Similarity between two bosses.. I'm just bored lol

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Square reuses a lot of monster assets for the game. Saves on costs and resources rather than trying to create unique monsters for every single instance, though they do try to fancy them up a bit like with that freak of nature first boss in Amadapor City.

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As quoted above, SE tends to reuse the mob artworks and mechanics in other instances.. to save time on programming, animating and thinking of new mechanics. Mix and match apperances of a mob with mechanics of another.. add a pinch of hue and some decorations.. Voilà! New Boss emerges!

Remember how you hate "Angra Mainyu" in WoD? .. he is the Ahriman from Hakkue who was tutored by 1st boss in Qarn to cast Doom.

Since there's usually more than one type of mob within a family some of them are bound to be similar.

Same base model is used, all monster/mounts are just a variation of a some base model. While not as obvious as palette swapping in old 2D sprite games, you can still tell.
Almost none of the bosses have unique or new base models. Exceptions being primals, Fenrir, FF11 or FF13 base models.

wow had no idea how arioch lookeded up close!

Nael Deus Darnus and the boss of the Amdapor Keep (HM) is the same model, and no other creatures share it. I doubt they are related haha (I could be wrong).

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Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

Nael Deus Darnus and the boss of the Amdapor Keep (HM) is the same model, and no other creatures share it. I doubt they are related haha (I could be wrong).

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http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/3b/3b758...ef80b42b2c.jpg

http://images.bluegartr.com/bucket/g...9eaf60321b.png

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/scre...ffxiv-2210.jpg

Know who else "shares this model"? Every other humanoid in the game xD

I think he means wireframe, meaning they share battle animations/floaty walking/etc. They're designed drastically different but use the same wireframe for movement and such.

I can't confirm this I just think thats what he meant. You can see several similarities (especially in the fingers/arms) from just those pictures however.

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Originally Posted by BlaiseArath

I think he means wireframe, meaning they share battle animations/floaty walking/etc. They're designed drastically different but use the same wireframe for movement and such.

I can't confirm this I just think thats what he meant. You can see several similarities (especially in the fingers/arms) from just those pictures however.

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You're correct. Model wasn't the correct term to use haha.

At least it isn't as blatent reuse as FFXI was XD. Kill bats at level 1, kill the exact same model bats at level 99 too ^_^

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

At least it isn't as blatent reuse as FFXI was XD. Kill bats at level 1, kill the exact same model bats at level 99 too ^_^

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This game needs the rabbits though, not enough Rarabs murdering the strongest of adventurers