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Dissapointed That Nocturnal Looks Like a Budget Cosplayer

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Look at Nocturnal, the main antagonist of the summerset chapter
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Her statue Completely outshines nocturnal, can we have a nocturnal that looks like the statue?
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Now look at Mephala, she slays nocturnal completely.
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And Clavicus Vile
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And finally Hircine
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All outshine nocturnal who has a simple bathing robe.
How do we go from this
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to this?
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The best way to describe nocturnals portrayal is as a very mundane and uninteresting budget cosplayer, even her minions, the shrikes, look more daedric and unique than nocturnal, in fact, they look more like nocturnal than nocturnal does and they even have hair under their hoods a2krutc62zgm.png
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And nocturnal's earl has a way more unique model than nocturnal.why does nocturnal's minions look better than nocturnal?549fe266c97979d5cd2959613448ee8b.png
Photo credit to @mureel

Edited by Aliyavana on June 24, 2018 9:41AM
  • Aliyavana
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    Its a shame because the ur daedra, the one that was able to banish the other two daedric princes has the most underwhelming design. It would go a long way if you were to give her long hair under her hood, gave her a daedric eye color, either made her skin color darker much like the cloudrest skin, or white like in skyrim or the shrikes.
    Edited by Aliyavana on May 29, 2018 9:10AM
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    K
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    Do you ever like anything?
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    Enslaved wrote: »
    K

    cool
    RedRook wrote: »
    Do you ever like anything?

    yes, If you read the op then clearly it's obvious i was pleased with mephala's design
    Edited by Aliyavana on May 27, 2018 11:32PM
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    Enslaved wrote: »
    K

    cool
    RedRook wrote: »
    Do you ever like anything?

    yes, If you read the op its obvious i was pleased with mephala's and clavicus viles appearance.

    No, didn't get that at all, so thanks for the clarification.
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    Spoilers ahead of the main quest for summerset!

    How do we go from this cqx7pw51fjfh.png
    to this?
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    The best way to describe nocturnals portrayal is as a very mundane and uninteresting budget cosplayer, even her minions, the shrikes, look more daedric and unique than nocturnal a2krutc62zgm.png .

    Mephala looks like she has dunmeric features but atleast she gets a model that sets her apart from a dunmer atpqsiqk05dw.png . Even clavicus vile had a unique model...

    The skyrim to eso photo looks like you showed a armature sketch artist the skyrim photo for like 20 seconds then shoved a blank paper in front of them and some budget crayons and told them to redraw it lol. And mephala is basically the League of Legends character Elise.
    Edited by ShadowMonarch on May 27, 2018 8:49AM
  • Aliyavana
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    Spoilers ahead of the main quest for summerset!

    How do we go from this cqx7pw51fjfh.png
    to this?
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    The best way to describe nocturnals portrayal is as a very mundane and uninteresting budget cosplayer, even her minions, the shrikes, look more daedric and unique than nocturnal a2krutc62zgm.png .

    Mephala looks like she has dunmeric features but atleast she gets a model that sets her apart from a dunmer atpqsiqk05dw.png . Even clavicus vile had a unique model...

    The skyrim to eso photo looks like you showed a armature sketch artist the skyrim photo for like 20 seconds then shoved a blank paper in front of them and some budget crayons and told them to redraw it lol. And mephala is basically the League of Legends character Elise.

    That's a pretty fitting way to describe it nocturnal lol.
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    Yeah we talked about this on the PTS forum. Shame nothing got changed.
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    I agree, the final Nocturnal model is disgusting quality, its shameful that they didn't spend the effort to do a proper job. That baldilocks trend is pathetic, there's no excuse for that, the Prophet had the graphics for strands of hair coming out, there's no reason they can't do the same for future hood-wearing characters.
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    Did they really just slap that awful looking crown store dress—and it IS AWFUL, sorry if you bought it—on a model and call it a day? I’m just about done with this game and the constant cutting of corners, with no slow-down in sight for the Crown Store and associated grabbing. Summerset looks half-baked in every possible way, and they didn’t even do a class balance, which was promised—and has now been pushed to the “next” DLC (and then likely the one after that and so on).

