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[MaRa]

smh

winner!

 

[LamerDeluxe]

This should have been posted already:

As for Bayonetta: When will those ugly glasses finally go out of style?????

 

[Erico]

oh yeah, and this asshole:

 

[daxter01]

you know what id software can not design humans since commander keen

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

I don't know, bald male characters? Bald space marines, soldiers, Max Payne 3, Spartans from hell, and even a dude named Baldur!

Too many of them in both good and bad games.

Love or hate anime characters, at least Japanese developers take the time to render cool looking hair. Imagine if they were lazy and made every male character bald? They'd all look the same even more than they do with hair!

 

[-Winnie-]

Almost everything Tetsuya Nomura has designed. Most notably, his work on Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy.

Belts, zippers, feathery hair, and fashion over practicality. All of his characters look like overdressed supermodels.

Where's Tidus going, dressed like that? Even at most raves, he'd probably look out of place. I'd like to see a Final Fantasy game show a scene where you actually have to watch these characters get dressed in the morning. It must take them hours just to figure out which layer of clothing goes on first, never mind styling their hair (and make-up they wear, most likely).

By the time they get all ready to go outside and save the world, the bad guy would have already won.

Final Fantasy. God, I don't know why so many people bitch about the 'belts and zippers' crap. It's a fantasy, so it's okay to turn off your common sense.

 

[Chao]

Cole.

Unimaginative and predictable.

I just noticed this:

Not really twins, but...

 

[Diablohead]

FU silver, ugly design.

Metroid Prime 2 and 3 have the shittiest depictions of Samus ever. Metroid Prime 3 has some of the ugliest humans ever. I mean good fucking lord.

Truth.

I don't see what's wrong with that Samus, rather nice actually.

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

Final Fantasy. God, I don't know why so many people bitch about the 'belts and zippers' crap. It's a fantasy, so it's okay to turn off your common sense.

I'm always on the side where simpler is better, less is more, etc.

Like all the iconic video game characters: Mario, Link, Sonic, Mega Man, Samus, Pac-Man, the entire original Street Fighter 2 cast, etc. Three or less colors, simple in design, easily recognizable.

Even with the latest technology and graphics, the philosophy is still the same.

 

[Oxx]

Cartoon Samus has horrible, ridiculous hair.

Original and best:

 

[twenty1]

I disagree Bayo is a great addition to the industry.

 

[Segata Sanshiro]

I am impervious to bad character designs! Nothing posted in this thread bugs me! Yay!

 

[twenty1]

This boring character to me.

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

Bayonetta is cool...but it's still a ridiculous character when you think about it.

 

[Gattsu25]

That was such a disappointing sequel.

I can't even play it anymore, the intro is so WTF-embarrassing.

 

[Dark Stalkers]

 

[Binabik15]

Strange, I was wondering why nobody mentioned Drake, refreshed and BAM, there he is.

Not to feed the trolls, but does anybody else think DF Drake > AT Drake? He looks a bit different, the chin, maybe? And the beard shadow to make him more like a generic space marine. Still best new character this gen, anyhow.

 

[K.Jack]

Really Square-Enix? REALLY!?

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Final Fantasy. God, I don't know why so many people bitch about the 'belts and zippers' crap. It's a fantasy, so it's okay to turn off your common sense.

You can have fantasy character designs without looking stupid. Nomura's Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts character designs are so unnecessary and overdone. Nothing is practical or useful. It's like running in to a battlefield in a wedding dress and after you've murdered a thousand people, there are no signs of wear and tear.

It's silly, and not in a way the designer intended (unlike Bayonetta, who is ridiculous on purpose, because that's the point). I might not mind so much if every Final Fantasy wasn't a teeny bopper soap opera on top of everybody's ridiculous fashion sense.

 

[Virro]

Half-tuck gives him a free pass.

 

[WanderingWind]

Anything drawn by Akira Toriyama that isn't a sprite.
Vaan
Anything from Kingdom Hearts
Tidus
Master Chief
Bayonetta
Everything from Darksiders
Gears of Wars

 

[Fimbulvetr]

I think the only true correct answer is Luso from Final Fantasy Tactics A2. It's so bad, it outclasses anything else that is bad enough to where the normal bad looks like a masterpiece of character design. This is the zenith of it's demographic.

I love that game, but damn. Who decided to give the 10 year old boy high heels?

JRPGs are not a character nor a design of one.

Don't you know? Every JRPG character is designed by Nomura, I played FF7 that one time so I know.

