Cid's Teeth

[NrvnqsrKhaos]

Seriously, this is the absolute biggest problem in the game.

LOOK AT HIS MOUTH. JUST LOOK AT IT. To see him masticate is to know the end times are upon us. Gaze, and realize fear as you knew it before was a phantom of the true terror that exists in our fair world: the terror of Bastok's lackluster dental hygienists.

Is there something wrong with his model? Or is it actually intended to haunt my nightmares? Perhaps Cid engineered his teeth himself, carved from the decayed mechanical corpse of an Orcish Warmachine, to intimate his subordinates. Or maybe his teeth are a symbiotic alien, the advance troops of a race of eldrich abominations from beyond the stars. Whatever the case, It's bad. Earth-shatteringly, reality-crushingly bad.

Oh god. I can HEAR THEM. THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE A SOUND BUT I CAN HEAR THEM, BEHIND ME, READY TO STRIKE

[Urteil]

Move to Phoenix so we can be friends.

[Burmecia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgx6ocjg_Q

>.>

[NrvnqsrKhaos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgx6ocjg_Q

>.>

Great. Another genre of music to add to the nightmare list.

Directly under Gore Metal, Canadian Psychotrance, and Cher.


Move to Phoenix so we can be friends.

What's the use? The teeth would only follow me there! I wouldn't be safe! No, no, better to stay here, alone. If I may be their only victim, perhaps there is yet hope in this world.

[Burmecia]

Hahaha. xD

[Stromgarde]

I envy those who have never witnessed this. They can probably still sleep at night.

[Arcon]

I've never agreed with anything more than this. Cid's teeth will haunt me for the rest of my life. They're the digital version of evil. They would scare SHODAN into submission. Those CoP cutscenes alone are enough to qualify FFXI as a horror game.

[Mirage]

Yweah seriously, first thing I noticed about him was that his jaw seems to be severely dislocated.

[Fiarlia]

I highly approve of this thread.

[Gaspee]

Seriously, this is the absolute biggest problem in the game.

LOOK AT HIS MOUTH. JUST LOOK AT IT. To see him masticate is to know the end times are upon us. Gaze, and realize fear as you knew it before was a phantom of the true terror that exists in our fair world: the terror of Bastok's lackluster dental hygienists.

Is there something wrong with his model? Or is it actually intended to haunt my nightmares? Perhaps Cid engineered his teeth himself, carved from the decayed mechanical corpse of an Orcish Warmachine, to intimate his subordinates. Or maybe his teeth are a symbiotic alien, the advance troops of a race of eldrich abominations from beyond the stars. Whatever the case, It's bad. Earth-shatteringly, reality-crushingly bad.

Oh god. I can HEAR THEM. THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE A SOUND BUT I CAN HEAR THEM, BEHIND ME, READY TO STRIKE

I literally laughed out loud. I, too, have also noticed this and agree wholeheartedly with your eloquent observations.

[Nashreen]

TOTALLY!

I always thought his jaw is mechanical and he can't get it to stop or something. Creepy ;_ ;

Plus, what's up with him wearing nothing under his apron? *shivers*

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

The Cult of the Blue Rarab concurs with this assertion.

[Lushipur]

nothings to say about his pants? XD

[PizzaTheHut]

I sure hope they don't take this seriously to waste time and money fixing:rolleyes:

[Stefiki]

Is there something wrong with his model? Or is it actually intended to haunt my nightmares?

Both i think, he has other flaws like the rip in his pants seam that shows off his apparent invisibility. Its a pretty big hole, not sure how that went unnoticed. lol

[Wenceslao]

No more sleeping for me since tonight T.T

[CrystalWeapon]

Couldn't agree more, it is by far the most horrifying thing I've ever seen in this game aside from the fact that goobbue look like a nakid 160 year old galkan.... eeww manboobs...

