They don't have enough features on the human or animal side to make them visually interesting, so they look boring and creepy.
That is funny.
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Anthropomorphic animals in games | Does it influence your buying decision?
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They don't have enough features on the human or animal side to make them visually interesting, so they look boring and creepy.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Exactly. Something off about female characters who look more human than anthropomorphic. Like it's some sort of overdone make up.
Now that's better.
Furries existed since ancient times brah
I know where you're coming from, though I think you can find a lot of differences between an intentional furry and an anthropomorphic animal character.
Often times it's good design instead of something overzealous and neon colored. Not to bash the whole furry community, it just seems strikingly common (not green necessarily, but similar design--or even art--styles, and garish colors to differentiate characters in the most extreme way possible. And thus, I stopped going to deviantart). Hair atop fur his another good indicator.
Surely you can see the difference between these:
Also, that game the Lugaru guys are making looks really cool. I hope it gets... uh, done.
Huh.
Its not there is hasn't been characters that exist in media before the popularization of the web that aren't neon colored anthropomorphic animals.
* looks at my avatar* Oh wait.
Well shit I gotta tell warner bros about the looney toons then.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
But ultimately this.
I never touched Etrian Odyssey (I prefer Grimlock and Wizardry 8) but hey, I need an RPG for the 3DS and EO4 had a nice beastmen race that looks contrast to the loli/shota-esque art in the game.
Might as well say all furry art are deviantArt (which is hilariously wrong, many furries migrated away from DeviantArt).
Or kemono in general.
I still believe kemono style > furry though.
Also what you posted is more of a Funny Animal than a furry.
I'm being inductive here. Just a couple of signs, nothing definite. Of course there are numerous exceptions.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Just to recap: DA isn't a furry site - more like it's full of DONUT STEEL characters and artwork, and a bulk of them happens to be ponies, sanic and maybe furries.
Also the hair thing is just weird. Might as well complain about humans having hair. Anthropomorphism isn't solely just "animals on two legs" - it's pretty much its own thing.
Also the hair thing is just weird. Might as well complain about humans having hair. Anthropomorphism isn't solely just "animals on two legs" - it's pretty much its own thing.
There aren't even signs, all the things you named are popular artistic tropes , and probably will be well after you are gone.
You are gonna have to get better "signs"
the_prime_mover
Member
Funny, I came in here to say something similar. I typically don't have anything against anthropomorphism though, so it must have been that particular style of art (and the voices).
Agh, I'm talking out my spinal cord here at 5 AM, and google isn't helping. The sheer amounts of porn you have to sift through...
I submit knowledge-defeat, and I'll leave you gents to it. Discuss, oh he/she who is more professed than I.
(The Deviantart thing was just an offhand comment. I've seen other things in other places. Dirty things. Sinister things. The hair thing, I was being a little inspecific about. In my head, I was thinking of the Japanese pop-star sort of hair. This is all probably just me ranting about design choices I don't like. Didn't I say I was going to bed?)
Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours fetching seafood ingredients for the cook hired by my town in Animal Crossing. The cook was a turkey named Franklin, who was very conscience that this Thanksgiving feast would be seafood based. I found it hilarious.
So no, I don't have a problem with this.
So no, I don't have a problem with this.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Hahah, it's okay
Not even a furry expert here, at most I just look up art. Don't even do cons and stuff.
Skellig Gra
Member
Huh? No, they are video games after all. Every game isn't supposed to be a realistic human world. Where is the fun in that?
ShiroAmakusa
Member
It doesn't affect me at. I had a little crush on Gadget from Rescue Rangers when I was 8yo though. 
I definitely have this problem with Blizzard and their sexual dimorphism in WoW, but obviously they've done their focus testing and arrived at what they have.
As soon as they are sexualized I am out.
I mean, look at this shit:
I don't see it. They tried to make an animal look cute. But I don't see the over sexualised bit. It's nothing like Lara Croft or anything like that.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Sexualization of anthropomorphic characters isn't a recent phenomenon. That's why I'm wondering if people were sheltered from stuff like this.
Aren't female characters tend to look less... "rough"? I recall the female Worgen and Tauren looking like that.
tbqh I never had any crush on any furry character save for a very few...
Alef from Shining Force and Dora from FEDA are the only furry female characters I got a crush on. Maybe Reeva from GW2 too.
I also have mancrush on any anthro character voiced by Tetsu Inada (save for Komamura, fuck Bleach). A good thing about it is that they tend to be muscular (for the most part - Panther is athletic). That's why I really like Doggie Kruger.
Aren't female characters tend to look less... "rough"? I recall the female Worgen and Tauren looking like that.
