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Characters big enough?
Yamota
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After looking at alot of screen shots I wonder why all characters are built like average men. In Robert E Howards works men, specially Conan, were described as being huge hulking beasts with massive frames. So how come they are built like average men in this game?
Maybe the Atrox (from AO) is a bit too much but it would be nice to be able to create characters built like the characters in the books.
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Check the movie a bit down on the site here. You can see the char becomming pretty large...
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Age of Conan Wiki
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Besides, is this the body image we all have to strive for? We all know that if the avatarsget any bigger they be balding men with back acne from all the steroid use.
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
lol listen to the voice of the guy narrating that video. He sounds like a girl.
He doesn't sound like any girl i have ever heard he has a strong accent, thats it.
edit: to stay on topic i believe theres sliders for body mass they just seem to show skinny people a lot
In character creation you will be able to alter the shape of the body and head by scaling and editing the muscle-mass and bone structure, then tweaking the texture of the skin.
Race - Choosing your starting race will of course be the first choice you have to make!
Bone scaling on all parts of the body, including arms, legs and torso etc, allowing you to define the height, weight and proportions of your character.
Over twenty sliders for facial expressions (for example there are five sliders just to customize the nose - length, width, placement, angles and more...)
Skin Colouring of character.
A wide selection of hair and facial hairs.
An age slider so your character can be a determined younger man/woman or a seasoned veteran
Theres over 40 sliders for character creation, so I guess it's safe to assume you CAN build as Hulking monster of a man as you want
REH's Conan =/= Ahhnold...
Conan in the books was described with a pantherlike grace... yeah he was strong, but nothing like a weightlifter in body type
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. -Nietzsche
He was almost a giant in stature, muscles rippling smoothly under his skin...
(Red Nails)
... with the great corded muscles standing out in iron ridges ...
(The Phoenix on the sword)
He moves like a panther despite his size x)
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I remember he was described as a giant with a huge frame. That doesn't neccesarily mean bodybuilder type but he was also consistently described as being one of the strongest men alive. And usually if you are strong then you are also big.
But from this thread it seems very possible to create huge, muscular characters so thats great.
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