Remove Gender-Locked Class/Weapon Poses

[Absurdity]

It's official. Homogenization is the new overused buzzword.

Can you really blame them in this expansion? xD

[Savagelf]

look i will point how much this relate to models they use for the game. it very heavy great sword they what pose to be life like is woman going hold her great over her back or some way benfit her. i like male samuri pose but i realize that men and women different how hold a weapon is different special weapon that weigh alot a 6 foot great sword is different depend on weilder be male or female. i think add addiction pose for male and female would be nice yet we need remember how the human body strength divide in male and female and how they going hold weapon depend on that body strength look i remember when dev use design for gaming they use live models sometime for gaming design and character design aswell

this may be demand that is never able to be meet by the dev or any devs on planets because the human body between the sex are different as alway will be different

[Krotoan]

l i think add addiction pose for male and female would be nice yet we need remember how the human body strength divide in male and female and how they going hold weapon depend on that body strength look i remember when dev use design for gaming they use live models sometime for gaming design and character design aswell

this may be demand that is never able to be meet by the dev or any devs on planets because the human body between the sex are different as alway will be different

Real world physics and physical limitations have no place in this game.

There is nobody in the world who can wield 6 feet of foot wide metal like the darknight does. You would simply rip your tendons and break your wrists trying to stop the momentum.

[Amnmaat]

Real world physics and physical limitations have no place in this game.

There is nobody in the world who can wield 6 feet of foot wide metal like the darknight does. You would simply rip your tendons and break your wrists trying to stop the momentum.

Yoshida actually points this out, how he makes heavy weapon jobs hold the weapons in specific ways because of how much they weigh and other things like poses. He pointed this out in one of those media interviews this year...I'll try to find it, but that's something he takes into consideration.

[Krotoan]

Yoshida actually points this out, how he makes heavy weapon jobs hold the weapons in specific ways because of how much they weigh and other things like poses. He pointed this out in one of those media interviews this year...I'll try to find it, but that's something he takes into consideration.

Then he's making excuses. People have tried to make real "buster swords" before and using them is laughable. The best they can do is hoist them above things and smash them.

https://youtu.be/6k5SauImw9I

the dude swinging it is NOT small.

[Amnmaat]

Then he's making excuses. People have tried to make real "buster swords" before and using them is laughable. The best they can do is hoist them above things and smash them.

The buster sword can actually be made in real life, it just depends on what kind of metals you use to make it.

[frostmagemari]

Yoshida actually points this out, how he makes heavy weapon jobs hold the weapons in specific ways because of how much they weigh and other things like poses. He pointed this out in one of those media interviews this year...I'll try to find it, but that's something he takes into consideration.

Yoshida continually tries to defend mechanics / (lack of) player customization with lore when it suits his purposes.. but has no issue with characters running around in bikini mogs and giant chocobo heads; And don't get me wrong, i have no issue with people's wildly lore unfriendly combat attire, but it makes Yoshida's reasoning paper thin when both things exist.
If he just said that "We think X pose works for Y weapon to fit the look of Z job", i think it'd be a lot closer to an honest answer rather than trying to spin it into some big thoughtful process to impress the interviewer.

[PyurBlue]

I'm all for opening all poses to all characters. A character's personality/traits should be up to the player.

look i will point how much this relate to models they use for the game. it very heavy great sword they what pose to be life like is woman going hold her great over her back or some way benfit her. i like male samuri pose but i realize that men and women different how hold a weapon is different special weapon that weigh alot a 6 foot great sword is different depend on weilder be male or female. i think add addiction pose for male and female would be nice yet we need remember how the human body strength divide in male and female and how they going hold weapon depend on that body strength look i remember when dev use design for gaming they use live models sometime for gaming design and character design aswell

this may be demand that is never able to be meet by the dev or any devs on planets because the human body between the sex are different as alway will be different

FF14 doesn't try very hard to be life like. The jump animation has you jump more than your own height on most characters. Most of the races aren't even "human" anyway.

[LaughingBanana]

look i will point how much this relate to models they use for the game. it very heavy great sword they what pose to be life like is woman going hold her great over her back or some way benfit her. i like male samuri pose but i realize that men and women different how hold a weapon is different special weapon that weigh alot a 6 foot great sword is different depend on weilder be male or female. i think add addiction pose for male and female would be nice yet we need remember how the human body strength divide in male and female and how they going hold weapon depend on that body strength look i remember when dev use design for gaming they use live models sometime for gaming design and character design aswell

this may be demand that is never able to be meet by the dev or any devs on planets because the human body between the sex are different as alway will be different

You talking about reality in a world where you can chug a bottle of magical potion and change race/gender entirely the next day? Lol.

[ForteNightshade]

look i will point how much this relate to models they use for the game. it very heavy great sword they what pose to be life like is woman going hold her great over her back or some way benfit her. i like male samuri pose but i realize that men and women different how hold a weapon is different special weapon that weigh alot a 6 foot great sword is different depend on weilder be male or female. i think add addiction pose for male and female would be nice yet we need remember how the human body strength divide in male and female and how they going hold weapon depend on that body strength look i remember when dev use design for gaming they use live models sometime for gaming design and character design aswell

this may be demand that is never able to be meet by the dev or any devs on planets because the human body between the sex are different as alway will be different

If we're going to bring realism into the equation. Delete Dark Knight now as neither gender could realistically hold a great sword that size and actually wield the thing. In fact, weapon smiths have made real life replicas of Cloud and Sephiroth's swords and the proportions are absurd. Cloud's sword weighed 75 lbs. That's a little more than a third the weight of the average American male. Not only would you severely damage your wrists and back attempting to swing around something that heavy on a consistent basis, the sheer force if you actually could muster up the strength would nearly break your arms.

Put simply, great swords are the embodiment of "rule of cool." There is absolutely no realism to their existence. At least not the ones in most fantasy genre.