>You finally arrived, but our records don't show from where. (2024)

I agree with

They'll probably recycle the TESO aesthetic, which was already a tamer and more corporate version of the Skyrim aesthetic.

about the ESO approach to just make them look as humanoid as possible for mass appeal garbage. cats and lizards will probably be hyper realistic as well.

They'll probably keep the trend of them just being humans with weird heads and skin. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only game that that isn't the case is Morrowind (although it's also my favorite version of them). Would be nice if they did cut loose and give Argonians and Khajit the options for different body types though, even if it came with equipment caveats like it did in Morrowind.

They'll probably recycle the TESO aesthetic, which was already a tamer and more corporate version of the Skyrim aesthetic.

>tamer and more corporate
>than Skyrim
I really hope you're wrong because Skyrim was already pretty damn tame. I don't expect you are, but I hope so.

I think elves will stay bogged.
Redguard established that there was a distinct 'look' of elves vs humans, Morrowind continued that trend.
Oblivion stepped away from almost every aesthetic any Elder Scrolls game touched on, so I think it's an outlier.
Skyrim reintroduced Elves looking weird.
I believe the intention is to make Elves look instantly recognisable as distinct from human faces by making them look like bird aliens.

I think beast races will just have increasingly realistic heads with appropriately textured bodies. Bethesda made all children in Skyrim and Fallout 4 have the exact same face, regardless of sex or race, just to save on disk space or something. So I don't think beast races will have different bodies ever again.

Probably what I'll do. The character I started was basically an Argonian hobo getting by hunting food and selling potions n' stuff. Not exactly Neverar material at first look but I can always just start an elf if I don't feel like my roleplay autism matches up.

Also it turns out someone made a comprehensive set of fullhelms for the beast races last year, so that's nice.

There are two afaik. One I didn't like much, but on the other, you go through the phases of corpus until you end up an Ash vampire (they use that script where you can turn into npc creatures similar to werewolves).

Add some sixth-house armor mods and you're good to get Morrowind rid of outlander filth and fake gods.

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/48200?tab=images

I think this is a reupload, but there were other similar mods.

Must I really?

From the moment I exit the first building in Seyda Neen, the extremely small village has character and life, and the coast with the trippy mushrooms and trees made me feel like I was in a magical, dreamy place. Then I went into 3rd person and saw the running animation and nearly pissed myself. This was in 2004. Then I bought some random bullsh*t from the Dark Elf merchant, and ran around killing sh*t. Who the frick thought that DnD-based combat for an Xbox game was a good idea? You swat at something 40 times and whatever your Major skill is at the time is almost arbitrary. There is no clear indication of how many points you must allot in Blunt, for example, in order to get better at Blunt weapon damage. There is no clear indication of how and when you level up. The act of hitting an enemy is extremely repetitive, and feels like an anxious race to out-spam your opponent (who inevitably always has a much higher hit-rate than your player character, stacking the early game in NPC favor). The cliff racers were annoying and grating as hell. These are just random gripes I have, and I know that every single one of those things is countered with a "get gud" comment, but it's not a fricking FromSoft game. At least in Dark Souls when you swing at something it fricking hits, and you don't have to level up specific Major and Minor skills where you have to keep track of what affects what.