Regardless of what was said, you thinking its some desperate bullshit that they aren't allowing the 2 races to wear helmets to cut cost is ridiculous when WoW had the very same issue for years, they just didn't care to disable it. Its a ton of work. They can very well flip a switch and allow you to show the helmets in all their warped, clipping glory, but they chose not to and instead implement them when they can.
Featuring and implementing it are two different monsters altogether. Hence the lack of helmets from the getgo.
In 12 or 14? In 12 I believe only female Viera exist(not totally sure, someone with more knowledge on Ivalice would have to chime in), but in 14 male Viera 100% exist.
He was talking about glasses on Viera. The question before that was about helmets and how they will be implementing them over time because if they didn't they would look fucked up. Like we have seen this issue before in many other games. Its not strange, its nothing to get worked up about, its not a cop out.
Huh? They abandoned the 1.x engine altogether with ARR.I thought? At this point the PS4 might be the only limiting factor.
Kinda sad to think how dated ARR already looks a bit dated its low res textures etc. It's like night and day when you can mod in 4k textures on PC.
Agreed. Straight male here who has crushed after FF pretty boys like Kuja since my teen years... would have gone male viera in an instant.
It'll be impossible for me to find but last year Yoshida made some comment about this.
Male and female Au Ra are both extremely humanoid, though, just very different proportions. They still look like they're genetically similar due to skin colors, their horns, face armor, etc.I really, really do not like this design. It's too obvious. Like I posted earlier in the thread, I would have loved it if they had played off of the sexual dimorphism, done Viera males as smaller, softer, and more bestial. Kinda like this Odin Sphere character:
Reverse Au Ra thing.
I really, really do not like this design. It's too obvious. Like I posted earlier in the thread, I would have loved it if they had played off of the sexual dimorphism, done Viera males as smaller, softer, and more bestial. Kinda like this Odin Sphere character:
Reverse Au Ra thing.
This keeps the sexist approach they used, only making the male species cute instead of burly.I really, really do not like this design. It's too obvious. Like I posted earlier in the thread, I would have loved it if they had played off of the sexual dimorphism, done Viera males as smaller, softer, and more bestial. Kinda like this Odin Sphere character:
Reverse Au Ra thing.
Why do people keep saying this? There's nothing indicating that they're going to change things in the future...
Community feedback made them add femroes/male cats, it's very unlikely people will stop asking for male Viera so I could easily see them add them eventually.
Because they have a history of listening to player feedback, a LOT of things players have asked about for years have eventually gotten into the game. If you want it, voice your opinions on the official forums. I've already posted there myself, and there are a LOT of people asking for both genders of each race.
The relationship between male and female Viera is essentially identical to the relationship between male and female Keepers of the Moon Miqo'te. Male Moon Miqo'te are nonetheless still playable, even if all of two or three total have appeared as NPCs in game so far.
Right. I'm just saying branching out doesn't make as much sense when one has to make content that'll be popular and make the playerbase more active. The Viera seem like the race to solely focus on from my eyes.
Yeah, I just don't buy that it was solely a resource issue, when they could scrap one race and just do one with both genders.
That's the weakest reason given so far. It's an MMO. I bet they already fucked their own lore in some way.
They did. And everybody else is allowed to critique them especially when the excuses the developers don't even make sense. What you want is for the decision to pass by without any criticism at all.
You're right. I've changed my stance on things multiple times already. I'm not happy they made the sexually explicit race the female and the strong boy hero tigers male. It sucks. I'm fine with the 2 exclusives but not their implemetation and with how SE doesn't want to give the team more resources I can't see it happening unless a real negative effect is caused by this in terms of sub counts or whatever's. I get why it upsets everyone so much and it sucks they make these compromises for such a successful MMO.
What he mean by "balancing"? races in game as when it comes to stats are extremely minuscule
Male Miqo'te make as much sense to add either, yet here we are.
They are tho?
Like?
I'm not playing the game but I think Guild Wars 2 has them too?
I don't know if you've been paying attention to the thread or the interviews, but they're not even including proper helmet/visor options for the new races. This is very clearly a budget/manpower issue.
For sure. It seems like 5.0 gear will work just fine, though??? The Viera DNC most definitely has a headgear piece on so there has got to be some that will work in 5.0.
What puzzles me is tht if there's a manpower issue, wouldn't it be better to focus on one race that has the best odds at being popular? Aside from humans, miq'ote have the biggest male character population in the game, and the burly big race the game has is barely populated.
Well as someone said it earlier, they bit off more than they could chew. Overambition and all.(and apparently insane overtime to get this done by July) For what it's worth though, this man's crazy ambition is what gave rise to ARR. Rebuilding an MMO from scratch was beyond insane. I think yoship just really wanted more races and this was the compromise at the present. That said folks should be vocal about wanting more gender options, just don't discount/lazy Dev rhetoric on the reality of what this team has to work with.
