...just wait until you do the Missions.  :)
 
EDIT: There are some legit mobs that are very unique...and one "out of this world foe" that you face every prime numbered mission (or close to it).  Plus you got the super elite turtle with broken horns and larger sized, monster ochu (bigger and redder), an old classic foe from the 8-bit past!, and another one I can't mention.
 
But the others are just reskinned mobs.  >.>

Seems in line with other games, since like every other RPG on the face of the earth does it. 
 
Granted maybe I am just jaded after seeing the same wolf model in Elwynn Forest in Outlands 2 years later when playing WoW. >_>

" I feel like I've seen the same monsters about 5 times now. Same models, just different texture. This is just plain laziness, they spent five years on this game and they still have to reuse models. I know this has been done in previous Final Fantasy games, but no where near to this extent. "

Modern game design at it's finest. It's no longer because of RAM constraints, but because of money constraints.

If you played FFX, it was nearly the same in terms of using the same models for everything.
 
@KaosAngel said:

" ...just wait until you do the Missions.  :) "

" @CL60: How is that trolling?  Have you done the missions and seen them?  I have, almost 5 starred them all execpt Mission 54 and the 60s, and can't 5 star the cactus. "

" @CL60: I didn't complain, did you not read the post? "

" @KaosAngel said:

" @CL60: How is that trolling?  Have you done the missions and seen them?  I have, almost 5 starred them all execpt Mission 54 and the 60s, and can't 5 star the cactus. "

It is trolling when you go into every FF13 topic and complain about the game in 1 way or another. "

" I feel like I've seen the same monsters about 5 times now. Same models, just different texture. This is just plain laziness, they spent five years on this game and they still have to reuse models. I know this has been done in previous Final Fantasy games, but no where near to this extent. "

There is no game that does not re use the character models. 

" @The_Laughing_Man: Heavy Rain "

How many games have you played and it takes FFXIII to notice that?
 
Heavy rain does it too.

am I wrong, or does this not happen in not only every FF game, but every JRPG? get used to it.

" am I wrong, or does this not happen in not only every FF game, but every JRPG? get used to it. "

" @The_Laughing_Man: Come on, let's not go overboard.  Yes, it would have taken alot more man hours and development time, but I somehow doubt storage capacity would have been stretched at all.  You would essentially just be replacing the pallette swapped enemy models with original ones. "

" @DystopiaX said:

" am I wrong, or does this not happen in not only every FF game, but every JRPG? get used to it. "

It'd be just as accurate to say every RPG, period.  "Almost every game" might be a fairly accurate as well. "

" I feel like I've seen the same monsters about 5 times now. Same models, just different texture. This is just plain laziness, they spent five years on this game and they still have to reuse models. I know this has been done in previous Final Fantasy games, but no where near to this extent. "

  since like every other RPG on the face of the earth does it.

"

  since like every other RPG on the face of the earth does it.

I may be wrong here, but Final Fantasies VII, VIII and IX had little, if not no palette swapping at all.   (but I don't mind palette swapping that much) "

I get annoyed at Pallette swapping, but I've played enough Dragon Warrior games to be used to it.

" @KaosAngel said:

" @The_Laughing_Man: Heavy Rain "

Fully outside of the scope of the convo. Go away. *I dont feel like being nice anymore*   O and chaos. Heavy rain does re use models. So shut up.   Your reputation as a troll/jerk is growing at an amazing rate. "

Welcome to the world of the RPG.

Hmmm the same thing happend in ff1-12.  Same sprite, different colors, same enemy model but difference colors or textures.
In any given final fantasy there are between and only that many 150-250 different monsters in a game, with 200-300 different monsters when your add the different variations of monsters...in such big games as final fantasy your gonna run into some of the same enemy sprites or models but with different stats and colors.

There's also the idea that completely reworking the textures and details on an enemy model is easy and effortless.  Maybe it is when you're just putting on a new coat of paint and giving it a different weapon (I'm looking at you Geths, Krogans, Hurlocks and Gemlocks), but at least in the case of this game, not at all.

Yeah, I did find it annoying.
 
And for the apologists and fanboys, no fucking duh devs reuse assets; other devs do a much better job of hiding it.

This isn't a problem unique to FFXIII, they did the same thing in all the other Final Fantasy games, in many games before and since. If you're an artist, and your job is to model every single enemy in a game as massive as Final Fantasy, you're gonna reuse some designs it's just how the games industry works. If they had to make 500 separate models the game would have taken another year to come out.

" This isn't a problem unique to FFXIII, they did the same thing in all the other Final Fantasy games,

Huh. I didn't notice it.... Well, okay, I remember that big neon mechanical horse thing got, like, three palette swaps, but that was all I noticed.
 
It's still got nothing on Eternal Sonata.

" @Getz said:

" This isn't a problem unique to FFXIII, they did the same thing in all the other Final Fantasy games,

As was said above, no they didn't. "