VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[LisSquid]

the females always look young, small and pretty, and the males look old, big and rugged

With exception (for men), I'd say you also just described 14. This game has a bit of a problem with Forever 15 female character creation.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

It's one of the worst tropes in anime and gaming, and needs to be erased.

I donnu, I would have preferred to play an actual bunny man than what we got. Then again, the female Viera could've been that too, instead of yet another lame old human with exotic parts.

[Denji]

Doesn't help that the 'sexy dimorphism' trope where males are outright furries/monsters and females are "human with animal ears/horns" is also a very popular trope in anime and rpgs - Neko and Kemonomimi are in on itself a popular trope for japanese audience, afterall... a trope that is already quite saturated with Miqo'te and Au Ra, Viera just being the cherry on top.

To show a few examples:

The only exceptions to this rule seems to be when the men are meant to be just as beautiful and elegant as the women, once again, Miqo'te, Au Ra, and now Viera, so this whole men=beast is only played for the type of brute or big men....and where do Hrothgar fall in this, I wonder...? exactly

That said, aside from maybe popularity, Hrothgals having a more humanoid face would likely be reduntant regarding the whole hat/hairstyle fiasco anyways. I mean, Viera are in the same boat, and they're literally just another 'human, but with-' race. If they're going to "fail" either way, might as well stay consistent and please the few people that do want to play an actual non-human character /shrug

as much as i hate this i know it's gonna happen. we do it in the west too (see: every cg animal people movie ever) but japan is really, REALLY bad for this. excruciatingly so.

[ReynTime]

as much as i hate this i know it's gonna happen. we do it in the west too (see: every cg animal people movie ever) but japan is really, REALLY bad for this. excruciatingly so.

Wanna bet they will do this and justify with "sharing models with female Roes/another existing race" to cut costs?

[Caurcas]

Doesn't help that the 'sexy dimorphism' trope where males are outright furries/monsters and females are "human with animal ears/horns" is also a very popular trope in anime and rpgs - Neko and Kemonomimi are in on itself a popular trope for japanese audience, afterall... a trope that is already quite saturated with Miqo'te and Au Ra, Viera just being the cherry on top.

To show a few examples:

The only exceptions to this rule seems to be when the men are meant to be just as beautiful and elegant as the women, once again, Miqo'te, Au Ra, and now Viera, so this whole men=beast is only played for the type of brute or big men....and where do Hrothgar fall in this, I wonder...? exactly

That said, aside from maybe popularity, Hrothgals having a more humanoid face would likely be reduntant regarding the whole hat/hairstyle fiasco anyways. I mean, Viera are in the same boat, and they're literally just another 'human, but with-' race. If they're going to "fail" either way, might as well stay consistent and please the few people that do want to play an actual non-human character /shrug

I dunno, those examples are quite funny. It would be funny to see it 14 honestly.

[Denji]

I dunno, those examples are quite funny. It would be funny to see it 14 honestly.

haha yeah let's design an entire playable race around a joke that would stop being funny after two minutes ������

[Denji]

I dunno, those examples are quite funny. It would be funny to see it 14 honestly.

haha yeah let's design an entire playable race around a joke that would stop being funny after two minutes

[Allegor]

I dunno, those examples are quite funny. It would be funny to see it 14 honestly.

I mean, you literally can already do that lol

1- create or ask a friend who plays a female Miqo'te
2- place her next to a Hrothgar
3- /gpose to your heart's content

[flipwizardmagoo]

I just want them to look similar to female Khajit. Beastial face, fur all over, and possibly beastial limbs if they wanna be generous.