What Zero Could've Been

[aveyond-dreams]

I hate to break it to you, but the majority of the world would rather play games full of women like this in the spotlight:



Than women like this:



The males of this game aren’t all that impressive either, with Midlanders being a bit too wimpy for my liking, male Viera having little to no distinctions between them and their female counterparts, highlanders lacking eyebrows for no valid reason, and Roegadyn/Hrothgar builds not being designed with what people who like playing large races have in mind. Short of the middle ground of Au Ra, there’s nothing in FFXIV that resembles the male characters I play in other rpgs and mmorpgs.

In any case, this game has no content anyway and if the story is going to be carried by Zero, Y’shtola, and god forbid Krile along with the men who don’t have much going for them then around 7.0 I’ll probably not shift my attention away from FFVII: Rebirth and continue replaying FFXVI where I can hang out with Clive, a traditionally attractive male hero, and the temptress Benedickta. A seductive woman who uses her charms the way she does will be a refreshing new sort of character for the series, and I’m greatly looking forward to the interactions she’ll bring both to the table and elsewhere. Also really looking forward to Hugo throwing his weight around, couldn’t have asked for a better human representation of Titan. Certainly better than Ga Bu.



People who are into niche tastes like they are here shouldn’t have the run of the place, especially not when it comes to stuff like how the genders should look and act. Under normal circumstances you’re not going to be able to sell someone a game where women are as plain as Y’shtola while “slaying” the men who interact with them while the protagonist faction men are overly emotional and feminine like G’raha and Alphinaud, with Thancred and Estinien acting as the party’s muscle while being cast aside by the main story, along with both having their visual designs made more boring.

No matter how many times you try and overuse words to paint people as things they aren’t. this is just how the rest of the world outside of FFXIV works. Perhaps if the game hadn’t self-selected for a certain type of player then we would’ve actually held on to the wave that came following the fall of WoW instead of reverting back to Shb levels. As it stands now, a weak cast and no clear direction for 7.0 + hardly anything to do in this game isn’t helping its case. I only hope my passive efforts of making gil with leves eventually pay off when it becomes good again, otherwise my engagement with FFXIV is the bare minimum these days.