FFXIV Viera Instagram Pic

[LaylaTsarra]

is the benchmark only pc?

Yes sadly.

[Fredco191]

is the benchmark only pc?

Yeah. I hope my laptop will be able to handle the benchmark. I don’t want to rely on YouTube videos to see how I want my Hrothgar to look.

[Knahli]

That's one angle on the ears? Also, I see no issue even from this angle.

Yes, it’s one angle on the ears. At the risk of coming across as rude, are you insinuating that I can’t make an observation based on the single closeup picture provided or are there more screenshots from other angles that I am unaware of? If I were to expand, are we not allowed to form opinions, positive or otherwise, on the new races based on the limited information we have until we receive more that either compliments or contradicts it? This thread was about that single Viera picture and I commented an opinion, I didn’t suggest that they were indisputably bad or whatever, I simply stated that I found the ears to be poorly dealt with based on that picture.

Anywho, the issue, in my eyes, was that you have these extraordinarily dramatic ears perched on top of a humanoid’s head and yet the entire scalp retains a perfectly spherical shape with arguably no real blending whatsoever at the transition. It quite simply looks like they created a human race and then clipped two ears into the scalp. With exception to certain hairstyles - as some other poster pointed out - miqo’te ears do a better job at appearing as though they are natural protrusions from their head when you observe them at their base despite not having quite the same expectations placed upon them, given that they are are significantly smaller features.

Put simply, it does not look natural at all to me. More like a fan-made mod that was created for a hyuran-like race.