Fran looks the exact same as FFXII Fran. It's bizarre.

[Miminming]

people who say the model are the same are just not care enough to compare

[Beckett]

Did it not bother you with Ba'Gamnan?

It did, but at least he was a side character. It's especially jarring with a main character.

[JunseiKei]

...

"I don't like it."

"But...we put in Fran in the game exactly the way you wanted!"

"Yeah... but maybe it's TOO much like Fran. Do it over, and this time try not to embarrass yourselves."

Swear, one of these days, Yoshi-P's just going to snap and murder everyone at a Fan Fest.

Head Director of Tekken:

[HakaseNyan]

I was hoping this thread was bait, but it clearly is not. Wish you weren't so awkward, bud.

[Kallistra]

[Freyt]

You guys are insane. This Fran is clearly a new or perhaps reworked model. Any amount of comparison is enough to be painfully obvious that it's different. Fran has never looked like this before. Not in-game. Not in CG. Not ever. The difference was big enough for me to recognize there was a difference immediately upon seeing her in XIV.

[Iromi]

You guys are insane. This Fran is clearly a new or perhaps reworked model. Any amount of comparison is enough to be painfully obvious that it's different. Fran has never looked like this before. Not in-game. Not in CG. Not ever. The difference was big enough for me to recognize there was a difference immediately upon seeing her in XIV.

Yeah she is reworked I would say. I have been replaying Zodiac FF12 again and while she looks similar..its not 100% the same by any means

[Nihility]

i'd say it's highly likely the viera model we get to work with that has been given unique features as they do with NPC's to recreate fran.
like the long black fingers thing was surely not going to make it into 14 for the sake of gloves and her feet were also less beastial since they'll need to fit in boots pretty soon

i would hope the viera base model is done by now since they have to go through almost the entire armor catalog to make the viera cuts. not having the facial and hair features ready won't matter for that so much

[AnimaAnimus]

...

"I don't like it."

"But...we put in Fran in the game exactly the way you wanted!"

"Yeah... but maybe it's TOO much like Fran. Do it over, and this time try not to embarrass yourselves."

Swear, one of these days, Yoshi-P's just going to snap and murder everyone at a Fan Fest.

It's always been like that and will never change.

In v1 when they announced non choco mounts everyone clammered for goobbue and coeurl which ended up being the top 2 of player-made surveys and always listed in various "mounts we want" posts, so they put goobbue in and the forums exploded with hate. There was just extreme venom from the devs putting something in that people wanted.

No one is ever happy, even when they get exactly what they want. Game development is one of the most thankless jobs out there. I miss the days they made a game and you just played it. If you didn't like something, too damn bad, you played it anyway cause you liked it.

[Anarnee]

Did this bother anyone else? They ripped her directly from FF12 remaster. Which would be fine if it was the actual Fran. But having our version of Fran use the real Fran's model is odd, to say the least.

Directly ripped? I donno if you looked at her in XII recently but I think it's pretty clear she's not the XII model. If I'm not lazy I'll do an overlay later, but her proportions are different. Arms are longer originally, and she seemed much thinner in XII.