Can males get some diversity?

[Ayer2015]

tbh I feel like outside Lalas and Elezen, the girls are all clones of each other just stretched out. Au Ra, Miqo and Midlanders are all the exact same build. Highlanders and FemRoes are the slightly taller with added muscle sliders. Their faces/tails/emotes might make them "unique", but theres little variety in body shape outside of Elezen being rectangles and Lalas being little blobs.

Hell, if you want to play an hourglass bodied character, you have to play a male au ra.

FemRoes are pretty curvy... for a game without butts at least

[Leloa]

Well but all the girls like miqote, midlander and au ras are skinny as fluff so it's quite even

[BillyKaplan]

There's about as much body type diversity between males and females, that is to say - none. They each get slightly different attributes based on race but they all generally adhere to pretty common conceptions of masculinity and femininity. All the guys have muscle. All the girls have thin figures. Lalafells are equally potatoes. The only true disparity between the races right now is a bit less variety on the higher end (where male Au Ra are) and for males, a bit less variety on the lower end (where female Au Ra are). But if you look at it like that, males arguably have the bigger height ranges, going from the shortest male Lala to the tallest male Roe whereas for ladies you won't quite get to that range.
Both are equally lacking in any true body-shape diversity.

[Rokke]

FemRoes are pretty curvy... for a game without butts at least

They have big boobs. Thats literally the only curve on their body.

[CosmicKirby]

I want a new race that looks like the males are fresh out of Huge Quest.

[Anienai]

They have big boobs.

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#overtheshoulderboulderholders

[Aeducan]

You've got twinks(Catbois and Midlanders), hunks(Highlander), svelte(Elezen), potatoes(Popotoes), hourglass(Au Ra), and bara(Roegadyn).

I laughed so hard reading this. Never realized there are so many names referring to different body types like these, guess I learn something new everyday

[Rokke]

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bless xD

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[Iscah]

But if you look at it like that, males arguably have the bigger height ranges, going from the shortest male Lala to the tallest male Roe whereas for ladies you won't quite get to that range.

I’m not sure if there’s much difference between the extreme ends of the scale - at least, from memory, male Elezen and female Roegadyn have similar height ranges (as I’d checked that when doing fanart of my characters). Maybe 190-220cm vs 190-210. The other tall races are probably around that too? But maybe there are more females in the same “short human” range while the males are more spread out?

Overall I think the males have a wider range of shapes than the females.

[Kohdo]

We have beefcake Roe males, slender Miqo'te and Elezen, androgynous sentient potatoes and musclebound femroes. We don't have the Michelin Man physique, but that'd look ridiculous anyway. There's plenty of body type diversity, and the only game I can think of that does it better is SWTOR with their body type slider, and maybe ESO as they have a better muscle mass slider than FFXIV.