So you know how Ivalice is coming to town...?

[SigmaOZ]

Anyone who played Final Fantasy Tactics should know Ivalice is synonym of the Viera race!...

You never know with Yoshi-P and the dev team though, we can swim now yet there is no Blitzball!...

[Rysir]

Anyone who played Final Fantasy Tactics should know Ivalice is synonym of the Viera race!...

You never know with Yoshi-P and the dev team though, we can swim now yet there is no Blitzball!...

Actually Viera are extinct in tactics. All 3 of 12's races are dead and gone there along with moogles which can only be summoned.

[MOZZYSTAR]

One is a hell of a lot of work, the other is cutting a major characteristic of the race out.

People don't realize that means going back and changing every single foot slot to accommodate unique feet.

Funny enough, I do understand. It's a shame they didn't consider it beforehand, considering the fact that it is possible to work with as other games have shown. But then, FFXIV does have an incalculable amount of gear.

[Please Yoshi-P, give us Lupin Race]

Dude, do it up. They might look too much like them kitty people, though. -Stares at own icon. Guilty as charged-

Yenno what? Forget separate beast races. Just lump them all together as one with subspecies (dog, cat, rabbit) and call it a day!

All dem fleas though...

Spoken like a true Hyur. -Scratches at self. Bugs jump off- ...Kidding. (;

[MOZZYSTAR]

Anyone who played Final Fantasy Tactics should know Ivalice is synonym of the Viera race!...

You never know with Yoshi-P and the dev team though, we can swim now yet there is no Blitzball!...

I DEMAND BLITZBALL! (LOL! Kidding! A person after my own heart.~)

[WhiteArchmage]

Actually Viera are extinct in tactics. All 3 of 12's races are dead and gone there along with moogles which can only be summoned.

They're extinct in Tactics but appear in Tactics Advance and A2, maybe they meant those games.

[SigmaOZ]

^

Probably that, I remember playing with Viera in a GBA game, also I didn't know FFXII's races are dead know, didn't they manage to save the realm!?...

This is FFXIV anyway and the producer and the dev team can revive any race they want, some Viera must have survived and they have multiplied ever since!...

[WhiteArchmage]

Story-wise, background text in Tactics mentions a Cataclysm that wiped out every non-hume race at some point after XII but before Tactics, Tactics Advance (GBA) takes place in the far future of Ivalice then transports to a dream Ivalice, while Luso from A2 (DS) DOES go to a post-XII, post-Revenant Wings Ivalice.

[Robert_Ilcri]

Story-wise, background text in Tactics mentions a Cataclysm that wiped out every non-hume race at some point after XII but before Tactics, Tactics Advance (GBA) takes place in the far future of Ivalice then transports to a dream Ivalice, while Luso from A2 (DS) DOES go to a post-XII, post-Revenant Wings Ivalice.

Though with how FF14 has stated that Rabanastre was built on top of Lesalia... Wouldn't that mean FF12 actually takes place after the War of the Lions events do? Though I don't agree Viera should be a playable race, like others have stated enough with the fan service characters. We're more likely to get the wolfman race since its already coded in, meaning it would just need some tweaking or possibly Bangaa considering its showing them off in the raid content but who knows.

[AngelCheese77]

Not being able to wear shoes is a crap excuse not to put in a race (quoted from here.) EverQuest had their beastial races not wear hats or boots, and even other games do it. But they are fine in a game.

Now saying that making a working model in FF14 is difficult is something different.

[WhiteArchmage]

XIV Ivalice is not the same as the Ivalice Alliance games, it's just filled with references to it, especially because Matsuno's in charge of the raid this time around, Rabanastre made more sense to be previewed because Dalmasca had already been mentioned in passing in XIV, while the realms of Tactics Ivalice had not. Bestiary entries in XII and background info in Tactics put Tactics as a sort of "middle ages" in Ivalice while XII is in the far past before the Cataclysm.