(02-27-2015, 05:33 PM)Knahli Wrote:(02-27-2015, 05:17 PM)Coatleque Wrote:(02-27-2015, 05:08 PM)Melkire Wrote: As has been mentioned, there's this trend with video games where guys tend to opt for the female character model in lieu of "playing as themselves"
The most common explanation I see in other forums whenever this is brought up is "Well, if I have to stare at an avatar's ass for 6 hours every night, I might as well make it an attractive one."
I hate when people say that! I can never take it seriously, haha.
Also, there are slightly more hyur than there are miqo'te according to the statistics if I recall correctly, so maybe this "there are far more miqo'te" thing is a Quicksand/RP'ing thing, though even that would be disappointing in some ways.
I can't take it seriously either. However, at least in other MMOs, each race AND gender had their own casting animations for spells and abilities. I only play human, and I played a female human in WoW for all of my classes except Shaman (for race-locked reasons naturally). Human females in WoW looked cool as hell when they shot magic and lots of skills in general. Other races did too, and I could've played a male, but I liked making pretty females to go slap the shit out of Horde with all day and night.
But FFXIV, with all the animations locked to be exactly the same across all genders and races? Male. Besides I get to be a womanizer in RP now, and I've been quite successful for a while doing it so I'm happy. Humans are usually considered the most generic race in MMOS, but on Balmung its the Miqo that are most generic (this isn't a negative). It's interesting being a human and being not-the-most generic.
