Thread 11846971

FF7 truly had the most batshit insane enemy designs.

It was the early days of 3D before a nebulous ghost put a gun in the head of every developer and told them to be serious and lame

>>11846971 (OP)
Nomura is a great designer

>>11846971 (OP)
I love it, and it beats the average unoriginal zombie/wild animal roster

I like how wild they went with the colouring to make up for the lack of texturing

>>11847229
Don't forget about goblins, slimes, skeletons and bats.

>>11847243
It's amazing how when I see a Kobold in a JRPG I actually think "oh, that's cool, they made an effort"

>>11847229
>>11847243
Yeah but I think you need both.

>>11847243
skeletons are cooler, you just need western artists to draw them

>>11846971 (OP)
>when game development for studios was creative and bold

>>11846971 (OP)
>see girl on right
>now i need to rush home to coom

sigh.

>>11846971 (OP)
Too bad the remakes dropped most of these and made the rest generic monsters.

>>11847410
Bet we'll never see her in the remake.

>>11847410
Same here.

They were having fun designing things in a 3D, not worrying even about texture artwork for the most part.

>>11848780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS50x-YCF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNs_7MQMQ_M
A lot of them didn't change though.

>>11847372
>join the bone chilling a ction before it's too late!

What a fucking demake

>>11849447
Kek, is that a triceratops with tank treads

>>11849447
>>11849464
absolutely soulless.
Good thing I'll never play shitty modern day slop.

>>11849464
Holy shit. Look how they massacred my boy.

>>11849464
We Mad Max now.
Which Advent Children already was

>>11846971 (OP)
Where do you fight the cube in the bottom left?

>>11847372
A similar principle applies to zombies

>>11847372
indeed

>>11849676
How does your triceratops walk? With his legs?

>remakes don't replace the originals
They said
>the originals will always be there
They said
>Every single thread about a Final Fantasy or Resident Evil leads to discussion of the remakes

>>11850263
Whirlwind Maze, specifically the Rocky Path screen. It's not a very long screen, and of the random encounters on it they only appear in one possible set up. Dragon Riders are also there and almost as rare but you can at least get the chance to see them in the Battle Arena later.

>>11846971 (OP)
>magic pot
Man I remember spending hours feeding elixirs to these guys to max out my materia.

>>11850012
Advent Children was SHIT max

>>11846971 (OP)
>Make a red ball and call it an enemy

I love simple dumb shit like that. I'd love to hear the conversation they had when they were creating it

Anyone has a similar image for FF8 and 9?

What's the one near the bottom right, to the right of the cube? With two arm legs? Looks like a Sunken Gelnika enemy but I don't remember it.
>>11851532
I always figured it was a weird dragonball reference but that's speculative. They're in IX with eyes, too.

>>11851532
>>11851649
Aren't they from an earlier FF, 4 or 5 maybe?

>>11851652
V, yeah.

>>11851652
Movers appeared in 5, in the last area, where they give tons of ABP when you defeat them.
If I remember well, they also give lots of materia experience in 7.

>>11851652
>>11851693
They appear in Kefka's Tower in VI too, though they only give 3 magic points there.

>>11851649
Bahba Velamyu, found in the forests around Nibelheim.

>>11846971 (OP)
N64 graphics look so bad. Even with texture warping and low res textures PS1 looks better often.

>>11846971 (OP)
>>11851905
The reason the battle models look so good is because they use vertex painting instead of textures, which is how you make ps1 stop wobbling from texture warp.

>>11854096
What is this? A Final Fantasy for ants?

>>11849447
Is this from Rebirth? Remake did actually a pretty good job of respecting the designs, we even got Hellhouse, which everyone thought would get cut. What the hell happened in Rebirth?

>>11854091
Really? I thought the reason that happened was because the PS1 only did integer math or had a coarse precision when it came to drawing polygons on screen.Are you sure it's not just less noticeable?

