Letter from the Producer, XXXVII (10/26/2012)

[Zantetsuken]

Adamantoise mob looks awesome.

It does.. Not to be too nitpicky, but I'm rather disappointed that they just imported FFXI's Adamantoise design






Adamantoise has been redesigned for every game in the series. Sad that they didn't give it a unique look in FFXIV. :/

FFVII:


FFIX:


FFX:


FFXII:


FFXIII:


FF:type-0



That little issue aside, ARR looks awesome - esp the Iron Giant! I can't wait to play it.

[strallaalaa]

pics are pretty sweet, the turtle got me smiling big time. also the other big boy in the pics. really can't wait to see 2.0 launching. glad they can handle big number of peoples together ...gives me huge hope for large scale content in the future.

[MoonKeeperr]

Wow Yoshi has ball's there to leak NDA photo's lol we got a brave director. Now i hope people don't follow in his footsteps start doing what he did. He could get in trouble for encouraging NDA leaks, But on other hand they all look fantastic. Love Yoshi to deaht !

[Laraul]

I don't see any issues with "clipping" in that photo. It's hard enough to know who's in front of who.

[Elexia]

They all had a very similar appearance in some way much like Iron Giants all had a similar appearance in some fashion..hell XI's Iron Giants were actually a bit more unique.



While Similar to the classic style, there's a spin on the design:



Which more or less is the typical design. So while it is an XI import, this is just one of the later iterations of the Adamantoise for now. The XIII ones were probably way too fucking big lol.

[Zantetsuken]

They all had a very similar appearance in some way much like Iron Giants all had a similar appearance in some fashion..hell XI's Iron Giants were actually a bit more unique.



While Similar to the classic style, there's a spin on the design:



Which more or less is the typical design. So while it is an XI import, this is just one of the later iterations of the Adamantoise for now. The XIII ones were probably way too fucking big lol.

(I'm asuming you are responding to my Adamantoise post)

The FFXIV Iron Giant is definitely a fresh design - it's based on the iconic look, but with an Eorzean twist.

The Adamantoise is a sadly just the FFXI version - but with better textures and more geometry. (perhaps they did this to save time because they already had skinning and motion data, not to mention AI scripting that was all fully tested and could be reused)

[Leoheart]

(I'm asuming you are responding to my Adamantoise post)

The FFXIV Iron Giant is definitely a fresh design - it's based on the iconic look, but with an Eorzean twist.

The Adamantoise is a sadly just the FFXI version - but with better textures and more geometry. (perhaps they did this to save time because they already had skinning and motion data they could reuse)

Well it's... iconic atleast.

[Elexia]

Yeah, but like even the imports on other XI models, they react a bit differently so there's a chance that while it is using the XI model, it may be totally different behavior/sound/attack etc wise to fit into XIV better. It also could be that since it's alpha they didn't fully complete the models but like in Abyssea, the boss versions had different designs from the typical one (Lacovie etc.)

This is why the mandragoras are basically the same but the petal is what's different so I don't mind the straight import since they do more than just copy/paste it like some other MMOs that won't be named have done with FFXI models lol.

[CrystalWeapon]

(I'm asuming you are responding to my Adamantoise post)

The FFXIV Iron Giant is definitely a fresh design - it's based on the iconic look, but with an Eorzean twist.

The Adamantoise is a sadly just the FFXI version - but with better textures and more geometry. (perhaps they did this to save time because they already had skinning and motion data, not to mention AI scripting that was all fully tested and could be reused)

They did say they were pulling bits and peices from all the different FF games. XI's biggest contribution in this game seems to be aesthetics.

[ShivenCasull]

(I'm asuming you are responding to my Adamantoise post)

The FFXIV Iron Giant is definitely a fresh design - it's based on the iconic look, but with an Eorzean twist.

The Adamantoise is a sadly just the FFXI version - but with better textures and more geometry. (perhaps they did this to save time because they already had skinning and motion data, not to mention AI scripting that was all fully tested and could be reused)

It's not the first XI copied monster in the game, probably won't be the last.

I personally really like the adamantoise model.