Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[lalin]

whyyy we can't see any new female viera hairtyles in the benchmark ? i was so exited i would get to see at least one new hairstyle D:

[Senn]

I'm really happy with our options! I've been playing around with the character customization last night/today and I think I may have finally decided how I want my character to look.

I see some people here don't like their posture too much, but there's always /cpose.

[Rokke]

whyyy we can't see any new female viera hairtyles in the benchmark ? i was so exited i would get to see at least one new hairstyle D:

Optional hairs aren't shown in the character creator ;-;

[Fourbestintoner]

Male Viera starter gear is objectively the best of all 15, it looks like straight out of a leveling ShB dungeon...as a lv 1, I'd never glamour into anything else

It could have been a glamour from Ivalice or Zadnor like every other FFXII characters, not their racial clothes, it's so lazy. I'm also not a fan of cosplaying as story npcs anyway.
It should have been what the other vieras wear in FFXII.

[LaylaTsarra]

It could have been a glamour from Ivalice or Zadnor like every other FFXII characters, not their racial clothes, it's so lazy. I'm also not a fan of cosplaying as story npcs anyway.
It should have been what the other vieras wear in FFXII.

WE didn't get a hempen set this would be wonderful.

[SturmChurro]

Yeah, different gear really makes it a lot more noticeable. Someone posted this one to Reddit.

I assume /cpose fixes it though, I can see what they were going for but it is an odd choice for an idle stance.

Oh wow. That looks pretty bad.

The "reverse slouch" posture and forward-angled neck is looking very Miqo'te to me. I think it might be the same basic pose but with the feet parallel instead of at 90-degree angles.

It looks bizarre to me. I don't know why we can't get more normal looking poses as default.

[Iscah]

It could have been a glamour from Ivalice or Zadnor like every other FFXII characters, not their racial clothes, it's so lazy.

Can you imagine the outcry from some people if men were given Fran's outfit? Some are already kicking up a fuss over Penelo's gear.

[Yencat]

People were very vocal about wanting Fran's clothes as Viera racial gear, I get it's not as exciting as something completely new but there was no winning for SE with this one.

[Fourbestintoner]

Can you imagine the outcry from some people if men were given Fran's outfit? Some are already kicking up a fuss over Penelo's gear.

Probably why we will never get Ashe, male characters limitation.

[Theodric]

I'd wager we won't see Ashe's outfit added to the game because Matsuno wasn't hired to do the originally proposed third act for Ivalice content that she was implied to take centre stage in, not because some people would raise an eyebrow in response to male characters wearing feminine clothing.

Not that such criticism isn't valid, mind you. Niche aesthetics are niche aesthetics after all and many requests for masculine options for male characters have been side lined in favour of appeasing a very vocal minority within the game's community.