New Race Options: Beastmen

[Amsai]

It doesn't feel right.... Goblins have been labeled as wild monsters ever since FF1, it would be weird to see them as friendly players, let alone have their own jobs like white mage, samurai, etc. I think the current race selection is fine.

FFXI had a lot of friendly Goblin NPCs, and a couple that even helped out in quests. And the non-friendly ones in FFXI DID have jobs. whm, thf, blm, war, etc. Other than that I am inclined to agree with you on them being always wild mosnsters. Still though, I don't think thats much of a reason not to have them. Thats like me saying there shouldn't be playable Moogles because they are too fuzzy. I am also not saying there is anything wrong with the current race selection, I like them just fine. But why limit your options? Maybe the devs see an idea like this and think, "screw that, we have more important things to do, and you will live with what you have". Maybe they say " sure we can add in a few new races later on".

I know there are more important things the devs are focussed on, and they can work on those. However, later on when more things are fixed and we have a lot of new content. I see no harm in adding more variety, even if its not beastmen races. However, aside from my desire to play as a Goblin, I choose beastmen because they already exist in the game. I think that would be easier to implement than brand new races that don't even exist in the game such as Bangaa. But hell for that matter why not add in several new races from the tactics series and beastmen. Variety is the spice of life.

The game currently has humans, tall pointy-eared humans, big humans, even bigger blue and red humans, a minature race, and cat eared n tailed humans. Not everyon has the same tastes, and some of us would like to make a monster-like or beast-like character instead of a cute/sexy/handsome character.

[Zenaku]

Everybody knows there are no Female BeastMEN. >_>

Did you knew the gobs in FFXI with the armor on there head was really female beastman gobs? at least that what i been told and if you look at them they somewhat do look like female now the rest of the beastman lol i guess they just don't have females lol

[Amsai]

They did! In fact you could tell with some NM Goblins by the suffix of their name.
Wyvernpoacher Drachlox = female
Mysticmaker Profblix = Male

Source: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Goblins

[Cairdeas]

I'd prefer races from in the game universe instead of from Ivalice.

As such Goblin and Quririnrinrin make the best choices for now. Id like to see how goblins look wearing some of the armors we have like Cowls and armor helms. It would probably end up looking like they took the armor Goblins already have and just remeshed the texture to fit those model meshes.

[PeppinoTuna]

I wouldn't stop playing my Roegadyn to play another race or new sex...

I also would be hesitant to roleplay with Goblin and Qiqirn races when I pass one through my travels. I don't understand how they... Wut? It hurts my head just thinking about it. It is going to be very confusing joining a party of Goblins to kill goblins or a party of qiqirns to kill qiqirns. I can't imagine things going smoothly.

Is there going to be all new armor specific to these two types of races? ... I'm not too sure I like this idea. I'm willing to accept it and let it happen, but I'm not to sure I'm going to like what I see.

And... Aren't Qiqirns sort of mistreated in this game? I saw one in Limsa Lominsa that was sort of a slave or something on one of the pirate ships...

As for the Roegadyn female... I can't imagine her looking pretty (attractive), but I hope you can pull it off.



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If it becomes a playable beastman vs playable human-like character world in this game it's going to require a ****-ton of content to achieve. I'm not saying it's impossible for any of this, but keep in mind what it being asked for.

[Zenaku]

Wont the beastman race be like wow lol evil vs good? even if some beastman are good there still beastman and not one of the 5 race in eorzea so wanting beastman would = a diff life. i mean how could you really make any beastman into a race you could play that just dreaming.

[Majidah]

wouldnt they need their own cities and storylines?

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Actually I would say gear obtained currently wouldn't suit either Goblins or Qiqirns. There are other beastmen races that would better qualify for this but I highly doubt we will ever see that implemented.

[Amsai]

Nah, its not that hard to imagine. Goblins and Qiqirn can be pretty friendly and funny at times. And no, I definately don't mean a good vs evil thing like in WoW. Goblins and Qiqirn would just be mercenaries fighting on the side of one of the three nations with no real affiliation with other beast tribes nor the Garlean Empire. A perspective like that could work.

[toshimoog]

Wont the beastman race be like wow lol evil vs good? even if some beastman are good there still beastman and not one of the 5 race in eorzea so wanting beastman would = a diff life. i mean how could you really make any beastman into a race you could play that just dreaming.

That might be pretty fun, if enough content is produced and if system functionality is working enough to implement a feature like PvP, it might be kinda cool.

Humans, lalafell, elezen, etc. vs Goblins, qiqirn, orcs, yagudo, quadav (lol just saying), but it'd be interesting.