Thagomizer
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:lol do you live in a preschool? New Laura is at most above-average, and I feel that that's being generous.
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Thread of WTF Did they do to the character design??
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:lol do you live in a preschool? New Laura is at most above-average, and I feel that that's being generous.
PhantomOfTheKnight
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It's the lips; other then that, he looks great. SS Zelda's bolbous nose still gives me the creeps.
New Lara is so awesome. I'm not a person that's greatly interested in character art normally (although the moe stuff in the recent Final Fantasy games is just about to put me off of the series for good), but the Lara redesign is making me actually interested in the series for the first time. Well apart from that omg I can oggle at this girl from all sides when I was fourteen and played tomb raider 1. Always thought the games were crap, but I'm suddenly all over this.
I think the Banjo Kazooie redesign is really interesting actually, because it seems to me they purposefully went for the blocky design to appeal to our nostalgic feelings for the Banjo Kazooie of old. Only when you look at the art, it was never meant blocky! (I'm fine with the new one though)
Also, facepalm at people naming Link and Zelda.
I think the Banjo Kazooie redesign is really interesting actually, because it seems to me they purposefully went for the blocky design to appeal to our nostalgic feelings for the Banjo Kazooie of old. Only when you look at the art, it was never meant blocky! (I'm fine with the new one though)
Also, facepalm at people naming Link and Zelda.
Ugh, awful. The visuals in that game were so awesome, but the character designs were hideous across the board.
Skyward Sword Link was so, so much improved.
Agreed. The eyes in particular on the characters made me feel like Satan was trying to steal my soul.
Barry Burton
Member
Heh, terrible look though.
It would have been one thing if it more closely reflected the game's artwork:
Proportionally, everything's a lot better there (much less of the egg-head look of the actual game)
jokingbird
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Not sure what happened to Elena's nose from Uncharted 2 to 3. Not really a big deal, but kinda weird.
I sort of feel like she was wearing more make up during Uncharted 3.
Nathan and her had just broken up, she could have been trying to look better. At least I can see story reasons for the change.
Same stuff but in reverse order.
Yeah I know that's not how it works.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
I understand that the change was because of gameplay, but goddammit what the hell happened? Are these actually different strains of the same species or different species?
The original were a badass blue alien race, which looked so alien you did't even know what you were looking at. And they don't go around fighting on the ground to get killed by bipedal humans.
Plus they send these awesome looking drones that fight for them.
The redesign is a red squid in a bipedal suit, with half of its body sticking out.
The original were a badass blue alien race, which looked so alien you did't even know what you were looking at. And they don't go around fighting on the ground to get killed by bipedal humans.
Plus they send these awesome looking drones that fight for them.
The redesign is a red squid in a bipedal suit, with half of its body sticking out.
From:
To:
Just gimme the old shit in realtime now, goddamit.
Its just the weird ass lips that screws this up. If he did not have MJ lips he would look fine.
Here is a quick PS..
ScreenSplitter
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Its just the weird ass lips that screws this up. If he did not have MJ lips he would look fine.
Here is a quick PS..
It's almost like they're really only the same character in namesake and clothing style... WAIT! They are!
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I do think he is supposed to be Fighter. The designs of the four Light Warriors are actually pretty consistent across Amano's artwork. They are always those four characters:
And not even namesake, exactly.
Ninja Scooter
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would love for the next FF game to be a throwback to Amano's more fantasy style artwork.
the only dante you accept is sports bra Poochie the Rockin' Dog Dante? i think you meant to post DMC1 dante, sir.It's not even like the new design is that bad or anything. However this will forever be the only Dante design I accept and acknowledge.
Duxxy3
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RedAssedApe
Banned
The artists changed for the character artwork between KOFs but the in game sprite has always been pretty consistent. Until KOF12-13 where they did re-did designs on Kensou and Athena to try and match their original incarnations.
LOL
AcceptableGhost
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I kind of actually liked the idea of this, if they kept doing this with sequels. If I remember correctly every character was redesigned weren't they? I think it would be cool to just have random redesigns for every character for all the sequels where they vaguely resemble the original.
The artists changed for the character artwork between KOFs but the in game sprite has always been pretty consistent. Until KOF12-13 where they did re-did designs on Kensou and Athena to try and match their original incarnations.
LOL
Wow... lol. That explains the Kof12-13's legs I gues... which admittedly is the only good part of the modern design :-/
She looks a lot more like an Elena in the first shot though, instead of the Lena of the second one
.UpperCaseN
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I came here to post Nathan "Rad" Spencer. Love his look from Rearmed and actually from Rearmed 2 the most. The 3-D one cannot possibly be the same guy, there's no way. Even with jail time. I hate the 3-D one, it makes me so mad. Not just the character change but the game itself as well.
RedAssedApe
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Devil May Cry 2 had the best Dante design. Too bad the actual game sucked.
It's the same character.
Oooh. ND should make her a new character. What a nice model.