    Inexcusable. All of it.
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    What makes it worse is this is supposed to be the climax of the Daedric Triad plot. This is what they were building up to! And they can't even give the main villain appropriate polish...
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    Well, if it makes it better, Daedra princes can change their appearance at will and have just some preferred appearances. So... maybe she wanted to appear as a budget cosplayer? :neutral:
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    Yeah..... we tried in the PTS forum OP, but ZOS didn't listen. She looks so bad....so, soo bad....
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    The main problem for me is, why did they take a redguard character model for Nocturnal ?! and where're the crows on her arms ? The final battle with nocturnal in the back was so cringe...
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  • Ajaxandriel
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    budget

    All the budget for Nocturnal has sunk into her 2,5-seconds appearance in the trailer :wink::wink::wink:

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    It makes me think, that it's not Nocturnal, but an imposter, like Mannimarco in TES IV, you know.
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    So... what about the 'Mephala' in the Falinesti quest in Reaper's March with Telanger? There, Mephala is shown as a ghostly Spider Daedra instead of how she appeared in Summerset. I just finished this quest again for the upteenth time last night on a new character and was disappointed that they didn't update Mephala's appearance in that quest.
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  • Esha76
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    I've been too busy doing everything else on Summerset, I am just now moving through the main story.

    Wow, very disappointing. When I saw Nocturnal on the PTS I was hoping that was just a place-holder skin, and that when live, she would have a unique look to her. How can they put so much time and effort into creating Mephala, who looks incredible, but when it comes to Nocturnal they just slap a crown store dress on a model and call it a day?

    What a let down....
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    Kinda just looks like a player wearing the Shrike costume...lame.
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    I'll be honest, if anyone dropped the ball on Nocturnal's design, I think it was BGS in Skyrim. Hilariously in TES5, she's just a unique costume on a normal, female NPC.

    Fast forward to this, and we've got her design competing with Mephala and Vile, and ESO's Mephala design is very good. In that... yeah, Nocturnal does kinda wash out a bit.
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    Peekachu99 wrote: »
    Did they really just slap that awful looking crown store dress—and it IS AWFUL, sorry if you bought it—on a model and call it a day? I’m just about done with this game and the constant cutting of corners, with no slow-down in sight for the Crown Store and associated grabbing. Summerset looks half-baked in every possible way, and they didn’t even do a class balance, which was promised—and has now been pushed to the “next” DLC (and then likely the one after that and so on).

    Inexcusable. All of it.

    ESO is turning into SWTOR, small content patches with weekly cash grab shop items updates to get the highest possible money out of this game. This was my main MMO to go to but seeing that they cant even fix stuff which has been asked for years and add QOL stuff is showing their true colors. ZO$$$
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    logarifmik wrote: »
    It makes me think, that it's not Nocturnal, but an imposter, like Mannimarco in TES IV, you know.

    Technically its supposed to be an avatar of Nocturnal isn’t it? I’m not trying to justify it, just trying for accuracy.
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    ADarklore wrote: »
    So... what about the 'Mephala' in the Falinesti quest in Reaper's March with Telanger? There, Mephala is shown as a ghostly Spider Daedra instead of how she appeared in Summerset. I just finished this quest again for the upteenth time last night on a new character and was disappointed that they didn't update Mephala's appearance in that quest.

    The Deadric Princes can appear hiwever they want. They don't really have a form or gender. They appear to mortals however they feel like appearing. Sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes monsterous. Some have forms the prefer, but they are really shapeless cosmic forces really.
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  • logarifmik
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    Peekachu99 wrote: »
    logarifmik wrote: »
    It makes me think, that it's not Nocturnal, but an imposter, like Mannimarco in TES IV, you know.

    Technically its supposed to be an avatar of Nocturnal isn’t it? I’m not trying to justify it, just trying for accuracy.
    I see your point. Alright, lets say "it looks like an avatar of an imposter" instead.
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    The best way to describe nocturnals portrayal is as a very mundane and uninteresting budget cosplayer, even her minions, the shrikes, look more daedric and unique than nocturnal

    I prefer the shrikes. I think they look neat.. but that "avatar" of nocturnal, really hurts my eyes

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    What makes it worse is this is supposed to be the climax of the Daedric Triad plot. This is what they were building up to! And they can't even give the main villain appropriate polish...

    That was the hilarious part of this
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    What makes it worse is this is supposed to be the climax of the Daedric Triad plot. This is what they were building up to! And they can't even give the main villain appropriate polish...

    That was the hilarious part of this

    Yeah, I'd forgotten until I got to it earlier today. That particular texture could probably do with some love. It looks fine on a normal character model, but when it's on an object that large, the lack of detail looks weird.
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    What makes it worse is this is supposed to be the climax of the Daedric Triad plot. This is what they were building up to! And they can't even give the main villain appropriate polish...

    That was the hilarious part of this

    So true, especially the ending. Overall I feel this has been over-rated content.
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