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One of the coolest things about reptiles is gender ambiguity. No boobs, they have a genital slit and many of them have a retractable penis, sometimes two. Some female reptiles and choose whether or not to get pregnant and/or store cum for later. Imagine how interesting a society like that would be, and what kinds of gender roles, relationship norms, and such would shake out.
That’s the kind of stuff fantasy could really explore. Turning them into people with scales, keeping the obvious secondary sexual characteristics, is fucking boring and played out.
Yeah honestly, give me a sapient dinosauroid with a raptor body type instead. Then humans would actually be unique with their better endurance and throwing ability as well as major disadvantages like chronic back pain and arthritis. As it is now with all these humanoids people love to pump out, you just end up with humans being a lame default option that everything else is compared to and has unique perks over.
In Morrowind they had goofy legs and couldn't wear boots or helmets iirc.
Yes, unfortunately a lot of big fictional worlds lack creativity. When it comes to making sapient species, Egyptian god -looking anthros are the most interesting thing they can produce.
To be honest, it's just easier for the devs when every character in the game can use the same equipment and animations
This is definitely true for computer games, and is also a major factor in television and film. But you also see it in illustration and literature where the only limit is one's own (apparently very limited) imagination.
Morrowind made the Argonians different and not able to wear boots before taking the easy way out in the next two games.
Don’t a lot of these games have asset duplication for male and female characters?
What I'm reading here is we need more exotic genitalia in our mainstream video games
Let me play as a male bee person whose dick explodes when he cums