elias.stormneb18_ESO wrote: »

Valorin wrote: »

I have to agree with Manavortex here. Awesomely made, but totally the wrong lore for all that flashy stuff. I mean, if I walk around in the Shivering Isles, yeah, okay, there is some weird stuff going on, or in some other plane of Oblivion. But even now, with Dro M'athra style and Panther, Nirn has become a Las Vegas kind of place, and not the one I remember from the offline games.
"Sure," you might say, "it's second Era, perhaps it has been like that...", and I can't argue with that, but it's not the tune that got me going in any other Elder Scrolls game. It's awkwardly misplaced for me and kills off all the awesome work and detail that went into the less flashy worldspace.

I leave this guy here, whoever that is, whom I met in Eastmarch, not in the Shivering Isles as the outfit might make you think, but in beautifully cold and grim Skyrim... Immediately killed off the atmosphere and mood of my surroundings.

The dro-m'Athra are from the Dark Behind the World, which is connected to Namira's (or Namiira's) Scuttling Void in Oblivion. The dro-m'Athra are not from Nirn, nor is their armour. Therefore your argument of how it was more fitting in the Shivering Isles makes no sense. It is the perfectly right lore for it. Please, make sure you know what you are talking about before you make an argument concerning it.

I apologize for not being precise with lore items.
Actually I just generalized it to point out that its look breaks immersion a lot when not in an environment that belongs to these kinds of things. My point was not about lore, but about immersion on the worldspace of the game. It's hard to immerse with the beautiful landscapes with glow-guys running across your sceen all few seconds.

manavortex wrote: »

It is the perfectly right lore for it. Please, make sure you know what you are talking about before you make an argument concerning it.

So we're in the Dark Behind the World now?
Else, why would about 50% of Mournhold's population wear the local fashion in Namira's plane of Oblivion?

Why does more than half of China and Japan follow an Indian religion called Buddhism?

It is called mixture of culture.

https://youtu.be/SRH-Ywpz1_I

I think that the light up bits on it are rather cool... I don't really like this style much though, but I know a couple of people who love it, its just not to my taste and so I won't be wearing it myself, but I do however, absolutely LOVE the new grim harlequin style so so much

Elara North-Twin the template impostor cannot get enough of it, I think it's my new favourite, I can't wait for character transfer to be able to try it out on my main

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Valorin wrote: »

elias.stormneb18_ESO wrote: »

Valorin wrote: »

I have to agree with Manavortex here. Awesomely made, but totally the wrong lore for all that flashy stuff. I mean, if I walk around in the Shivering Isles, yeah, okay, there is some weird stuff going on, or in some other plane of Oblivion. But even now, with Dro M'athra style and Panther, Nirn has become a Las Vegas kind of place, and not the one I remember from the offline games.
"Sure," you might say, "it's second Era, perhaps it has been like that...", and I can't argue with that, but it's not the tune that got me going in any other Elder Scrolls game. It's awkwardly misplaced for me and kills off all the awesome work and detail that went into the less flashy worldspace.

I leave this guy here, whoever that is, whom I met in Eastmarch, not in the Shivering Isles as the outfit might make you think, but in beautifully cold and grim Skyrim... Immediately killed off the atmosphere and mood of my surroundings.

The dro-m'Athra are from the Dark Behind the World, which is connected to Namira's (or Namiira's) Scuttling Void in Oblivion. The dro-m'Athra are not from Nirn, nor is their armour. Therefore your argument of how it was more fitting in the Shivering Isles makes no sense. It is the perfectly right lore for it. Please, make sure you know what you are talking about before you make an argument concerning it.

I apologize for not being precise with lore items.
Actually I just generalized it to point out that its look breaks immersion a lot when not in an environment that belongs to these kinds of things. My point was not about lore, but about immersion on the worldspace of the game. It's hard to immerse with the beautiful landscapes with glow-guys running across your sceen all few seconds.

I agree to an extent, although I still prefer the dro-m'Athra gear looking like it does instead of all dro-m'Athra wearing the Barbaric style as they did at launch.

I'd totally agree if the tron kitty were all about looks, but it explodes out of the ground!
As soon as I heard that and saw the animation ... had to have and no regrets.

That said, I don't really like that everything is glowy now. The amberplasm and hollowjerk stuff are obnoxious. So is the dro'mothra motif, tbh, even though I do like the mount. I wish the glow on all the above were more muted, even the senche mount.

Still though, it doesn't bother me a ton. It's a game world with talking lizard people, mounts that appear out of thin air (my wife calls them "pocket horses"), and actors that walk right through one another. "Immersion" isn't really something I've ever been able to accomplish here.

Honestly, pets annoy me a heck of a lot more. Sometimes the Rawl'kha bank looks like a freaking pet shop.

Wouldn't it be cool if we had more control over how bright the glowy bits were, or whether to display cosmetic pets at all?

TheDarkRuler wrote: »

I like the visual and I really want this visual on my main.

That's what I thought when I crafted Hollowjack too!

I don't mind the glow at all. Fantasy universe and we already have Dro'mothra which is blue and glowy and skins which transform your character to be glowy.

I have to say I also dislike many of the fashion choices that are made at ESO
(Well, I will tolerate it, because in a game with that much Players you otherwise won't get happy)
But I think the main purpose of this post is to show ZOS/ESO team that some of us players don't like some of the choices of the design team
I for myself have so say that the first awefull looking things were valkyn skoria items. I know that the set is really good, I have it myself (but I'm currently not using it on any of my chars) but the helmet....well, lets just say I don't like the looks, so I would very much apreciate any player who hides his/her Valkyn Skoria helmet ;D
I also guess that in the customization of each character many players just go for "attention-craving" looks, I guess thats just the way it is in MMOs, some players don't care about lore or appropriate looks, they just wanna glow (because they think thats cool, but C'mon, what is this, the Tron movie from 1982?)
I for myself am a huge fan of the TES series, more then of MMOs, so I try to name/equip my characters so they mostly fit in this fascinating universe, lore and environment
I will tolerate everybody who makes other choices, as well as the design choices of the ESO team, but I don't approve the above-mentioned ones
(to be honest, I think Valkyn Skoria, es well es some other undaunted masks, dro'matha, the glowing hist blobs are worse then Hollowjack, at least not everybody will wear a Pumpkin-Head....thats what I feared when I first hear of it)
Nevertheless I am looking forward to witches-festival-event, because I normally like events that bring some variety into ESO