Official Male Mi'qote ScreenshotFollow

Honestly they look a little *too* hume. That's just me, though.

I agree...

I wonder why they decided to ditch the more feline features and just went with the neko-cosplayer look xD

So is this anything but the latest ploy to get people looking at XIV?

Because it looks like it's having the opposite effect so far...

Meow! I want a male counterpart!

Renamed and, on the whole, largely inferior in design. The mithra substitute did take a turn for the more boring, and don't get me started on the creeping horror that are those taru evolutions. Man, even if that game wasn't a quagmire of bad reviews, I think I'd have trouble playing just because I'm sure like 90% of the JPs play Lalafell like they did Tarus in FFXI and I'd lose my lunch if those things started congregating around me too long.

So that's what the sound of a million catboy fangirls yelling, "KAWAIIIII!" sounds like...

Final Fantasy 14 is funny

I'd prefer a design that was a bit more male lion'ish and bit less gay chippendale dancer'ish.

Not that there's anything wrong with that .

Edited, Jan 4th 2012 9:54pm by Lokithor

I'll agree with you on for Fu Manchu's, but how can anyone find those cute little Lalafell an abboration? Especially once you've heard their cute little laugh emotes :)

This, I love the races in FFXI. They have an awesome character and all look and move amazingly well, they tried to copy the races to make a changeover easier for the XI playerbase but it failed. What they ended up doing was taking something amazingly well done and tried to HQ it, in the process of which made them all generic and crappy looking. My first impression of FFXIV when I logged in was sadness at what they did with the races (nothing of the good of XI and just copies of what you can get in any korean MMO).

What they are trying to do with these new sexes of the XI races is again trying to push the XI playerbase over. Sadly for them it's not that easy and in all honestly these are all rather pitiful attempts to get intrest in the game (lol at the bare chests in a promo shot, they should put a twilight tatoo on them and be done with it). Make the game good instead of this kind of nonsense, they are even loweing the graphic engine for V2 so...why did they bother making this new game again?

Tarutaru = plucky cute, Lalafell = peddo creepy. Also WTF MOUSTACHE?

Edited, Jan 7th 2012 8:17am by Elwynbelwyn

Honestly I think that's what FFXIV main idea always was, an MMO to try include the very profitable chinese market.

While a more muscled version would indeed be nice, I'm wary because very few MMOs have decent looking male models. They're usually weirdly proportioned or have absolutely no definition.

Everyone knows how butt *** ugly the models are in WoW for male humans. LotRO's are OK but are pretty bland in definition. Age of Conan has the heterosexual male market down decently, but all the males look like they were slammed in the face with a shovel and starved for years on end (as they're slaves it makes sense but...). SWTOR, as much as I love the game, have some fairly decent models with good definition...aside from the fact that all males are eunuchs with cabooses that could decapitate someone.

I like the look of their rendition, but I also think that the leaner human model (can't remember the name) in FFXIV is equally delicious. Fairly good looks, great definitions, and hittable for pixels. I just wish a had a bit more options in the hair and eye color departments.

Then again, I'm a shirt lifter so I'm more than likely biased : p

The Chinese market makes a bit more sense now that I think about it if they were truly trying to tap that sector. The fact that, comparatively speaking, the males in FFXIV always seemed more detailed and fleshed out in raw looks in their underwear compared to the females makes a bit more sense. Don't get me wrong, the females are very well done, but look plain in comparison to the males. From a Japanese game, that always struck me as incredibly odd.

Edited, Jan 10th 2012 8:32am by Viertel