Put the Nords to one side, and poll shows we love all the Skyrim races...

• Posted by Paul November 9, 2011 - 510 views

  ...... that is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the most recent and most popular poll on The Skyrim Blog.

  

  An incredible 3502 people voted on the poll (I can remember when getting 50 votes was the norm, we are now well on the way to getting 100 times that number!) and it was no great surprise that the Nords grabbed almost exactly a third of the votes.

  That tallies squarely with previous race polls where the Nords always came top. Comments in this - and the other threads - indicate a mentality of 'Well, its Skyrim...of course I'm playing a Nord'. There's clearly a lot of people in that camp, since earlier polls on other (lesser!) sites show that going back to Oblivion and Morrowind the Nords usually came well into the bottom half of popularity polls amongst the races.

  However, once we set aside the 'homeboys' we see a remarkable parity between all of the other races. Dunmer came 2nd and Bretons 3rd, but it was nip and tuck throughout the poll - at one stage Khajiits were in a clear second place for example. Even the usually 'lesser' - by which I mean less popular - races such as Altmer and Redguard grabbed a respectable share of the vote.

  What this shows to me is that the stated aim of Bethesda throughout game development - that rather than adding any new races, they were going to focus on making the existing ten awesome by giving them a makeover - has been largely successful. How do YOU interpret this poll?