Have to admit though as horrifying as his teeth are, it's like a train wreck. You can't help but stare... knowing all the while you should look away from the horror before it stains your soul with a darkness you cannot wash away... *sigh* I'm going to have Cid nightmares again T-T

[Bahamut_Norm]

Please, yes. I'll find volunteers to submit the dat modifications myself if I must.

It's like some sort of horrible cinco de mayo doll.

[Camate]

Seriously, this is the absolute biggest problem in the game.

LOOK AT HIS MOUTH. JUST LOOK AT IT. To see him masticate is to know the end times are upon us. Gaze, and realize fear as you knew it before was a phantom of the true terror that exists in our fair world: the terror of Bastok's lackluster dental hygienists.

Is there something wrong with his model? Or is it actually intended to haunt my nightmares? Perhaps Cid engineered his teeth himself, carved from the decayed mechanical corpse of an Orcish Warmachine, to intimate his subordinates. Or maybe his teeth are a symbiotic alien, the advance troops of a race of eldrich abominations from beyond the stars. Whatever the case, It's bad. Earth-shatteringly, reality-crushingly bad.

Oh god. I can HEAR THEM. THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE A SOUND BUT I CAN HEAR THEM, BEHIND ME, READY TO STRIKE

LOL. We'll be sure to have the Development Team look into this and we apologize for any nightmares.
(I am in tears laughing)

[Lushipur]

emergency maint.? XD

[Kyte]

I sure hope they don't take this seriously to waste time and money fixing:rolleyes:


Why aren't you taking this seriously!?!?

[Neika]

This is so true! I shudder every time i have a cut scene where i have to talk to him! I totally forgot about it until i started another character and was doing the nation missions again in Bastok. I think my mind was trying to protect me from the horror of his teeth and half-nakedness. And is it just me or does he walk kinda funny too?

[Kimara]

LOL please log out immediately they need to fix Cid's teeth XD. I always wondered why his teeth were made like that o.o.

[Neika]

I can see it now... Emergancy maintenance on all worlds while Cid goes sees the new Bastokan dentist. I hope the dentist isn't a Galka...

[Chiibi]

lol wow... xD they arnt THAT bad xD

[Meyi]

For those who have yet to witness the horror:
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s85/Dareru/cid1.png

And Cid needs to go see a Seamstress in Windurst:
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s85/Dareru/cid2.png

While he's at it, can he bring Eald'narche along too?:
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s85/Dareru/ealdnarche.png

The Archduke of Jeuno needs some serious adjustments. His clothes are falling apart in the back and in the front.

[NrvnqsrKhaos]

Oh god, I had forgotten about the pants.

Yes, this is proof that Cid is not altogether human. He is literally an empty shell of a being, or some beast masquerading as Cid. What sinister plot has this power-mad thing in store for Vana'diel?

Maybe it's level 99 content. The final boss of the game is just a giant version of Cid's face.

Terror, and terror unyielding.

[Mirage]

Perhaps someone is wearing his skin as a suit!

[Chaitea]

That's because SE is probably planning a future Goldsmithing/Smithing synth in the next Synergy update for braces.

[Yarly]

I sure hope they don't take this seriously to waste time and money fixing:rolleyes:

This is like one of the best suggestions on this forum to date. Every other thread is about how FFXI is too hard or too expensive or whatever else you can cry a river about, which are more of a waste of time to even read, nevermind to consider.

[Delente]

That's because SE is probably planning a future Goldsmithing/Smithing synth in the next Synergy update for braces.
Do you think they are also planning a high lvl leathercrafting synthesis for buttcheeks?

[Dohati]

i seriously never noticed any problems with cid's teeth, or eald'narche's clothes. maybe i'm just blind. <.<;

[Aaradia]

If you're gonna talk about his teeth you might as well talk about fixing the hole in the back of his pants, too. NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT EITHER.

[Kyte]

Oh god, I had forgotten about the pants.