Are you really complaining about functionality in video game character designs? God, please please please stay away from Final Fantasy.

That's partially the point of this thread.

smh

Seymour's hair is so epically bad it actually turns into monuments during his boss fights. :lol

LOOK AT ALL DAT BELTZ

Wakka must have had fun trying to make a baby.

Strange, I was wondering why nobody mentioned Drake, refreshed and BAM, there he is.

Not to feed the trolls, but does anybody else think DF Drake > AT Drake? He looks a bit different, the chin, maybe? And the beard shadow to make him more like a generic space marine. Still best new character this gen, anyhow.

His clothing is slightly different in AT, maybe that's why?

Also bug eyes.

WHY HAS NOBODY QUOTED MY AVATAR?

 

[Augemitbutter]

bald space marines in elephant-suits.



people who put bayonetta in here either got their asses kicked by her game in normal mode, or would get kicked in the nuts by her in RL.

 

[WanderingWind]

Okay, Lulu was a fucking excellent character design, belts or no. C'mon, a gothic princess as a hero character in a FF game...it was great.

EDIT: Some Bayonetta defenders are really, really creepy.

 

[Fimbulvetr]

Okay, Lulu was a fucking excellent character design, belts or no. C'mon, a gothic princess as a hero character in a FF game...it was great.

EDIT: Some Bayonetta defenders are really, really creepy.

Oh the irony.

Sorry Lulu's belts are just too retarded, regardless of whether or not the idea behind her general design was good.

 

[someguyinahat]

Releasing decent-looking Morrigan concept art for Dragon Age:Origins, then pulling a bait-and-switch. I realize that not every female character should be attractive, but damn.

 

[WanderingWind]

Oh the irony.

Sorry Lulu's belts are just too retarded, regardless of whether or not the idea behind her general design was good.

Alanis has a better concept of "irony" than you do. Yeah, the belts were retarded but it was nice to have a character that wasn't in the same bright color scheme as the rest of the cast. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I can't recall another FF character that was so clearly different than the rest of their respective cast. Except maybe Mog and Umaru.

 

[Shaka]

bald space marines in elephant-suits.



people who put bayonetta in here either got their asses kicked by her game in normal mode, or would get kicked in the nuts by her in RL.

Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!Bayonetta!

 

[Nemesis121]

This thread is a fanboy dream, here he/she can bash with no issues.......



Character designs never bother me it was the personality/voice acting...

 

[Fimbulvetr]

Yeah, the belts were retarded but it was nice to have a character that wasn't in the same bright color scheme as the rest of the cast. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I can't recall another FF character that was so clearly different than the rest of their respective cast.

Putting something ugly next to something that contrasts from it doesn't suddenly make it pretty.

The sad thing is that, if she only just had a gothic dress without all the belts it probably would have been fine.

Edit: You guys are getting lazy.

 

[CruxisMana]

I've never really been that bothered about character designs as I either don't mind them or like them.

However - Ming Numara. Never forget;

 

[Gagaman]

Bayonetta really is gaming's Lady Gaga, you either love her or hate her.

 

[nightez]

is it a good game?

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

is it a good game?

It's pretty middle of the road. It occasionally shows promise, but just as often it's bogged down by glitches and bad design choices. If you've already exhausted the PS2's library of better adventure games it might be worth a look since it's really cheap, but there are probably two dozen similar types of games I would recommend first.

 

[VeryGooster]

This one is irrelevant now, but:

Uh, MGS4 spoilers I guess, even though it's 2010.
http://imgur.com/CXCYe.jpg

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Uh, MGS4 spoilers I guess, even though it's 2010.
http://imgur.com/CXCYe.jpg

How is that a spoiler when he was shown in some pretty early MGS4 trailers? Infact, I am sure that screen cap is from one of them specifically.

 

[Plywood]

Square Enix was promoting abstinence with those chastity belts.

van.jpeg

Eh, all he needed was a shirt, which they gave him in Revenant Wings.

 

[ymmv]

This one is irrelevant now, but:

Uh, MGS4 spoilers I guess, even though it's 2010.
http://imgur.com/CXCYe.jpg

What exactly is wrong with those three characters? I like all three designs.

 

[Big One]

Okay, Lulu was a fucking excellent character design, belts or no. C'mon, a gothic princess as a hero character in a FF game...it was great.

