Fright Zone
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I prefer the roided out bulging Bane version. The bigger the better!
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Capcom Showed the Wrong Version (extra large) of Abigail in the Reveal trailer.
- Thread starter Spaced Harrier
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You're kidding right? SFV is probably the second best looking fighting game this gen after IJ2 graphics wise.
For real, and also fuck this game. If Hugo was revealed he'd get the same flac. Every character can't be pretty, as we've seen in the past.
Tekken 7, GGXrd, & DBFZ are up there as well, but T7 has the chromatic abbreviation that somewhat annoys me in MvCI.
I think it looks bad too. Guilty Gear Xrd is much more appealing. Tekken 7 too.
sixteen-bit
Member
Both are bad looking games. They need to use something like the Guilty Gear Anime engine. Even SF4's art style is preferable.
shaowebb
Member
Contrarian opinions? Those only ever account for a low minority of market interest. Its why people try to gauge trends. To feel out what would bring the most sales. Yeah sure you need variety to penetrate the broader audience gap but SFV isn't needing to target that anymore since they already have roster to cover that demographic. They're needing to try and regenerate mass appeal by creating more stylish cast to respark the interest of much larger demographic outside of the contrarian niche.
Abigail is just poorly timed and a bad idea to spring right now with so many other fighting games dropping megaton character additions. They were needing to put a face up there that stated what the game was becoming to draw in folks away from the competition. Instead they came across as more niche and uncool than ever by putting a niche and uncool character up against a market flooding with stylish cool character expansions.
Think of it like this. SFV went up last in announcements then said "Why play that when you could have THIS." Then they played an ugly joke character making vroom vroom noises acting like a toddler. Not a good way to look.
Host Samurai
Member
Love is final fight look.
Ploid 3.0
Member
I thought it was a prank video, but seeing that back dash stole my heart. I will get this character and maybe stick with him, especially if he has a lot of passive taunts.
This is what I thought was about to be revealed. It didn't look like street fighter for a bit.
This is what I thought was about to be revealed. It didn't look like street fighter for a bit.
But the most unappealing part of his design (in the reveal trailer) was his overly grotesque musculature. Now, he's still huge, but this slight reduction does a lot to help his overall proportions. His head doesn't look as tiny, which also was a complaint I read several times. Besides being purposefully ugly, I thought his muscles just looked fucked up in the reveal trailer. It looked wrong. His regular form is a lot more palatable.
I imagine the reactions would have been the same to be honest, but he looked pretty okay yesterday in WSO.
Capcom:
This gif perfectly sums this up
Yup people take this shit too seriously. If it was another 12 year old waifu, with huge boobs and plenty of pantyshots, they would have cheered. And I think that is also the issue. The name had the waifuboos thinking it might be one.
FallingEdge
Member
Lame.
Giant Abagail is the best. Should just stay big.
Giant Abagail is the best. Should just stay big.
This is a good read. It really highlights how reactionary and cliquey certain people can be online, especially when there is a narrative in place.
pla-pla-place holder
Member
Im sorry i dont see much of a difference and i dont even hate the character
Hoya Destroyer
Member
Capcom probably cost themselves a few sales with this screw up, but at least we'll get a better looking character in the end.
Tekken 7
Mortal Kombat X
Guilty Gear Xrd
DBZF
I'd even put DOA5 Ultimate ahead of it
It's an improvement on 4 at least.
No thanks.
The Lone Dragon
Member
Typical NeoGaf, lol.
A trailer version of a model is slightly different than a later version. Oh no.
Let's turn that common occurrence into a Capcom hate thread, because Gaf.
LolGaf.
A trailer version of a model is slightly different than a later version. Oh no.
Let's turn that common occurrence into a Capcom hate thread, because Gaf.
LolGaf.
Maybe stop playing dev simulator and play the game? He looks super fun to play, I couldn't care less about the rest.
I was thinking it was super Mario type shit. That's barely noticeable.I think this GIF makes it easy to see the difference and should be in the OP.
I like the design regardless (except for the tire alt). Only design I still actively hate is FANG, but still he's better than turds like el fuerte and rufus.
Ugly brawler is an appealing design to some. Including me.
Also please don't preach the function stuff to me like I'm somebody who believes that garbage, I'm well aware and I agree. I argued in a different topic that the Icons trailer looks terrible since it doesn't have any appealing character designs and that character designs are important.
I actually do believe he'd be better off if he was in the base game, and that Capcom made a mistake of going all new characters this season since there's a desire to see old characters (including their designs and ...functions). I also feel that showing the Abigail trailer at EVO was a mistake and they should have showed off something else (SSFV tease if it exists like rumors say...or maybe a Marvel trailer instead)
Its a big difference and makes him more proportional as a whole.
I wasn't a fan because the arms through everything outta whack
Hoya Destroyer
Member
I think my comment was fair. The difference in Abigails size is noticeable enough to stop a few sales, I think. Im no Capcom hater. I love many of their SFV designs
tooevil
Member
That sf4 pic looks the mobile versionoh lawd this nonsense again
RecRoulette
Member
I think going with the all new characters (and Akuma) route is fine. New characters are always going to get shit on compared to old favorites, so might as well give them a block by themselves to shine. Imagine if they mixed it up and you went from somebody like Sagat to Abigail or Ed
DR2K
Banned
I think my comment was fair. The difference in Abigails size is noticeable enough to stop a few sales, I think. Im no Capcom hater. I love many of their SFV designs
You can't stop what hasn't started
Barrel Cannon
Member
His character design is noisy but I still dig it. Capcom's character's in SF have always been great overall to me compared to a lot of other fighters.
Turbanator
Member
People saying SFIV looks better than SFV must have optic blasts with how rose-tinted their glasses are.
Him being ugly on purpose still makes him ugly. If people don't like how he looks, saying he seems fun in response isnt exactly relevant
I'll agree on Xrd, DBZF, and Tekken 7 but I can't abide MKX looking better. That's an ugly game not even counting the terrible animations.
I'll also say SFV has the best animations of any fighter on the list.
IMO the game is ugly. There's nothing you're going to say that changes that. The stages are full of low-res textures and some bad looking assets.
The characters look ok once the camera zooms way out. I wish they'd go for a more "drawn/comic" look. The game looks so off to me.
I'm not comparing it to 4, I'm comparing it to other current fighters.
oh lawd this nonsense again
Thanks for proving my point. Stylized vs Over-designed.
I don't know what this means.
I know this is a subjective argument but you're insane. SFV's art style is just a non-shitty version of SFIV. If you liked the 2D art of past Street Fighters over V I could understand that but SF4 looks like a proof of concept thrown together for SFV. It's an evolution.
You proved your point better than anyone: you don't even know what "design" means.
Officerrob
Banned
Still looks awful