The weirdest age related thing in Final Fantasy was Quistis, I felt. Usually you get away with the fact that everyone's like, 19 by simply not talking about it. But Quistis? "I became a SeeD when I was 15, and then an instructor when I was 17. That was one year ago."
How can you be an instructor at that age? Is she even old enough to be drinking the champagne at that party?
Honestly it kind of annoys me how young they make them. I kind of pretend that they're much older, based on their appearance, personality and maturity. FFXII in particular gets this treatment... I can't help but see Ashe and notably Fran as much older than they probably officially are. Even with the older guys, like Cid Highwind. He's 32 in FFVII but for me he acts notably older. Maybe it's just in my head, but I really get the impression he's more like a 40 year old.
So she is. "Eldest is Lulu at 22" my butt, Psy!Originally Posted by Del Murder
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
What was that one phrase from most of the Versus XIII trailers right up until the rebranding to Final Fantasy XV?
This is a fantasy based on reality.
Now tell me, how many mechanics have you seen dressed like that in real life?
At least the clothes the guys are wearing are more believable as practical (if slightly exaggerated high-market) everyday fashion. (same with the likes of Luna and Stella)
But a mechanic dressed like that, really? You can't see why some people might feel it's a bit ludicrous? Might as well change her name to Cidney "The Mechanic" from Page 3 of The Sun.
But of course she can't look 50 because no one wants to see a 50 year old woman amirite
Lightning is over 500. Fang and Vanille are over 700. Ultimecia is like, ancient.
I have an awesome character design an artist did for me for one of my projects. I'd come up with a female scholar but realised I'd done exactly this ("I'm the leading researcher in my field! I'm 17 years old!") so I changed it so she's in her 40's. Guess what? She looks badass. Older women can look cool as well, there's no reason (other than the obvious one that makes us sad) to make them all so young. Although in fairness this is one silly area that is often shared by the men. Perhaps not quite equally, but often.
The world would be a better place if awesome characters like Judge Drace could be promoted to protagonists.
It's shared by the men, but if XV has proven anything it's that they're fully capable of making older characters with wrinkles and all. Hopefully women won't be far behind.
Just look at how awesome Asha'bellanar from Dragon Age was.
Lightning in Lightning Returns is over 500, but who's counting?So she is. "Eldest is Lulu at 22" my butt, Psy!Fran isn't human and ages differently.
You cannot give Atelier characters a consistent look because it is a game that tells a story of many years and not every event has to be in time x. In the endings they normally have aged a bit.
Also, Atelier does exist for the purpose of eyecandy and never was supposed to be the opposite.
The literal age number doesn't matter here; the point is that in this series, the appearance of a majority of primary female characters shows them to be look as if they were 25-ish or younger, with many of them actually as teens. That is what the problem is.
SO STOP BUYING THEIR GAMES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE
Have they? I mean, all the playable characters look about 25 at most. Maybe that's just me. They have had older female NPCs, but never playable older characters. Even Cid Highwind, old man himself, was said to be 32 and it's silly. They should be able to have 40 year old girls and guys that look and act 40 and are 40 in pretty much all recognisable ways.
This reminds me a little of that thing we did about "What FF could learn from GoT" - we should have added in "older women are cool". But hey, at least they listened to one thing we added on that list. Look! Cidney has dirt on her! Is she the first ever character in Final Fantasy history to get some grub on their face? Even in FFXIII I recall them getting into all kinds of muck and them coming out clean every time.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Can you imagine a world like that? Where instead of being able to both enjoy a piece of media and harbour criticisms towards it, you had to just love everything about it unconditionally or not buy it? The economy would collapse!
- "I'm not all that keen on this all-male cast". STOP BUYING THEIR GAMES!
- "The game is good, but the ability system is kind of boring." WHY DID YOU EVEN BUY IT!?
- "Check out my new car! It's a bit slow off the line but makes up for it in-" YOU KNOW YOU'RE JUST ENCOURAGING THEM RIGHT??
I don't disagree since I'm a big believer of "vote with your wallet" but here how conversations like this would go if more people did that.
"trololol you don't even play the games, what do you know?"
Yeah, I may have botched it here because I was thinking of the old men in the trailers without knowing how relevant they are to the plot and such. I mainly just meant they're fully capable of designing older characters so there's not much excuse not having one of them playable.
Last edited by Ayen; 12-23-2014 at 05:39 PM.
I don't know how old you think Daenerys is but...
There are four female point of view characters in AGoT. Three of them are fourteen or under. Just sayin'.
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