Interesting Player Characters

bellanca6561n

As I'm sure many of you have noticed - sometimes while groaning if you read this forum on your phone - I take a lot of screenshots in this game.

Simple fact is I stay in ESO more for the game world than for the game. And among my favorite things is what players create. In theme park MMOs, alas, that's usually limited to player characters.

Some are interesting because the player was going for something outside obvious appeal....

Some are interesting in a collective sense....creating a moment that never took place but only appeared to.

And sometimes I find a character interesting but have no conscious idea why, exactly, I found it so. Something about this gal, and the way her body tattoos fit the outfit, the choice of colors, and the fact that the attitude emote script really fit the character....I just had to take a screenshot.

I'm hardly alone in finding what players create interesting. Thus I hope others will share their screenshots of players who caught their eye as well

Dracane

bellanca6561n

*someone* excels at hidden object puzzles

This evening at the bank in Belkarth...an interesting array of characters....

Rastoide

Oh yes, i've got a good one, but the name was what called for screenie and i couldn't caught him idle.. look :v

Nestor

I see so many interesting characters in the game. Dyes, Gear Choices etc. But, when I go to make something interesting, it just turns out fugly. So, all my characters tend to be rather generic. Like these two:





Other than a couple of mules that I went out of my way to make ugly, and hence, they became interesting

kargen27

Whenever I see a male character in a wedding dress I like to put on the tux and go stand next to them. Cracks me up every time but I am easily amused.

bellanca6561n

kargen27 wrote: »

Whenever I see a male character in a wedding dress I like to put on the tux and go stand next to them. Cracks me up every time but I am easily amused.

Well....then we're BOTH easily amused I guess

bellanca6561n

Lots of guys have a thing for Bosmer gals....didn't really get it at first. Then I came across this one....

covenant_merchant

bellanca6561n wrote: »

And sometimes I find a character interesting but have no conscious idea why.

It's the boobs, dude.

bellanca6561n

Rastoide wrote: »

Oh yes, i've got a good one, but the name was what called for screenie and i couldn't caught him idle.. look :v

I see...or think I see an emote that could cause a problem....a "personality" as it were

bellanca6561n

Snapped this Dunmer gal at the bank in Davon's Watch.

Everything about her said "Dunmer" to me....

Edit: no, I don't mean the gal looking at the scroll in the back....she looks like she's on speed....or something.

bellanca6561n

And I liked this Altmer at the bank in Shornhelm....even with the odd tattoos....

Dracane

This is my character, trying to cosplay as a Dragonknight Even though I am a Sorceress.

kargen27

This is my character Shirley I Jest. Several people have asked Shirley to pose for a screen shot. This image was done before he decided to be a pirate. You can't tell in the image but he is really really short.

bellanca6561n

Last night, in Deshaan - the weekly sermon, held this time at Muth Gnaar.

bellanca6561n

kargen27 wrote: »

This is my character Shirley I Jest. Several people have asked Shirley to pose for a screen shot. This image was done before he decided to be a pirate. You can't tell in the image but he is really really short.

Alas, this image is not coming up for me

Horker

Lord Neloth Telvanni


Kappa


Chief G'vukk Urzelv gro-Uzukk before he went vampirism


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SanderBuraas

Came across this beauty in Cyrodiil a while ago.

Rune_Relic

bellanca6561n wrote: »

Lots of guys have a thing for Bosmer gals....didn't really get it at first. Then I came across this one....

Confession....its the revealed midrift 6 pack.
I get the irresistible urge to run my tongue down the centre from top to bottom.
Dont judge me!

bellanca6561n

Rune_Relic wrote: »

bellanca6561n wrote: »

Lots of guys have a thing for Bosmer gals....didn't really get it at first. Then I came across this one....

Confession....its the revealed midrift 6 pack.
I get the irresistible urge to run my tongue down the centre from top to bottom.
Dont judge me!

Well...some might slap the TMI tag on that. But I prefer to think of it as revealed information of the worst kept secret I can imagine

ArchMikem

You made this thread to be about other player characters we run into, yet people come in here thinking its another "Show Us Your" thread. At least half of you stuck on topic with the OP.

