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U.G.L.Y you ain't got no alibi. Games too ugly to play.
- Thread starter Torpedo Vegas
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You're quite defensive about this. Are you a furry? Honestly asking.
Also, there's a difference between this:
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and this:
I don't even really care about furries or that particular lifestyle, but I think Dust's style is off-putting.
this is the worst opinion I have ever seen
edit : lol sorry for the double post
I honestly can't say that I've ever had this problem! Older and "ugly" games certainly look less appealing, but it hasn't even stopped me from playing something. In fact, I often find that I'll play an "ugly" game and come away impressed at what it did based on when it came out.
A lot of NS4/PS1 early 3D stuff did NOT AGE WELL. I know some people are nostalgic for those blocky polygons, but I'd rather draw the line at the 360's release and say "never again".
Also, Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite's entire presentation is a fucking garbage fire. I still can't fathom how they went from MvC3's unique and great art style to this shit. It's like they planned for cel shading but forgot to turn it on and instead just cranked up the chromatic aberration instead. (Speaking of which, that's also an effect that needs to die in a fucking fire.)
I mean, okay, if that stuff ain't your cup of tea that's fine, but I rarely see people criticise the art on its own merits and just go straight for the nebulous "deviantart/furry" angle, with a tone that suggests that association is offensive somehow. I'm going to concur that the hostility towards the character art style is generally a ridiculous overreaction due to less than positive impressions of the "furry fandom" itself - it's usually what it looks like to me.
Also, I'm going to note the irony of using Star Fox as an example when even as far back as the SNES days you had the comic with a rather sexy love interest, a rather "realistic furry" art style, and later we'd get friggn' Krystal.
I loved the Vita and all, but I would've gladly traded that high-res screen for a 3D screen any day. Same with the Switch, honestly. 3DS games always looked their best in actual 3D, to the point where 2D screenshots actually don't do the games justice (the 3D view actually makes games sharper and less aliased than in 2D). Playing games with a proper 3D screen is just such a treat.
Also, Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite's entire presentation is a fucking garbage fire. I still can't fathom how they went from MvC3's unique and great art style to this shit. It's like they planned for cel shading but forgot to turn it on and instead just cranked up the chromatic aberration instead. (Speaking of which, that's also an effect that needs to die in a fucking fire.)
Dust's art-style isn't even that "furry bait" anyway, though - that's an incredibly broad brush. It's just how that particular artist does anthropomorphic animals. It's not even bad art, just rather stylised in a particular way, and the game in motion is very well animated, nevermind the environments are gorgeous.
I mean, okay, if that stuff ain't your cup of tea that's fine, but I rarely see people criticise the art on its own merits and just go straight for the nebulous "deviantart/furry" angle, with a tone that suggests that association is offensive somehow. I'm going to concur that the hostility towards the character art style is generally a ridiculous overreaction due to less than positive impressions of the "furry fandom" itself - it's usually what it looks like to me.
Also, I'm going to note the irony of using Star Fox as an example when even as far back as the SNES days you had the comic with a rather sexy love interest, a rather "realistic furry" art style, and later we'd get friggn' Krystal.
Haha nope
I loved the Vita and all, but I would've gladly traded that high-res screen for a 3D screen any day. Same with the Switch, honestly. 3DS games always looked their best in actual 3D, to the point where 2D screenshots actually don't do the games justice (the 3D view actually makes games sharper and less aliased than in 2D). Playing games with a proper 3D screen is just such a treat.
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I'm a furry and don't like Dust's artstyle because I think it looks too bland.You're quite defensive about this. Are you a furry? Honestly asking.
Also, there's a difference between this:
and this:
I don't even really care about furries or that particular lifestyle, but I think Dust's style is off-putting.
That said, people using Dust's artstyle to shit on furries aren't really critiquing the game, so they're kind of derailing the thread quite a bit.
don't think i'm defensive at all. as for your question
i'm not
A lot of "Ugly" games have great aesthetic even today, like the Zeldas and Marios of the N64 days, but some were simply technically impressive and nothing else, which would be Crysis in maybe 20 years and those kind of games just don't age well at all once their technical feats have been outpaced.
agreed, the SNES donkey kong country games look very ugly and compared to other nintendo games of the era (alttp, smw, yoshi's island, super metroid) have aged like poo
I'll see your newgrounds and raise you a deviant-art.
