Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Halivel]

LOL, that's pretty much what I said. The point being hrothgar were their first thought. So you're lucky to get viera at all, male or female.

uhm...
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He said their plan was to introduce rothgar as male only

and

Their plan was to introduce Hrothgars in general, ... they were have to decide between female Viera and female Hrothgar

How is it the same?

[NeonTenebrae]

I have faith Yoshi-P will manage to figure something out and gives us the missing genders. Heck, seeing how big the demand is I bet they're actually eager to figure out how to effectively do this without bottlenecking themselves in the future.

This is my exact belief too. At first I was super disappointed about the whole situation, now though it's just hope. I'm reluctant to get my hopes up, but I'm still hopeful that Yoshi P and the dev team are actually for removing the gender lock and they're actively trying to figure out how they can do it without overloading themselves or removing dev time from other aspects they're working on. Although I hope it doesn't take them until next expansion, I'm sure it's just a matter of time and that makes me happy <3

[zeylos]

I also think they won't take until next expansion. I'd expect to see then 5.x

[Duskane]

wishful thinking it will be anytime in ShB life
maybe next expansion or maybe even after

be a bit odd that a gender is locked by a expansion now i think about it

[Lauront]

Although I support the cause, the amount of art posted without crediting the artist is a little worrisome.

I know most people are interested in feminine/petite male Viera, but what about body types like Yarne from Fire Emblem Awakening?

Not "most".

And they've also been described by yoshida as being slim, handsome, elegant, and elezen like. Matsuno when asked said he thought they'd just be highlander with rabbit ears. At the end of the day the only thing we have to go on is concept art, nobody's hijacking anything because we have no way of knowing concretely what they'll look like if they're added at all.

Yes but it does give a pretty good indication of the range they're considering which, if they want to stay quite close to the females, just bigger, will be between elezen and highlanders/au ra. I'd be quite surprised if they drastically deviate from the concept art. I think a wide slider is a good compromise, and one they might opt for, to avoid deviating too much from the above-mentioned body types.

[xbahax92]

https://twitter.com/k0u_b0nb0n/statu...09057599598592

Also some appreciation for ♀ Viera

https://twoucan.com/profile/lyco1019

[Colino]

I have to say, I love how this thread is already 263 pages long.

Not if you use the "more threads per page" option!

I also think they won't take until next expansion. I'd expect to see then 5.x

Considering they stated multiple times these would be the LAST races to be added, I would assume it will take way past 5.x for them to get the time and resource together if they choose to do it.

[shao32]

1575 likes amaizing, keep going, have my support for a 6.0 male viera (and female ronso) good ppl.

[MrKimper]

Yes but it does give a pretty good indication of the range they're considering which, if they want to stay quite close to the females, just bigger, will be between elezen and highlanders/au ra. I'd be quite surprised if they drastically deviate from the concept art. I think a wide slider is a good compromise, and one they might opt for, to avoid deviating too much from the above-mentioned body types.

How about we worry about them being added and what they look/are shaped like after, my point is if someone likes x viera let them like x viera. As long as nobody's asking to be a 14 year old, I don't see the reason to say they're misrepresenting something we have no idea what direction the dev team intends on going.

As I said I'd rather they be as you described, au ra men but more toned and with less odd proportions, but that doesn't mean if I see people posting fanart of something opposed to that I'm going to say they're "hijacking" viera. It's a moot point, all I care about is if a response is made or not.

I'm not saying they will for sure look like x or y but there's no need to put up imaginary sides and so adamantly tell someone no(Unless they're posting literal children) when you should all in theory want the same thing. Do you get what I'm saying?

[Lauront]

It's fine for people to request whatever they like, but let's not pretend the developers are working from a total blank slate. Already you have both Yoshi and Matsuno setting out some ideas as to how they'd expect them to look, and it's not exactly a great deviation from the concept art they've shown. They've not put all their cards on the table yet, because it's too soon and the whole thing is already quite a delicate matter.

In any case, the sides are already there given that they cannot make everything work, so it is understandable that people are posting what they'd like to see most and putting out arguments against the contrary. That goes for those posting buff Viera and those posting their opposite, and so it is natural that you will see arguments about shoehorning arising, especially when the absence of slim male bodies is exaggerated for the purposes of making this argument.

I'm quite willing at this stage to wait for SE to make their move and show us what they have in mind but it could take a while.