It doesn't affect me at. I had a little crush on Gadget from Rescue Rangers when I was 8yo though.
tbqh I never had any crush on any furry character save for a very few...
Alef from Shining Force and Dora from FEDA are the only furry female characters I got a crush on. Maybe Reeva from GW2 too.
I also have mancrush on any anthro character voiced by Tetsu Inada (save for Komamura, fuck Bleach). A good thing about it is that they tend to be muscular (for the most part - Panther is athletic). That's why I really like Doggie Kruger.
hooijdonk17
Member
Consult your ophthalmologist.
Not sheltered, but internet and forums brought all kinds of sub-cultures and fetishes to broad daylight. And yeah it kinda affects your view on things if you happen to witness something disturbing relating to things you viewed as harmless before.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Eh, it's no more disturbing than seeing this
or this
or this
And then there's stuff like Bastet and the like.
Lewd stuff exist on pretty much almost anything, so seeing furries in skimpy clothing is a given.
I guess sheltered is the wrong term. They probably saw them as kids but forgot about them.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
I never felt like Sonic was a dealbreaker or anything like that. Or Khajiit. These things are freaking boss, like that space Samurai bear posted earlier. Crazy cool stuff. But, for me, there are definitely limits. There's a couple of games I'd probably have liked on a gameplay level, that I skipped because I found the art unpalatable. But that's my personal opinion. Basically, call me insane or whatnot, but when I feel that it's not just an artstyle decision, well that's when I am out.
Earthpainting
Member
I generally don't have an issue with it. I'd even go a step further and say that I vastly prefer anthropomorphic animal-characters over stuff like elves, orcs and dwarves. The animal kingdom is so vast, there's bound to be interesting things you can conjure up with it as your inspiration. The Breath of Fire series has a race of giant bipedal pangolin-rhinos. Rad as fuck? Yes, ma'am.
I don't like how the female characters have much more human faces than the male ones in this. You can tell they didn't go all the way on the female designs because they wanted to keep them attractive in some shape or form. Pretty lame.
I never claimed they were good or successful at it.
What in all the levels of hell are you talking about?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Which is weird, because personally they look more monstrous.
quickdevilred
Banned
Would like another banjo
Nocturnowl
Member
I've found myself pretty immune I guess to the various styles of anthro characters I've seen over the years so it doesn't really make any difference to me.
If anything I see an underutilised potential in using these sort of designs more often, of course the art direction it takes plays a huge role in how well received such things are as this thread demonstrates, it's a shame that for some it all gets lumped together these days because of seemingly furry based fears.
Dust always sticks out to me as an interesting one for the varying reactions, I can see where people are coming from not liking the art direction whether it being deemed a lack of quality or just the direction in general yet the idea that its direction is pandering I just don't see at all.
If anything I see an underutilised potential in using these sort of designs more often, of course the art direction it takes plays a huge role in how well received such things are as this thread demonstrates, it's a shame that for some it all gets lumped together these days because of seemingly furry based fears.
Dust always sticks out to me as an interesting one for the varying reactions, I can see where people are coming from not liking the art direction whether it being deemed a lack of quality or just the direction in general yet the idea that its direction is pandering I just don't see at all.
Red Chocobo
Banned
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
^ drunk post.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Furries are to anthropomorphic characters as Moe is to cute 'n colorful. Once they get their paws on an artstyle, it's ruined, and there's those amongst their numbers and some of their loudest detractors who would paint all walkin' talkin' animals as furry bait ruining the whole thing for everyone else.
I will say though, animal head + human eyes (pandaren women) = instant douchechills and no buy from me
I will say though, animal head + human eyes (pandaren women) = instant douchechills and no buy from me
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Art style and character design rarely affect my gaming decision so long as the game itself is a good game.
On the subject of anthropomorphic characters, I will appreciate it a lot if that technique is used to create interesting, original, and well-designed characters that stand out from the generic human or humanoid characters in most games. Variety is good and you get plenty of generic humans everywhere else - it's Earth after all, there's billions of them.
I don't care for the more ungainly styles of anthro characters (don't like "Sonic"-derived stuff at all, for example), but even the awkward NPC designs in Dust didn't make me avoid the game.
On the subject of anthropomorphic characters, I will appreciate it a lot if that technique is used to create interesting, original, and well-designed characters that stand out from the generic human or humanoid characters in most games. Variety is good and you get plenty of generic humans everywhere else - it's Earth after all, there's billions of them.
I don't care for the more ungainly styles of anthro characters (don't like "Sonic"-derived stuff at all, for example), but even the awkward NPC designs in Dust didn't make me avoid the game.
