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[Silky]

I'm getting tired of most pixel/sprite-based games because they lack creativity with their pixel/sprites. But stuff like Super Time Force is something that really appeal to me.

I love extremely detailed sprites. something that gives life in every frame.

 

[Deepo]

Personally, I could never get past the way El Shaddai looks. I know some people like it but something about it just bugs me.

I played that because of the art style.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

I can't remember the name of the game, but some Indie "Deus-Ex like" game on Steam, which actually seemed pretty good but looked so god damn aweful my eyes blead everytime I looked at a screenshot. Screenshot? More like screenshit

Consortium?

 

[snoopeasystreet]

I have a hard time looking at a lot of anime looking(hyper-vague term but you get me) games. It won't stop me from playing a good game like the Persona series or Gravity Rush, but it puts me off those middling games that probably aren't worth playing all the way through but they do something interesting enough to warrant experiencing.

Another thing that really puts me off MMO's is the default HUD, I know they usually be reskinned and they preform the function required of them, but man, they sure do look like hot street garbage a lot of the time.

 

[Dr. Buni]

Any game full of lolis like Ar Tonelico, Atelier Whatever, etc is a no in my book.

Actually, allow me to be a bit more specific: If it isn't a Nintendo, Capcom or Atlus game, chances are that I am not playing a game with anime art style.

 

[YesManKablam]

Final Fantasy IX. Supposedly it's the perfect game for me, as it's a send beck to the classics. I'm pretty mild on VII and I hate VIII and X. I just look at the characters, and go blegh.

 

[Mass_Pincup]

What the...? Is there any attempt at an explanation for this in the game?

And I agree, El Shaddai's art was amazing and made playing through the game worth it.

It's just an alternate costume.

 

[RocBase]

blazblue and street fighter x tekken
or any of that "cutesy" doe eyed dot nose shit, which is just a huge no go for me. if it's one or two characters that's fine, but if everyone looks like that and it's plastered all over the cover like ive seen a few times (never took in the names of the games), i'll just pass

I'm glad I'm not the only person who hates this art style. I mean I'll play it but I really dislike the art.

you are def not alone. truly an ugly looking game, although it was tolerable. sf x tekken on the other hand just amped the ugly right up with the sharp contrast, glossy filters and extra brown, so much that it actually made it a problem for me to watch streams before it was even released

hope sfv completely ditches that art direction and goes with something akin to mvc3. crazy how so much better the sf guys look in that game

 

[OrangeOak]

Dust: An Elysian Tail
Art design in combination with voice acting killed this game for me and I couldn't finish it.

 

[Artorias]

I played that because of the art style.

Yea, strange choice. I can't imagine a single person played that game for the gameplay, the art style was all it had going for it.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Consortium?

YES! I honestly feel a bit bad cause I heard good things but my god, does this game look aweful. I don't even know what it is, but it just looks repulsive to me

 

[alr1ght]

Yeah, i love hack slash and Metroidvanias, but i couldn't get over Dust's whole presentation.

 

[Alfredo]

The Arkham games. Everyone just looks too beefy.

 

[Dr. Buni]

Code Name: Steam

This one too. I have never seen a Nintendo game with such an ugly art style before.

Dust: An Elysian Tail also.

 

[MisterHero]

Batman Arkham games.

They took visual elements from Schumacher Batman and tried to make it super serious and gritty. Some of the comics are like that but I tend to not like those either.

To be fair I only played Arkham Asylum. It was fun but the character design annoyed me so much.

 

[phanphare]

Anything going for photorealism. So, basically, most Western developed modern games. Give me cartoony, give me comic book style, give me anime, give me something tough to categorize! But give me something that looks like it could exist outside my window and you lose my interest.

same here

 

[PairOfFilthySocks]

You know, a game in a genre that you would have normally been interested in, if you didn't find the art style so off-putting.

One example that comes to mind immediately is Dust: An Elysian Tail.



I was interested in this after hearing it was an entirely hand-drawn 2D brawler, and it got high praise from Giant Bomb, too, but good God, that is some of the ugliest artwork I've ever seen in my life. I can't look at the characters in that game without wanting to throw up. It's like it came straight from a Deviantart page. I still haven't played the game, simply because I had such a negative reaction to its art. Yeah, it's shallow. Yes, it's irrational. Maybe there is a good game underneath the bad art. But I can't bring myself to play a game that makes me cringe just looking at it. Maybe someday, though.

Have you ever experienced this, GAF?

Look on the bright side. You're definitely not a furry.

For me, I really can't stand the burly, uber-muscled gruff dudes. Basically, Gears of War proportioned characters outside of Gears of War. The latest Batman and Castlevanias are good examples of this type of character design. I played Arkham Asylum, and played the opening of Arkham City with Catwoman, but couldn't bring myself to keep going as Bruce because he just looks so ridiculous. That said, I didn't have an issue with Chris from Resi 5, there's just something about those Unreal Engine character models that bugs me.

 

[Revolutionary]

Came in to say Dust as well. The main character's design is hilarious.

 

[Sora2k7]

Defiantly dust

 

[SmithnCo]

Yeah, I probably would've played Dust by now but that art is such a turnoff.

 

[Krejlooc]

Final Fantasy IX. Supposedly it's the perfect game for me, as it's a send beck to the classics. I'm pretty mild on VII and I hate VIII and X. I just look at the characters, and go blegh.

To be fair, they look like pretty bad reboot rejects in CGI, but in-game they just come off as typical Square chibi characters.

