Manly Looking Characters

Hello,

Was wondering, is it that hard to add a variety of special features to choose of facial hair (beards) and body hair?

The male characters in game look so plain and like a featherless chicken. Please don't mention Au Ra, because that's nothing like what i'm asking for lol

This is how a Highlander should look like

http://i62.tinypic.com/hu546r.jpg

http://i58.tinypic.com/2nqa2k6.jpg

Hairstyles don't interfere with most helmets (since helmet replace the hair) and i'm sure body hair wouldn't interfere with armor.
if you want your hair visible, you just turn off helmet. if you want body hair visible, you just use some glamour, that don't hide it.
there's already bunch of armors that would work with body hair. so they don't need to change anything. It's not like they change helmet designs to fit new hairstyles, so they don't need to change armor designs for body hair.

Well, I think this isn't so much a technical issue as a cultural issue. In Japan, body hair is a big turn off, practically a taboo. Especially certain areas of body hair. This flies in the face of Western ideas on the subject, as evidenced by the first post. The chances of body hair in this game are rather slim, if not nonexistent.

<- Manly. B)

You do realize human females have body hair too right? If males in game get body hair then the females should too. It makes absolutely no sense for Adventurers to be clean shaven everywhere. I ain't got time to shave my legs. I'm saving the dang world. >.>

Manly is in the eye of the beholder.

Tacoooooo.

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Originally Posted by LordHadi

Hello,

Was wondering, is it that hard to add a variety of special features to choose of facial hair (beards) and body hair? For male characters only.

The male characters in game look so plain and like a featherless chicken. Please don't mention Au Ra, because that's nothing like what i'm asking for lol

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I believe you mean "featherless neuker." Anyways, a body/facial hair feature would be nice. Although I can see them making it like female breasts and don't have those affect how you look in armor (ie. Kirimu Coat not showing off chest hair).

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

<- Manly. B)

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Oh, my sweet summer child.

The real world already has too many macho-wannabes crying about this "manly" stuff. I'm glad FFXIV don't have thiese idiotic options.

Although, you can always make a Roe. They are cool without looking like a WWF fighter.