Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[GoneEnigma]

Support diversity in Viera!

[Aeloria]

I liked the OP and will post a comment. While I don't personally have an interest in male viera as I always just wanted female viera I can understand why others are disappointed. So I support the inclusion of male viera and SE is smart enough to come up with a lore reason why it works. Sometimes a people has to change their ways when the fate of the world is at stake.

[therpgfanatic]

There should be bunny boys.

"Male Vierra don't show themselves to outsiders" is a dumb lore concept anyway. In the fight against the Ascians for the fate of the world, everyone is needed and good enough reason to break such a rule.

[Xulcan]

Gender locking is pathetic in my honest opinion. Both of the new races should be both male and female. I would love to play a male viera or female hrothgar. Hopefully they add these options. Otherwise they are just repeating the mistake they already fixed. Lets not forget that female roes and male cat boys did not exist at first and are both popular character choices.

[HealerMagi]

There should be bunny boys.

"Male Vierra don't show themselves to outsiders" is a dumb lore concept anyway. In the fight against the Ascians for the fate of the world, everyone is needed and good enough reason to break such a rule.

The lore with the male Viera was always silly: I said it earlier and I stand by it. The 'lore' was never anything but a shallow attempt to preserve a straight male power fantasy derived from gazing as scantily clad Viera women, because gaps why should they have to look at booties too?

[DarkMasamune]

It isnt about lore or 'not wanting to put it in the game'. Yoshida did mentioned in a recent interview why they had to make a choice.

That being said, I do support the addition of male viera (and female hrothgar) as I do understand that others might want them and more options are always a nice addition

[Dualgunner]

The lore with the male Viera was always silly: I said it earlier and I stand by it. The 'lore' was never anything but a shallow attempt to preserve a straight male power fantasy derived from gazing as scantily clad Viera women, because gaps why should they have to look at booties too?

Your thesis falls flat when the existence of a male viera wouldn't detract from one's ability to look at a female viera. I choose to believe Yoshi P when he says that this was because they wanted to add both a bestial race people were asking for and the viera they were asking for; they are open to the possibility, also, of later adding the unreleased sexes, but for now this was their choice.

[HealerMagi]

Your thesis falls flat when the existence of a male viera wouldn't detract from one's ability to look at a female viera.

You overestimate the robustness of the average straight male gamer's ego. A troll back through this thread will show this very complaint being leveled more then once.

[AcornFox]

Add another vote for female hrothgar and male viera! This genderlocking thing has always rubbed me the wrong way, and admittedly I'm annoyed at the dishonesty they showed before the hrothgar reveal. People outright asked if there would be male viera and instead of straight up telling them that there wouldn't be, they played coy, building false hope, when all they had to tell us from the start is that "there are no male viera, but we have something planned for male characters! look forward to finding out what at Tokyo Fest!" or something. Then there's all the build up viera were given in the first place, making the hrothgar feel like an after thought and a bone tossed our way whether they were or not. It was just bad form all around.

This is actually rather true i think, they needed to talk about this far sooner. Maybe even go about there concerns with Viera before they had even decided on it. Finding out what people would have been interested in.
Since they could have taken them a bit more beastly if they had wanted, slight rabbet like features. The longer claws, and if they did not want to do less human feet. that would have been ok.
Have them move with a more savage maner, and have animations that show they are not just humans but have personality that is far less civilized in background. Like how some of the Male miqote emotes are, but turned up far further.
It could have been awesome to have animations where sometimes, rather than swing a weapon they reach out and claw. Or lift and leg ready to scratch, So much can be done with a beastly tone that i feel they may have overlooked trying to stay too faithful without looking at whats unique to this game and the community and its desires.

[Solarra]

Adding my support for male Vierra. Gender-locked races should stay a thing of the past.