Once we're not getting any new races, wouldn't it be nice if Elezen's got an update?

[Imora]

I thought the same thing. I also like playing elf-inspired races in fantasy games and I prefer my elves to look unique. Weird, even. Maybe playable half-elezen would stop the non-elezen-main folks from trying to turn elezen into yet another conventionally-attractive midlander/miqo'te/viera variant. I like my character's 'unnatural' proportions and the 'unnatural'-ness is a large part of why.

(And for all of the D&D references explaining why elezen need changes, elves in older D&D sourcebooks most certainly did not look conventionally proportional, 'natural' or like humans. Elvaan looked weird too. I liked them.)

Considering Larian actually used head scans to model the heads rather than let you pick face parts like most games... It makes sense their elves for BG3 looks like humans with pointy ears.

I like my elves even elder scrolls style. Mer have very specific facial features. Humans with pointy ears aren't it.

[SturmChurro]

I like my elves even elder scrolls style. Mer have very specific facial features. Humans with pointy ears aren't it.

I literally said in my post I like those kind of elves too, including ES elves specifically. I almost exclusively play mer in ES games. My main and pretty much the only character I play is an altmer in ESO, my main ALT that I occasionally play is a bosmer, and the majority of other ESO characters are dunmer! I actually edited out a part of one of my posts in this thread where I stated the concept for ES elves is fine, it's that Bethesda has a tendency to make the characters in their games looks really bad. No, I don't download any of the mods that humanize them either.

For that matter, matter Larian also did elves in Divinity: OS 2 that looked different, and I still played those, the little I played of that game. I have the unpopular opinion of not really liking Divinity: OS 2, but I digress.

Those were just examples I was trying to show in the context of a conversation I was having with someone else, with DnD elves and some in-game examples, and, for that matter, I have said I liked elezen multiple times on this forum. I have said before I think they can look nice with the right glams. I don't play them too often, because of the difficulty of finding glams that look good with them. Their proportions make them look odd in many outfits. Also, I don't like their animations, their run animation is stiff.