Does ESO fat shame?

qsnoopyjr · December 2016

Like do you feel the characters in game are too buff and too fit, its just unrealistic, and it doesn't have enough fat options? Perhaps even the most fat option still looks fit. Take a look at Everquest and their fat toons, and think about how MMORPGs have changed over the years and how they started fat shaming. AKA they only show fit and buff character models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaZ0URPX1KA

Buffler · December 2016

Wtf!

Chuga_Rei · December 2016

This thread is everything I wanted it to be. What a time to be alive.

WalksonGraves · December 2016

So eso and Fallout 4 have the same character creation except a fat vault dweller still has a rock hard 6 pack where in eso you can actually have a flabby gut.

Unless you're female, that's where eso draws the line.

Flowersquisher · December 2016

really???? IT'S A GAME

SirAndy · December 2016

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Perhaps even the most fat option still looks fit.

Here's a pic of my Naked Nord, not exactly what i would call "fit" ...

qsnoopyjr · December 2016

Flowersquisher wrote: »

really???? IT'S A GAME

I know, but how come I cannot make a fat toon? You seen anyone that looks fat in this game? To me it seems like everyone is all fit.

menedhyn · December 2016

My old Breton character is neither fit nor buff. He's deliberately skinny, almost malnourished, because that's how I chose to make him. I could choose to make a character more rotund if I felt like it (and I have an idea forming to do just that).

The game isn't at fault here. We choose to make our characters in a certain way, that's all.

Yinmaigao · December 2016

These forums always seem to lower my expectations for humanity

Moonscythe · December 2016

I've seen some fat and sloppy looking slobs running around and some seriously abundant Valkyries so, no, if the players prefer svelte that's them not the game. Me, I'm not so young and not so sleek but why should I look like that in a game?

jedtb16_ESO · December 2016

another thread that makes me despair for the human race...

Naughty_Ryder · December 2016

Who the hell cares?

KochDerDamonen · December 2016

As the proud owner of a chubby lizard wizard: No

As a human bean: Wtf? Burn this meme at the stake. No morbidly obese characters does not equate to "fat shaming".

Doctordarkspawn · December 2016

Get out.

Just out. I shouldn't need to explain to you why this is stupid and I wont, out.

Yinmaigao · December 2016

There are a lot of things that happen in the elder scrolls universe.

Racism/sexism/bigotry/etc... all there.

Fat shaming? Not so much... I have never walked around any zone and had an NPC regale me in my exploits at that all-you-can-eat bosmer buffet.

Get real, there are enough messed up things in this game that we don't need to invent stuff.

Myyth · December 2016

Fat characters should -
Get a debuff to mount speed
Require twice the amount of mats to craft armor
Eat twice the amount of food to get a buff

Pandorii · December 2016

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

As the proud owner of a chubby lizard wizard: No

As a human bean: Wtf? Burn this meme at the stake. No morbidly obese characters does not equate to "fat shaming".

Are you a bosmer?

All jokes aside, I was surprised by how small the biggest dimension was in the character creation, albeit I made all my characters maximum thin/hourglass, with biggest assets, and some where extremely muscular. It's the body I wish I had. =D

Abeille · December 2016

WalksonGraves wrote: »

So eso and Fallout 4 have the same character creation except a fat vault dweller still has a rock hard 6 pack where in eso you can actually have a flabby gut.

Unless you're female, that's where eso draws the line.

You can make fat females too. But how fat you can make them depends on their race. It's the same for males, some races can be made fatter than the others.

I would show you my chubby orc, but I'm not going to be home until January 4 and pics taken in my potato-laptop would make her look weird.

arakis99ub17_ESO · December 2016

You can give your character a large gut, make them old, and/or give them small arms. Just because most people don't isn't fat shaming.

I hope the op is trolling because if this is for real. Lol.

Stovahkiin · December 2016

Yes, lets sue Zeni for not having the option to make an obese character that looks like a Hutt and is somehow able to run around nonstop and ride horses without crushing them.

Myyth · December 2016

My character doesnt feel shameful at all!

Stovahkiin · December 2016

Myyth wrote: »

My character doesnt feel shameful at all!

I'm done

ArchMikem · December 2016

There's this thing called a stomach slider? Yeah, it can go all the way up to "McDonalds Lover". Even on my leaner Khajiit if I put the slider all the way up it makes her look pregnant.

qsnoopyjr · December 2016

Been a fan of Dynasty Warriors for a long time, surprised they still going. Top it off, they havent given into fat shaming, if you look at Xu Zhu, they still make him look fat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdhr-m0IMo

mb10 · December 2016

you'd think an adventurer who travels all day, battling creatures and learning skills would be pretty athletic tbh

Recremen · December 2016

ESO lets you be super fat and has tons of fat NPC. Definitely doesn't fat shame that I can see.

Rohamad_Ali · December 2016

Its not fat , it's stored power .

Grymmoire · December 2016

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Been a fan of Dynasty Warriors for a long time, surprised they still going. Top it off, they havent given into fat shaming, if you look at Xu Zhu, they still make him look fat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdhr-m0IMo

Now that character on the right is what I call erm, ah, fitness challenged!

Truly do wish we could make our characters look similar; would cherish an Orc with looks like that and then could name him Rolly Polly or Humphrey Dumpy. Then run with him in only the Nordic bathing towel heh!

WhiteCoatSyndrome · December 2016

OP is thin-shaming!

Stovahkiin · December 2016

Grymmoire wrote: »

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Been a fan of Dynasty Warriors for a long time, surprised they still going. Top it off, they havent given into fat shaming, if you look at Xu Zhu, they still make him look fat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdhr-m0IMo

Now that character on the right is what I call erm, ah, fitness challenged!

Truly do wish we could make our characters look similar; would cherish an Orc with looks like that and then could name him Rolly Polly or Humphrey Dumpy. Then run with him in only the Nordic bathing towel heh!

I saw a female orc in Glenumbra yesterday that matches this description perfectly...... What has been seen cannot be unseen

rxhymn · December 2016

mb10 wrote: »

you'd think an adventurer who travels all day, battling creatures and learning skills would be pretty athletic tbh

Could have thyroid issues bro.

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