I find the characters in this game really ugly/weird

[KizuyaKatogami]

It's fun that WoW players come here and say the chars look ugly/weird when every char in WoW look like... But, Yea, I like playing here, so I'm going to refrain from my wording. But seriously, even a human without a beard looks like someone with grave Harmynta and has a fore head large enough to land a 747 on it.
in the end, FF14 chars is a work of art in comparison to WoW.

At least WoW has updated its character creator and characters. What has 14 done in that regard exactly? Took 8 years to get a stubble to even be recognized. Never played WoW btw only 14 but i greatly dislike when people resort to the whole “WoW vs 14” argument. Both games have their ups and downs. 14 is starting to look greatly outdated compared to the upcoming mmo’s, and it’s character creator flat out sucks. Even the male viera i’m looking forward to really don’t look all that different to the females. Pure laziness on SE’s part.

[TheMightyMollusk]

At least WoW has updated its character creator and characters. What has 14 done in that regard exactly? Took 8 years to get a stubble to even be recognized.

WoW also took ten years to do it. Vanilla launched in 2004, updated character models came in 2014, with the launch of Warlords of Draenor (and didn't actually finish all of them in time for launch, a few came later in patches).

[KizuyaKatogami]

WoW also took ten years to do it. Vanilla launched in 2004, updated character models came in 2014, with the launch of Warlords of Draenor (and didn't actually finish all of them in time for launch, a few came later in patches).

Right, yet we still have races that can’t wear hats… it’s 2021.

[Tsiron]

I don't like WoW's art style and I wish they'd updated their designs back when they did their models, but you have to concede they actually had the guts to give players some unconventional races (... well, the males, at least) to choose from, Draenei, Worgen, Tauren, Trolls etc.

Honestly even FFXI's races got all of their (minimal) weirdness sanded off in the transition to FFXIV: Mithra used to have weird hair patterns, cat noses and etc., Elvaan were even lankier, Galka had tails, that kind of stuff. Makes me really curious how Au Ra would've looked had they been in that game?

[Lily_Skye]

Lalafells are pretty ugly tbh I wish they replaced it with loli'qotes like Khloe Aliapoh and T'kebbe Morh

[Mimilu]

Lalafells are pretty ugly tbh I wish they replaced it with loli'qotes like Khloe Aliapoh and T'kebbe Morh

Yoshi-P has been on record saying that XIV will never allow children to be playable because the dev team knows about XIV's eRP community and trolls in general (not to mention how dangerous our adventures get).

[HollowedDoll]

Lalafells are pretty ugly tbh I wish they replaced it with loli'qotes like Khloe Aliapoh and T'kebbe Morh

Khloe is a literal child.

[MoofiaBossVal]

Anyone else feel this way? It's got that uncanny valley doll look.

Plainsfolk Lalafell have those unnatural, cat-like eyes. Dunesfolk Lalafell have more single-color anime-esque eyes that look more natural. Lalafell are also the only race in the game where all of the males faces look good, IMO (though admittedlly there is little variation between them).

4 male races in FFXIV have severe problems. Elezen have unnaturally long necks that requires you to limit yourself to a handful of coats with neckties and high collars. Male Roegadyn don't have any good playabe faces (Gosetsu' face is good but you can't get it yourself), and have unappealing posture. Hrothgar have limited customization and weird posture. Male Viera are a complete "no" to me. And everyone else only have 1 or 2 faces that look decent. Kinda sad coming from WoW, where almost all of the faces look at least decent, if not good, and Blizzard adds new customization options regularly, whereas FFXIV does not.

It also really doesn't help that FFXIV's lighting is rather bad. Most of the time a character is in shadow, or sometimes they will have too much lighting shining on them from a certain direction, bleaching them out. The characters only ever look really good in the few handcrafted cutscenes with lighting, or after spending several minutes in gpose trying to get the lighting right.

That said I played WoW for a long time and it doesn't have it nearly as bad, but I did see weird stuff occasionally with the newer models.

I love WoW's character models. The one gripe I have with them is that their faces were not rigged for ingame close ups shots. It was only until very recently that we finally got an ingame cutscene with a close up shot where the facial acting actually looked decent.

I don't like WoW's art style and I wish they'd updated their designs back when they did their models, but you have to concede they actually had the guts to give players some unconventional races (... well, the males, at least) to choose from, Draenei, Worgen, Tauren, Trolls etc.

Honestly even FFXI's races got all of their (minimal) weirdness sanded off in the transition to FFXIV: Mithra used to have weird hair patterns, cat noses and etc., Elvaan were even lankier, Galka had tails, that kind of stuff. Makes me really curious how Au Ra would've looked had they been in that game?

I guess I'm beating a dead horse but yeah, the non-human races of WoW were awesome. Kinda disappointing that every FFXIV race is just another variation of a human.

I personally prefer Lalafell to Tarutaru but the latter's almost "wooden doll" appearance was unique.

[Strongfat900]

I guess I'm beating a dead horse but yeah, the non-human races of WoW were awesome. Kinda disappointing that every FFXIV race is just another variation of a human.

What do you mean by that exactly? No, they're not "Humans" as in they belong to our species and etc. Humans as in Humanoid looking then yes. We've talked about it in the other thread on this. Hrothgars are the most beastly looking race, and they're aren't any less beastly looking than say the Lupin. The "beast" tribes are very vastly looking different from each other as well. In other words, these terms are primarily social constructs created by the elite of Ul'dah, and they're not used either in the Far East or in the First.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5616921
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5612067

Read this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...encyclopaedia/

[RitsukoSonoda]

I actually find the Tarutaru in FFXI to be cuter than the lalafell we have in FFXIV. However I prefer the facial design of the Miqo'te over the more feline looking faces of the Mithra in FFXI. TBH when it comes to the 3 other races in FFXI and their counterparts here in terms of faces they look the same overall to me aside from the FFXIV side having more detail.

Personally I rarely play a tall character in a game if given a choice because there are few tall character options I find in games that I really like and also tend to not be a real fan of bulky muscular builds either. At the same time I don't often play really short characters (in that 3ft-ish range) in games either unless I find their design and appearance really cute.