Characters in Gears of War. So big and bulky. Absolutely ridiculous. It's annoying because otherwise I think the games look decent.
Character designs that put you off from wanting to play a game
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Piss, I mentioned I prefer anime designs but there are those that i absolutely loathe that fall under those, and it's Dangan Ronpa and Ni no Kuni. I'd rather play a compile heart game*, and while those barely count as games they at least look better than Dangan Ronpa's 'high school but cool' and 'i hope you really like ghibli's weird little mascot characters, the game, the sequel**'.
*Okay maybe I went too far, I wouldn't actually play a Compile Heart, Gust, etc game because even their really cute designs can't offset the amazingly low-tier gameplay that's literally put me to sleep and some of the most phoned-in animations i've had to witness. Disgaea/N1's series has a more unique and cute artstyle and then follows up with enjoyable gameplay.
**The ghibli artstyle has always put me off for some reason, and I'm not sure why. I always disliked whatever small critter character would be present in a movie, though. The movies, as a whole, are really good though.
*Okay maybe I went too far, I wouldn't actually play a Compile Heart, Gust, etc game because even their really cute designs can't offset the amazingly low-tier gameplay that's literally put me to sleep and some of the most phoned-in animations i've had to witness. Disgaea/N1's series has a more unique and cute artstyle and then follows up with enjoyable gameplay.
**The ghibli artstyle has always put me off for some reason, and I'm not sure why. I always disliked whatever small critter character would be present in a movie, though. The movies, as a whole, are really good though.
Yeah French Bread has some great characterization
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Senran Kagura's designs kind of suck too but that's okay because the gameplay of those titles are way worse than the character design, so I can see why people like that aspect mostly
LOL I thought Under Night In Birth was by Arc System Works. No wonder it looks so much better than their recent character designs.
Agreed on French Bread doing a good job with the character designs.
No... nooooo....
That's literally the opposite of what they should be doing then! Hand animate that stuff! Houseki no Kuni has better animation!
Arc Sys Works is only the publisher I believe.
It's even Wilder because FB made fucking Melty Blood before UNIB and that game is (or used to be, looks better now) a fucking visual vomit pile
The clothes were designed completely by the Japanese fashion label Roen (fun fact I just remembered: they were the first ones to accidentally have leaked the name change from Versus XIII to FFXV on their website back then before the E3 '13 reveal).
Here's their FFXV lookbook: chloesan.com/en/
Dude on the left designed them:
People like to shit on Ken's face but he actually looks good in-game.
Seriously, they do great work.
Like compare this design
To this design
They're both similar concepts (busty light-haired woman in an elegant white and black dress), but Hilda's design is so much cleaner, more striking, and less tacky than Elphelt's.
They're both "anime", but one shows a much better understanding of visual conveyance.
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He should've had one of the characters rocking that look.Dude on the left designed them:
Great, even. They would've saved themselves a lot of grief by just having 2D portraits in character select. The world was not ready for realtime character models.People like to shit on Ken's face but he actually looks good in-game.
Appreciate the expansion on this, as it's exactly the sort of thing I worry about when I see designs like this. It won't keep me from playing the game, but I wouldn't say it's a bright point in its favor.
If this is how you felt the comic came off as, frankly i don't know what to tell you.
I assume they use motion capture so that they get faster results, motion capture involves animators, what you're seeing is always the end result of an animation team polishing up the data they got from the mocap. Its just that motion capture on those types of character models always tends to look incredibly terrible even when the actors are trying their damndest to act like anime character. It's not just Star Ocean either, games like Xenoblade and Tales of all suffer from the same exact issue.
I just said it's more than the comic, but their handling of it prior to as well. You don't need to tell me anything, if you feel different, whoopee. This was a thread for letting out personal character grievances, that one's mine. I don't need an argument out of it.
It's really unfortunate they didn't dtich even more of Nomura's ideas and designs when making FFXV.Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Funny thing is, FFXV simultaneously has the worst main character designs with the young versions and also some of the best in the series with the adult versions of them:
The hell?
In your opinion can any character be attracted to the same sex without it being a publicity stunt?
What a shitpost!
Funny thing is that Aloy is modeled after a Dutch actress. But yeah, Aloy is ugly.
Any anime game, except games where Gainax was involved, eg Princess Maker series. I like that art.
But I couldnt stand the art in games like House in Fata Morgana and many fighting games
Also any Western military fps. Any realistic sports game. Any fighter like MK and Injustice.Characters look even more unsettling than anime. Only exception is Killer Instinct.
But I couldnt stand the art in games like House in Fata Morgana and many fighting games
Also any Western military fps. Any realistic sports game. Any fighter like MK and Injustice.Characters look even more unsettling than anime. Only exception is Killer Instinct.
Absolutely. I mean, I've disliked the character well prior to that, so don't get hung up on just the last point, I just found their handling of it clumsy and only further added spotlight to a character that was already burning with the intensity of the sun in spotlight. If you want a character of a similar timeframe in another shooter that I enjoyed and found well executed in that respect, it would be Jessica Kandel from The Division. If you want a more recent example, it would be Morgan Yu in Prey.
