This game reuse assets too much

[Jeeqbit]

Yeah but, making them and the Moblins simple palette swaps of their Eorzean counterparts is super boring IMO. They could have given them additional bells and whistles like how the Zun have fur and how you can actually see the faces of the Mord. Why not give the Moblins different masks that reveal their faces a little more? Why not give the Hanu Hanu different head feathers or a more parrot-like head shape?

It would have been nice for them to have used the graphics update to make them more detailed at least. I assume they just didn't manage it since there are only so many new assets they make vs reusing old ones and must not have seen them as important enough compared to, say, the Mamool Ja.

But they have done this before sometimes. For example, the Hobgoblins in Kholusia could perhaps be their other shard cousins, or maybe the No mou. There are also the Dwarves in Kholusia being their version of Lalafells and the fat cactuars in Amh Araeng. So it's not like they never do this.

[Jeeqbit]

Sorry, but if you ever develop a game, you will understand why assets are reused.

They take a lot of time, effort and energy to create. All for what? To appear one time and then never be seen again? It's hard to come to terms with that from a development standpoint.

But they reuse them well! In fact, so many of the reused assets are done so well that I don't figure out that it's a retexture for years in some cases. And that's only when I think really hard about it. There are exceptions that are obvious, of course, but a lot of them you probably don't even notice are reused.

They also use the resize trick. So you have a boss, and initially it's a unique boss you've never seen, but later on it just appears as a trash mob in a different location, sometimes with a different texture if needed.

It all just makes sure that the work didn't go to waste and reached its maximum potential from a development standpoint.

That doesn't mean there aren't new assets. Of course there are. They are just simultaneously extracting the maximum potential of the old ones as well.

[mallleable]

Games reuse assets all the time. This is such a non-problem.

[Ishe-P]

There's this game some people play, well, just me probably, but it's called Who's Rigging Is That, Anyway? I think the record holder for most uses, or at least a very strong contender, is Calistoferi. She's the easiest to spot anyway. Asset reuse doesn't bother me, though, so long as the game is fun to play. But I also grew up in the NES era where asset reuse was mandatory.

[lolnotacat]

There's this game some people play, well, just me probably, but it's called Who's Rigging Is That, Anyway? I think the record holder for most uses, or at least a very strong contender, is Calistoferi. She's the easiest to spot anyway. Asset reuse doesn't bother me, though, so long as the game is fun to play. But I also grew up in the NES era where asset reuse was mandatory.

I think after Dawntrail it goes to Scathach.

I agree though it doesn't bother me too much, but I like when it's reused in an interesting way that actually makes it hard to tell that it's the same one being used.

[Jojoya]

With the new letter from the producer, I realize that 90% of what has been announced is reused assets. I then started looking at Dawntrail and previous expansions, and I don't think it’s fair to the paying customers who buy an expansion and pay monthly fees to receive this many reused assets in the game.

The entire bestiary of FFXIII has been pretty much exhausted at this point, and even most bosses from Dawntrail are reused skins from previous expansions. In 7.1, we will see Cloud of Darkness again, along with Eden, Byakko, and enemies from XI, all marketed as new content. When is enough enough?

Every MMORPG out there reuses assets on a regular basis. Why would you expect this one to be any different?

[Garruss]

The only thing that annoys me with them reusing assets is the contest reuse of armour sets, instead of adding new-looking armour it's just recolours of older armour from the game.

[Zakuyia]

With the new letter from the producer, I realize that 90% of what has been announced is reused assets. I then started looking at Dawntrail and previous expansions, and I don't think it’s fair to the paying customers who buy an expansion and pay monthly fees to receive this many reused assets in the game.

The entire bestiary of FFXIII has been pretty much exhausted at this point, and even most bosses from Dawntrail are reused skins from previous expansions. In 7.1, we will see Cloud of Darkness again, along with Eden, Byakko, and enemies from XI, all marketed as new content. When is enough enough?

You clearly never played pso2 ngs....come back to me after you play that and tell me how often they reused the content in aelio - stia and tells the community to be hype for reused assets.

[Talael]

You clearly never played pso2 ngs....come back to me after you play that and tell me how often they reused the content in aelio - stia and tells the community to be hype for reused assets.

Why is another games failing used as an excuse for the same lazy approach here? I mean, sure, i dont know much of programming, im a nurse, however of all the enemies from the last Dawntrail MSQ dungeon (supposely the climax of the expansion) we have a bunch of FF 13 mobs, 1st boss reskin of cuchulaim (void ark), second boss a reskin of Pharos Sirius second boss and i guess the last one (Eliminator) is new. I could excuse it a bit if the mobs were FF 9 enemies, but cmon....