Male Armor Sets too flamboyant. Bring full armor back!

[AnduinLynn]

I understand the need for creativity, and how that might bring out more unorthodox designs, and those are fine so long as they hold true to a certain amount of constants to keep in tact a "realistic-friendly" environment as a base set at least. If you would like to tank in a bathing suit, by all means glamour a bathing suit, but the initial design should be made in respect to an actual world in my opinion.

[Roegadyn_Bear]

If you would like to tank in a bathing suit, by all means glamour a bathing suit, but the initial design should be made in respect to an actual world in my opinion.

[Chasely]

Stjephan Seijic's comics are always relevant

[Incognico]

I don't know, if I can use a bow and arrow to defeat mushrooms, knights and dragons in close combat, then "practicality" and "realism" don't really matter too much. To each their own, the devs can't please everybody all the time.

[Kosmos992k]

I understand the need for creativity, and how that might bring out more unorthodox designs, and those are fine so long as they hold true to a certain amount of constants to keep in tact a "realistic-friendly" environment as a base set at least. If you would like to tank in a bathing suit, by all means glamour a bathing suit, but the initial design should be made in respect to an actual world in my opinion.

Please note, you are playing a game called Final Fantasy.

Armor in a final Fantasy is unlikely to be completely realistic in design, even if it is full plate it will still some fantasy design cues. In line with the whole fantasy genre there are many instances of entire sets of male and female are that is entirely impractical and nigh on suicidal to wear, and yet the hero wearing it remains largely unscathed throughout.

Remember, we have two player races with tails, how realistic can armor be for unreal people?

Honestly, it sounds as though your desires for gear in this game would lead to a much duller game, and one that's a lot less fantasy and a lot more drudgery.

[Seraphyna]

Truthfully, SE needs to do several things regarding their designs:

One, take some design lessons from Korean MMO's because they know how to design a plentitude of armours for a variety of tastes, ranging from full armour, mid, to skimpy.

Two, stop implementing armours that cannot be dyed.

Three, stop making beautiful armours for bosses (looking at you Kuribu) and not implementing anything similar for the user base.

Four, stop reusing old armours (reskinning/redying) and just renaming them to new armours. This is sooooo lazy.


Looks is everything. If it’s not pretty, I don’t want it. And quite frankly, I have not found much that SE has put out in quite a while to be “pretty” to my standards. I see what these other MMO’s are putting out and I’m just going “wtf is SE doing”.

[Skivvy]

Two, stop implementing armours that cannot be dyed.

While I agree with your other points as well, this is the one I'd love to see most at this point. Another annoyance I have is that they tend to use colors that are not found in our dye options. So we get these new shiny items, but they can't be dyed, and they also don't match any existing gear in game.

Sadly, I don't see them changing this any time soon. It's amusing to me that they now release glamour items with two versions - one a single color and one dyeable.

[Arasiel]

I'm all about variety but did every new male set really need a V neck cut?

[Arasiel]

I'm sure if we did a poll, majority of males wouldn't want 6" heels on their boots. "Looking at your ninja lore boots".

[Galgarion]

bleh, there's something to be said against all the boring androgyny that's made FF character designs so dull in recent games. Willowy glam rockers with feminine features, it's like the 80's never died in Sqeenix. I stand proudly against this erosion of manliness with full plate and a mustache.

Besides, Bowie was the only one who ever pulled that look off.