Bethesda hate Imga?

[harvengure]

Their intelligent enough to speak like Altmer, if not without the same inflections, and user light swords so I imagine they aren't brainless and useless oafs as you seem to paint them.

Are you an ESO player though? I haven't seen anything on the Imga being in Valenwood?

My point though, as it has always been before your need to come in and 'debate' has been though that they've been surprisingly underused. As if they were made but then decided they weren't liked.

Edited July 20, 2014 by harvengure

[Lachdonin]

It may have been a good idea to mention ESO in your original post then, instead of just Skyrim. Their absence in ESO can be chocked up to Zenimax Onlines generally bland design. They also skimp on the Satyrs, hippogriffs, shaggy-centepedes, silt strider and basically everything Altmer. I've recently given up on the game, despite enjoying the Ebonheart experience, because everything else is so uninspired. They managed to make Morrowind and Skyrim secently, Zenimax struggled to make anything else interesting, let alone memorable.

 

As for the Imga... Everything I have read about them paints them as clumsey and, really, kinda pathetic. They use swords, sure, but so does a toddler imitating his father.

[harvengure]

What, they skipped on hippogriffs too?! Not cool, Zenimax. Hmm, everything I've read just paints them as one might paint a -kind of- slow adult. Not retarded but just not as capable.

Though does it seem like they are timid about getting specific with a lot of stuff or as if they don't know what to do with sizable swaths of their past lore? Like the guys currently working on the TES world are looking at whats been written and have no idea where to take it?

[Lachdonin]

I think a lot if the problem stems from technology limiting them . Writing is one thing, and you can discribe all the crazy things you want, but making them in a game is something else.. how exactly do you make castle walls out if insect wings, or massive suits of Beetle Armour that Dunmer novels roll around in? How about flying whales that cause it to snow LSD, or giant furry cenepedes that you can milk?

 

Oblivion was the best example of this problem... They are technologically unable of creating Cyrodiil the way it was discribed, and so changed it so radically it was almost insulting. Is a rathr unfortunate reflection of literature vs games (at least Bethesda's style... If it was a linear game, like Redguard, you can play closer to the line, but that gets taxing in open world games this large.

 

It's probably also why, if we see Elsweyr, we're unlikely to see all the varieties of Khajiit. They'll tie the lack of Breda into the story if they're smart, but it'll still be a shame.

 

Oh, right.. The Imga... Other races certuanly seem to think they're stupid... The First Edition of the PGE calls them pathetic, and there is a book on the Khajiit which refers to them as idiotic and baboonish. That doesn't really mean they are as bad as all that though. Consider, most still view the Orcs as primitive savages. That said, the perception orb the Imga makes it unlikely the Altmer would tollerate them outside of their native province, where they may actually be useful in the eyes of the Thalmor.

Edited July 20, 2014 by Lachdonin