Viera Race "Confirmed" for 5.0! Are you gonna change races?

[Iscah]

Female Au Ra are the 2nd smallest race out there. I have no idea what can actually fit between lalafell and female Au Ra.

The problem about tall female races like Elezen and Roe are, that they pretty rare (and sometimes ugly. sorry).

I guess Viera would be some kind of tallest but also sexy race. Maybe a bit smaller than Elezen, when you exclude their bunny ears.

If I remember correctly, Lalafell are around 90cm tall and female Au Ra are about 150. There's definitely room in the middle for a shorter-than-human race - it's a bit of a gap in the range of heights, if anything.

Alternately "a bit smaller than Elezen" would put them somewhere around Highlander height, though presumably a different build.

Agreed. In my opinion Elezen look ugly, and their bodies are shaped like cardboard, and I won't even get into the she-hulk race.

Bryna would like to object to that last bit.... ;_;

But seriously, I feel like you can make nice-looking characters with every race - some just take more work than others.

I have a male Elezen too - they're pretty spindly but also really elegant in the right costume. (Or a lot of costumes. Playing dress-up is fun.)

[Duskane]

The problem about tall female races like Elezen and Roe are, that they pretty rare (and sometimes ugly. sorry).

fail to see the issue of the tall races being rare or a unpopular option,
plus there is plenty of pretty roes and elezen imHo out there.

[Nestama]

I have no idea what can actually fit between lalafell and female Au Ra.

Well there's always FFIV's Dwarf race.

[Caitlyn]

Bryna would like to object to that last bit.... ;_;

But seriously, I feel like you can make nice-looking characters with every race - some just take more work than others.

You cant deny, that they are looking way better in the original concept arts. This would be so much better:



To be honest, I would like to have more options for the character creator. But having Viera as a new race is also nice.
@Topic: I wont change my race. Au Ra for life!

[Duskane]

You cant deny, that they are looking way better in the original concept arts. This would be so much better:



To be honest, I would like to have more options for the character creator. But having Viera as a new race is also nice.
@Topic: I wont change my race. Au Ra for life!

you know they look like that right?

[Caitlyn]

you know they look like that right?

Not really. Or have something installed which changed the ingame character modells ^^.

[Duskane]

Not really. Or have something installed which changed the ingame character modells ^^.

well ones 2d ones 3d sure
but they look exactly like there concept

[SturmChurro]

To be honest, I would like to have more options for the character creator. But having Viera as a new race is also nice.
@Topic: I wont change my race. Au Ra for life!

Same. I have wasted probably 8-10 fantasias, but always go back to almost the exact same Raen. I wish I could fine tune details more, though.

[CoffeeBuns]

Female Au Ra are the 2nd smallest race out there. I have no idea what can actually fit between lalafell and female Au Ra.

The problem about tall female races like Elezen and Roe are, that they pretty rare (and sometimes ugly. sorry).

I guess Viera would be some kind of tallest but also sexy race. Maybe a bit smaller than Elezen, when you exclude their bunny ears.

We only have one small race. I see plenty of Elezen, Hyur, Kitties and Roe. Would be nice to have a small race for a change. They could have a Viera clan and a Feol clan that could be cuter and smaller could be the same height as the smallest Au Ra in height.

[Rymm]

You cant deny, that they are looking way better in the original concept arts. This would be so much better:



To be honest, I would like to have more options for the character creator. But having Viera as a new race is also nice.
@Topic: I wont change my race. Au Ra for life!

That's... pretty much exactly how elzen look in-game. The only difference I can see is we don't have an ear option like the full figure on the right has. But the top face is straight-up face option 3 from the game:

The one on the left is face option 4:

And the one on the bottom is exactly face option 1:


I mean, personal preference is subjective (I've made no secret of my contempt for the female Au Ra models) but you can't really look at these side by side and say they are different. Just like you can't deny that, statistically, there are more "cutsie" races in FF14 than there are "powerful" ones. I mean I get it, cute sells (especially in Japan,) and nothing will ever induce me to switch from Roe, but more variety would be nice. Here's hoping they go the "hyur" route with Viera and give us one of each body type instead of the basic recolor.