Here's an idea; how about Ronso as a playable Race?

[Marael]

One of my least favorite races in Final Fantasy history, so no thanks.

[Terin]

One of my least favorite races in Final Fantasy history, so no thanks.

Really? I mean... why, if you don't mind my asking? The Ronso characters themselves were kind of bland jerks, but they looked really cool, and I loved the whole "tribal" vibe they had going on. Plus, they were basically an entire race of Blue Mages, which is interesting, if nothing else. Give them some red, orange, and brown fur-colors (in addition to the blues and black of FFX), and I just thought they were really unique.

For as much as people clamor for them, Viera are the race I genuinely hate. They're way to "cute" in appearance, and given that we have both Miqo'te and Elezen already, I really hope for something beyond another "pretty, human-looking" Race. And, judging from that character's silhouette, it looks like we'll be getting just that, sadly

[Ultimatecalibur]

Racially* Ronso are just large cat-people. This means that they overlap with both Roegadyn(large people) and Miqo'te(cat-people). That means that it would take a lot of work to not make the race seems superfluous to a large number of players.


*Not culturally. Important distinction. Culture can shift from setting to setting while Racial traits tend to be fairly static.

[Shioban]

Racially* Ronso are just large cat-people. This means that they overlap with both Roegadyn(large people) and Miqo'te(cat-people). That means that it would take a lot of work to not make the race seems superfluous to a large number of players.


*Not culturally. Important distinction. Culture can shift from setting to setting while Racial traits tend to be fairly static.

Well to be fair it would be a 'true' beastmen race. Currently all of the races are basically humans with a few notable variances.

It would be more along the lines of the current beastmen races (just a playable one), for a beastmen race regardless of whether it's the Ronso tribe or not, it wouldn't bear that much resemblence to Roegadyns other than their sheer size, to compare the two as "overlapping similarities" is a bit odd.

[Kayo]

Racially* Ronso are just large cat-people. This means that they overlap with both Roegadyn(large people) and Miqo'te(cat-people). That means that it would take a lot of work to not make the race seems superfluous to a large number of players.


*Not culturally. Important distinction. Culture can shift from setting to setting while Racial traits tend to be fairly static.

By that logic then the supposed Viera we're getting/expecting are Mi'qote crossed with Elezen. Yeah its bunnies instead of cats but honestly its the same difference. Id honestly just like a new race. One that isnt as much smooth-skin humanoid as pretty much everything else we already got. Something liken to Worgen (WoW), Charr (GW2), Draken (Wildstar), etc.

[Ultimatecalibur]

By that logic then the supposed Viera we're getting/expecting are Mi'qote crossed with Elezen. Yeah its bunnies instead of cats but honestly its the same difference. Id honestly just like a new race. One that isnt as much smooth-skin humanoid as pretty much everything else we already got. Something liken to Worgen (WoW), Charr (GW2), Draken (Wildstar), etc.

I'm not going to disagree with you about the problems with the straight inclusion of the Viera. Heck in FF12 and FFTA they were basically bunny-girls as elves. I was just pointing out one of the major problems introducing a race such as the Ronso to the game has for the design team.