This might be a huge shame because by all accounts the game is very good. I just can't play it because it looks like what happens when you type furry into google image search... Observe:
was this game released on ps+ some time back? i have not touched it because of that art style
I was just focusing on the first game, but it definitely did spiral later, yeah.
The thread is about games you find too ugly to play. I wouldn't necessarily call Dust "ugly," but the style is off-putting enough to me that I'll probably never play it.
don't think i'm defensive at all. as for your question
i don't see a big difference between starfox and dust and how you can like one and be vehemently opposed to the other but you're entitled to your opinioni'm not
Haha, fair enough. I'm not "vehemently opposed" to it. I just think it's off-putting. If it floats someone's boat, then more power to 'em.[/QUOTE]
I bought Civ VI this weekend and genuinely was appalled at that art design. It just seems like an incoherent mess. I've never actually experienced that before.
In comparison to any other 3D first person game of the era, Shining the Holy Ark looked pretty good, imo.
What? Rebirth doesn't look like a flash game. If you had posted the original game I would understand.pretty much any flash looking game.
I avoid those... the art, the animation... ... I just can't do it ... no matter how it looks...
All 3ds games look like shit in trailers or images. They only look good on the system itself or citra.
I always thought so many of the character models we're terrible in Bioware games. I've tried to play the original ME so many times I just can't do it.
I always thought so many of the character models we're terrible in Bioware games. I've tried to play the original ME so many times I just can't do it.
Jim Power is a beautiful game with very impressive tech on both the Amiga and the Snes. I haven't played the PCE CD version but it should be up there too.
Not a furry, but a fan of well done anthropomorphic characters. Dust IS pretty bad. And I agree, shitting on the furry community is kinda pointless. :/
Same here. I think it always looked good and it holds up very well.
All games are foul and disgusting things, only pretending to be good and beautiful to serve themselves.
It took 78 posts for it, but I'm glad to see someone else who shares my opinion about Infinite. SOME characters look good, but overall it definitely doesn't look like a game that came out a couple of months ago. Marvel 3 arguably looks better.marvel vs capcom infinite
I'll see your newgrounds and raise you a deviant-art.
YES YES YES THIS SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAA
i could not bring myself to play more than 10 minutes of this shit.
i felt violated
That's interesting, for me, it was the look of the player created character. It felt like the male and female models had no difference, and the customization had no noticeable change on your character. If there's something I hate the most, it's a character creator that doesn't actually let you look different, because why have it at all.
Graphics really don't bother me normally, but I was playing Operation Flashpoint Red River on PSNow, (Don't. It's that bad. But it has the most realistic military slang I've ever heard in a game.).
The streaming made it worse and it would strain my eyes after an hour or so of play.
I'm assuming it's because it was streaming, but it was really bad. So imagine this bland, brown landscape with my bland brown hands and gun, then squint so it gets blurry. It's a milsim game, so 1 shot and I'm dead, making it about has hard as Dark Souls while drunk.
The streaming made it worse and it would strain my eyes after an hour or so of play.
I'm assuming it's because it was streaming, but it was really bad. So imagine this bland, brown landscape with my bland brown hands and gun, then squint so it gets blurry. It's a milsim game, so 1 shot and I'm dead, making it about has hard as Dark Souls while drunk.
Never played that game it looks like a kid cartoon tho I wouldn't consider off-putting but yeah those 2 clearly have different styles (StarFox is an ugly ass game tho so it fits in this thread :P)
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I feel like I'm the only one, but I never had any issues with early polygonal graphics and I think it's crazy to say that anything in ps2 era looks too ugly, let alone HD era and later. I hate just how 16-bit sprite graphics look. Bought SNES mini, could barely play any of the games. Even games like persona 1-2, which I would love to experience to get a context for how one of my favorite series began, look too ugly for me to play.
Except for FF7. I loved how FF8 and FF9 looked and FF6 is one of the very few 16-bit games that I liked the look of. FF7 is just a mess.
Except for FF7. I loved how FF8 and FF9 looked and FF6 is one of the very few 16-bit games that I liked the look of. FF7 is just a mess.
If you don't play Dust because of the graphics you'll miss out on a damn good thing. The gameplay is tight and the graphics are beautiful in motion. I grew up on Disney movies - before the internet - so anthropomorphised characters don't automatically make me think 'furry'. It's a great game.