Here's an idea; how about Ronso as a playable Race?

[Terin]

I've been playing through Final Fantasy X HD Remaster lately, and honestly, Kimahri is a complete badass. Moreover, though, his entire tribe looks awesome, and would be *EXACTLY* the kind of Playable Race I could see fitting this game beautifully!!!

Maybe also pull a little inspiration from Red XIII and FF8's Moomba's in terms of Hair-styles and Hair-colors, too? Maybe even various tattoos or tribal-paint across their face and bodies?

Seriously, the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that they would make the *PERFECT* Race for FFXIV!!!

[Shioban]

Out of all of the many many races that were suggested (in the original thread) Ronso wasn't actually on the list of potential possibilities that Square Enix originally presented (at least not specifically).

Yoshi touched on the fact that they were leaning towards a dragonkin styled race rather than a more animalistic race (bear/lion/wof ronso type)


So, for the time being we're not likely to see this. (As great an addition as I think would be)


In case you weren't aware the current race is likely some form of dragon/lizard;

[Marael]

One of my least favorite races in Final Fantasy history, so no thanks.

[Terin]

One of my least favorite races in Final Fantasy history, so no thanks.

Really? I mean... why, if you don't mind my asking? The Ronso characters themselves were kind of bland jerks, but they looked really cool, and I loved the whole "tribal" vibe they had going on. Plus, they were basically an entire race of Blue Mages, which is interesting, if nothing else. Give them some red, orange, and brown fur-colors (in addition to the blues and black of FFX), and I just thought they were really unique.

For as much as people clamor for them, Viera are the race I genuinely hate. They're way to "cute" in appearance, and given that we have both Miqo'te and Elezen already, I really hope for something beyond another "pretty, human-looking" Race. And, judging from that character's silhouette, it looks like we'll be getting just that, sadly

[HeroSamson]

The race I want to see in FFXIV

Esper's have a starting nation where only espers are allowed in the town unless you quest a pendant to allow you to enter the esper's land.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Racially* Ronso are just large cat-people. This means that they overlap with both Roegadyn(large people) and Miqo'te(cat-people). That means that it would take a lot of work to not make the race seems superfluous to a large number of players.


*Not culturally. Important distinction. Culture can shift from setting to setting while Racial traits tend to be fairly static.

[Shioban]

Racially* Ronso are just large cat-people. This means that they overlap with both Roegadyn(large people) and Miqo'te(cat-people). That means that it would take a lot of work to not make the race seems superfluous to a large number of players.


*Not culturally. Important distinction. Culture can shift from setting to setting while Racial traits tend to be fairly static.

Well to be fair it would be a 'true' beastmen race. Currently all of the races are basically humans with a few notable variances.

It would be more along the lines of the current beastmen races (just a playable one), for a beastmen race regardless of whether it's the Ronso tribe or not, it wouldn't bear that much resemblence to Roegadyns other than their sheer size, to compare the two as "overlapping similarities" is a bit odd.

[TouchandFeel]

@Shioban

My guess is the lizard race is this games interpretation of Bangaa or possibly a whole new race.

[Shioban]

@Shioban

My guess is the lizard race is this games interpretation of Bangaa or possibly a whole new race.

Yup, that's pretty much the given at the moment.

The only reason I say Dragonkin is because of Yoshi's original comments and the 1.0 players poll;





They fact that they've chosen to go for the least popular option seems a bit odd really.

A dragon/lizard beastmen race won't go down nearly as well as some of the others choices (Viera/Ronso/Burmecians)

[Shougun]

I really hope it isnt a Viera.. or at least they plan to do something entirely different "and" Viera lol. I feel we have too much "normal" we need some weird, lizard dragonkin has me interested - tall mithra, err miqote, with bunny ears - ...meh.

Beastmen race would be awesome. Though I'm curious to as how Yugiri's face looks like and furthermore how different the males of that race look (maybe we can get a nice phat tail option as males.. ^^).