The opposite of modern aesthetics?

[Horror Pigeon]

How would you feel if... there is no new elder scrolls yet, so I do mean skyrim, that the devs made an oppositional move to obsidian's avowed's speculated ugly npcs by revising skyrim npcs with more conventional aesthetics - making npcs objectively attractive, or at least 60% of them beautiful and handsome. Even changing the look of, say dark elves, to appeal to the most players, and do that to all races. ALL, even orcs would have beauty but some ruggedness. I'm trying to avoid rhetoric and certain words. Would you be favorable to that? Or see that as, idk what, pandering to casuals?

Like if the team intentionally went very near overboard but not quite with beautification. Khajiit, Argonians, and Orcs, everyone would get aesthetic changes to seem more attractive to human eyes and brains in a knee-jerk allergy to modern audience gaming aesthetics.

[Lady of the Lake]

I would be very satisfied if it was in form of optional DLC, so that I can turn it off in case it uses too much resources on my machine.

[Death Approaches]

"I'm trying to avoid rhetoric and certain words."

we know the words you're avoiding, and spectacular job. we know what you mean. though I dunno if you can call tailoring a game's character appearance to appeal to it's customer base as 'pandering'; that goes more in hand with those words you're avoiding.

I've always wanted more wrecked characters. It's a combat game! we don't even get orcs with broken fangs. why are none of these guards who took arrows to the knee limping? how come everyone has all their limbs?! where's the limbless torso on his rolling platform? even the beggars are in great health, do you see any puking, blindness, sickness/coughing? no of course not.

because games for the most part are not about reality, but fantasy. who wants to think about reality when you're literally doing the most selfish thing possible, sitting on your ass wasting time playing a game? :-)

so while I agree with it, expect... what you already expect. what we ALL already expect.

[Fitness Lauch]

I'd bet that most people would prefer attractive npcs and a good character editor. Racemenu and CBBE are among the most downloaded mods of all time, Bloodelves are the most popular horde race by a very large margin in WoW and Shadowheart and Astarion are the most romanced companions in BG3. There's undeniable a bias towards good looking characters in video games.

[Gyro]

is beautification the modern aesthetic? What do you mean by the opposite of modern aesthetic? I would assume opposite here is alluding to FNV graphics (which is still good, just going backwards is all).

If they were to go along with beautification, I would likely not be a fan, as the grainy-ness is something I liked, and never really strove for beautiful fantasy. Although, if such were to happen, I wouldn't complain, but the humanification of elves and orcs would surely be too immersion breaking, as people play them to play as another race. It is alot less cool if a lizard practically looks too human, because the appeal is likely to be more of a monster.

[Death Approaches]

well, that's a separate issue... anthropomorphizing animal races is just about ease of programming and lessening the workload; they always give them mostly human skeletons and animation cycles, so we can make one standard door to let every character pass through; whether a werewolf causes you to have nightmares or looks cutesy and you want to nuzzle it's muzzle (or depending on your furry slant, maybe f**k it) then it's a beautification aesthetics issue.

[Ihateeverybody]

Originally posted by Hungerer:

I would be very satisfied if it was in form of optional DLC, so that I can turn it off in case it uses too much resources on my machine.

When everquest 2 (Back in the day) did something along those lines, I was glad you could decide on a Race by race basis (they did an anime/manga type thing). Some races it suits and some don't.

At the end of the day, player choice is always preferred.

[Fear2288]

Generally speaking, the majority enjoy looking at attractive things.

The consideration here though is that certain races in TES are SUPPOSED to look as they do.

Would Altmer, Dunmer, and Bosmer look better if they were just hot humans with pointy ears and their respective skin tones?

Sure.

But things like the Elves’ alien-like features and sharp, angular facial structures are an established part of their lore in TES. They’re SUPPOSED to look like that.

Just like the Orcs are SUPPOSED to look like ugly, monstrous, pig-like beings.

[The Zanzibarbarian]

I'm running a 1080 TI GPU and my Breton females Dragonborn, nicely proportioned boobs bounce when she jumps.
And that is all I need for my game to be enjoyable.
"Come on girl. Do some more star jumps for me. That's it... Up and down... Up and down... and one last time... Up and down... Lovely. Just lovely...."