I actually took a screen once of two players in Rawlkha that were practically twins. Similar gamertags, both females, same armor. Decided it wasn't worth to upload and make a new thread over though so it's gone.

bellanca6561n

ArchMikem wrote: »

You made this thread to be about other player characters we run into, yet people come in here thinking its another "Show Us Your" thread. At least half of you stuck on topic with the OP.

I actually took a screen once of two players in Rawlkha that were practically twins. Similar gamertags, both females, same armor. Decided it wasn't worth to upload and make a new thread over though so it's gone.

*is sad*

Asardes

Rastoide wrote: »

Oh yes, i've got a good one, but the name was what called for screenie and i couldn't caught him idle.. look :v

Is that really ESO? That graphics is so 1999

Rune_Relic

TBH theres is so many charcters that make me cringe, I kind of stopped looking too hard.
Built purely for no real reason except to mock...which is ok I guess.
I guess its like desensitisation in a way.
So I normally seek beauty in the environment instead.

But over the past couple of months I have started to notice some real living works of art walking around.
Makes me realise how ESO could be.

Rastoide

bellanca6561n wrote: »

Is that really ESO? That graphics is so 1999

AMD APU A6-5400 (Dual 3.60ghz)
-4gb ram DDR3 (As in shared with integrated VGA)

And that screenie was taken long ago, now i usually go with prerendering on medium and antialising on to compensate the awfullness. But that way i can run dungeons properly (I want to put a smile face but i have mixed feelings about this, but i can play! lol *cries*)

bellanca6561n

Rune_Relic wrote: »

TBH theres is so many charcters that make me cringe, I kind of stopped looking too hard.
Built purely for no real reason except to mock...which is ok I guess.
I guess its like desensitisation in a way.
So I normally seek beauty in the environment instead.

But over the past couple of months I have started to notice some real living works of art walking around.
Makes me realise how ESO could be.

Yes, RR, I harp on this a bit too much I'm afraid...well...too much on this forum with its UNDERSTANDABLE focus on conventional achievement, on combat, on combat builds and all that.

What makes this even more idiotic on my part is the simple fact that were ESO to develop the sustainable mechanics of a multiplayer game rather than an MMO, there would likely be a wholesale change over of its forum readership.

Nonetheless, from day one, ESO has attracted the narrative-told-by-the-audience crowd. They're not that interested in the core game - not because they're bad at it either. They see the Elder Scrolls world as an irresistible array of enticing metaphors and delicious what-if propositions.

For them, ESO appeals to their talents for language, for story telling, for imaginative expression in the way combat stimulates the theorycrafters.

To be able to place yourself into another world entirely. To behave believably and convincingly as a member of another race in an imagined land rich in metaphor is as challenging and rewarding as any entertainment activity a person can engage in...well...for those so inclined of course


kargen27

bellanca6561n wrote: »

kargen27 wrote: »

This is my character Shirley I Jest. Several people have asked Shirley to pose for a screen shot. This image was done before he decided to be a pirate. You can't tell in the image but he is really really short.

Alas, this image is not coming up for me

I tried again, not sure what went wrong.

bellanca6561n

See that just fine, @kargen27, plus I could see your earlier pic of your Liberace-like tux approach to guys in wedding dresses. Then it too vanished late last night.

Image hosting sites can be glitchy is all. Plus old reliables such as PhotoBucket appear to be suffering and have eliminated support entirely.

I'll give them one thing....at least they sign their robo replies as Robert the Robot

bellanca6561n

Tonight at the bank in Belkarth....always good for an interesting screen shot...

bellanca6561n

A friend this evening was trying to go for a Middle Eastern look and came up with this using Redguard. I think it came out well as this screenshot next to an Imperial character demonstrates. The setting helps

AlienSlof

Twins:



My main on the left. This was a totally random encounter, but they came out looking almost identical, both vampires, both with the same ginger hair!

Basil never knew he had a twin!