Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[reivaxe]

That's because the same ten or so people keep posting on this thread artificially inflating its post count. I can confidentially claim that at least one hundred posts are of meaningless fanart. And at least half of the rest are Senn or MrKimper being trolls.

Let's also not forget that all this self proclaimed "successful outrage" is next on invisible on the 25 paged thread about not just Male Viera but also Female Hrothgar on the JPN side of this forum where players are actually reasonable on this topic. Many other forums about this game seem to have grown tired of this topic as well.

(And lmao, these 2 posters are legit fulling up a page just talking to each other or replying to post back to back)

Also even if a beastial race was asked for it's been seen by racial data that big burly races just don't get played very often in this game.

Now first off I'm gonna say that I don't ever normally reply to post that delete everything someone says and replaces it with "Snip/ Snap/..." or w/e else that requires a reader to look up a post to know wtf you're talking about. It shows you're afraid to actually have a discussion IMO and would prefer to have a 1 sided dialog to get lil pats on the back from peeps who agree without reading both sides. So enjoy your one reply.

Anyway, the Roebros are the ONLY "burly" thing in this game right now. They are not the be all end all of buff races and are not exactly the most appealing body type given their shape and proportions. And Roebros numbers are not far from male elezens ... ya know, the race a possible Male Viera would be based on according to Yoshi.

If anything this shows why we need better buff body types options for males.

[Senn]

(And lmao, these 2 posters are legit fulling up a page just talking to each other or replying to post back to back)

It's almost like this is a forum.

I think very few people play elezen is because of their unappealing proportions. If they were to use the male elezen model as a base and altered it to fix the proportions for male viera, I would be all for that. For hrothgar, it seems like it is using a modified roegadyn base, and perhaps you are correct in saying there are people who would prefer the hrothgar body type. I'm glad people are getting this option.

[Kelryth]

Now first off I'm gonna say that I don't ever normally reply to post that delete everything someone says and replaces it with "Snip/ Snap/..." or w/e else that requires a reader to look up a post to know wtf you're talking about. It shows you're afraid to actually have a discussion IMO and would prefer to have a 1 sided dialog to get lil pats on the back from peeps who agree without reading both sides.

err no dude. Are you aware there is a character limit to posts? quotes of other forum users count towards the character limit. Also in the quote bubble you can click the blue square with the fast forward symbol to go directly to that particular post in the forums.

(And lmao, these 2 posters are legit fulling up a page just talking to each other or replying to post back to back)

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Just hit lvl 44. You know what that means? Yup Coliseum armour.





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[Theodric]

It's worth noting that a lot of interest has been expressed towards the big and burly races, they just happen to be lacking in customisation options compared to Midlander Hyur. One of the more common requests for customisation is for Highlander men to be given proper eyebrows and less rugged facial features as design options. I'm sure Roegadyn would be more popular if they had an option for slightly less comical proportions too.

There's also other issues to consider. A lot of hairstyles and casual glamour just doesn't look particularly good on many of the bulkier races. A lot of hairstyles in particular these days are just designed to be androgynous or feminine in nature - and whilst that appeases those who appreciate such aesthetics, it doesn't do much for those of us who just want some options that look like they were designed specifically for male characters.

I've been wanting Hien's hairstyle for a while, for instance. It looks pretty great on him and it'd work as a unisex option - but despite his outfit being added to the Mog Station, we didn't receive it.

One of the best things I saw the developers do was add most of the hairstyles from Type-0. I like Jack's, Trey's and Nine's hairstyles for my characters. I'd love to see more hairstyles directly taken from canon characters. At least we're getting Noctis' hairstyle soon, I suppose.

[Quipsy]

I'm someone who would have been playing elezen if not for their grey alien inspired proportions because I prefer playing taller characters. They can look good, but their features are mostly quite sharp and they're... just really odd shaped. If male viera can fill the hole of "standard tall wood folk race now with non-extremely-elongated proportions!" it'd be great not just for people who want viera specifically, but for people who just... want to be tall but not a beefcake or haughty looking... or really angry and horny in the case of au ra.

I think Aymeric and Maxima are the two characters who have worked the elezen body the best and they're good range examples. But not even their looks and character presence could truly hide what a nightmare those proportions are. Omega was the only raid series I've ever done and let me tell you Nero's head on that body was... very not okay. It was a few cups short of okay. And when he smiled? A few gallons short of okay.

Edit: I mean, here are some bad screenshots of Maxima, who is an apparently totally custom head on an elezen body:



He almost looks like he follows the "three heads beside one another or two heads on their side" rule for shoulder width and that alone has done a helluva lot to minimize the weird proportions, which are still there. It's a good body it's just. Just... why... D,:

[Madiera]

As much as people have said they want more customization options for the older races, to be honest that'd be great. Also SE visiting the 'older' races (elezen and roes) and giving them an update/improvement would be great (I'm looking at you eyebrow-less hyur guys and male roes!) But have gone on record with the flimsiest response something akin to "People like them the way they are and if we changed that, they wouldn't like them anymore." Which.. to be honest, has always annoyed me as to me it comes off dismissive and just a little smug, but that's probably just me lol.

All I can hope, is as we continue forward, Yoshi and his team have err.. more open minds when it comes to improvements and/or listening to feedback, especially when it's on such a large scale as this currently is.

[Senn]

If male viera can fill the hole of "standard tall wood folk race now with non-extremely-elongated proportions!" it'd be great not just for people who want viera specifically, but for people who just... want to be tall but not a beefcake or haughty looking... or really angry and horny in the case of au ra.

Yes to this. The one and only tall and slim race we have doesn't look so good. Male viera would fill this elegant niche. The people who want a bulkier body type already have options. The people who want a graceful slim character have uh... alien giraffes.

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Yeah, there are some people out there who would prefer their race model to not be modified. I don't think that would be an ok thing to do, even though I really don't like my elezen's proportions. It would be nice if we had a body proportion slider for all races, or different body type presets, but I doubt that would ever happen.

[Kelryth]

I'd be happy with a custom Viera head on my miqo's body. Maby make it slightly more muscular and maby slightly taller by a head or so.









Edit: Maby not more muscular, maby more definition to the muscles. More like Finn Balor

[Senn]

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Eeeh I would prefer something a little slimmer, but add a muscle tone slider for people who want it.
Omega M is a good example I think.

[Halivel]

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