>>11854134
Whoooooops

>>11854186
It's a bit of both. While not using textures reduces the warping a bit, it's also the vertex coords are rounded which cause warping too. Definitely helps to not use textures cause it doubles the effect

>>11849447
The top looks like something Sid from Toy Story would create.

>>11854451
Probably an Ultraman reference.

>>11854470
I forgot how weird the Ultra series’s monsters could be.

>>11854470
Or maybe this. Tank treads are cool.

>>11846971 (OP)
FF7 in battle 3D models are the equivalent of low poly pixel art. They are so stylish, expressive and have tons of personality.

>>11854198
>>11854095
>>11854091
I feel like I've never seen so many of those

>>11846971 (OP)
Don’t remember the hot chic in the one piece on the far right but that dude on the swinging pendulum like he was in a Edgar Allen Poe short story always was cool and eerie to me, because the music of the mansion which is where I believe is the only place he shows up?

Looking good

Cant imagine the shock in the head of a zoom/alpha whose image of FF7 was probably exclusively shaped by compilation and remake BS only to play the original and realize the game is more or less whimsically cozy classic FF to the bone and the edgy cyberpunk stuff is mostly an aesthetic. FF8 is the game you'd think FF7 is based on everything that came after it, incoherent tryhard nonsense

>>11846971 (OP)
My wife

>>11855216
>Don’t remember the hot chic in the one piece on the far right
She was a random enemy you could fight inside Temple of the Ancients. You could also fight a pallet swapped version of her in the snowy fields.

>>11855723
Niceu, niceu. Good on ya, man.

>>11855723
>not the comfy cool GF version

>>11855983
Was this an enemy or NPC? Either way I don't remember her, though I imagine she's seen near the snow village.

>>11856056
Both, it's Snow. She strips down to fight you over Alexander

>>11849447
Disgusting.

>>11849464
Utterly disgusting.

>>11847153
>A FROG? I'M GOING INSANEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>11850406
based george

>>11850397
https://youtu.be/aB0aw6PlvE4?si=1dDxBGCLL21WjAsh&t=39

>>11851608
here's FF9

>>11859275
On a technical level these are more impressive, but I just find myself drawn to FF7's gradient shading more. There's something about that leaves more to the imagination that makes the enemies creepier.

hot take: every dq enemy design ever is shit. but when is the last time you played a dragon quest and was like “oh fuck this boss is gonna beat my ass!” even the base enemies in ff 1 are scarier than any boss in dq.

>>11860469
>but when is

>>11859275
It's a wonder they've never really made a pokemon clone out of FF enemies

>>11859275
I remember all of those except whale zombie, seems to be one of those "beach encounters" that are easy to miss

>>11860469
>oh fuck this boss is gonna beat my ass!
All of them? Dragon Quest doesn't pull it's punches.

>>11859275
are these why FF9 has terrible battle loading times?

>>11860469
>when is the last time you played a dragon quest
I should be asking you this

>>11860469
FF: Jomon BVLL
DQ: Yayoi chigyu

>>11860469
They do look more cutesy and fun rather than threatening.

>>11860469
Those are all appealing designs.

>never got to play ff7 back in the day
>convinced it's a dark and mature game with brooding badass dudes in trenchcoats due to second hand hearsay and gaming magazine hype
>finally got my hands on the PC port a few years down the line
>it's a game where you go on goofy fun adventures like snowboarding or riding the ferris wheel and fight evil houses
>sephiroth angst is a relatively minor part of the game compared to the usual FF fantasy theme park antics
>the poster boy for mysterious brooding goth is clearly self-aware and turns into a fucking cartoon version of jason voorhees/leatherface as his special ability
Man. Crazy how the tone of the game is so starkly different to its public perception

>>11861967
Americans really struggle to fit Japanese tones and styles into their western-centric ideas even to this day. "Cloud has spiky hair he must be an emo boy! Squall has hair in front of his face and says whatever he must be an emo boy!"

>>11861967
Westerners were new to the series, easy for perceptions to be broadly different.