The State of Male Character Creation

[Hash_Browns]

But... your character's name is Hash Browns...

I have no retort for this..

[Wolfyboy]

I don't know if anyone has been following the translations, however, I seen this pop up.

Itaru-san requests for more character customization options like making their character older (wrinkles). Yoshida answers by saying that the technology at tha time wasn’t advanced enough to include a lot of options for customization. Second, the body customization (fat or slim) may cause the body polygon to go haywire if they allow such option and us players will not be pleased about it. However, as said in the keynote they ARE currently challenging in allowing more options in body optimization. Not much at first but they want to gradually solve the challenge

https://www.reddit.com/live/12mxvq9z0dj14/

[SoothingBell]

Midlander - muscular male
Highlander - extra muscular male
Miqote - short muscular male
Elezen - lanky muscular male
Aura - lanky muscular male
Roe - ridiculously muscular male
Hrothgar - reskinned roe
Lalafell - potato

Wow so many diverse and unique options. Hrothgar really filled a niche that wasn't being satisfied before. There couldn't possibly be another race that would give them a chance to balance out the roster.

Literally almost every mmo...

[Fland]

Not really? Like, we are adventurers. Hard to be a fighting monster if you arent in shape. I think people are looking for this to be the sims in terms of character creation. It's not, will not be that.

yup need those abs and bulging biceps to cast fireballs at dem monsters

I don't know if anyone has been following the translations, however, I seen this pop up.

Itaru-san requests for more character customization options like making their character older (wrinkles). Yoshida answers by saying that the technology at tha time wasn’t advanced enough to include a lot of options for customization. Second, the body customization (fat or slim) may cause the body polygon to go haywire if they allow such option and us players will not be pleased about it. However, as said in the keynote they ARE currently challenging in allowing more options in body optimization. Not much at first but they want to gradually solve the challenge

https://www.reddit.com/live/12mxvq9z0dj14/

We'll soon get chubby miqo NPC, so hopefully not long before it'd be applicable to PC as well

[Averax]

Midlander - muscular male
Highlander - extra muscular male
Miqote - short muscular male
Elezen - lanky muscular male
Aura - lanky muscular male
Roe - ridiculously muscular male
Hrothgar - reskinned roe
Lalafell - potato

Wow so many diverse and unique options. Hrothgar really filled a niche that wasn't being satisfied before. There couldn't possibly be another race that would give them a chance to balance out the roster.

You know they just recycle the male midlander model for all races except the roes and the potatoes. They just adjust some proportions (Au Ra waist), pose it differently. BAM! new race.

[Kaedan]

Quite hyperbolic, OP. You can make a non-muscular male character.

But even if you couldn't, just make a female with the bust slider on 0 and identify yourself as male in game. After all, gender has no bearing on your character's physical sex.

[Iscah]

Midlander - muscular male
Highlander - extra muscular male
Miqote - short muscular male
Elezen - lanky muscular male
Aura - lanky muscular male
Roe - ridiculously muscular male
Hrothgar - reskinned roe
Lalafell - potato

Wow so many diverse and unique options. Hrothgar really filled a niche that wasn't being satisfied before. There couldn't possibly be another race that would give them a chance to balance out the roster.

They might all be "muscular", and I agree Hrothgar doesn't add a new/different body shape, I still feel like males have a bigger variety of body shapes than females. They at least have some unusual shapes like Roegadyn and Au Ra, while all the female bodies stick to "normal human" proportions.

For Au Ra in particular, you've summed them up as "lanky" like Elezen, as if they're the same shape, but I have both those races as male alt characters and they're quite different. Au Ra are much bulkier in their upper body, and somewhat hunched forward.

Quite hyperbolic, OP. You can make a non-muscular male character.

But even if you couldn't, just make a female with the bust slider on 0 and identify yourself as male in game. After all, gender has no bearing on your character's physical sex.

If you're not actually trying to be just as hyperbolic as the OP? Good luck with that plan, and having your "male" character addressed as female the whole time. Not to mention the gender-locked gear.

Also, zero on the bust slider is not flat-chested. Close to it, but still not a male body shape.

[Anterious]

Imagine trying to use Political correct argument to scream about how you hate how all the male characters are ripped but you say this.

[username1234]

Imagine trying to use Political correct argument to scream about how you hate how all the male characters are ripped but you say this.

What's political about wanting cute males?

Then why are you playing as a female Highlander?

thighs

[username1234]

lol a male xaela
lemme guess you're 5'4" irl