Future Character Creation Idea, Animation Swapping

[RinaB]

I would just like to see more fluid running animation on elezen and more options in general for all races. Please shorten my neck

[RitsukoSonoda]

Please shorten my neck

Hold still while I go get my mallet.

[Mindiori]

It's not so much that anyone can't technically stand in any style or position. Nor that any hairstyle couldn't be adopted.

Rather that in the limited scope of representation in the game, stances are supposed to be thematic and an added element of racial distinction and local flavor. Remove it and you once again render upon the world homogeneity. It will make the most aesthetically popular races more so, middle ground ones losing their slight edge and becoming less popular and with the massive amount of dumbing down already - I admittedly veer towards no full stop a lot of the time. Nonetheless I'd still reason the above perspective. Eventually you reach a point where the distinctiveness of everything is all but erased. Heh. Then again that seems to be the direction of this community now doesn't it.

[ItMe]

I think it could be cool if gestures and emotes could be shared across genders more than races.
The female emotes/gestures are all very reserved, even Roe women. I found it difficult to make a wild or spirited female character and ultimately went with a male one.

[Kes13a]

I think it could be cool if gestures and emotes could be shared across genders more than races.
The female emotes/gestures are all very reserved, even Roe women. I found it difficult to make a wild or spirited female character and ultimately went with a male one.

the only females I found to feel reserved are the viera.

I happen to think my mi'qo is very exuberant

[Lihtleita]

they did add in extra idle poses recently, so its probably something devs are already considering.
personally would like alternate weapon poses, or a toggle between the gendered ones at least

[RitsukoSonoda]

they did add in extra idle poses recently, so its probably something devs are already considering.
personally would like alternate weapon poses, or a toggle between the gendered ones at least

I still kind of want that idling pose the Miqo'te NPC found in Gridania during the halloween events does. Though I think they just created that one by setting a fragment of an emote on a repeat cycle.

[Tsiron]

Now that the final (planned) race is in the game, I think it's high time we talked about this idea again. I personally still think it sucks for an entire race or sex to all be typecast the exact same way on account of the animations they're stuck with. The devs are doubtless aware of this, or at least feeling the repercussions, you'll notice serious MSQ characters like Y'shtola or Yugiri or Fordola or Sadu and probably others are hardly ever shown emoting because their associated animations do not fit their characters whatsoever.

To their credit, the devs have increasingly been making and using more universal/generic emotes during cutscenes, but occasionally a race-specific one will still slip through and you likely understand how it feels if you're like me and play a female Au Ra despite, and not because of, how cute and meek they've been made to be...

[Petroglyph]

Au Ra female idle kinda blows, and I'd kill to have the default female miqo'te idle on my au ra. I support this 100%

[lolnotacat]

I'd prefer to have this option. For a roleplaying game, it's hard to roleplay a certain type of character when your character's animations pigeonhole you. It would be nice to be able to have the miqo idle, a middie sit, an elezen (anything but normal jog), and mix/match. Sure it might take away from "racial uniqueness" but would swap that for individual uniqueness.