Anticitizen One
Banned
I honestly don't see what's so different about Lara other than she's younger and more realistic looking and is wearing pants instead of shorts.
Deified Data
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Anticitizen One
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These are shitty designs?
Whatever
Certainly better than DMC 3 and DMC reboot
surfing on/vaulting off a missile is video games' version of jumping the shark. it happened to snake, and it happened to dante. once foot touches missile, there's no going back.
also, electric guitar (interchangeable with skateboards for max cool) weapon:
RedAssedApe
Banned
surfing on/vaulting off a missile is video games' version of jumping the shark. it happened to snake, and it happened to dante. once foot touches missile, there's no going back.
also, electric guitar (interchangeable with skateboards for max cool) weapon:
Surfing move totally fit into the tongue in cheek nature of the game though.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
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What I think some people don't get about the original Dante design is that not only was Kamiya going for the cool stylish look but also for a classic game character look. Think about it. Devil May Cry's world and setting is dark and gothic with many different shades of black and gray. To compensate for this the main character is bright red with sliver hair to really stand out and emphasize the personality of the character being completely different from the rest of the world. Not only do more colors and details become more vivid as you progress through the game, it makes the other characters (bosses ect.) stand out more.
Dante to me is so classic in this regard because it reminds me of other classic characters designs such as this
or this
Dante to me is so classic in this regard because it reminds me of other classic characters designs such as this
or this
Brave Fencer Musashi
Musashi Samurai Legend
http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-13/art/msl-musashi-action.jpg
Musashi Samurai Legend
http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-13/art/msl-musashi-action.jpg
Razgriz-Specter
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I agree, though I think Mei Ling and
Big Boss
This
I think Chris' RE5 design problem was being super buff with the really tight shirt because
I think this is probably the best redesign imo.
I understand that the change was because of gameplay, but goddammit what the hell happened? Are these actually different strains of the same species or different species?
The original were a badass blue alien race, which looked so alien you did't even know what you were looking at. And they don't go around fighting on the ground to get killed by bipedal humans.
The redesign is a red squid in a bipedal suit, with half of its body sticking out.
They actually made hand-drawn Crysis designs? More?
King of the Potato People
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The different designs for the fairies in Zelda constantly make me think this.
Pre-N64 Zeldas and the oracle games have ones that generally look like this.
They typically look like this in Ocarina of Time/Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks/ Skyward Sword/
The ones in Majora's Mask/Four Swords mostly look like these.
They generally look like this in The Wind Waker/Four Swords Adventures/The Minish Cap.
Great Fairies/ Fairy Queen
GB Games
The Wind Waker/Four Swords Adventures use these.
The Minish Cap
Twilight Princess
Bonus: Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
Pre-N64 Zeldas and the oracle games have ones that generally look like this.
They typically look like this in Ocarina of Time/Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks/ Skyward Sword/
The ones in Majora's Mask/Four Swords mostly look like these.
They generally look like this in The Wind Waker/Four Swords Adventures/The Minish Cap.
Great Fairies/ Fairy Queen
GB Games
The Wind Waker/Four Swords Adventures use these.
The Minish Cap
Twilight Princess
Bonus: Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
Zoramon089
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Where do you live where all girls have only tiny boobs and anyone with anything even approaching large is unrealistic?!
Psychoward
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I hated the decrepit Desmond in Revelations.
Dark Octave
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I literally LOLed just now.
He already looked like shitty Seifer clone in 13, but this is complete garbage with some Organization XIII dude hair from KH.
Is he still the same whiny piece of shit he was as a kid?
Bomberman wins hands down though.
King of the Potato People
Member
Mario Strikers, don't know if want...
Slamtastic
Member
Daisy looks good. I think it's just the metal gauntlet/robot arm stuff on the others that's weird.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
I didn't even know Revelations had a different desmond. I really disliked his look after three games though, so the change looks better, aside from the rather unappealing position he's in in the screenshot.
I understand that the change was because of gameplay, but goddammit what the hell happened? Are these actually different strains of the same species or different species?
The original were a badass blue alien race, which looked so alien you did't even know what you were looking at. And they don't go around fighting on the ground to get killed by bipedal humans.
Plus they send these awesome looking drones that fight for them.
The redesign is a red squid in a bipedal suit, with half of its body sticking out.
I hate that I'm having a serious discussion about Crysis' god awful story BUT...
Remember that the alien ship embedded in the island in Crysis was supposed to predate mankind, and was some number of millions of years old. They've been in cryosleep and get woken up, so you're fighting millions-years-old members of that race. In Crysis 2 they come straight to earth in the present and invade, if I'm remembering the story correctly, so a bit of racial evolution and certain technological evolution is inferred there.
And let's not forger that fighting the aliens in Crysis was boring and not fun, but fighting the aliens in Crysis 2 was a blast. Crytek can change whatever the hell they want about the visual design, so long as it facilitates better moment to moment gameplay.