Why do the Egis appearance look awful and unimpressive

[Lithera]

I think the Fayth Anima wound up inside would have once been the home of a full out water based aeon. As for lack of Ramuh... Exodus has it more or less right. The devs on FFVIII had a vision of the GFs in that game of being much more animalistic and Ramuh just didn't fit so they went with Quetzalcoatl. I haven't read anything really that states why in FFX they used Ixion though.

[ruinedmirage]

Why do people let Akiza's threads get them so riled up every week? T_T People, learn to recognize other posters, please....

[Exodus-E]

Wasn't Sin basically Leviathan? I seem to remember it basically being a summon Yu Yevon used to protect himself while he turned himself into a purple balloon.

Not quite.
Sin is not exactly Water-based, but instead, Gravity-based, given that in order to get made, it had to attract a LARGE quantity of pyreflies, as well as having a Final Summoning as the base of it (which also explains why it had attacks such as Giga Graviton and the like).

[Nalien]

Not quite.
Sin is not exactly Water-based, but instead, Gravity-based, given that in order to get made, it had to attract a LARGE quantity of pyreflies, as well as having a Final Summoning as the base of it (which also explains why it had attacks such as Giga Graviton and the like).

Plot twist; Leviathan has always been Gravity-based, and used that power to mess with the moon to create tidal waves !

Heck, you'd have thought Braska's Final Aeon would have been Water-based, rather than whatever that was. Jecht was a Blitzball star after all...

[Swagcity]

Off-topic, but, I predict mass disappointment Tuesday if new jobs are announced; something tells me that these jobs may not be what we think they are.

However, they could have implemented humanoid size essences as opposed to cooked fowl. They chose the easy route. In XI, there were ppl who complained about titan's size; does not take much effort to move the joystick away from him. It not like other players didn't overshadow you. My character was small, hence any group of non-taru would overshadow my character causing me to simply move over a little. Was not a huge deal to me and XI had ps2 limitations "Shrugs"

[Lithera]

IT became a mess in FFXI if there were multiple SMNs or SMN monsters (Dynamis for instance) causing a whole pile of avatars to be around. It would be a bigger problem in FFXIV because the Egis are persistent with no perp cost meaning people aren't dismissing them to save MP. There can be a ton in Mor Dhona and if they were much bigger they'd be as obnoxious or WORSE than multiple people stomping around on Behemoth mounts. This is especially true right in front of the tome NPCs.

[Swagcity]

IT became a mess in FFXI if there were multiple SMNs or SMN monsters (Dynamis for instance) causing a whole pile of avatars to be around. It would be a bigger problem in FFXIV because the Egis are persistent with no perp cost meaning people aren't dismissing them to save MP. There can be a ton in Mor Dhona and if they were much bigger they'd be as obnoxious or WORSE than multiple people stomping around on Behemoth mounts. This is especially true right in front of the tome NPCs.

As a small model taru, multiple mobs and humes around caused clutter problems for me, hence I would move to a place where my char was more visible. It was a non-issue for me, but that is just me.

[Wildsprite]

My take on this is egi's should stay the same size or close to it but take on a form much more like the Primal their essence came from. Much bigger as stated elsewhere in this thread would create a big mess in heavily graphical areas and heavily crowded areas. The way the Egi's act when you fight them you would think they would actually have a bit more lively and threatening look to them. Their current look isn't horrible it just feels wrong.

[DistraughtKoala]

Garuda is a stupid bird, but she's my stupid bird and I love her.

[Enepttastic]

IMO, Ifrit and Ramuh don't look bad. Titan and Garuda suffer horribly from poor texture decisions though. The lack of contrast really makes them look "meh" in my opinion.

Even then Ifrit, Garuda and Titan all look like they could easily be transplanted into another game, as-is, labeled "Elemental Sprites" and no one would be the wiser.

I'm not saying the Egis need to be bigger, but some extra detail on them should probably be in order, especially with Garuda and Titan.