Horse trainer here. Let's not get too silly about video game mounts, kay? I mean one of them is made of frost. C'maaaaaaaaaaaahn.

save a horse, ride a senche.

actual horse here, I don't see any problems. Are you telling me my hocks aren't pretty if they look like the ones in ESO? Now I have body image self-esteem issues T_T

People have been telling ZOS these horses are embarrassingly awful from the beginning and they haven't done anything about them yet, so I'm thinking they just won't. They won't even close the dang mouths, that would be such a simple fix for much of the derp. I think that either they don't care that their horses are face-palm-worthy or the horses were designed by someone whose feelings they can't afford to hurt. The new horses are just as bad.

I notice that their dog conformation seems spot on. Maybe the horses were modeled by a dog breeder?

They are uncommonly fat, too. And getting fatter with each new model. The atronarch horses look like barrels on sticks.

Ita the conformation on the horses in game is pretty bad. A primary reason why I don't care for them.

It's a game, you lemon.

Folks, those are TAMRIEL (or Nirn rather) horses! They can look different. I mean there are huge bugs which would collapse under their own weight on Earth, and those ridiculous moose-like things in Wrothgar with names nobody can spell and pronounce properly

I wish they’d close the mouths. It always looks like the horse is gritting their teeth whilst thinking “If you so much as kick me I will throw you into a tree”
And in regards to the sickle hocks, they’ve been a thing for a looonng time and they probably won’t get fixed. But hey, maybe there’s something coming for that in the future. Who knows.
I know they’re bad but it is a game after all. And honestly, if anyone is that worried about their horses’ legs, just put them in your house and say they’re retired from duty.

This isn't earth. For all we know he gravity is different then on our world and the legs are "deformed" or "Evolved" like that to be able to move correctly. I mean we even have lizard people walking up straight with t|ts.

I have absolutely no education on Animal anatomy, but I always did think the legs on Horses looked...wonky? Just odd. Now I guess I have a statement from a legit Vet to know I wasn't wrong.

The a models for horses have always, always bugged me, I spent the first few months playing this game screaming inside every time i went by a stable. I learned to live with it. Tamriel horse are atragedy, there's no hope for them. I've forced myself to ignore it.

What still gets a laugh out of me though is how stablehands groom horses against their coats.