I find the characters in this game really ugly/weird

[TheMightyMollusk]

The lighting in the game is not always flattering, to say the least.

Still, characters look good to me, but I also grew up in the days when SNES games had mind-blowing graphics. I'm old.

[Larirawiel]

Still, characters look good to me, but I also grew up in the days when SNES games had mind-blowing graphics. I'm old.

<--- Amiga 500-player here.

As the other people said, you have to play with the character editor to get good results @ threadstarter.

Cheers

[_Pigzig]

Your photography needs a lot of work.

That’s a beauty shot as far as Lalas go. Nightmare fuel anyone?

[Penthea]

That’s a beauty shot as far as Lalas go. Nightmare fuel anyone?

Yea this is a troll.

[IckeDerTyp]

It's part of the world building! Just like. In IRL, not everyone is good-looking according to your tastes.

I hope you can forgive those horribly looking people

Only nightmare fuel I can kinda see, are the tiny elezen heads on their massive elezen shoulders... Don't let me start on their run... Or the femhyur one!

*shudders*

[Eldevern]

Not everyone has good tastes

More seriously, all games with "human" characters have something weird in my opinion : moves, proportions of the hands etc. But tastes are what they are : pretty relative.

[Aron73]

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.

[DBriggs304]

I love my toons and I always get compliments on my Rydia alt.

[LioJen]

I personally like the XI models better, but XIV has some good ones too when you get the right angle. A lot of it is the lighting, I believe the original models were created for Crystal Tools which had a lot more advanced lighting than what we see now. The newer models are made for our current graphic engine, which is why they look better.

[Nishira]

Coming from WoW, it’s something I had to get used to. The aesthetics are completely different, I didn’t know what to think about the character models at first. But they really grew on me, I like most models these days and love some very much. To me Elezen, both genders, look amazing. And I adore my Lala alt, she makes me happy! But it’s quite a specific style, I understand when it doesn’t click for someone. No idea how long you’ve been playing, maybe it will, maybe it’s just not your cup of tea and that’s alright of course.