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Thoughts on Injustice 2 character designs?
- Thread starter DragonSJG
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All I can think about in Injustice 2 is how almost all of the female characters' faces were directly stolen from real actresses without asking them.
Some of them are really good, others are bad.
I know it's a controversial take but I like the more armored style some characters have. Spandex begone.
I know it's a controversial take but I like the more armored style some characters have. Spandex begone.
Starfire is Zendaya, Black Canary is Kristen Bell, Catwoman is 100% Tatiana Maslany, etc.
Pretty basic and in some cases ugly, but it's mostly due to how they were essentially bases for the gear to be applied to where you can mix and match to make whatever you like. I think MK11 did a much better job having costumes be the base for different gear combinations.
They're fine, I guess? A little more busy than I'd like but I'm mostly indifferent towards them.
The only one that ever really bothered me was Blue Beetle. But I'm not sure if that's on NRS or more just that the modern BB costume has the Batman Beyond problem of just not looking nearly as good in a 3D space as it does in when its heavily stylized in a comic or show.
The face just looks weird. I don't know how else to describe it.
The only one that ever really bothered me was Blue Beetle. But I'm not sure if that's on NRS or more just that the modern BB costume has the Batman Beyond problem of just not looking nearly as good in a 3D space as it does in when its heavily stylized in a comic or show.
The face just looks weird. I don't know how else to describe it.
The characters themselves look good for the most part but I don't care for the costume design. Too busy and grounded in realism for my taste.
They're awful. Every outfit looks weirdly slapped together to fit with their terrible gear system.
Superhero body armour is lame but it's fine because Injustice is also lame going for this grounded real world take on superheroes and the damage they cause and the fear of gods flying over us and blahdeblah, so it's consistent for the characters to be designed with some measure of practicality in mind but the problems come when you're trying to apply practicality to characters with just about zero grounding in reality.
You wanna tell me fucking Firestorm the Nuclear Man is ever going to look like a normal dude with his torch head? Firestorm's goofy as shit, and he's supposed to be goofy as shit because his design ethos is in what a kid in 1978 would think a cool superhero would look like. The entire Injustice universe runs on the same philosophies that take Marvel's Taskmaster (the skeleton dude with the shield and broadsword in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 you didn't recognize) and instead of just letting him be a skeleton pirate swordsman Robin Hood they're always sticking him in tacticool armour, even though nothing about Taskmaster is cool.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look cool as shit but they don't count because they were just airlifted from the 1990 movie, aka the single greatest cinematic achievement in history.
This one just sucks though and as a huge fan of Jaime it makes me irate.
You wanna tell me fucking Firestorm the Nuclear Man is ever going to look like a normal dude with his torch head? Firestorm's goofy as shit, and he's supposed to be goofy as shit because his design ethos is in what a kid in 1978 would think a cool superhero would look like. The entire Injustice universe runs on the same philosophies that take Marvel's Taskmaster (the skeleton dude with the shield and broadsword in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 you didn't recognize) and instead of just letting him be a skeleton pirate swordsman Robin Hood they're always sticking him in tacticool armour, even though nothing about Taskmaster is cool.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look cool as shit but they don't count because they were just airlifted from the 1990 movie, aka the single greatest cinematic achievement in history.
They're fine, I guess? A little more busy than I'd like but I'm mostly indifferent towards them.
The only one that ever really bothered me was Blue Beetle. But I'm not sure if that's on NRS or more just that the modern BB costume has the Batman Beyond problem of just not looking nearly as good in a 3D space as it does in when its heavily stylized in a comic or show.
The face just looks weird. I don't know how else to describe it.
This one just sucks though and as a huge fan of Jaime it makes me irate.
Injustice 2 was also the last game for one of the designers responsible for the very "horny" design of early NRS games. He left mid-early development and most of his designs were fixed afterward.
So while it has overall pretty respectful designs, it also has some things that they seem to have forgot.
Like this terrible cameltoe for Supergirl, who's underage in this game.
So while it has overall pretty respectful designs, it also has some things that they seem to have forgot.
Like this terrible cameltoe for Supergirl, who's underage in this game.
Zendaya was certainly joking around on Twitter about Starfire looking exactly like her.
They're fine, I guess? A little more busy than I'd like but I'm mostly indifferent towards them.
The only one that ever really bothered me was Blue Beetle. But I'm not sure if that's on NRS or more just that the modern BB costume has the Batman Beyond problem of just not looking nearly as good in a 3D space as it does in when its heavily stylized in a comic or show.
The face just looks weird. I don't know how else to describe it.
I never noticed it while playing and I played a lot of Blue Beetle but when you bring him in to focus he certainly looks like Cyber Voldermort.
I thought the character designs were mostly great, the costumes at least looked cool, not comic-bright and colored but also not too grim dark, just the right in my opinion.
one actor joking about looking like one character is certainly different than " almost all of the female characters' faces were directly stolen"
Huh, didn't look like it to me...looked at a photo and screenshot and I don't see it...unless it's a certain shot
Ahh I see it now lmao
She would make a great starfire if only DC had a good team to make their movies....
The gear system made for some really busy, over designed costumes when you just hodgepodge things together. But I did like that you could customize Hal with different Lantern Corps logos and it would change the color of the constructs to match. That said it would have been better to just have a bunch of different skins for each character and ditch the loot boxes.
And it's amazing that they didn't have to pay Henry Cavill for Superman when it's obviously him.
All the guys look to blocky, it's looks worse on some more than others.
Damian looks ridiculous with his body looking like he has a bunch of coats and padding on.
Damian looks ridiculous with his body looking like he has a bunch of coats and padding on.
If you look at Catwoman's face and you can't see Tatiana Maslany, or Kristen Bell in Black Canary, I don't know what to tell you. It's uncanny.
Not sure about Starfire, but in what universe does Black Canary from that game look like Kristen Bell? I don't see it.
They're not bad. Certainly better than the last game. You have to keep in mind that they were designed to be customizable.