New Race Options: Beastmen

[Amsai]

Now before everyone gets upset about how other things need to be focused on, this could be later down the road, even after ps3 release (though sooner is always better).

Originally Posted by Bayohne
Hey everyone, sorry for the delay in getting this response back to you!

We talked to Yoshida and one of the things he mentioned was that the number of people wanting a female Roegadyn was pretty unexpected! He wanted us to let you know that the team will do their best to introduce missing genders alongside the launch of the PS3 version.

While I am pleasantly suprised by this news, I would still like new race options. Just like many FFXI players have always wanted male mithra and such. I have always wanted to play as a Goblin.

I would like to request the addition of friendly/neutral playable beastmen races. The bigger meaner beastmen wouldn't make any sense, but I can't see much reason not to have playable Goblin and Qiqirn races. And I think it helps that I am not asking for brand new freshly designed races, but existing races that are already in the game and have character models.

Now I know that there are other problems that could get in the way of this like having to design clothing around there odder body shapes or maybe even classes...................... But to be honest, I would even be OK with very basic class options like Goblins only have 1 fighting class or 1 magic class or mining class or armorer class. Or having very limited clothing/armor options. Of course I would prefer them to have the same choices as other races, but I could live with it.

The point is that I would like the implementaion of playable Goblin and Qiqirn races at some future date. I would be a dream come true, and I am pretty sure their are other players that don't like playing pretty/cute races and would prefer something a bit more BEASTLY.

I'd like to hear other peoples opinions about this? Are ther others who crave to play as a beastman for the goodguys? Please don't bother responding, if its about how other things need to be concentrated on first. I realize that and am clearly asking for something in the future.

[Lahru_Hukurou]

I can get on board with this, I think. Goblin and Qiqirn are beastly, but not too beastly, if that makes sense. I like the look and feel of the playable races. I'm not sure how I would feel if the went too far out of that zone, like if they added bigger nastier races than Goblin and Qiqirn. I support adding these to races, as long as they do it correctly. Though, I can't say the same if people wanted more nastier looking races. But, that is just my tastes.

So yeah, I think these two races would be pretty cool. I feel that they aren't needed, especially if they are adding the ones they are hinting at. But, if there are enough people that want them, then why not?

[Amsai]

Yea thats pretty much all I meant. Unless there are some other friendly/neutral beastmen I dont know about? But yea just Goblins and Qiqirn. It would be fun, and an interesting option. Thanks for the support.

[MonsieurVerde]

Everybody knows there are no Female BeastMEN. >_>

[Zenaku]

Everybody knows there are no Female BeastMEN. >_>

Did you knew the gobs in FFXI with the armor on there head was really female beastman gobs? at least that what i been told and if you look at them they somewhat do look like female now the rest of the beastman lol i guess they just don't have females lol

[Razzle]

*imagines a bunch of goblins and Qiqirns walking around Limsa Lominsa shouting for trades* I think it will be kind of weird and out of place ( ' - ' ;

I mean, there is like 1 Goblin NPC around at most, but it wouldnt fit much if a bunch of those walked around, it'd look like the cities been taken over by Beasts... lol

[Amsai]

There are plenty of Qiqirn in Limsa, so what about them? I think it fits fine with these two races in particular, because they are neutral race: meaning they could be good or bad. There are friendly Qiqirn in Limsa, but then there are some non-friendlies outside of Limsa. Besides, there is the Garlean Empire, so you know there are bad humanoids. So if there can be good and bad humanoids in the game, why cant there be some good and bad beastmen.

[toshimoog]

It doesn't feel right.... Goblins have been labeled as wild monsters ever since FF1, it would be weird to see them as friendly players, let alone have their own jobs like white mage, samurai, etc. I think the current race selection is fine.

[Amsai]

It doesn't feel right.... Goblins have been labeled as wild monsters ever since FF1, it would be weird to see them as friendly players, let alone have their own jobs like white mage, samurai, etc. I think the current race selection is fine.

FFXI had a lot of friendly Goblin NPCs, and a couple that even helped out in quests. And the non-friendly ones in FFXI DID have jobs. whm, thf, blm, war, etc. Other than that I am inclined to agree with you on them being always wild mosnsters. Still though, I don't think thats much of a reason not to have them. Thats like me saying there shouldn't be playable Moogles because they are too fuzzy. I am also not saying there is anything wrong with the current race selection, I like them just fine. But why limit your options? Maybe the devs see an idea like this and think, "screw that, we have more important things to do, and you will live with what you have". Maybe they say " sure we can add in a few new races later on".

I know there are more important things the devs are focussed on, and they can work on those. However, later on when more things are fixed and we have a lot of new content. I see no harm in adding more variety, even if its not beastmen races. However, aside from my desire to play as a Goblin, I choose beastmen because they already exist in the game. I think that would be easier to implement than brand new races that don't even exist in the game such as Bangaa. But hell for that matter why not add in several new races from the tactics series and beastmen. Variety is the spice of life.

The game currently has humans, tall pointy-eared humans, big humans, even bigger blue and red humans, a minature race, and cat eared n tailed humans. Not everyon has the same tastes, and some of us would like to make a monster-like or beast-like character instead of a cute/sexy/handsome character.

[Asaren]

get some race from FFXII or FFTA would be cool. but they can do this much later after other important stuffs get fixed first.