Exploration

[Eekiki]

I think they are doing it a bit like those scary freaking turtles in FFXIII open map section..

My lord.. boom boom boom... RUN!!!!



Though I hope that's just the one inspiration.. I wouldn't want them to spam the badass monsters - like you said.. ruins their majesty.

Perhaps a big turtle boss will be... really big...

I loved those things! I could not stop laughing the first time I tried to fight one of them.

I remember the "Making of a Realm" mini-documentaries that were released shortly before the 1.0 launch, where they talked a bit about how the models were created. They used really powerful SGI boxes to create super hi-poly models, then scaled them way down for importing into Crystal Tools.

Which means it's conceivable they could have a GIANT ENEMY MARMOT and not have to worry about the model losing its detail like what you get in WoW.