Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[LittleChickenNugget]

Senn why are you being so aggressive towards him over something that really, really doesn't matter? Can't you just politely agree to disagree without being all kinds of condescending to him? You're better than that, come on now.

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It's gotten to the point where even the male Viera promoters are eating each other alive in this thread now and it's both entertaining and sad.

[Senn]

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I'm not trying to be aggressive though

[grinkdaboy]

when they said "boxer's physique" i wonder what weight category

[Senn]

when they said "boxer's physique" i wonder what weight category

I'm not all too familiar about boxing weight categories but I'm going to guess... light weight?

[SturmChurro]

I'm not all too familiar about boxing weight categories but I'm going to guess... light weight?

Hopefully something like The Mountain from GoT, but bunny ears.

Something like Butterbean would be cool too.

[Senn]

Hopefully something like The Mountain from GoT, but bunny ears.

I would die

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Also, when we hear anything about muscles from devteam we also should keep in mind that we deal with Asians. I mean, their thinking about "ripped body" is a little bit different overall.

Agreed. Well, I think we have a good idea how male viera might look like from the concept art and now Matsuno/minafumi's tweet.

[Halivel]

I'm not all too familiar about boxing weight categories but I'm going to guess... light weight?

Also, when we hear anything about muscles from devteam we also should keep in mind that we deal with Asians. I mean, their thinking about "ripped body" is a little bit different overall.

[Gwenorai]

With zero body fat type of build and the likes; the image posted looks like it's in the lightweight category - which has them at around midlander height, perhaps taller. So perhaps between midlander - highlander. 5'6ft - 6ft perhaps? This would have them be a little bit smaller than female Viera.

[Lauront]

I think it's premature to try and infer any height range from their comments one way or the other, especially based on averages of human boxers. Thus far they've given no indications of them being shorter than the females.

As for the art, it certainly has a very toned physique, almost like an elezen with the toning ramped up. I can't say it's my first choice, but I'll wait to see what the XIV team puts out, should they do so.

It's foolish to have 100% faith in someone without questioning the logic. Jake brought up a good point about hiring more people to which you dismissed. Yoshi has already lied several times and went back on his own word several times. Blindly agreeing with him won't solve anything and definitely won't do anything for ur arguments.

Especially since we've had people within the field casting doubt on the statements, e.g. here and here.

Furthermore, the development team have been talking more and more positively about enhanced customisation for the existing playable races. Once they overcome the obstacles posed to them, I think there's a decent chance that they'll develop customisation features that impact the character model a little more drastically to allow for more or less bulk.

As you so nobly stated in this thread and others, you are a firm supporter of more customisation options so I do not doubt that you would be excited by such a prospect were it to happen.

This is in fact what I'd like most to see added to the game - mainly for the high res asset conversion to proceed, and for enhanced customisation options for existing races, as well as whatever other graphics upgrades they intend to fit in for 6.0. They've downplayed the possibility of being able to edit the body type much, so I remain somewhat pessimistic about it (in fact, about whether they will commit to graphics enhancements in general), but if they develop a new toolkit that allows for it to be done efficiently, it'd be a fantastic feature, especially if it allowed for customisation of muscularity within parameters which make sense for each race. I'd love to be able to make a burly derplander like the one in the cinematic.

[zeylos]

I think that male viera will be male au ra but with their body made to fir that of the viera race, mostly because Matsuno liked a tweet by hopefulviera of a modified male au ra to look like a male viera. Then, I also think that it's very likely SE has plans for male viera, that is due to how they placed the female icon on viera (why would they leave space if they aren't gonna make it anyways?) and mostly due to Matsuno literally asking for male viera on a female viera drawing, plus liking many tweets that talk about male viera in XIV, and I'm quite sure that if they weren't coming he would have been instructed no to say anything