Sorry about that,
Do you think your you would have had the same opinion about the older characters being the better designed ones if the game had came out when you were 12 or 15 years old?
But you claim there is nothing that defines the character and then you claim that her being lesbian makes no sense. Is almost like you are saying there has to be something different or even dare I say abnormal about a person for her to be homosexual.
I guess I mean to say why can't a normal, boring person be boring and gay?
The really crappy thing is if you add a shirt to his design it looks a thousand times better.
Meh. I don't appreciate them making the characters look more Anglo when they're adults compared to their more classical Japanese bishi looks when they were younger.
They’re not really going for the same thing at all beyond big boobs and a white dress, which isn’t exactly a narrow set of criteria in anime designs.
No, I am saying she is an empty character with very shallow characteristics. That reveal came after the fact and my response is more regarding the handling leading up to that along with it already being a character shoved everywhere.
I guess, but I feel it's still a good showcase of the different design aesthetics at work. And you see the same general trends when you compare other Under Night In-Birth characters to other new Arc System Works characters.
French Bread just seems to have a better grasp on what makes a sleek and visually distinct character design. It's a skill that Arc System Works seems to have mostly lost.
That's a good point actually because I think I would have loved Young Noctis and his Anime hair, yeah, and maybe you could argue that FF has always been targeting younger audiences, but I'd say it's time to target an a bit older audience at this point with designs that adults don't cringe at and younger folks would also find cool - and I think the older designs in FFXV would've managed that very well; not too gruff and tough, but also not too Anime. Would love to see more designs like that or also FFXII's Bash in FFXVI.
I still don't see how either her being shallow or her being shoved everywhere has anything to do with her sexual preferences tho. Like I don't get why her being gay would bother you at all. Is there anything on her personality/character design that screams "I'm Straight" ?
When yo say her sexuality is shoehorned it sounds very close to when my dad put's down other people's different sexuality by calling it a "Cry for attention"
Gonna be Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for me. Literally the art style is what most put me off from buying the game. In general, I'm starting to move away from anime-like art styles. I dunno, besides the fact that I am seriously put off by characters like Pyra or Tharja from FE, I guess I always feel embarrassed while playing them. Like if someone walked in and Pyra was on screen I'd go "uuuhhhh I can explain".
Alright man, you're a bit too fixated on that point and I've already listed contemporary examples that I do like and have said that I've disliked it before then and didn't find the method well handled. If you just wanna angle this in ways to call me a bigot just get to it and let's move on.
Yeah someone gifted me this game and its sequel two years ago and I still have yet to play them because this giant slab of meat is on the cover
Neat thing about the Gears cast is that unlike so many other designs ITT they're purposefully off putting and ugly.
I can kind of see what you mean by sleek and streamlined, but UNIB has the same issue as Melty Blood, that being the character designs are really generic and indistinct.
It really seems like it's "Not Persona 4" mixed in with basic anime tropes, I don't see how these are better in anyway than Guilty Gear.
(Not Iori, please don't sue.)
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Pretty much most anime, stuff like loli and Waifu (if these are the same thing then I apologize, not clued up 100% on the terms).
At times I sit there and think.......how does this appeal to anyone, almost naked anime guys and girls that look no older than around early teens in scantily clad armour and/or school uniforms....wtf?
Don't get me started on the ridiculousness of the hair styles.
At times I sit there and think.......how does this appeal to anyone, almost naked anime guys and girls that look no older than around early teens in scantily clad armour and/or school uniforms....wtf?
Don't get me started on the ridiculousness of the hair styles.
Bland generic fantasy tends to put me off these days, whether that's bland generic "Western" fantasy e.g. the Elder Scrolls aesthetic, or bland generic "Japanese" fantasy, or a bland generic mix of both e.g. a lot of Dark Souls 3
I'm confused, you can't watch an entire medium because western reviewers critically acclaimed a show with horror elements that involves children? Do you find it similarly difficult to read books because horror stories involving children have been critically acclaimed? Or to watch films for the same reason? The idea that you find it hard to watch anything in a particular medium, because one show in a particular genre within that medium got good critical reviews strikes me as rather bizarre. I'm not a big fan of torture porn films, but I don't "struggle" to watch Citizen Kane because Saw exists.
Anime-ing Star Ocean 2 portraits. I much prefer the old appearance.
I also really disliked Soul Sacrifice's costume designs for the most part. It felt very fetishy.
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I also really disliked Soul Sacrifice's costume designs for the most part. It felt very fetishy.
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I liked Horizon but I admit that I was iffy on the artstyle at first, and even on Aloy. While at first I couldn't place exactly why, I now think it's because there are too many white characters, Aloy included, who look like they are cosplaying indigenous cultures. While they ARE indigenous people in the game's story, I couldn't shake off that feeling of "Aloy (or another character) looks like a caucasian model pretending to be a Native American." It got better once you know why this is.