Well I guess Lulu is...well, I'd get freaky with her if I ever had the chance. Of course, there are thousands of other fictional women I'd get freaky with, and millions of women I'd get freaky with. It really isn't a special character trait at all.

Lulu's whole design philosophy is just wrong. I, for one, have learned that when Nomura designs his characters there is a "deep" meaning behind the design, and by "deep" I don't mean something with actual depth, I mean what Nomura thinks depth is failing miserably in the process of character development.

One could attribute that the abundance of belts covering a rather mystique part of her body is representing her love life being closed off after the death of her lover Chappu, but this would be way too smart for Nomura and it isn't even very smart in the first place. I would consider this possible for Nomura if it wasn't for the fact that Nomura didn't really get involved with the series till he created, wrote, and planned the Kingdom Hearts series, but even then he would summarize the previous sentence as simply, "darkness."

No, the real reason to why Lulu has that many belts is because he thinks that if something looks "cool," it makes the character deep and meaningful. Nomura's design process has been consistent like this since Final Fantasy VII. This is what Nomura makes his career out of, getting "cooler" and "cooler" with each game. These designs is what Nomura views as cool, and practically nothing else. It's not that it's practical, to him practicality has no meaning to visual characterization.

Lulu's design would be justified if the writers made fun of the fact that she had a dress made of belts; like if she fell down a lot BECAUSE of it in the game, or had a very slow "sexy" moment that took forever for her to remove all of them. Yes, both of those points are ridiculous but it's so much better than what we got. Lulu came out in a form of a character who we were supposed to take seriously, and that is simply why she fails. Gothic chicks are hot but that isn't redemption for a character...or any FFX character as being aesthetically plausible characters with "real" human emotions.

 

[hbkajshdvfbkjhvgkahsgdfka]

What exactly is wrong with those three characters? I like all three designs.

No you don't.

 

[Yoboman]

What annoys me about this picture is that his shirt clips at the middle on the blue thing. So it's like he's intentionally undone it to show some nipple

 

[Majmun]

WRONG

 

[jett]

Final Fantasy. God, I don't know why so many people bitch about the 'belts and zippers' crap. It's a fantasy, so it's okay to turn off your common sense.

That doesn't mean it's any less retarded.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Ok WTF is this shit GAF.
Only one person has mentioned this fucking shit:

And all his fucking firends.

You've fail me gaf.

 

[womp]

He's like a Japanese interpretation of an Italian market personified.

 

[neojubei]

 

[Wiggum2007]

Matriarch Benezia from Mass Effect.

What a shitty fucking character.

 

[Rahxephon91]

So many wrong choices in this thread.

 

[WanderingWind]

Well I guess Lulu is...well, I'd get freaky with her if I ever had the chance. Of course, there are thousands of other fictional women I'd get freaky with, and millions of women I'd get freaky with. It really isn't a special character trait at all.

Lulu's whole design philosophy is just wrong. I, for one, have learned that when Nomura designs his characters there is a "deep" meaning behind the design, and by "deep" I don't mean something with actual depth, I mean what Nomura thinks depth is failing miserably in the process of character development.

One could attribute that the abundance of belts covering a rather mystique part of her body is representing her love life being closed off after the death of her lover Chappu, but this would be way too smart for Nomura and it isn't even very smart in the first place. I would consider this possible for Nomura if it wasn't for the fact that Nomura didn't really get involved with the series till he created, wrote, and planned the Kingdom Hearts series, but even then he would summarize the previous sentence as simply, "darkness."

No, the real reason to why Lulu has that many belts is because he thinks that if something looks "cool," it makes the character deep and meaningful. Nomura's design process has been consistent like this since Final Fantasy VII. This is what Nomura makes his career out of, getting "cooler" and "cooler" with each game. These designs is what Nomura views as cool, and practically nothing else. It's not that it's practical, to him practicality has no meaning to visual characterization.

Lulu's design would be justified if the writers made fun of the fact that she had a dress made of belts; like if she fell down a lot BECAUSE of it in the game, or had a very slow "sexy" moment that took forever for her to remove all of them. Yes, both of those points are ridiculous but it's so much better than what we got. Lulu came out in a form of a character who we were supposed to take seriously, and that is simply why she fails. Gothic chicks are hot but that isn't redemption for a character...or any FFX character as being aesthetically plausible characters with "real" human emotions.

Christ dude, I just thought she looked neat. You've obviously put way more thought into this than I have. Probably more than anybody has, actually. You...win?:lol

 

[Yoshichan]

Wat