Unmasking a Goblin?! Just what do they look like??

[kingfury]

**Edit to OP**

Gotta throw in the mad Goblin to balance out the scales here. ^^

-Rallying the troops

[kingfury]

Anyone remember "Throw Momma From the Train"? 2 words, Ann Ramsey! There's a visual I could do without...

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^^ Hahaha

[kingfury]

This also occurred to me. All Gobbies have Masks to filter the smell of burning when they Bomb Toss you, use Frypan or Crispy Candle (those latter 2 just crack me up)................

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LOL ^^ I can just see it now. An entire backstory on why Goblins wear their mask! /laugh It would be one of those cutesy/war-torn stories that eventually attempt to tug on our heart strings a bit I'm sure, in all the classic FFXI story telling fashion. ^^

-Goblin Child: What happened to you father?! Speak to me!
-Goblin Father: *Cough*Cough* I-I... trusted a Surface dweller... *Cough*... and left my mask behind! /stagger I must leave you now son... ughh
-Goblin Child: NoooooOOOO!
-Goblin Father: D-Don't... forget... your m-mask Son~~~*
-Goblin Child: *Sniffle* I won't Father... *Sniffle* (Cue heart wrenching music)
*The Heart wrenching moment*

[Mirage]

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Moblins look like they have a leather-like type of mask

And the armored ones just have a big face guard-looking piece

The mouthpiece doesn't look as big as the lump on the mask though, so I still think their noses would have to be slightly smaller. Unless the armor wearing gobs are gobs with massive birth defects.

[AyinDygra]

This link takes you to a gallery of official FFXI concept art.

The Goblin is this one, specifically.

That should help clear things up

[kingfury]

This link takes you to a gallery of official FFXI concept art.
The Goblin is this one, specifically.
That should help clear things up

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Very Awesome! ^^ Though in concept stages, things can always get altered a bit, like how the Giga in this sketch looks a good bit different from the Giga's in the game. I think the Goblin in that link you posted would look scary as hell roaming the caves and such! o.o lol With all the fur and clawed feet and whatnot.

*Edit after reaching the last concept sketch:
Very different Yagudo than what we have In-Game...but again, would prolly induce nightmares lol

I would still love to see a current rendition from the art department of how our in-game Goblins look under the mask. ^^

Thanks a ton for the great link /salute
/Kingfury bookmarks that link

[Glamdring]

concept art is always more detailed, then it is renderred at lower detail to simply save on resources. Damn those $$$

[Mirage]

I don't think the goblin concept is what they ran with for the final game. Even taking into account that it is rendered with fewer details in the game, I think the designs are too different.

And it is usually rendered in lower detail for it to be possible to run on end user computers. If all goblins had 100 times the detail of what htey have now, imagine how slow areas filled with hundreds of them would have been on a computer from around the time the game was released.

SE already made high poly versions of the designs you know, for use in pre-rendered cut scenes, so they didnt really save anything on making another low-poly version of them.

[AyinDygra]

Well, the current goblins just have masks on, and clothes over all the fur/claws. Their ears are still big and green sticking out from under that mask.

Also, the concept art gallery has 2 other sections, if it's not clear: Character Races and Locations.

[Vold]

I've been wondering about this for the longest time but I do enjoy a good mystery. I'm not sure I want to know.

really? Out of all the problems this game has, this question is threadworthy?

Because the 30 threads on each of the problems in the game aren't enough, I suppose.