Darius a little to dark?

[cybrxkhan]

it really isn't that bad, compared to some of the other "freak leaders"... they're all decent, but there is just something that makes you laugh...

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[ohcrapitsnico]

it really isn't that bad, compared to some of the other "freak leaders"... they're all decent, but there is just something that makes you laugh...

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You're right it is not as bad as grandma justinian and suryavarman.

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

This is still strange though at least it is to me.

If firaxis added napoleon III and made him black what would you think(for now lets pretend there were no pics that showed skin color)?

Hey Napoleon was in Egypt he could have had a fling there.

Darius as a black man is ridiculous however they didn't give him deformities and diseases like some of the others.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Well, he's not black... his skin may be dark, but his features are clearly not African. I don't think anybody there was thinking up hypothetical situations of how he might come to be so dark. More likely than not, somebody just took some creative liberty, and this is what they came up with. Do I like it? Yes, I do. Am I going to mod it anyway to make it more realistic for a Persian leader? You bet!

Btw, I do think that 300 probably played a role in deciding the look of this leaderhead. Xerxes wasn't that dark in the movie, but some of the Persians were dark to the point that they reflected no light at all!

 

[Angst]

NO CHANGE, he's really cool this way

 

[TheLastOne36]

Well it isn't the ugliest leader head in the world. I would just change it a few shades lighter at just a bit darker then Cyrus because that's how Persians (in my opinion) look like. All my persian friends are as white as any european, i don't see what is so different from Darius.

 

[r_rolo1]

Oh..... Cyrus was too white, Darius is too black.... C'mon!!!

But I have to agree that the BTS leaderheads are somehow.... errr...mumm..."strange", aren't they?

 

[TheLastOne36]

I think all there efforts for good leaderheads has gone into Boudica.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

I think all there efforts for good leaderheads has gone into Boudica.

And most of those efforts were focused on her chest.

 

[TheLastOne36]

and most of those efforts was used in a way to show her nipples without the game becoming a T game or M game.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

and most of those efforts was used in a way to show her nipples without the game becoming a T game or M game.

Those are shadows! You need to play less civ and go look at more cleavage, man!

 

[TheLastOne36]

no look closer. There are round shadows in the shadows. That would simulate a nipple.

 

[Brentimus]

no look closer. There are round shadows in the shadows. That would simulate a nipple.

How hard were you looking at them?

On topic, Darius is a disappointment to me. His skin color is off, and I agree with some others that he doesn't look human.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

How hard were you looking at them?

Until he passed out from exertion...

 

[cybrxkhan]

^ahem, family friendly???

 

[Phoenix1595]

He looks like a mummified t*rd with fungus fur growing around the edges and toothpicks for arms. All in all, a spot-on likeness of this famous 5th century B.C. monarch.

 

[Vietcong]

I think he looks a little too Egyptian to be Persian, what with all the mummification and all.

true true....

 

[Carver]

Well it isn't the ugliest leader head in the world. I would just change it a few shades lighter at just a bit darker then Cyrus because that's how Persians (in my opinion) look like. All my persian friends are as white as any european, i don't see what is so different from Darius.

Well Darius came 2500 years before your Persian friends, LOL. And I'll remind you that there are many dark skinned peoples in South Asia.

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

Well Darius came 2500 years before your Persian friends, LOL. And I'll remind you that there are many dark skinned peoples in South Asia.

South Asia??

Iran is in West Asia or the Near East/Middle East. Pakistan, Afghanistan are considered South Asian if that.

I have never seen an dark skinned persian, and even if there are using a dark skinned Darius is not representative of a persian. Especially a royal family member did not spend there time bathing in the sun.

 

[Carver]

South Asia??

Iran is in West Asia or the Near East/Middle East. Pakistan, Afghanistan are considered South Asian if that.

I have never seen an dark skinned persian, and even if there are using a dark skinned Darius is not representative of a persian. Especially a royal family member did not spend there time bathing in the sun.

We are aware that Iran is not considered part of S Asia. Posters were commenting on the possibility that Darius could have Ethio/Nubian blood, and it was curious that S Asia has been left out of the discussion.