Heels

[CrazyMcGee]

Whilst I do applaud that the female characters all wear sensible shoes for running around the galaxy killing things, sometimes a girl just wants to look good! My smuggler has her thigh-high boots, but what about a nice pair of heels? You could even have click-clicky sounds as you walk

[JPryde]

Would surely look great in the sands of Tattooine or the swamps of Quesh and Taris or the ice of Hoth...

[JakeTWC]

Heels are pretty much the only thing that I miss in the game. I mean we already have skirts so heels should be the next step.

[Obi-Timmey]

We need Heels for 100%

[Gwena]

Heels have the potential to be great! Depends on the execution though. I'd prefer something tasteful and elegant, not something a, uh, lady of the night would wear to work.

 

And I'd hope they'd make a variation of said shoes for the gents as well because I am already sad that my male characters cannot wear sandals. Poor guys can only wear boots, boots, or boots.

[SithKoriandr]

I like the idea!

 

However there's complaints about how there's less than 10 bikini style tops/belly shirts out of hundreds of armor styles already. Imagine the complaints coming in if they added heels!

 

Player: "First you have me fighting battles in a slave bikini! Now you make it so I wear heels?!"

 

^Note, no one is ever forced to do it, but players always seem to say they are.

[Myxam]

There's several reasons for a big no, mainly due to animations. Heels in the games the OP likely has played before are apart of the character's ENTIRE animation set (off the top of my head, Lineage, Aion, TERA, Neverwinter, Rafflez, PerfectWorld), take off your boots and your character still has stiletto heels on. So in order to actually put heels on your character, you have to change EVERY animation your character uses in order to look right. You see that with off-hand weapons but those already came included in the game and are a major item that contributes to your animation set -- Boots don't.

 

Second reason is the whole objectifying women, feminist argument that plagues games like the ones I stated above. Not to mention the lack of sense there is for a Sith Juggernaut to wear Stilettos, they'd snap after the first Force Charge!

 

Third reason, after seeing so many sexed up characters, I and alot of other people have come to appreciate the normal alot more, and that includes our ugly boots. Its not a Fashion game, its a Roleplaying Game, and Soldiers, Snipers, Warriors and Mages don't wear heels.

[Projawa]

I'm glad that high heels aren't prevalent in this game. Ladies sporting big heels have always been a turnoff along with those huge bug-eye sunglasses that seem to be so popular among women nowadays. I don't get the appeal in resembling a giant fly, though these glasses do cover most of the face which is often a blessing in disguise. Edited July 8, 2013 by Projawa

[Fergz]

they did it in city of heroes so why not here

[SithKoriandr]

Third reason, after seeing so many sexed up characters, I and alot of other people have come to appreciate the normal alot more, and that includes our ugly boots. Its not a Fashion game, its a Roleplaying Game, and Soldiers, Snipers, Warriors and Mages don't wear heels.

 

Will have to disagree here. Roleplaying game has nothing to do with whether or not heels should be included. Setting does. In TERA for instance, heels obviously make sense in the setting, because it's part of the setting. Heels in the superhero genre work because, hey, it's part of the setting.

 

As for SW setting. Totally seems like slave bikini could have heels. And I see no reason force users couldn't use them.

 

But your points on animations are likely correct.

 

But being a roleplaying game, I think most players don't have a sense of that at all. Or else I'm not understanding how most people on Fleet seem to have a personal slave. And how Elana, the Trooper, goes around in a slave outfit.

[AsheraII]

Will have to disagree here. Roleplaying game has nothing to do with whether or not heels should be included. Setting does. In TERA for instance, heels obviously make sense in the setting, because it's part of the setting. Heels in the superhero genre work because, hey, it's part of the setting.

 

As for SW setting. Totally seems like slave bikini could have heels. And I see no reason force users couldn't use them.

 

But your points on animations are likely correct.

 

But being a roleplaying game, I think most players don't have a sense of that at all. Or else I'm not understanding how most people on Fleet seem to have a personal slave. And how Elana, the Trooper, goes around in a slave outfit.

I have to agree with this. Although Bioware made the only MMORPG which actually deserves the RPG part at the end of the abreviation, the players rarely fit the bill for this RPG component. Kinda like SWG in reverse, where the game itself wasn't really designed around RPG, but the players picked it up with great enthousiasm and repurposed the features they had available to that end.

 

I'd like to see high heels in TOR. And there are some tricks to accomplish that, despite the limitations, and make them work with existing animations. And yes, I know it would generally be used to make companions look like <you know whats>. Especially considering the lousy tasteless designs of equipment in general in SW:TOR (Not just the dancer outfits or the midrif and other "sexy" outfits, all armors in TOR actually look pretty bad, very few really give the "I'm a Jedi" or "I'm a Bounty Hunter" sensation).

 

Nevertheless, there are players who think over their appearance, who will decide not to wear stilettos because it doesn't fit their character, or because the design of the heels doesn't match the design of the gear their character uses. So while one of their characters might use them, or have a companion wearing them, they wouldn't use them on another character. or companion. Some of those people are roleplayers, others just like to play dress up. But these are the people the developers should primarily keep in mind when designing new items.

[JamieKirby]

Heels have the potential to be great! Depends on the execution though. I'd prefer something tasteful and elegant, not something a, uh, lady of the night would wear to work.

 

And I'd hope they'd make a variation of said shoes for the gents as well because I am already sad that my male characters cannot wear sandals. Poor guys can only wear boots, boots, or boots.

 

That depends on the guy in question, doesn't it? lol

[Gwena]

That depends on the guy in question, doesn't it? lol

 

Well, I suppose male characters in this game can go barefoot too. ^_~ The slave and dancer sandals, like the rest of the sets, are female only though.

 

As for the subject matter, when I wrote that last post I was thinking of something like the shoes from the Bard armor in FFXIV. The animations in that game aren't made for high heels, so they are designed in a way to accomodate this. And the Bard AF shoes look very similar on both genders, yet somehow are "high heels" on the ladies and just fancy and elegant on the gents. Then again . . . I don't know if Bioware's art department can pull something like that off as well as SE's can.

[CommanderStuart]

I have made the suggestion twice during development for this game far before release.

High Heels can’t be too tricky to add. Even Guild Wars 1 did it! The idea that you will not find High Heels all over the Star Wars Galaxy is incomprehensible and outrageous.