The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Make your lists here! Options

[mALX]

The good:

The wait function - better than Oblivion's
Player has vocalizations !! May make modding the voices easier !!



The bad:

How the heck do you alter the age of your character?
Voice acting - not as good as Oblivion so far


The Ugly:

Characters are butt ugly and very unrealistic and weird movements

[SubRosa]

Let's be honest: If you didn't have indoor plumbing, how much bathing would you do? In the winter especially.

EDIT: I know where you are coming from but it just makes sense that people would be just plain dirtier. Bathing everyday is a pretty modern development.

Actually bathing every day was standard for the Romans, and they took their bathhouses all across North Africa, Europe, and Near Asia. It was an important place for socializing, and making backroom deals. When the Vikings conquered eastern England, they were very popular with the local women, because the Norse men bathed on a regular basis. Our modern society likes to think that we are so advanced, and that everyone who came before us were primitive savages rolling around in the dirt. But that is just hubris. Our ancestors were not as stupid, or disgusting, as we like to pretend they were. For example, the Minoans had running water and flush toilets back in the Bronze Age.

Speaking purely in the ES universe, in Skyrim we start the game able to shoot fire and lightning from our fingers. But no one has a spell to wash their hair, or their body? Give me a break.

Of course, it could be worse, we could have the shiny plastic hair from Oblivion.

Give me the Oblivion hair any day. Even the vanilla looks much better then what Skyrim offers. Much less Corean or Rens. The Skyrim hair looks dead and lifeless, not to mention icky. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot poleaxe.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 15 2011, 05:29 PM

[King Coin]

Actually bathing every day was standard for the Romans, and they took their bathhouses all across North Africa, Europe, and Near Asia. It was an important place for socializing, and making backroom deals. When the Vikings conquered eastern England, they were very popular with the local women, because the Norse men bathed on a regular basis. Our modern society likes to think that we are so advanced, and that everyone who came before us were primitive savages rolling around in the dirt. But that is just hubris. Our ancestors were not as stupid, or disgusting, as we like to pretend they were. For example, the Minoans had running water and flush toilets back in the Bronze Age.

Romans - basically upper class bathed everyday, but the common rabble? No. They had to work. I wonder if they were even allowed in the bathhouses.

Norse - How did they bathe everyday? Especially in the winter months? They going to haul water and heat it everyday inside? I really doubt it.

Yes there are some ancient societies that had pluming. Very limited example though. It was hardly widespread and they made their pipes out of lead.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Nov 15 2011, 06:11 PM

[SubRosa]

Actually bathing every day was standard for the Romans, and they took their bathhouses all across North Africa, Europe, and Near Asia. It was an important place for socializing, and making backroom deals. When the Vikings conquered eastern England, they were very popular with the local women, because the Norse men bathed on a regular basis. Our modern society likes to think that we are so advanced, and that everyone who came before us were primitive savages rolling around in the dirt. But that is just hubris. Our ancestors were not as stupid, or disgusting, as we like to pretend they were. For example, the Minoans had running water and flush toilets back in the Bronze Age.

Romans - basically upper class bathed everyday, but the common rabble? No. They had to work. I wonder if they were even allowed in the bathhouses.

Norse - How did they bathe everyday? Especially in the winter months? They going to haul water and heat it everyday inside? I really doubt it.

Yes there are some ancient societies that had pluming. Very limited example though. It was hardly widespread and they made their pipes out of lead.

The Roman rabble did take a bath every day. It was cheap, and part of their society. Just like it is part of ours. It is not difficult to bathe. You do not require a super high technology to do it. Just water. You do not even need a tub, or a huge amount of water. A washcloth and enough water to soak it will do. Take a look for some examples.

And even reality aside, it is ridiculous to think that in a world where it is common to shoot out fire and lighting from your hand, let alone conjure up monsters from other dimensions, turn invisible, trap souls, and so on, that no one can cast a clean up spell.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 15 2011, 06:51 PM