This is the worst palette ever and yet it was everywhere.
That orange one is tolerable by comparison but it seemed like everybody used the purple and blue.
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Has a game's visuals completely repelled you from playing it?
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That orange one is tolerable by comparison but it seemed like everybody used the purple and blue.
Yeah.. I'm not gona torture my eyes with that shit.
I really dislike:
- the "cheap Flash game" look (Alien Hominid, The Binding of Isaac)
- big bald men + brown/grey wastelands (Gears of War, lots of shooters)
Also, games with characters that are meant to look cute/anime-like/Pixar-like, but end up looking like this :
I won't dismiss a game immediately if it looks ugly, but I'll definitely give more priority to less hideous-looking games.
- the "cheap Flash game" look (Alien Hominid, The Binding of Isaac)
- big bald men + brown/grey wastelands (Gears of War, lots of shooters)
Also, games with characters that are meant to look cute/anime-like/Pixar-like, but end up looking like this :
I won't dismiss a game immediately if it looks ugly, but I'll definitely give more priority to less hideous-looking games.
SomedayTheFire
Member
It's been said, but Dust definitely. I'm sure it's great but I couldn't go longer than an hour.
Nothing1016
Member
Nope. I give everything a chance to prove itself.
gollumsluvslave
Member
Most Anime stuff, just not my cup of tea, I find it a bit creepy - which is not a graphical thing obviously.
The only graphical offenders for me that I can think of was Advent Rising on the original Xbox : I so wanted to like that game but the visuals / framerate made it unplayable. Yuck.
Can't think of much else to be honest.
The only graphical offenders for me that I can think of was Advent Rising on the original Xbox : I so wanted to like that game but the visuals / framerate made it unplayable. Yuck.
Can't think of much else to be honest.
I agree. Even installing mods does not really help when the general style is what it is. Models, textures, animations are all so cheap looking and bland.
magicalsoundshower
Member
I wouldn't say completely repelled, but I have a real issue with CGA graphics. The problem isn't the number of colours, as such - I'm perfectly happy playing 4-colour games on other platforms, and even monochrome if the need arises. The problem is that I really have a strong aversion to the two common CGA palettes:
I'm capable of playing them; I've enjoyed quite a few games in CGA, and some games do some fantastic work with that limited resource, but it's a genuine aversion that I have to overcome.
CGA is really the worst. The cyan makes my eyeballs hurt. Some EGA and NES games, too, have way too much eye-searing cyan for my tastes. Did people honestly think this looked good and non-offensive to the eye?
I actually thought Ultima VII looked great and still do. It's when you actually try to play it (scrolling, movement, combat) when it all falls apart if you ask me.
I'm one of those weird guys who played through Ultima VIII several times (I even played a large chunk of it pre-patch) but cannot stand to play VII despite all the praise it gets and how awesome it seems.
But then again, when I first tried to play VIII, Exult (a virtual machine vor UVII and its expansion that makes it a lot smoother to play, especially on modern computers) was still a couple years away.
SchrodingerC
Member
As of right now, Oblivion is grating to play with its art style. Sure the environment looks decent, but the character, building, and general aesthetics looks incredibly generic and sometimes down right ugly. The oblivion realms makes me want to stab my eyes because they're so bad.
Eh, I give Fallout 3 a pass due to its post Nuclear Armageddon setting. It probably doesn't help the engine is pure fugly.
Eh, I give Fallout 3 a pass due to its post Nuclear Armageddon setting. It probably doesn't help the engine is pure fugly.
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
I'm not sure that I can be completely put off of a game due to its artstyle, but I'm very much biased against games that chase after realism. They have to have some amazing gameplay to make up for it.
If the team is only able to produce a game with visuals resembling the PS2 era while the Wii was capable of quite a bit more, they certainly did something wrong. The game was average at best from a gameplay point too - that's what critics also agreed on. Definitely not looking forward to any of their future titles.
Also, games with characters that are meant to look cute/anime-like/Pixar-like, but end up looking like this :
It was really criminal how Rare changed the orginal art style of JFG to this horrible puppet-of-hell character design. Luckily you see the characters mostly from behind. Also helps that the game was bloody brilliant..
http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/04/jet-force-gemini-beta/
WrenchNinja
Member
You guys make me sad. A game this good doesn't deserve to bomb like that...
Necro900
Member
Ultima VII. That perspective. That font.
Well, that perspective is.. uuuuh.. *stroking my chin*
MoogleWizard
Member
Xenosaga, Tales, Star Ocean, Persona, basically anything "too Anime".
Infamous, Borderlands, just ugly as sin.
Madworld, as much as I love Platinum, that art style is hideous.
Pixelated, retro 2D pixel art Indie games. I'm tired of this look.
Anything generically brown and grey and gritty realistic. Though these games are mostly in genres I don't care for anyway, e.g. shooters.
Infamous, Borderlands, just ugly as sin.
Madworld, as much as I love Platinum, that art style is hideous.
Pixelated, retro 2D pixel art Indie games. I'm tired of this look.
Anything generically brown and grey and gritty realistic. Though these games are mostly in genres I don't care for anyway, e.g. shooters.
Red Liquorice
Member
I really dislike:
- the "cheap Flash game" look (Alien Hominid, The Binding of Isaac)
- big bald men + brown/grey wastelands (Gears of War, lots of shooters)
Also, games with characters that are meant to look cute/anime-like/Pixar-like, but end up looking like this :
I won't dismiss a game immediately if it looks ugly, but I'll definitely give more priority to less hideous-looking games.
