Sundrop Dance REALLY Needs Reanimated for Females

[marewa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1EL-5BT74

[Colorful]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1EL-5BT74

I think the only problem is how stiff and robotic the female version looks in game, not that it's more tame really. Just poorly animated in general, or maybe we're all just Synths... that would explain the ears and tail.

[Moururii]

Tell that to the couple that was murdered in Wanderers Palace :S

You mean the same couple that turned up later for the WP HM questline perfectly alive and were actually a really good example of representation?

Incidentally also an example of what I was talking about, they were ostricized for being different races not same-sex.

I ain't saying XIV is exactly full of examples of same-sex couples or openly gay characters but there are certainly a handful and no negative examples to lead you to believe that they're "hidden" in any sense.

[Eidolon]

I ain't saying XIV is exactly full of examples of same-sex couples or openly gay characters but there are certainly a handful and no negative examples to lead you to believe that they're "hidden" in any sense.

A lot of people will miss it because the couples don't do what most video games do when it comes to gay couples.

They don't play it up. They don't throw their arms up, shoot a rainbow from their ***, and run around crapping out rainbow-sparkle covered sweetbuns while screaming "HEY EVERYONE I'M GAY."

They are what a gay representation in a video game should be. They are normal. It's literally flavor text that their sexual orientation is gay. Just like it's flavor text when there's a straight couple.

[B0YRaNmA]

I don't know, I kinda like the dance as it is myself. Playing as female miqo'te, I tried doing the Sundrop dance before a fight and I get that feeling of: Oh! you're not afraid of my dance, here's a dagger to the heart.

[the_last_word]

The female Sundrop dance does seem very robotic. The robot would be a nice dance move to implement in the future but the Sundrop dance, I feel, represents a strong Haki or war dance. There should be more intensity in the female version for it to fit that criteria.

[Kikoten]

*Climbs up onto high horse, little Lalafellin legs kicking as he slips along the way, eventually reaching the horse's back*

Well, this was a really cute read thus far, o-ho-ho-ho (noblewoman's laugh).

*Climbs back down from high horse*

Individuality is important. Please keep it, Square Enix. I've seen what happens to a game where individuality has ceased to exist.

[Khaoticsuccubus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1EL-5BT74

Now ya see. That would be fine as the female version. They actually dance. What we got is not that at all. We got the person hiding in the back pretending to dance. When I first saw the female version I seriously thought the animation was bugged. It has no life, no energy, and only vaguely resembles the real life version in its arm movements. So all those claiming it's an accurate representation of RL culture can just stuff it imo.

[Toguro]

.

In I think.. Northern Thanalan, there's also a gay Lalafell male who is dreaming about being with Raubahn. He's talking in his sleep.



.. off-topic

[Zojha]

Individuality is important.

I agree. Which is why I should be able to individually choose which version I want to do when I type /sundance, instead of having a generic choice forced upon me by the game.