Joe Prodigy
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Character Redesigns: The Good and the Bad
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Noisepurge
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-viper- said:
Night_Trekker
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Max from Shining Force.
I love this design (this is actually artwork from the GBA remake, but the basic design is the same). The Shining Force is a ragtag group of warriors, and their leader looks the part:
They went from that to this piece of shit in Shining Force Neo:
What's with those eyebrows? :lol
I love this design (this is actually artwork from the GBA remake, but the basic design is the same). The Shining Force is a ragtag group of warriors, and their leader looks the part:
They went from that to this piece of shit in Shining Force Neo:
What's with those eyebrows? :lol
Snapshot King
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Night_Trekker said:
Wait, it wasn't Max in Neo was it? I never played it because it wasn't an SRPG, but if it was really about Max...christ.
ResidentDante
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Snapshot King
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Onemise said:
Squenix is publishing it but it's made by the old Lufia 1 and 2 teams.
Pureauthor
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hteng said:
SC1 Nightmare is riding a demonic goat.
How... intriguing.
SE has nothing to do with this remake aside from actually allowing us to play it.
Night_Trekker
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Snapshot King said:
Neo doesn't take place in the same continuity/universe as the original series (as far as I know), but certain characters (or at least character names) appear with new designs, most of them terrible.
It's a great game though, if you liked Record of Lodoss War on the Dreamcast. It's basically the same (same developer).
The Spoony Hou
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Why couldn't they just make Ruins Chaser?Snapshot King said:
Night_Trekker
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The Spoony Hou said:
It's really that much more painful because they're the ones behind it, IMO :/
PeakPointMatrix
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Why can't the new Musashi wear a shirt that fits??
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Th.. THUMB!!
I had almost forgotten about that drumstick of a finger...!
Buckethead
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Prime 1's Samus = best one.
New Banjo = awesome.
Too bad the new game = shit.
New Banjo = awesome.
Too bad the new game = shit.
Muffdraul said:Original 2003 design:
2006 redesign:
That's always been a case of "WTF were they thinking?!" for me. The original is nothing special really, but the redesign is such an obvious downgrade. And I've never really been able to connect the face on this redesign artwork with the face of Ashe in the actual game.
While the original Ashe is more attractive, I have always found the redesign to be better in line with the character and her dubbed VA.
Freezie KO
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What I've learned from this thread:
- Adding pants where before there were none - Good. Sorry, 1st Link. Can't be a badass without pants.
- Taking away fabric in the midriff of male clothing, - Bad. Belly shirts are bad design on men.
- Overtly sexualizing female characters, such as but not limited to: bounty hunters, street fighters, killers, and a computer programs - Bad. When you literally dress to kill, you're not partially naked.
- Adding pants where before there were none - Good. Sorry, 1st Link. Can't be a badass without pants.
- Taking away fabric in the midriff of male clothing, - Bad. Belly shirts are bad design on men.
- Overtly sexualizing female characters, such as but not limited to: bounty hunters, street fighters, killers, and a computer programs - Bad. When you literally dress to kill, you're not partially naked.
SuperAngelo64
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Wiseblade said:Because someone has to do it...
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I like it.
Came to post this. I've always seen it as a step up.
Nemesis121
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Joe Prodigy said:
I like this design over your choice for awesome, the first one has him looking like Sub and scorpion dyed green, this one makes you look different...
akachan ningen
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spyro the crackhead?
marathonfool
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Concept Rufus
Current Rufus
Current Rufus
Nemesis121
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Concept Rufus looks better..
SuperAngelo64
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Lebron said:
Wait, what? He said something about Mickey?
fizzelopeguss
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Just realised how dorky games are, faster processors for a new generation of machines? "moar tits! moar spikes! moar fancy lights!"
Pureauthor said:The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread was Lufia. Strangely enough I didn't see any of it here, which I suppose reinforces the supposition that Lufia isn't particularly popular. Oh well.
So what are these two games? (I know their Lufia, but I looked and there were quite a few Lufia games.)
Also, someone needs to do a Cid post from every Final Fantasy.
Why the fuck are people bitching about the current Max Payne? Isn't the character's design a reflection of his current condition, narration-wise? Were I a Max Payne fan, I'd be pretty excited to see exactly where Remedy's going with that. That's pretty ballsy. I've never heard of a character redesign with plot continuity being that drastic.
Didn't know everything you all liked about Max Payne was wrapped up in a stoic grimace and silly trench coat.
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I hate. Hate. HATE. Mullet Snake. With a PASSION for hating. That character design choice, among many other things, helped generate my contempt for the series after MGS1.
Seeing Silicon Knight's Snake made me hate the fact that Kojima kept the mullet even more.
Didn't know everything you all liked about Max Payne was wrapped up in a stoic grimace and silly trench coat.
Also:
To:
I hate. Hate. HATE. Mullet Snake. With a PASSION for hating. That character design choice, among many other things, helped generate my contempt for the series after MGS1.
Seeing Silicon Knight's Snake made me hate the fact that Kojima kept the mullet even more.
marathonfool said:Concept Rufus
Current Rufus
You know, concept rufus might look good on paper, but the current PLAYSTYLE of Rufus would not allow any non-fat characters to begin with. So in the end, his playstyles is awesome, his design and his game is in perfect harmony. Should it be the skinny Rufus, he would not be the Rufus we play with now.
Lumine said:What? Silicon Knight's remake of Snake lacks any artistic direction. He looked aweful. Actually that whole game looked bad. It was an embarresment seeing that game next to MGS2.
"What?" right back. It's the same art style, a very similar engine, reflecting a different game. Geometry and character designs are simpler due to the nature of MGS1. I liked the look of TS better than MGS2 as a whole.
I don't see how Snake can possibly look "awful" to you. His model looks EXACTLY like MGS2 Snake without the mullet and beard (which gives him the appearance of being younger).
The Take Out Bandit
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G-Fex said:
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ResidentDante
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Kimosabae said:Also:
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I hate. Hate. HATE. Mullet Snake. With a PASSION for hating. That character design choice, among many other things, helped generate my contempt for the series after MGS1.
Seeing Silicon Knight's Snake made me hate the fact that Kojima kept the mullet even more.
Fail. What the fuck have you done with the pic of MGS1 Snake? Twin Snakes Snake just looks like a simpler version of MGS2 Snake with the mullet hair simply cropped off of the same head....
Prime crotch
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MGS1 snake's design did not translate well into Twin Snakes, it even looks worse than the PSX version, which is a shame because the original 2D concept is still really good looking
The Take Out Bandit
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Haunted said:
It looks like a modified Minidisk / UMD device of some sort. Guess they don't have iPods in that crazy world. :\
I agree in theory, as the original Rufus would have been another goddamn shoto clone, and the series needs that like a hole in the head.V_Arnold said:
But they still should have kept at the drawing board a little longer for a fat Rufus design that wasn't a retarded beach ball mutant.
I'm shocked at the hate the Twin Snakes design is getting. I don't know what the fuck is going on in this world anymore.
For my tastes, it's easily the best rendition of Snake. I like simple geometry and aesthetics.
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And it's not really the TS redesign I'm championing here, it's the MGS1 Snake design in general. That's my favorite Snake design, period. The TS design is just my favorite rendition of it.
For my tastes, it's easily the best rendition of Snake. I like simple geometry and aesthetics.
*edit*
And it's not really the TS redesign I'm championing here, it's the MGS1 Snake design in general. That's my favorite Snake design, period. The TS design is just my favorite rendition of it.
gutter_trash
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I hate Rare's Donkey Kong