Yeah... my childhood was filled with more than enough anthropomorphic animals to last me a lifetime. From Disney's plethora of Chip and Dales, Animaniacs, Chester the Cheetahs, Mutant Turtles, Biker Mice from Mars, Street Sharks etc. etc.
I could live a happy life without ever seeing another anthropomorphic character.
So yes, I skipped Dust specifically because of its art.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Im not on the the "its a furrie" bandwagon, but they are offputting. I want to pick up overgrowth when it finally releases but i dont understand why dude had to use anthropomorphic rabbits. It just looks weird.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Isn't the artist/designer well known in the furry community? His artstyle made that quite obvious in any case, IMO.
Game looked pretty swell and I'm sure it's great, but with that art? Hell no
ShiroAmakusa
Member
Well, I was 8. It was more like: "I wish the girls in my class were as cool."
Any other obsession would have led to a waifu like this:
Personally, I find these characters less interesting, original or well-designed. Usually they lean almost entirely on their "other" visual appearance to distinguish them apart that if you were to strip them of their look then there wouldn't really be of any character to speak.
Granted, as I've said, I generally avoid most of these sorts of things so I may be missing something. But when I see advertising for something like Mist of Pandara, it just looks like the pandas are being used as a lazy shorthand to channel some generic east Asian flavour.
shysaursoft
Member
I refuse to play an MMO where my only choices are human, short human, tall human, beefy human, black human, green human, human with pointy ears.
It's just too boring. It's way cooler to play something like this:
Then again, I grew up with 80s cartoons. I expect everything to have dinosaurs from space in it, just as a matter of course.
I'm more likely to play a fighting game if it has an interesting anthro character in it I could play, like Lizardman from Soul Calibur. Some people like to play the hot females in fighters, some the beefy guys, some the interesting off-kilter characters. I like playing the anthro ones.
I'm also far more interested in RPGs if there are non-human party members in it.
It's just too boring. It's way cooler to play something like this:
Then again, I grew up with 80s cartoons. I expect everything to have dinosaurs from space in it, just as a matter of course.
I'm more likely to play a fighting game if it has an interesting anthro character in it I could play, like Lizardman from Soul Calibur. Some people like to play the hot females in fighters, some the beefy guys, some the interesting off-kilter characters. I like playing the anthro ones.
I'm also far more interested in RPGs if there are non-human party members in it.
I have no Idea
You mean animals with clothing? I gotta call The Sly cooper people, sonic, looney tunes ect ect ect.
HOWEVER, it is poorly drawn character wise, so if that is your issue. I agree, dude needed another artist doing the character art. The character designs themselves aren't super hot either.
What exactly do you find issue with, so I can gain some perspective.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Only if they're clearly designed to appeal to furries.
I don't want to support practices & products that might somehow benefit furries.
So something like Dillon's Rolling Western (it has an antropomorphised Armadillo) is fine because it's only one character, whereas Star Fox goes into the bin because it has a furry fox in a bikini.
Sorry Furries.
I don't want to support practices & products that might somehow benefit furries.
So something like Dillon's Rolling Western (it has an antropomorphised Armadillo) is fine because it's only one character, whereas Star Fox goes into the bin because it has a furry fox in a bikini.
Sorry Furries.
shysaursoft
Member
In every thread. Every, single, thread.
Unless it's some blatant fetish pandering, I don't care. A lot of people are saying they stayed away from dust because of it's furry art style but I think the real problem those people had isn't that dust was furry but that the style felt very amateurish in how it came across in the game. Dust and overgrowth have been brought up a few times so I'll use those as examples. On the left is a rabbit character from dust and on the right is rabbit character art from overgrowth. Neither is necessarily more "furry" than the other but one is more realistically represented and better drawn. It's not furry art that's making you avoid a game, it's just what you perceive as poor art.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
If you took the costuming, so to speak, off most characters of any kind there wouldn't be much left to look at. The WoW example is interesting - the pandas are used because they're icons of east asia. I don't think that's lazy; it's just using an icon as an icon. It doesn't have to be any deeper than that.
Unless it's some blatant fetish pandering, I don't care. A lot of people are saying they stayed away from dust because of it's furry art style but I think the real problem those people had isn't that dust was furry but that the style felt very amateurish in how it came across in the game. Dust and overgrowth have been brought up a few times so I'll use those as examples. On the left is a rabbit character from dust and on the right is rabbit character art from overgrowth. Neither is necessarily more "furry" than the other but one is more realistically represented and better drawn. It's not furry art that's making you avoid a game, it's just what you perceive as poor art.
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