Yes, this is proof that Cid is not altogether human. He is literally an empty shell of a being, or some beast masquerading as Cid. What sinister plot has this power-mad thing in store for Vana'diel?

Maybe it's level 99 content. The final boss of the game is just a giant version of Cid's face.

Terror, and terror unyielding.


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/Kyte/Cid.png

?

[tlaloc]

Cid's teeth are not bad at all... if you want nightmares: watch Verena being possessed by a demon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AElIECa4kd8 .... now thats scary....http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/35171_130540333652743_100000903311189_148330_422756_n.jpg

[Birdkiller]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/Kyte/Cid.png

?

lol, and his special attack will be shooting out his teeth at you like those tiles in the SNES game.

[Lostprophet]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/Kyte/Cid.png

?

Use the boost to get through!

[kingfury]

LOL I remember just letting the cutscene idle during Cids dialog so I could really understand what it was I was lookin at XD, Yes please, fix his poor "latent effect teeth" ^^;
----
On the opposite side of the spectrum, however, I was a huge fan of the facial diversity and expressions of most of the leading role npc's from the WoTG storyline ^^/ Can we ask the Dev Team to share with our dated (yet still lovely for the most part :D ) character models some of that same wonderful variety of expression please. Lilisette was so easy to fall in love with as a story character just largely based on all of her realistic and appropriate facial expressions throughout the story in my opinion. Thanks and keep up the good work /salute

[Cardinalgate]

Cid has the whitest teeth in Bastok let keep it that way xD

[Kyrial]

On the opposite side of the spectrum, however, I was a huge fan of the facial diversity and expressions of most of the leading role npc's from the WoTG storyline ^^/ Can we ask the Dev Team to share with our dated (yet still lovely for the most part :D ) character models some of that same wonderful variety of expression please. Lilisette was so easy to fall in love with as a story character just largely based on all of her realistic and appropriate facial expressions throughout the story in my opinion. Thanks and keep up the good work /salute
Agreed! That was definitely one of my favorite parts about the WotG cutscenes. :)

[hideka]

i think lilisette should be added as a DLC charachter for duodeciem >_> she would be freaking AMAZING to play as >_>

[Gennadi]

Ok for the record Cid's teeth was badly damaged by Orcish beastmen in the last great war. Gvodibandod Teethdegrader used some forbidden methane gass bombs that reduced Cid's teeth to nothing. And now hes using special alchemist guild created floating dentures that protrude from his mouth.

[wolfshadow]

Sounds legit

[Lyali]

I'm pretty sure I figured out this mystery a few years ago. Here's an article I wrote for my linkshell in 2008. Sorry about the image links but I'm not sure if there's a way to embed images.


Peculiar Pachidermal Periodontics

No matter what nation you call home, all adventurers of all ranks have at one point or another crossed paths with or at least have heard the fantastic stories surrounding Cid, the world famous inventor and chief engineer in Bastok's Metalworks. But more fascinating than his amazing career is a matter that has piqued the curiosities of and inspired terror into many adventurers around the world.

What the heck is up with that guy's teeth anyway?

Since moving back to San d'Oria I've been able to have a few chats with our local specialist of biology and wildlife, Atelloune, who let me look upon some of the research done by her mentor, Professor Chanoix. Upon viewing these documents I found something quite interesting.

http://www.vagrantmoogles.com/tempphotos/marid.jpg
Behold, the marid. I'm sure most of you have seen these before lumbering about in Bhaflau Thickets or Wajaom Woodlands, though I doubt any of you have gotten close enough to notice these:

http://www.vagrantmoogles.com/tempphotos/teeth1.jpg

These are the teeth of an adult female marid. Let me line it up with another picture for comparison. (just don't ask me how I got it)

http://www.vagrantmoogles.com/tempphotos/teeth1.jpg
http://www.vagrantmoogles.com/tempphotos/teeth2.jpg

Could Cid's teeth be modified marid dentures? It's not completely out of the question. Bastok has been known to have trade connections with Aht Urghan, and especially with the presence of the Tenshodo, such a thing wouldn't seem so preposterous.

