(12-23-2013, 10:05 PM)Illira Wrote: I'm not saying that they're not cutely designed, they are. But I don't believe that their physical appearance is terribly indicative of how they act, and their reputation with the world at large according to world lore/NPC interaction. And I don't think that I read into anything that you said, when you said the above. If you were trying to refer simply to player/racial stereotypes, which you seemed to be mostly doing so with the Miqo'te description, then you should preface with that. As it was, it did not come across that way.
Though I think that Kismet did a good job of summing up my feelings on the matter:
Quote:The issue stems from how Square Enix has treated the race themselves, honestly. They give Lalafell obnoxiously "cutesy" animations, then try to have serious portrayals of them personality-wise the in game's story. The Japanese love to have things that are "stupid and adorable, but can still be really adult!" for some reason.
I fully agree with Kismet, in that what I'm getting at is that they look silly. I'm not saying that they actually are or should be silly personality-wise. My post was about reasons people may not want to play races other than Midlander, particularly based on aesthetics. While I fully think that Lalafell can be played as serious characters and I enjoy seeing as much, some people only want to play Lalafell as something cutesy, and many people don't want to roll their serious and/or bad ass character as a Lalafell because they can't find it plausible to take Lalafell seriously, or because Lalafell don't look "cool" or "attractive" enough to fit their character. I'm talking about completely OOC things, as this thread is discussing people's OOC reasons for playing Midlanders as opposed to any other races--not discussing how Lalafell are viewed IG/IC. I don't think I need to preface my posts with the fact that they pertain to the subject of the thread.
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