 

[mickcenary]

Mark of the Ninja. That midday, Z-grade Nickelodeon aesthetic makes me vomit a little.

 

[Tekku]

I gave it a chance, but no, I just couldn't get over the horrible art style.

 

[moozoom]

Most modern western rpgs, like oblivion, skyrim, mass effect... I find the art direction uninspired and bland. I generally don´t like pseudo-realistic artsyles, and usually the animation is really bad too. The witcher is the exception.

I can't stand Batman arkham games either.

 

[genericiz3d]

Dust, first and foremost.

But I purposely held off playing Velocity Ultra on my Vita because of the self-proclaimed "anime-inspired art style". Same goes for Blazblue, Skullgirls, Persona... yucky.

 

[1st Course]

Injustic. Ugly as fick characters.

 

[Sami+]

Dust looks absolutely horrible. No contest on that one.

 

[balgajo]

Wind Waker.
I really like the game artstyle(ww hd is one of the most beautiful games out there), but not for Zelda.
But after 6 years I decided to give it a try. Even though, in my opinion, it's the weakest 3D Zelda, it's a very good game.

 

[Aureon]

Final Fantasy IX. Supposedly it's the perfect game for me, as it's a send beck to the classics. I'm pretty mild on VII and I hate VIII and X. I just look at the characters, and go blegh.

Hey, Vivi is the best design in the history of designs.

 

[Crayons]

The GAFfer who made Dust is going to be crying after reading this thread

 

[balgajo]

Injustic. Ugly as fick characters.

WTF is that?

 

[Servbot24]

All Bioware games.

I know some people don't get into JRPGs because of the anime... but many American RPG character designs are absolutely grotesque looking, even (perhaps especially) the ones that are supposed to look attractive.

 

[DJ_Lae]

Dust for sure.

I've played the games so they don't entirely qualify, but the art styles for the recent Mortal Kombat games (especially the females) and the Disgaea games are absolutely disgusting to me.

Disgaea for similar reasons to Dust.

 

[balohna]

Bayonetta. I just don't find the aesthetic appealing at all. I want to like it but I can't.

 

[Altered Juice]

 

[Trigonometrize.]

JRPGs with the cute anime art styles. They just look kinda childish, and whilst I'm fairly sure they are complex and decent games, they just don't appeal to me at all.

Final Fantasy games are the best example I can think of. I love a good RPG, but it just doesn't interest me.

Really? I feel like Final Fantasy is on the more tame side of JRPGs in terms of having "cute anime art styles". The character in my picture for example looks nothing like the art style of any FF game I can think of.

The GAFfer who made Dust is going to be crying after reading this thread

I don't know, when you combine furries with anime-ish art, the worst of two worlds for a lot I'm sure, I bet he knew what he was getting into.

 

[cosmicblizzard]

The GAFfer who made Dust is going to be crying after reading this thread

I imagine Noogy is used to it by now.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

YES! I honestly feel a bit bad cause I heard good things but my god, does this game look aweful. I don't even know what it is, but it just looks repulsive to me

I think the art direction is really offputting. A combination of a horrible color palette, bad character designs and bland environments.

 

[OldKingDoran]

I agree with Injustice, ugly as hell female character models. But i didnt stop playing it for that reason, i just don't really like the game.

 

[TheLastTankMage]

Final Fantasy IX. Supposedly it's the perfect game for me, as it's a send beck to the classics. I'm pretty mild on VII and I hate VIII and X. I just look at the characters, and go blegh.

I feel the same, by all accounts I should love FF9 ... but I just can't stand the art and it takes me right out of the game.

My entry is probably controversial but ...

For some reason I just really dislike the look of Donkey Kong Country games and it always kept me from liking them. I know they are super popular though and I have nothing bad to say about it despite my personal dislike for it's aesthetic.

 

[Harlequin]

The entire GTA series. Although the art style is only one of many things which keep me from playing them.

Also, I Am Alive. The game seems interesting but it just looks so horribly drab and washed out.

 

[OmegaDL50]

Vandal Hearts : Flames of Judgement

After the awesome 2D sprites in the Vandal Hearts 1 and 2 and to resort to this mediocrity.

 

[BLunted]

Anything that remotely looks anime-ish. I pretty much dislike most japanese games.

 

[score01]

Darksiders. Just couldn't get into the game. The look just put me off. The guy felt like some sort of a midget. (No offence to our midget brethren).

 

[SargerusBR]

Almost every JRPG ever

 

[RocBase]

WTF is that?

injustice: gods among us by netherrealm

 

[Razlo]

Usually this doesn't happen for me, but DOA5 did this.

I loved the previous games, but making the characters go from looking anime-ish in the previous games, to some weird uncanny valley more realistic look in 5 just bummed me out to the point that I couldn't play it.

 

[snoopeasystreet]

Dust looks absolutely horrible. No contest on that one.

Noogy is a cool guy with tough skin, he'll be fine. I'm also put off by Dust's art style but I think it's awesome that he stuck by his guns and made the game he wanted to make despite people (including myself) be vocal about their dislike for it. Then the game came out and was awesome and shut a lot of people up for dismissing it as "the furry game".

 

[Kriken]

Borderland and Gears of War are some examples where I own the games, but their art gives me no interest in playing them. Gears because it's so bland and depressing to look at and Borderlands b/c I just don't like that style of cel shading.

As for Dust, it does have a weird offputting art style, but the game mechanics more than made up for it for me.

 

[SargerusBR]

Injustic. Ugly as fick characters.

You forgot the ugliest of them all