But whether they are marid molars or not, one thing is for certain.

They sure are creepy.

[Dustman]

LMAO! That is the greatest thing ever. I've noticed it too but never actually thought about it. XD

[Demonicpagan]

OMG, this has been the best thread ever to read... LOL

[Arourie]

Kudo's for ppl with a sense of humor, I ROFL tyvm.

[Keali]

Both i think, he has other flaws like the rip in his pants seam that shows off his apparent invisibility. Its a pretty big hole, not sure how that went unnoticed. lol

As a taru and starting out in Bastok, I have to admit, Cid was both awesome, and yet horrifying because of the rip in his pants that always greeted me.

[Dohati]

i just noticed last night that all the beetles have one backwards foot. the toes on their right foreleg point inward toward the body and on every other foot they point away. dunno if that was intentional for square-enix.

[Harpalina]

Wow the OP must be in the dentistry field. Haha...fun times...fun times.

[Anapingofness]

>_> I've pointed the mouth out to my friends when I was doing CoP... I'm glad there is someone out there who is as disturbed by them as I was...and still continue to be.

[Jomen]

Rofl, I never noticed this but I'll have to check it out when the game gets back online.

[Yenrii]

I TOTALLY agree with everything said in this thread. Cid's character design is distracting, and personally it creeped me out during the CoP missions. His jaw is dislocated, and his pants are split in a way that whenever he walks we get a full screen of major wedgie. Easy fix for SE, please!!

[Abelia]

The hole in his pants is the gateway to oblivion. Gaze upon it in horror, knowing the true intentions of his creators. The portal to oblivion caused all tragedies that have befallen the once peaceful world of Vana' Diel. His teeth are but a reminder of our mortal coils tethering us to this world. The fear you have is warranted, for with those teeth, he can crush your immortal soul. Pray to the dawn goddess, Altana, that your soul may remain intact after the visit with Promathia's apparition of terror.

[GlobalVariable]

http://i56.tinypic.com/t87seg.png

;)

[Xios]

http://i56.tinypic.com/t87seg.png

;)

Made me lol xD

[cordi]

OMG you are so right, this is one thing in the game that i try to avoid. *crosses fingers* she will not have too many more cs's with him!

[Lithian]

I agree that the safest option for any new adventurer not wanting to lose their sense of security at the sight of his mandibles would be to take said mandibles and shove them up his never-ending arse, patching it up afterwards, but at the same time...

Have you guys thought about what it'll be like without Cid's teeth and pants? Just a long-talked about legend that will eventually be questioned as to its credibility after many Vana'Dielian years pass - something future generations to come will only hear of briefly and never be able to relate to us over.


TLDR;

If this is fixed, I might miss the familiarity of being terrified of poor Cid's "flaws"...

[Ardok]

http://i56.tinypic.com/t87seg.png

;)

That's great, LOL.

Even I have noticed the flaws in Cid and the archduke. Cid is pretty creepy... In a really bad way too.

[Miera]

http://i56.tinypic.com/t87seg.png

;)
Ookay, I don't think I will be able to sleep peacefully tonight.

[Zyeriis]

Thanks thread, I had sealed the memories of those horrid teeth away. Not going to sleep tonight, guarantee it *chugs a soda*

[Octaviane]

I roared laughing at this thread. Cid's teeth are undeniably the scariest thing in Van a'Diel. Maybe he used wooden parts from his airship to fashion them, who knows. Metalworks needs to have a Dentist's Office......or a movie set, those teeth would make a great horror movie!

[Zyeriis]

I roared laughing at this thread. Cid's teeth are undeniably the scariest thing in Van a'Diel. Maybe he used wooden parts from his airship to fashion them, who knows. Metalworks needs to have a Dentist's Office......or a movie set, those teeth would make a great horror movie!

