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Alhanelem
10-21-2011, 09:07 AM
Am I the only one who saw this and thought it was the dev team's best idea in like forever? ;)
(of course, we know that SE likes to reference Star Wars, usually by including characters named Biggs and Wedge)
Xellith
10-21-2011, 09:36 AM
LOL I said the same thing to my friend. I said also that if they add a yellowish orange one then we are gonna have to nickname it "Pizza the Hut"
Mirage
10-21-2011, 10:05 AM
He does look kinda like Jabba.
Tagrineth
10-21-2011, 11:45 AM
And how bout the short, fat Shadow Lord? LOL
noodles355
10-21-2011, 03:49 PM
(of course, we know that SE likes to reference Star Wars, usually by including characters named Biggs and Wedge)I liked when Necron did the yoda "Fear leads to anger" speech.
LOL I said the same thing to my friend. I said also that if they add a yellowish orange one then we are gonna have to nickname it "Pizza the Hut"Well there is Guimauve which sort of fits but not really.
Prothscar
10-21-2011, 05:16 PM
More likely to be this (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Flan_Princess_%28Final_Fantasy_IV%29)
Mirage
10-21-2011, 09:55 PM
Who's to say jabba doesn't want to look pretty now and then? Maybe he thinks of himself as a princess.
Kristal
10-21-2011, 11:05 PM
More likely to be this (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Flan_Princess_%28Final_Fantasy_IV%29)
It could have been a pink recoloring if it was a mere flan princess, like they did with Holy Moly.
So it's definitely a wink to Star Wars, it's simply too similar in appearance to Jabba the Hutt to not be that.
Ingame, it'll probably be a Flan Princess or Queen. Or a Flan Drag Queen... I suspect Charm will be a key ability on that mob :D
Sparthos
10-21-2011, 11:56 PM
I liked when Necron did the yoda "Fear leads to anger" speech.
Don't forget Final Fantasy XII.
The whole game was a Star Wars reference.
scaevola
10-22-2011, 01:37 AM
Don't forget Final Fantasy XII.
The whole game was a Star Wars reference.
ok guys we have to go to this floating mining colony that has thusfar remained neutral
oh no the leader (who goes way back with one of the principal characters) stabbed us in the back and turned us over to the bad guys to protect the colony's neutrality!!!!
the empire double-crossed him after making him sell out his friends! those jerks!
now he's seen the error of his ways and is flying the millennium falcon
(ps don't believe lando's lies)
More likely to be this (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Flan_Princess_%28Final_Fantasy_IV%29)
Probably has the same total drop rate too (1/64)^2.
Limecat
10-23-2011, 08:37 AM
All I know is that I hope it drops pink tails.
Nope. Didn't think about Jabba for even a second. That might be because because I've played enough FF to immediately recognize it as the Flan Princess, notoriously from FFIV (but it's appeared in remakes of other games, too).
Leonlionheart
10-23-2011, 12:39 PM
FF's are games that constantly reference mythology... Norse (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/18675/mjollnir), Indian (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Shiva), Chinese (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Qilin), Christian (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Metatron_Torment)
I guess star wars is american mythology
whmsyrup
10-24-2011, 01:30 PM
I like his crown... and the pink is just fabulouuuuuuuuus!
raja nabadua gola wookie nipple pinchie
Mirage
10-25-2011, 12:41 AM
FF's are games that constantly reference mythology... Norse (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/18675/mjollnir), Indian (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Shiva), Chinese (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Qilin), Christian (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Metatron_Torment)
I guess star wars is american mythology
The Shiva in FF11 is possibly based on a slavic deity rather than indian. At least the slavic deity is actually female.
Soranika
10-25-2011, 01:53 AM
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FF's are games that constantly reference mythology... Norse (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/18675/mjollnir), Indian (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Shiva), Chinese (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Qilin), Christian (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Metatron_Torment)
I guess star wars is american mythologyStar Wars did make it into the Library of Congress. Something to be said there.
Atomic_Skull
10-25-2011, 05:12 AM
Who's to say jabba doesn't want to look pretty now and then? Maybe he thinks of himself as a princess.
You know hutts are hermaphrodites, right?
It could have been a pink recoloring if it was a mere flan princess, like they did with Holy Moly.
So it's definitely a wink to Star Wars, it's simply too similar in appearance to Jabba the Hutt to not be that.
I don't think so, I think they just set out to make a larger more elaborate flan and that's how it turned out. Sometimes things just turn out similar without any actual intention of that. This happens because some things are just obvious and someone else may arrive at the same (or similar) idea independently. (it even happens in nature, check out mice and marsupial mice, totally different unrelated animals that look nearly identical)
Take a look at the original Flan model, now imagine that you want to make a special, "boss" flan with a more elaborate design. One of the more obvious ways would be to keep the face/upper head the same but expand the body.
Mirage
10-25-2011, 05:14 AM
You know hutts are hermaphrodites, right?
Nope, are they? I never really got into starwars lore. I just watched the movies and that's about it.