Monster sizes in 2.0?

For those who hasn't been playing since the start:

When the game came out, the controls and UI was so horrid (and still isn't the best out there) that monsters had to be resized to be 2 or 3 times bigger so players would be able to target them easier, but with ARR on the way and it promising a much better UI and enhanced battle system and targeting, I've been wondering if there is a possibility of monsters returning to their original sizes.

Examples:

Marmots/Rats were the size of actual rodents but were re-sized to be as big as Lalafells.

Skeletons were the size of average human beings and now they're bigger than Elezens. (If they were wider we could have said they were Roe skeletons but they're not.

No images of the above examples.

Puks:

New size.
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/9...1303670926.jpg

Old size.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/515...1291994902.jpg

Boars:

Old size.
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2...1293492261.jpg

Gnats:

Old size.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9...1289800280.jpg
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Not as ridiculous as some of the things we have now, right?

Personally I prefer the old sizes.

what do you guys think?

I like the bigger sizes. It just feels more heroic to hit a mob my size or bigger rather than one I could fit in my hand.

I remember hitting one of those ladybug looking ones in Nanawa (I think) and being really shocked I got my butt kicked by a tiny bug :p

Giant marmots are a bit ridiculous yeah..

While it was a player-driven decision to make the mobs larger, they used the influence from Dalamud to explain their swift and dramatic physiological changes.

If the UI is so much better that it doesn't matter how small mobs are for targeting, then with Dalamud's influence being gone in ARR (I'm guessing?) mobs should be able to revert to their normal sizes.

The screenshots on the ARR website are kind of a mixed bag. The Coeurl looks freakin huge in comparison to the Hyur, but the Mandragoras look similarly proportional to their FFXI counterparts.

I like some of the bigger mobs, I can see so much more detail on them now than I could before, like the details on the elementals wings. Some though, like the toads, didn't need to be made bigger. They were already pretty huge.

The old size was better for gnats. They got carried away increasing the size of a lot of the monsters.

Liked the original sizes more

Roselings are damn scary now.

Marmots the same size as me? No problem there! Now I can look them straight in the eye before I kill them.

I've thought it over a bit, some of the mobs that were already pretty big are a bit too huge now. However I still think some of the smaller ones look better now.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

I like some of the bigger mobs, I can see so much more detail on them now than I could before, like the details on the elementals wings. Some though, like the toads, didn't need to be made bigger. They were already pretty huge.

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I read somewhere, to SHOW OFF detail it is why SE adjust the size.

The only issue I really have is that the size of monsters is all relative. Hell in XI most beastmen were actually physicall larger the higher level they were. Stand a level 1 goblin next to a 75 goblin and you could tell who was stronger at a glance.

It's just a shame that monsters didn't scale in size the higher the level they got. Small gnats could be low level ones, larger gnats obviously got stronger.

The most ridiculous big sized are the Toads, they were already Gigantic and after the change they are Extra Gigantic, can take a whole screen.

As long as the we don't start getting enemies that are the same race as us but inexplicably two times bigger (ala-wow) I don't care.

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Originally Posted by MariyaShidou

The most ridiculous big sized are the Toads, they were already Gigantic and after the change they are Extra Gigantic, can take a whole screen.

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um the toads actually got smaller.

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Originally Posted by Arkine

For those who hasn't been playing since the start:

When the game came out, the controls and UI was so horrid (and still isn't the best out there) that monsters had to be resized to be 2 or 3 times bigger so players would be able to target them easier, but with ARR on the way and it promising a much better UI and enhanced battle system and targeting, I've been wondering if there is a possibility of monsters returning to their original sizes.

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Wasn't it because the players didn't want to kill small things all the day?

It just amazes me, how SE screwed this game up right from the start, with something as simple as mob sizes. I agree with you OP, the alleged fix to make the mobs bigger, in some circumstances is absolutely ridiculous, almost laughable. You would think, that a company of this caliper, would get the damn thing right.

I'd like them to keep the big mob sizes, but they really do need to make the toads a bit smaller, they fill up my whole screen when running past them or fighting them.

I actually like the new and bigger gnats. They look like some really fucking nasty hellspawn wizard-insects that will eat your hand off in one bite.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

The only issue I really have is that the size of monsters is all relative. Hell in XI most beastmen were actually physicall larger the higher level they were. Stand a level 1 goblin next to a 75 goblin and you could tell who was stronger at a glance.

It's just a shame that monsters didn't scale in size the higher the level they got. Small gnats could be low level ones, larger gnats obviously got stronger.

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Are you sure about this? The only size difference I have noticed is betwen non-NMs and NMs. Except in abyssea. There we have variable sizes but they don't always correspond to levels.

I like the current enemy sizes, although it took a little while to get used to puks.

And FF11 never had different sizes between low and high level non-NM beastmen.

mostly original sizes.