What is with this game and half-naked women as bosses?

[Texa]

It'd be neat to see the game's design department play with more idea of how to make a monster frightening and feminine without having to focus on butts and boobs. Madoka Magica did an neat job with that with its witches. Like this (spoilers if you haven't finished the movies) design was always really neat to me because of how well it manages to be frightening and explicitly feminine while not being sexual at all.

I honestly don't really have much of opinion about how much the current bosses are wearing, Shiva's still my fav boss and I'm looking forward to Dun Scaith. I just really feel it could be interesting direction to focus more on in the future.

[Felis]

It's almost as if you haven't read this thread in its entirety...

Ask yourself this when you start going on with those tangents. How many of those bosses can you have both the figure for in real life, and how many can you actually cosplay as? Let me know the next time you're able to sprout two extra arms and bulk up your entire upper body to cosplay as Sephirot. Because that's a key difference between the masculine and feminine bosses in FFXIV, that one side is still plenty relatable as a human, while the other is grossly over-exaggerated.

So the whole thread is about asking for male cosplay material?

[tjw]

So the whole thread is about asking for male cosplay material?

*deep sigh*

[FeliAiko]

There's only, what, 3-4 cases of this in the entire game? Not exactly some type of epidemic as the thread title seems to imply. Also Shiva, Sophia et al. are based on their original appearance(s), so can't blame XIV for choosing to stick to the source material.

[Aerish]

Females Ghost of mhach pls, Less nudity !!

[Magic-Mal]

Bosses with big boobs and/or little clothes:
-Sophia
-Garuda(because the Ixal like their women with boobs)
-Cloud Of Darkness
-Calistoferi
-Echidna(a monster but still naked!)
-Shiva
-Dun Scaith Boss
-Siren
-Halicarnassus
-Lady Adamantine
-Scylla(Do they have to be there?)

Bosses with boobs for some reason:
-Arachne Eve
-Belladonna
-Twintania
^ jk..

[Lainio]

First-World problems right?^^ let female be female jesus xD

[Khanscott]

Everyone always flaunts over all the "sexualised" female monsters in this game. Well, I know enough of the lore to know better then to go near these chicks with a 20 yalm pole. I mean seriously, do people even check these ladies' Instagrams:

Garuda: next level vanilla crazy to the point of "I will strip your mind" is as likely to be literal as it is to be in reference to tempering.
Siren: all I see is an Allag chimera that was the result of combining Pamela Anderson and a parakeet (not via lore book). That likes to nom souls (via lore book).
Shiva: dogmatic, bipolar as the music when fighting her, closet crush on Falkor.
Sophia: The lyrics................. And she has a giant disembodied head for a daughter.
Scylla: Someone in ST made a "puppies" reference once in regards to a genocidal narcissist with 5 wolf heads on her shoulders.

And people want attractive men like this? No thanks, I'll stick to Godbert leaving me in state of sexually confusion.

[Ralts]

In the FF series, it's more of a "if a diety is wearing almost nothing, it means she's boasting with confidence", if wearing a bright dress, almost covering every part of her body, then she's the timid type.

[Ilan]

I mean, I understand the myriad reasons as to why this is.

Yet I must ask, is it really such a difficulty, or near impossibility for Hydaelyn to harbor
(more) bosses that are perhaps male eye-candy?

I do realise this may be a revolutionary perspective for many, including the development team,
but still hope for a day in which equilibrium may be found for all scantily clad entities whom wish to see my demise.

Thank you.

Just because they are half naked, if you want to call it that way, doesn't mean that they are eye candys.