess my most favorite part is your least favorite

Other than that, I don't really have a least favorite, I really love how they made the characters look.

I think the Khajiit are poorly done. Their fur isn't textured. It's like they are missing the last two layers of detail. They are... too smooth and it gives them a low res toony look.

I think this may just be a texture issue. I didn't notice it, but I didn't have my graphics up the entire way, nor do I have the greatest eyesight to notice fine detail.

Many of the faces still had prominent eyebrow ridges. I was rather pleased to see that the elves in TES didn't look like they belonged in your typical fantasy game. Oblivion just bothered me. Most of the wood elves, for example, reminded me of short, fat, dumpy things. They tried to 'pretty' them up too much, too.

I don't typically play Altmer either. And I hate the Thalmor. Made playing Dominion incredibly difficult, even though the AD/Thalmor isn't the one I hate from Skyrim.

Least favorite: Dunmer eyes, the female npc's especially. They all seem to have big round "doe eyes" instead of being more angular. Include the circular eyes with

and they look way to human like to me.

Everything else looks great to me. Even though this isn't necessarily a character model, my favorite aspect of character design is the menu option to hide your helm. Playing without my helm as an Argonian really lets me enjoy the character's features more.

You can change eye shape to a degree I thought, but I might be misremembering some stuff.

I had a problem with Dunmer eyes mostly because there are other colors besides red. :/ Soooo many purple eyes I saw....

The fact the walk animation for the nord looks like its for a 95 pound female wood elf ..it looks so stupid and displaced

When you make the charcater smaller, the head stays normal sized......it looks a little freaky.

I didn't try creating a Dunmer myself actually (I have a certain hatred for the Dunmer that carries game to game) I was just talking mostly about all the npc's I saw. I didn't know players had an option for eyes other then red...a little disappointing as well.

Least favorite: Khajiit hair. It's too, what's the word.....blocky? Doesn't look natural anyway.

Favorite: Boobs. No, really. I'm referring to the fact that there is a more reasonable range on them than most other games, which typically if they give you a choice is between DD and "She uses a tent for a bra."

My biggest problem is that the colors of the mer are wrong.
Dunmer with eyes that are any color but red.
Altmer that can't have hair darker than milky chocolate, and that can have skins that are too human (check the lower row of the skin colors. The top row is accurate).
The Bosmer are ok. No complaints here.
Orsimer can have purple hair. I don't know if this is lore-accurate because I never played as an orc before, except for Skyrim, but they couldn't have purple hair in Skyrim. Still, I don't like it.

Face sliders are too limited, too. It is a shame and it doesn't match the game's overall quality.

Fav:
I could stare into meri eyes for hours. So beautiful, so deep, so shiny, so mesmerizing, so perfect @_@

I actually like the character models pretty damn well for the most part. My only gripe I would have would be the Argonians when wearing armor never looks all that natural to me for their body. And on a side not, you would think they would have some kind of light armor for their tail (but I'm sure this has nothing to do with lore or anything, just my observation.)

Favorite thing: The level of detail.

Least favorite thing: occasional clipping issues with some of the hats and my hair.

Okay that made me laugh.

I had problems with Khajiit hair as well but I think it was more of a "I don't like these styles" than anything. It wasn't the worst thing for me. I do absolutely love that the tails move fluidly though.

And the boobs? Yes. There's a slider and none of the options with it look like you stuffed a watermelon in your shirt. It's great.

I guess it isn't so much regarding character creation... but I really dislike how the light armor looks like it is glued to your body. Much older games have the more "flowing" look. I really hope this changes, or later light armor looks better... but not going to get my hopes up.

Favourite: horns for Bosmer!

Least favourite: Not enough brow ridges for elves Also I wanted the Dunmer to look a little more rugged. I had to crank up the age on mine to actually make him look like he came from a volcanic wasteland.

The beast races bodies. Too human, I prefer them more like in Morrowind.

As long as I can still stuff a banana in my male Orc's pants. He's a little insecure sometimes.

If you ask me, the altmers look better than ever, and I'm super glad about it. I don't know about other mers, I don't care much about them.

For the thalmor and the aldmeri dominion!

No tribunal hand for the Dunmer foreheads.