Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Senn]

Ivalice Viera look very badass, but lets be real here, SE is going to look at what players like to play as and decide the race that way. I would not be suprised if we get the short Viera, since Super Duper Kawaii is something that alot of players (especially the JP community) like to play as.

You mentioned making viera look younger might be harder to sell outside of japan. That may be true.
It sort of reminds me of Nier Replicant/Gestalt. They changed the protagonist from a young brother to an old father.

It's just an observation I made, but as of now, I haven't seen many people oppose the idea of short males and tall females; the reverse of au ra. I wonder if SE will consider this.

[Nestama]

I don't think you can really compare the teenager in NieR RepliCant to the childlike Viera concept (or the pre-teen idea)... the concern is mostly thanks to the Elin in Tera.

As for the reverse of short male, tall female... I don't particularly like it with the Au Ra as is (as it just looks odd when you put a short waifish, almost looking below 18 year old female next to a tall adult looking male), so my stance on doing the reverse would be the same feelings. It was a bad idea :/

[Senn]

Anyone remember this april fools joke?




cri

[RoseBnargin]

We already got a short race so why release another short race (Tiny Viera). Im pretty sure most of the people wanna see the viera from ff12: Long, skinny, Badass, elegant, mysterious.

[RosaLunaCelestia]

Anyone remember this april fools joke?




cri

Yeah I remember of this joke. It wasnt funny, it insult Viera race...well, its how i feel.

[Nestama]

I'd happily play the male Viangaa. They're adorable~

[RosaLunaCelestia]

I'd happily play the male Viangaa. They're adorable~

Well im not against Viangaa if it make people happy but im not interessed in. But , I not want it related to vieras and dont like the way they killed Fran...

Anyway, they not want do beast race as playable race.

[JunseiKei]

Copy and pasted from the other thread.

Most of the time, when I see people supporting the idea of adding the Viera, they post pictures of Fran, usually showing off her figure. This leads me to believe that many want Viera for the attractiveness of the race that was made a staple in FFXII. Not from Tactics, despite Viera being present in these games as well. Whether or not this is true is another story. I don't mind as long as people then don't go on to request for Viera-specific armor. Oh yeah, and they don't mind losing the claw-like feet and make them flat footed. Yoshida already said they won't put in a race that will make them have to change the armor models for them.

To be specific, I hardly saw images like this:

and saw more images like this (actually saw quite a few Fran cosplayers):

when it came for supporting images in Viera request threads

The other thing people tend to keep showing are the Au Ra concept art featuring a leporidae-like race. That's the thing- it's Au Ra concept art, showing the SE team was trying to decide how to make the Au Ra look. We wound up with lizard-like, or dragon-like, features, but could have also as easily wound up with the leporidae look. Personally, I'm glad FFXIV went with a more-original race; it's bad enough people say FFXIV is a [spiritual] sequel to FFXI because Hyur look like Hume, Roegadyn look like Galka, Lalafell look like Tarutaru, Elezen look like Elvaan and Miqo'te look like Mithra. Even if that's where all the similarities end.

I'd like to see Viera added- as another non-playable race. Outside of beast-like creatures (dragons, Quirin, Moogles, Ixali, Kobalds, you get the idea), all we have are the Padjal, which are just a mutation of the Hyur specific to the Black Shroud. I suppose you can count the Garleans as well.

[Lambdafish]

I'd like to see Viera added- as another non-playable race. Outside of beast-like creatures (dragons, Quirin, Moogles, Ixali, Kobalds, you get the idea), all we have are the Padjal, which are just a mutation of the Hyur specific to the Black Shroud. I suppose you can count the Garleans as well.

This is the route I'd rather they go down. Viera are interesting as a race, and there could be a lot of interesting lore, Viera are not interesting as a player character design, and what we are likely to get (cute, flat footing, human looking Viera) isn't unique at all in comparison to what we already have. An NPC race can go all out on its design and can have the rabbit feet, claws, and other viera exclusive stuff that cannot be done in the player character generator, and it would take a lot more resources for something of lower quality.

Also, don't forget that we also got some unique spoken race characters in Heavensward, Hilda is half elezen/half hyur, and we can only speculate what gosetsu is, because he is like no Roe we have ever seen (though he is likely a new clan of Roe, or half Roe/half Hyur)

[Nixxe]

Yeah I remember of this joke. It wasnt funny, it insult Viera race...well, its how i feel.

Something tells me you take this subject too seriously.