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Blade & Soul fixed all of that, however. They still have a huge number of sliders but limited them such that you can no longer make blatant monstrosities that defy the game's art style (though it helps in this case that the game has such strong art direction versus Aion where they just throw things in for the sake of it).
I find body sliders are the single most important ingredient in creating unique-looking characters. That change in silhouette shape completely alters your impression of a character and dramatically increases the overall variety. The complete lack of anything like that in FFXIV is a crying shame IMO. The racial variety helps but it is not even remotely a replacement. I can't make T'rahnu unusually broad-shouldered or give a guy a steroid gut or make an unusually thin Lalafell or any of that stuff, and that just kills it for me. The only reason I'm okay with my character now is because they thankfully went with a more androgynous female body shape versus the overtly effeminate shapes used in other games. If they did end up going the Wildstar route I wouldn't even be playing this game right now.
Hell, half the reason I'm putting up with a massive language barrier and huge latency disadvantage (in a game where 160ms latency cuts your attack speed in half) is just because Blade & Soul has such strong character creation that it really makes me attached to my character. If FFXIV could do something like that, it would be perfect, but...
All of this just to say that the Au Ra are disappointing specifically because the character creatoin itself is so weak. With more options and more variety even I, with all my complaints, would be able to find something to like in them... but being pigeonholed into their extremely narrow vision ruins it all for me.
I find body sliders are the single most important ingredient in creating unique-looking characters. That change in silhouette shape completely alters your impression of a character and dramatically increases the overall variety. The complete lack of anything like that in FFXIV is a crying shame IMO. The racial variety helps but it is not even remotely a replacement. I can't make T'rahnu unusually broad-shouldered or give a guy a steroid gut or make an unusually thin Lalafell or any of that stuff, and that just kills it for me. The only reason I'm okay with my character now is because they thankfully went with a more androgynous female body shape versus the overtly effeminate shapes used in other games. If they did end up going the Wildstar route I wouldn't even be playing this game right now.
Hell, half the reason I'm putting up with a massive language barrier and huge latency disadvantage (in a game where 160ms latency cuts your attack speed in half) is just because Blade & Soul has such strong character creation that it really makes me attached to my character. If FFXIV could do something like that, it would be perfect, but...
All of this just to say that the Au Ra are disappointing specifically because the character creatoin itself is so weak. With more options and more variety even I, with all my complaints, would be able to find something to like in them... but being pigeonholed into their extremely narrow vision ruins it all for me.