Oh god, now you're making me think he fashioned the airships FROM his teeth. Oh dear lord, I've been flying around Vanadiel on the babies of his teeth all this time !? ieouagbrsupbsucfbvsr

[GlobalVariable]

Ookay, I don't think I will be able to sleep peacefully tonight.Mission accomplished.
Oh god, now you're making me think he fashioned the airships FROM his teeth. Oh dear lord, I've been flying around Vanadiel on the babies of his teeth all this time !? ieouagbrsupbsucfbvsrNa they aren't babies. See Cid's mouth is like a sharks, or a Goobues, the teeth grow back when lost. Each weekend his assistant helps harvest his mighty choppers to make airship parts with.




Dun Dun DUN Dun DUN but unknown to Bastok cid can psychically control his teeth after removal, and is amassing his airship fleet to RULE THE WORLD!

[Yawn]

His mouth always resembled a nutcracker doll, to me. I ma more horrified by the split in hie pants... So many close-ups /shudder. Please, SE, have him invest in some underwear.

[Zyeriis]

Mission accomplished.Na they aren't babies. See Cid's mouth is like a sharks, or a Goobues, the teeth grow back when lost. Each weekend his assistant helps harvest his mighty choppers to make airship parts with.

Dun Dun DUN Dun DUN but unknown to Bastok cid can psychically control his teeth after removal, and is amassing his airship fleet to RULE THE WORLD!

Explains how he got that airship together so fast in CoP to fly you to Al'Taeiu. *shivers and is scarred for life*

[GlobalVariable]

On a more serious note, if they do alter cids mouth (face model), I want a Holloween mask helmet that makes me look like I have cid's head and his old mouth when the next Halloween event comes around. It'd be perfect for scaring taru children off my mog house porch while threatening to make tarukabobs.

[Atomic_Skull]

Cid has a split in his crotch too.

[Shakuzen]

Seriously, this is the absolute biggest problem in the game.

LOOK AT HIS MOUTH. JUST LOOK AT IT. To see him masticate is to know the end times are upon us. Gaze, and realize fear as you knew it before was a phantom of the true terror that exists in our fair world: the terror of Bastok's lackluster dental hygienists.

Is there something wrong with his model? Or is it actually intended to haunt my nightmares? Perhaps Cid engineered his teeth himself, carved from the decayed mechanical corpse of an Orcish Warmachine, to intimate his subordinates. Or maybe his teeth are a symbiotic alien, the advance troops of a race of eldrich abominations from beyond the stars. Whatever the case, It's bad. Earth-shatteringly, reality-crushingly bad.

Oh god. I can HEAR THEM. THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE A SOUND BUT I CAN HEAR THEM, BEHIND ME, READY TO STRIKE

My stomache hurts. Please, no more! >.< If I don't stop laughing I am actually going to die.

[Richard]

i fucking lol'd hard i remember commenting while doing bastok rank missions to my linkshell.. "Why is it that Cid is the only person in Vana'diel with teeth?" LOL wow you are my hero

[Henihhi]

He is a very scray man- between his messed up teeth and the split in his crotch he should strike fear all over Vana Diel

[Zyeriis]

He is a very scray man- between his messed up teeth and the split in his crotch he should strike fear all over Vana Diel

He already does strike fear, and it goes beyond Vana Diel. Why do you think we could kill gods? They were too busy worrying about Cid's Teeth.

[Kyoshin]

Belated, but:

http://bit.ly/fRQkCa

Enjoy your nightmares! :D

[Zatias]

Belated, but:

http://bit.ly/fRQkCa

Enjoy your nightmares! :D

I peed my pants. Thank you.

[Atomic_Skull]

i just noticed last night that all the beetles have one backwards foot. the toes on their right foreleg point inward toward the body and on every other foot they point away. dunno if that was intentional for square-enix.

Been like that for years. Cockatrices have one broken toe too and orobons have a glitch in their teeth where a few vertices in the geometry is attached to the wrong part of the model's skeleton. One of Fenrir's eyes also has a similar glitch.

