New Race Options: Beastmen

[Keith_Dragoon]

I am SO behind this, ever since XI I wanted to be a goblin, yagudo or orc, hell even the dark kindred! I doubt it will happen but I'd scream like a giddy schoolgirl if it did. :P

Nah, its not that hard to imagine. Goblins and Qiqirn can be pretty friendly and funny at times. And no, I definately don't mean a good vs evil thing like in WoW. Goblins and Qiqirn would just be mercenaries fighting on the side of one of the three nations with no real affiliation with other beast tribes nor the Garlean Empire. A perspective like that could work.

Its actually more common then you would think, in XI there were plenty of goblin npcs that worked with the locals of vanadiel (Gobby bag shop goblins, dyna glass, random item shop and above all the one from the main storyline) and aswell as quqirn (look around Whitegate almost more of them then us)

[Zozor]

I don't think I want to see people playing as beastmen. The goblins and such that we trade with are rare exceptions to an otherwise violent struggle. It would take a lot away from the continuity of the FF series to have players as beastmen.

I would love to see more beastmen enemies though.

[Randis]

i would like to see some new races that don't look like humans wearing animal ears.
Beast-men would be fine, even the large beastmen. Why not? they look cool.
Of course there should be a new starting city for beastmen (maybe some underground city)

[Abriael]

The whole lore of the game is based on the fact that beastmen very rarely mix with the current races (and only goblins at that). So no, I wouldn't like to see numerous beastmen walking around the cities.

Besides, we have plenty races already. MUCH better to use resources to implement content everyone would enjoy, than to create new races very few would be interested in anyway.

PS: To implement large beastmen they'd have to redesign a large number of the game's doors.

[Amsai]

You might be right that very few would be interested, but I bet there would be more than you would think that just don't like these "pretty" races. Now the Highlanders and Roegs at least do look more intimidating than a ball of kittens, but not enough. Thats why I said some of the beastmen, and it wouldnt be a huge waste of resources because the models for the beastmen already exist. So its not like asking them to invent/create all new races. Also, I have said this could be something implemented later down the road. Perhaps after PS3 release. So far the only real complaint I have heard is that it would not be aesthetically pleasing to some people............ thats a really lame reason. Thats like me saying don't implement Seedseers because they have horns, and I don't like having horns. I guess what I was really looking for is actual reasons that beastmen couldnt be implemented as a playable race (like what Abriael said about redesigning doors), not nay sayers that just don't like it. What are the technical limitations, and are there any ways to overcome them?