Similar monsters from FFXI to FFXIV? (examples)

[fusional]

apparently ITT we ask for basically every mob in XI to be in XIV

[indira]

I would like to see more redesigns. They have direct copied quite a few mobs directly from the XI assets, and I don't like that.

apparently ITT we ask for basically every mob in XI to be in XIV

some FFXI designs are in other games too. you might hate the game then since there taking stuff from other FF games and making it for FFXIV.

[Tonkra]

Well Mandragora's



will be baack ;XD :



I have seen these as well in the starter area of gridania in the very last live letter as well (in a small version!):




unfortunatley bad quality:


they are from FFX?

[Medura]

If it means anything to anyone, Kobolds are based upon a real-world entity in German folklore. There are three types of Kobolds, so one of them in our game is the mining. They are referred as the Subterranean Kobold, who are entities that thrive underground in mines that humans make, and work alongside them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold#Mine_spirits

If Kobolds come from real-life folklore, where do the Ixali and Alamj'aa come from? I found that the the Alamj'aa and Mamool'ja look identical, which is why I linked them on the first post. But I know that not all Final Fantasy monsters are based upon things in real life.

I just recently got a book at Barnes & Noble about Monsters and Demons (I'm into mythology, paranormal, etc.), so yeah.

id say about 90% of the monsters comes from folklore, mythical animals, legends, youkai etc. did you know even chocobo do that? :P

Lets add a kyubi type of mob id love to see some fox-spirits with many tails ^^

[Elexia]

apparently ITT we ask for basically every mob in XI to be in XIV

Apparently you've never played FFXIV or you'd realized there's already a lot of FFXI mobs in XIV...but I'm sure you were just ignoring that fact on purpose or there would be a problem with this observation.

I have seen these as well in the starter area of gridania in the very last live letter as well (in a small version!):




unfortunatley bad quality:


they are from FFX?

No, they're also from XI's design:

[Shougun]

Those two pronged plants are called Ochu and they are from. . . :
Final Fantasy, VII, BC VII-, VIII, IX, X, X-2, XI, XIII, XIII-2, FFT, FFTA, FFCC



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[Babydoll]

The flans are in XIV and look identical to the ones in XI

[Elexia]

The flans are in XIV and look identical to the ones in XI

Yeah this is what irked me to be honest, because in XI Flans were actually failed Blue Mages essentially lol.

[Ingolf]

flan have looked consistently similar in the FF series.

I wouldn't say they look any more like XI's puddings than any of the recent FF's flans (bar XIII)

[Naraku_Diabolos]

The flans are in XIV and look identical to the ones in XI

I never got to fight a flan in FFXI, but only in FFTA and FFTA2, as those were nearly immune to damage from weapons, and only magic could damage them? They are a pain in the butt as well.