WrathOfRegicide wrote: »
Hey guy would you put some pants on! :P Maybe "no depth" wasn't a good term to use to generalize the armors. There is some depth to the shoulders, boots and maybe pants; but the most important area that should have depth to it is the chest area, because in reality that's what you most likely would want to protect the most (besides your head of course). We are in agreement though the armor is lacking in aesthetics, am I right? They could have easily improved the graphical looks of the armor; I know this because, there were complaints about player characters in this game looking too cartoonish, and maybe a month or two after that they altered the appearance of player characters. I think they either were too lazy to adjust the appearance of armor or rushed it and just threw out what they could and hoped it looked good.
(link to a discussion about graphics and player characters looking too cartoonish and WoW-like) http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/669684-the-elder-scrolls-online/62752150
(link to a picture of argonians before they altered player characters)https://www.google.com/search?q=argonian+eso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=_JqmU-PhDdijyATq-4H4Cg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=934#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=c10Ic4PHBB_99M%3A;QUYoNtUMjzIyTM;http%3A%2F%2Ftamrielfoundry.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2FArgonianGroup.jpg;http%3A%2F%2Ftamrielfoundry.com%2F2013%2F02%2Fexamining-argonians%2F;1920;1080
(here is a picture of present day argonian appearance) https://www.google.com/search?q=eso+argonian&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hZumU-7dKIzfsAT774KYCA&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=934#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=E__HODWKF433wM%3A;tc0Wq0zU_iEQkM;http%3A%2F%2Fesomasters.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F04%2FESO-Argonian-Race.jpg;http%3A%2F%2Fesomasters.com%2Felder-scrolls-online-eso-races-overview-of-playable-races%2F;510;384
This shows Zenimax can change the appearance of armors they are just don't want to put the effort in it.
Gern_Verkheart wrote: »
What do you mean? Real armor is thick, if it's not, then it's not very useful as armor. I think most people want the armor to look thick, that's why so many people complain about the armor looking "painted on."
I didn't say I don't want the armor to look thick.
I just don't like the thick edging/hemming on armor but like I already said, could be just me.
*the original image borrowed from esofashion*
Gern_Verkheart wrote: »
I think the aesthetics of the armors are fine, I just would like to see the depth on the chest-pieces and most gloves improved, and the floating elbow pads fixed.
It sounds like you want big garish and completely unrealistic armors like in other games such as WoW. If they ever do that in this game, I will be done with it. One of my favorite things about ESO, and TES games in general is the fact that the armors always look like they would actually be possible to wear, not necessarily always practical, but they never have things like shoulder pads taller than the wearer with molten lava dripping from them.
I think a lot of your opinion is derived from looking at the lowbe armors. Those armors have low detail, and frankly look terrible. But I think they should be that way; you shouldn't look as awesome wearing level 10 armor as you do wearing vet-10 armor. the high level armors have a lot of detail, are complex and clearly have a lot of thought behind their design. It's just that the chest pieces and gloves have no depth, making them look painted on.
If you have looked at a lot of the high level armors, and still think they lack aesthetics and detail, then I guess we just have different tastes,
GW2 WvW has a 2000 total player limit, same as Cyrodiil.
However, unlike Cyrodiil, GW2 WvW takes place in 4 separate zones. That means you can have theoretically up to 500 players in one battle (166 per side).
In Cyrodiil, you can have theoretically up to 2000 players in one battle, four times as many as GW2.
Gern_Verkheart wrote: »
I see what you are saying now, and I agree to an extent, I guess.
Real armor does have thick edges though. It was typical to weld or rivet a small strip of metal to the edges of the armor to ensure there were no jagged edges. As you can see here:
I didn't say I don't want the armor to look thick.
I just don't like the thick edging/hemming on armor but like I already said, could be just me.
*the original image borrowed from esofashion*
vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »Honestly to me the armor in all the TES games have mostly been craptastic. There was usually 1 or 2 cool sets, and the rest were modded goodies. So I guess I had pretty low expectations going in. And have been mostly pleased with the armor looks. Can't wait for dyes though! Go go pink plate!
BTW, anyone noticed that there is an ACUTE LACK OF THE COLOR RED in ESO?
I haven't found a single red item. And I've tried, because I always liked the breton mage on the Betnikh's loading screen.
Everything just seem to range from light blue to dark midnight blue, light green to dark acid green, light gray to dark gray, occasionally something beige, gold or pink, but there is NO RED ANYWHERE.
/cry
Ruze is a veteran of the PC Beta, lived through the year one drought, survived the buy-to-play conversion, and has stepped foot in the hells known as Craglorn. He mained a nightlbade when nightblades weren't good, and has never worn a robe. He converted from PC during the console betas, and hasn't regretted it a moment since.
He'd rank ESO:TU (in it's current state) a 4.8 out of 5, loving the game almost entirely.
One of the saddest things to me about armor is that it actually gets uglier and uglier as you level up. It's like the designers said to themselves, "Let's throw more and more junk on there until the final level of armor where the ultimate look will be like we just scribbled all over it with a pen!"