Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

What happens if they do come out with Viera males and you don't personally like the aesthetic they went with. You would have the option to be both genders, would you still be happy?

If SE put out a blatantly bad design I’d question why they’re shouting themselves in the foot. However, we have an idea how they would look based on dev comments and also the earlier concept art, which is consistent with those comments.

I’m sure many people would be happy if they reworked elezen proportions but I don’t see how it’d constitute much less work than adding male Viera at that point. They also don’t seem to want to go down that route because they think it’d potentially upset existing players of the race. Not a hugely compelling reason IMO, but that’s their stance.

I do consider it to be a good idea to do it, as it’d potentially improve the quality of the model... who knows, maybe If they undertake broader graphics improvements it could happen.

Personally I’d like for them to be closer to Au Ra, as I like their aesthetic but would enjoy a version without the horns and scales too.

[Krotoan]

If SE put out a blatantly bad design I’d question why they’re shouting themselves in the foot. However, we have an idea how they would look based on dev comments and also the earlier concept art, which is consistent with those comments.

..meeem.. sometimes concept art can be misleading..


VERY misleading.

[reivaxe]

..meeem.. sometimes concept art can be misleading..


VERY misleading.

Yeah, the thing about concept art is that it's not nearly as structured as people would think. It's legit "take this idea all kinds of different directions and we'll see what we like and how we need to narrow it down".

The art we have seen is just a drop in a bucket of what they did. Hell, in the past art we've seen there's concepts of the viera looking like animal faced beast people, your picture, a version where their ears are on the sides of their head and so on and so on. This stage is very important and takes a good deal of time as it decides so much of what the race brings to the game. Animation is another factor in it, being that they have to give the race life and an identity yet allow for others to express them in different ways.

No argument about the creepy ballface bunnychildren. But did they say they would be like that? Or wasn't that Yoshi saying that's what he envisioned?

The quote is "There was fear about how we would approach that. Perhaps an elezen body with a miqo’te face and bunny ears. Would this be the right way to add this race to the game?"

In another interview he said "We thought: “Why add more handsome races… even if we do, the biggest difference will be the ears…”. So seems like he thinks they would just be Elezen with bunny ears.

[Krotoan]

The quote is "There was fear about how we would approach that. Perhaps an elezen body with a miqo’te face and bunny ears. Would this be the right way to add this race to the game?"

In another interview he said "We thought: “Why add more handsome races… even if we do, the biggest difference will be the ears…”. So seems like he thinks they would just be Elezen with bunny ears.

So less "it's going to be this way" and more "we thought about it and floated these ideas"

If they ever implement them you I'd bet this will be revisited and rehashed.

[Senn]

So less "it's going to be this way" and more "we thought about it and floated these ideas"

If they ever implement them you I'd bet this will be revisited and rehashed.

Since we know what female viera look like, we can take a guess on how the males would look like. It's not 100% accurate, but it's just an educated guess based off a nearly finished model. You can argue that there could be sexual dimorphism just like with the au ra, but for the most part, the other races don't have this extreme difference between males and females. Just going off what Yoshida has said in interviews, and what the female viera model looks like, I'm going to guess males will share similarities. Perhaps they will use an elezen base and look slender, handsome, and elegant like Yoshida had mentioned. If male viera ever get implemented into the game, I think the description that was given by Yoshida is most likely the way male viera will look, however, this is all just speculation.