Gender locked race?

[Lauront]

Oh my an innocent child... :')

Although there's no doubt some fan service to the hetero sections of the male audience with female Viera, it's not like straight girls don't also enjoy playing (sexed up) female toons, for similar reasons to why many straight guys play attractive and/or muscled male characters. Not everyone operates on the logic of "if I'm going to be staring at its butt the whole day, it may as well be of a toon that I find hot." There's also the "me but even better" strain of thought. ;p

But he probably just means girls and guys as in the toon's gender.

[Lacan]

Oh yea, I don't doubt that straight guys are going to be playing female Viera just to stare at them. :v That's a given.

[jameseoakes]

" There's also the "me but even better" strain of thought. ;p

That's the logic behind my character and why ended up as a midlander.

[WhiteArchmage]

There's also the "me but even better" strain of thought. ;p

Me but even cuter, thank you

[Gwenorai]

"if I'm going to be staring at its butt the whole day, it may as well be of a toon that I find hot."

Oh hey, that's me!

[CoolDad]

Although there's no doubt some fan service to the hetero sections of the male audience with female Viera, it's not like straight girls don't also enjoy playing (sexed up) female toons, for similar reasons to why many straight guys play attractive and/or muscled male characters. Not everyone operates on the logic of "if I'm going to be staring at its butt the whole day, it may as well be of a toon that I find hot." There's also the "me but even better" strain of thought. ;p

But he probably just means girls and guys as in the toon's gender.

When you're a woman whose "me but better" ideal is being tall and muscled and "eye candy" men are lean and pretty.

[KaijinRhada]

When you're a woman whose "me but better" ideal is being tall and muscled and "eye candy" men are lean and pretty.

#relatable

I enjoy me some rough-and-tumble men, and though I also enjoy that in female characters too, male characters are generally my mains.

[MrKimper]

Seven days remain.

[Shougun]

Seven days remain.

It's like waiting for the moon to fall in Majora Mask

Although there's no doubt some fan service to the hetero sections of the male audience with female Viera, it's not like straight girls don't also enjoy playing (sexed up) female toons, for similar reasons to why many straight guys play attractive and/or muscled male characters. Not everyone operates on the logic of "if I'm going to be staring at its butt the whole day, it may as well be of a toon that I find hot." There's also the "me but even better" strain of thought. ;p

Funny how usually the women are discounted or forgotten when it gets time to go political xD (by whoever is trying to make that point, they're removed to make it seem like an authority point of view (male or female)). Definitely there exists many women who want to play the sexy bombshell! (Of course there are men and women who'd like to play something more reserved and focused on other things.

I don't mind playing bombshells of either gender, even if they don't meet my sexual preference, but if given the option I tend to feel funny purposefully picking a female to dress up and down lol. I don't feel funny if I wasn't given the option, like Bayonetta - she's awesome. Just a personal hiccup though hehe.

[Iscah]

Not everyone operates on the logic of "if I'm going to be staring at its butt the whole day, it may as well be of a toon that I find hot." There's also the "me but even better" strain of thought. ;p

I don't get the "staring at character all day" train of thought. I hardly look at my character during gameplay at all - I'm looking at monsters and party members and HP bars and skill procs. Or, out of battle, NPCs and maps and where I'm actually walking. There's no need to look at my character any more than I have to keep checking what my physical self is doing. I know exactly where they are (centre of the screen) and what they are doing (whatever button I just pushed); it's everything else that needs watching.

There are cutscenes, of course, but you see more of the character's face than their back.



For my own character designs, I wasn't trying to make them attractive OR like myself, they're just character designs that I liked. Inevitably there's overlap between "I like this design" and "I find it attractive" but that wasn't the primary intent.