Future Races for FFXIV

[Nero]

I think SE should do another Poll.. they did one WAY back in the day while ARR was under development, but you never know what people would want know.

[Demetirus]

I'd be pretty happy if they add Viera now that I've looked into them some, honestly. I'd likely even use the Fantasia that I've saved up to do it.

Though as I've said in other threads: I'd still want new classes before new races.

[Gwaeron]

there are male viera. if u look at lore, it says there are, they just live separate from the females and are very secluded, and only mingle with the females of their race when absolutely necessary. are u talking about the Feol viera? the blonde ones? they are actually half viera and half aegyl. and extinct, i might add.

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[Gramul]

err... this game already has pretty much everything in that pic, just with a few minor changes for the most part. everything cept that beast man.

The joke being that those are concept drawings for XI, which this games races be based on. Beastman is proto Galka, is proto Roegadyn.


The tarutaru and Galka went through the most changes and redesigns it seems.

[Ehayte]

I have two little tiny ideas:

Dwarfs: They are mentioned a few times, FFIII, I think, and FFIX for sure (the village right before you meet Eiko iirc). In both games, they are basically a short, Scottish stereotype and very strange little guys to boot. I think it would a little tie-in and a little invention/innovation. At the same time, Iae'v ne'er played a stinkin' dwarrf, and Iae cannae brring meself to do eet!

Robots (stay with me here): Cloud, Zidane/Vivi/Kuja, Cait Sith, etc etc (I'm sure there are more examples I can't think of right now), but autonomous puppet/clone/mechanical creations are a pretty common character device in FF. With the heavy emphasis on Magiteck in FFXIV I think that you could possibly wedge your way into a cyborg-esque race. One that might have some human and mechanical parts fused together. i.e. they might have something like an Ironman powersource that mimics their heart which players could customize the color/size. I dunno, my feelings towards that idea of mine are floating between, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" and "That could work out pretty good and has a lot of potential."

/shrug

[WendyDarling]

haha 1 point to u both, Gwaeron and Gramul. it was early and i was still waking up when i responded to u guys.

no wonder those races look so familiar!! rofl. >.<

guess that will teach me to come to the forums right after getting out of bed!

[TeaTimeBear]

What I wonder is how we can get a race from Ivalice.. Aren't for example Viera exclusive only to that world?

[Ildur]

We have Mamool'ja, the Lighting Returns and other cross-over FATEs stablish that travel between dimensions is possible, so Squee can kind of pull whatever they feel like and still be "It's not a plot hole because DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL!". Introducing a whole "new" old race from another FF game wouldn't be hard at all. They can add an island off the coast (like La Noscea) and have their home there, then just say they arrived by DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL (tm) many centuries ago (or not so many centuries ago), left stranded in this weird but actually pretty familiar world. Or they can even ditch the whole "hometown" idea and just introduce them brutally like that: a portal opens, Viera (or whatever) appear, Eorzeans are super cool with that and that's that.

[Naunet]

I guess I'm just the only person who gets bored seeing the same races and the same monsters over and over again. :/ Would just like to see something new. Why pull in races from other planets when we have two whole other continents on Hydaelyn to mess around with?

[TeaTimeBear]

I guess I'm just the only person who gets bored seeing the same races and the same monsters over and over again. :/ Would just like to see something new. Why pull in races from other planets when we have two whole other continents on Hydaelyn to mess around with?

Nope you're not. A new race exclusive to this world would be great.