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(12-21-2014, 09:24 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: The problem I face is that as a woman who prefers female avatars to be more unconventional is that I am often felt left out.I KNOW THAT FEEL.
I like to play female characters that look like this and this. They're hardly conventionally attractive female characters and that makes it exceedingly difficult to find games that really support my choices.
Of course, in FFXIV's case a lot of this can be chalked up to the game's rather sub-par character creation. With the only body slider being for breast size and the available variations for facial features being so limited it's no wonder it's so hard to make a character that's actually visually distinct from everyone else. If the character creation were better we could have our cake and eat it, too (i.e. the females of the new race could be small and dainty OR large and in charge at the same time because the breadth of options is there, as opposed to the current situation where you're just stuck with what you get).
Unfortunately, if you want that it seems more likely that we'd have to wait for FFXVII (or whatever the next 'online' FF game would be numbered as) to hopefully get it right the first time, as it's just too late for them to overhaul the character creation now. A damn shame, really. It's one of my very few major gripes with the game as it stands. Maybe after they drop PS3 support... one can dream, eh?