[Octaviane]

Belated, but:

http://bit.ly/fRQkCa

Enjoy your nightmares! :D

SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I think I figured out where Cid's teeth came from. He stole them from Volker, who has no teeth.

[Malacite]

TL;DR

Maybe they were drawing inspiration from his FF4 iteration?

[Dragoy]

Ne'er really had an issue with the teeth per se~ but it was always rather un-settling how they would disappear and appear again while he is talking.

[Zyeriis]

LOL. We'll be sure to have the Development Team look into this and we apologize for any nightmares.
(I am in tears laughing)
It's been four months since this response. When can we expect this nightmare-inducing enigma to be corrected (or jokingly referenced in future content) or put in the roadmap?

[Misi]

fixed! (http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l36/tehzohar/cid_pup_upgrade.png)

oh wait...

oops.

[Nianny]

fixed! (http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l36/tehzohar/cid_pup_upgrade.png)

oh wait...

oops.


O.O..............




^
|
That is all...

[slakyak]

fixed! (http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l36/tehzohar/cid_pup_upgrade.png)

oh wait...

oops.

Great, now I'll never sleep again... Thanks a bunch Misi!! Lol

[Misi]

Just saying, it could be worse. XD you're welcome!

[Zyeriis]

Just saying, it could be worse. XD you're welcome!

No it couldn't, I'd be fine with intimidating automatons. Put people in their place when talking about puppetmaster.

If you put them teefs on my mog house moogle, I might poop myself then.

[Misi]

No it couldn't, I'd be fine with intimidating automatons. Put people in their place when talking about puppetmaster.

If you put them teefs on my mog house moogle, I might poop myself though.

I don't think i'd ever want to go to get anything out of storage if that was the case.

[Paksenarrion]

Ah, I'm so late to this topic.

My LS always had a theory that the one Bastok mission where Cid sends you to get the Reinforced Cermet was to replace his wooden dentures.

[Giblets]

fixed! (http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l36/tehzohar/cid_pup_upgrade.png)

oh wait...

oops.

ಠ_ಠ

I can't stop laughing. And weeping.

[Miera]

fixed! (http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l36/tehzohar/cid_pup_upgrade.png)

oh wait...

oops.Holy hell, wow...

.......

I need new pants. ;;

[Nakts]

best
topic
ever

[geekgirl101]

Cid's teeth are not bad at all... if you want nightmares: watch Verena being possessed by a demon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AElIECa4kd8 .... now thats scary....http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/35171_130540333652743_100000903311189_148330_422756_n.jpg

LOL, I was laughing so hard when I saw his legs kick off at a 90 degree angle.

[geekgirl101]

I think this is the guy that Cid is based on, @4 mins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Q7j2BNSKo

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Critically important necro-bump!


Both i think, he has other flaws like the rip in his pants seam that shows off his apparent invisibility. Its a pretty big hole, not sure how that went unnoticed. lol

His Trust's wide battle stance? Not helping!

EDIT: seriously, at least give the guy some Moogle boxers or something!

[Ris]

This is dangerous to read at work. :O

[Moppet]

Cid's teeth should be made into a Trust summon!

[Talaya]

its 2020, his teeth are still the thing of nightmares...

[Vold]

That was a quick 9 years. Damn what are we doing with our lives.

[BST]

Waiting for Never.

[Sirmarki]

https://i.imgur.com/cbtHIUp.jpg

[Ultimoore]

https://i.imgur.com/cbtHIUp.jpg

Add a new quest where you have to take him to a dentist.

[Alhanelem]

I mean its just becuase of the low texture resolution. My bigger concern is why his mouth is rectangular.

[Enigma]

Hume males weird double knee joints, best viewed while resting, bother me more then Cid's teeth. lol

[Beastorizer]

This thread is comedy, and the tags are hilarious......lol....