What ESO race do you NEVER play—and why not?

lecarcajou_ESO

Reasons can be about looks, lore, stats, etc.

lecarcajou_ESO

Orc

I'll make the start, obviously. For me it's orcs—they're brutes. Gah.

Ragnar_Lodbrok

You forgot imperial which is the one I never play despite having it available.

lecarcajou_ESO

Orc

Oh, crap. Dang. Can't edit a poll, and just making a new one would be clunky. Oh well.

kieso

Argonian

Argonian, they're really fugly and apparently I'm really vain.

RedTalon

Nord

Cause they are snow barbarians and highly over rated.

And we have nords irl well had.

:P

Sindala

I don't play any apart from my main Imperial char........because the rest are just flipping Mule chars I can't move from the vaults.....*grumbles*

ebondeath

Altmer

I just cant play Altmer. It's a combination of their facial structure (mostly from older TES games) and their snooty attitude.

Doesnt help that I only just started playing Skyrim for the first time in February, so my hatred of the Thalmor is still fresh (even if there are a few centuries' difference between games).

Food4Thought

Khajit

No lizards or cats. If I wanted to play critters I would still be playing WoW.

Thor

Altmer

Altmer. In TES, Altmer are ***-like lowlifes I enjoy killing since original Arena.

ArRashid

Orc

Well... I play just breton females..

But I really consider Orcs, Elves (ALL), cats and lizards really ugly. At least I wasn't able to create a character that I would visually like, so I just gave up. Well, the male cats were bearable, but just because all other males look like plastic action dolls with deformed faces, so the cat head actually looks better than theirs..

I know, I'm a racist..

KleanZlate

Altmer

High elves! I'm a pretty peaceful guy but when I see and hear them I want to punch them in the face! Bosmers are almost as annoying with their endless tree hugging babble. Dark elves are cool though. Yeah, they're the coolest

Evergnar

Imperial only one I don't play because I won't pay for it.

Azzuria

Altmer

Can. Not. Stand. Altmer.

Elitiest [snip], the lot of 'em. Except the Queen. Her head's only gently lodged in her own arse, as opposed the rest of her race who have their collective heads FIRMLY stuck up there.

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Cursing & Profanity]

UrQuan

I love them all!

With 16 alts I've got at least 1 of every race...

kewl

Nord

A big Nord named Julgen was set on by a gang of thieves. He fought them furiously, but in the end, they beat him into semiconsciousness. They searched his pockets and discovered that he only had three gold pieces on him.

"Do you mean to tell us you fought us like a mad lupe for three lousy gold pieces?" sneered one of the thieves.

"No," answered Julgen. "I was afraid you were after the four hundred gold pieces in my boot."

Krivasran

Altmer

Mer, because mer. I can be racist if I want to

Moonscythe

Orc

What can I say? it's the teeth. I'm not fond of bulldogs either. besides, I always play a mage and I just don't believe in an Orc mage.

magpie

Argonian

Because lizards shouldn't have boobs.

BakaChan

Khajit

I voted khajit... I really love khajits in skyrim, I have them as my main chars, but here.. It just looks terrible.

Edit edit, I'd also probably pick Altmer like everyone else, they're so over the top.

Mataata

I love them all!

I love them all, really. Especially the Khajiit and Argonians.
I've never played as an Orc, though. Only race I haven't touched yet.

MasterSpatula

Altmer

Altmer. Between their attitude, the sense that most of them would go right back to enslaving everyone else given the chance, and their weakness to Magica that is way too high to be offset by their Magica bonus, I could never stomach the idea of playing one in Morrowind or Oblivion. The actions of the AD in Skyrim just cemented that feeling, a feeling that continues in ESO.

Preachan

Altmer

Altmer, Bosmer, Bretons... just don't like them.

PBpsy

Orc

In other TES games I never considered anything other than Dunmer,Imperial and Nord. In this one I play all except the orc. It's not that they are orcs. It is that they are not fitting my idea of orcs which in my case is shaped by Warcraft 1 ,2 ,3 rts orcs.

Aett_Thorn

Argonian

Argonian. I just can't come up with a good concept for one in this game. Nor do I really like the look of their armors. I know that I can just read a motif and make them different armor, but I hate creating something knowing that I'm just going to make them look like something else anyways.

stabbykitteh

Nord

And also Imperials. If I wanted to play at being human I could... you know... go outside or something :P

Rosveen

Nord

Same as always, Nords. I tried once in Skyrim, but couldn't get into it.

And well, Imperials, because I don't have the Imperial Edition. But I don't dislike the race.

drogon1

Altmer

Altmer lol. Too many of them, and they reek with elitism.

someuser

I love them all!

I like em all... Though in all my Elder Scrolls playing I think I've never played the Altmer, Argonian, and Khajit... The latter two mostly due to armor skins looking bad (though in ESO they did a good job)... Altmer's seem a little snobbish and goodie goodie... If I'm going to play an elf, I'm going to be a bad boy lol

Lynx7386

Altmer

I always play khajiit in TES games for my main characters, but I do create other species from time to time to play around with.

That said, I have NEVER played:
-High Elf/Altmer
-Dark Elf/Dunmer
-Redguard
-Orc

And up until ESO I had never played a wood elf (though I really like them here, they were rather odd looking in the past TES games).

For the most part I stick to khajiit/argonians, and occasionally will play a breton/imperial/nord if I want a humanesque character.

hk11

Bosmer

Because alien/asian crossbreed.