All this, all this.
I came in the thread to say cheap "flash" looking games and bug-eyed western "cute" style. You got it spot on.
Tomasoares
Member
*that* Final Fantasy for iOs >.>
It's not just about art style. I love handheld strategy games, and have bought and poured hundreds of hours into Intelligent Systems AW and FE games, not to mention Valkyria Chronicles II, RebelStar, Ghost Recon SW and anything else of the sort across GBA/PSP/DS/3DS etc etc. I couldn't have been more excited for it when it was announced. Then I tried the demo.
I thought the gameplay isn't particularly great, and the free movement needlessly disguises that how far you can move is counted in squares. Why not just select the square you want to move to? Simpler and quicker rather than worrying about precision placement on that square. It also needs something to confirm 'am I in cover or not?' when you only have four units, as it seemed random whether the enemy was taking penalties to hit me or not. The enemy turn is way too long, the enemies are uninspired purple/grey generic biomechanical alien messes. The overt 'USA! USA!'-ness of it all doesn't work for me either, if I'm shooting aliens in my home town I don't see why I should be playing as US characters just because marketing, especially when there's a shitload of literary Victorian characters that actually live in London. The actual art style doesn't bother me at all, but otherwise I find the demo didn't sell me on it at all, despite the TBS genre being something I'm permanently hungry for. I'd recommend Ghost Recon SW over Codename Steam by a long way at the moment, despite it being an ancient retooled DS game that looked poor on release. At least the gameplay, mechanics and maps were interesting for a TBS game.
CyberPunked
Member
I'm surprised to find it only at page 5.
While the visuals of Street Fighter IV didn't quite repel me from playing it, I must say they made me enjoy the game a lot less than previous games in the series because a lot of charm was lost when those sprites were translated to polygons.
From this:
To this:
I might be in the minority here, but I really wish Capcom would take a good look at Guilty Gear Xrd and use a similar style for the next Street Fighter games.
From this:
To this:
I might be in the minority here, but I really wish Capcom would take a good look at Guilty Gear Xrd and use a similar style for the next Street Fighter games.
Necro900
Member
I'm happy that nobody cared about that crap until page 5.. but yeah, among other things, that "art style" is boredom at its finest.
King Gilga
Member
Chibi, and Moe, and generic anime shit. There's good anime shit, but I'm not talking about that.
Bland games, bland environments, bland characters, loli looking characters.
Generic pixel art games, there's some really nice looking exceptions but 99% of them are derivative crap.
Generally stuff like Fallout 3, Dust, Xenoblade, The last story, codename steam those neptuna games etc.
Bland games, bland environments, bland characters, loli looking characters.
Generic pixel art games, there's some really nice looking exceptions but 99% of them are derivative crap.
Generally stuff like Fallout 3, Dust, Xenoblade, The last story, codename steam those neptuna games etc.
cm osi
Member
we're in the minority then.
Dudebro steroid designs
Came to post Gears of War. Started every one of them, knowing they are good (and as a fan of third person shooters with cover). Never finished one, because the esthetics are so appalling and the story and characters so downright dumb.
Bought every one of the on sale or got them with my 360, but in hindsight I don't know why I even bothered when they where a fiver.
Chance Hale
Member
Dominions 3/4
Battles are still bad but the sprites are kind of cool at least.
Map is unbelievably hideous and it stretches as you zoom in and out.
Battles are still bad but the sprites are kind of cool at least.
Still want to give the series another go though, the complexity is unmatched.
Chilli_Axe
Member
Deus Ex. As much as I love HR and want to get into the original, the visuals turn me off it every time. Even with extensive modding, that game looks like complete ass.
Icyflamez96
Member
Oh yeah forgot about this one. Disregarding the fact that I don't really like the, um, presentation of the protagonist, I also think the color palette is generally kind of ugly.
Wind Waker.
I was one of the people that hated it. It ruined Zelda, they destroyed the atmosphere, it's a terrible attempt to appeal to kids and parents and make the series more family-friendly. It was lame and kiddie and I wasn't going to buy it or play it.
Then I actually played it when the pre-release demo hit stores, and I fell in love with it instantly. The graphics were charming and it was better looking than anything else out there. Bought the game on day one.
I was one of the people that hated it. It ruined Zelda, they destroyed the atmosphere, it's a terrible attempt to appeal to kids and parents and make the series more family-friendly. It was lame and kiddie and I wasn't going to buy it or play it.
Then I actually played it when the pre-release demo hit stores, and I fell in love with it instantly. The graphics were charming and it was better looking than anything else out there. Bought the game on day one.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Anything moe is a no-no for me. Makes me shudder every time. Xenosaga is absolutely appalling too.
Anything by Tony Taka. Absolutely hideous, the worst type of Anime art. Ick. I also hate the guy for ruining the aesthetic of Shining games.
I never played this game and yet I hate it. Horrible design. :\
Anything by Tony Taka. Absolutely hideous, the worst type of Anime art. Ick. I also hate the guy for ruining the aesthetic of Shining games.
It looks like a boy band. I certainly find it awful looking too. And no, I don't feel "threatened by handsome guys" lol... I wouldn't mind having some of them around, but these guys aren't handsome to me, they're boring and stupid-looking.
MY EYESPsychonauts creeped me enough not to try it until the midle of the next gen.
I deeply regret it!
That game was an underrated masterpiece!
I never played this game and yet I hate it. Horrible design. :\
The Nomura style? xD Yes, it's awful. I did like FF7's character design, but everything else Nomura did has been eye-gougingly bad.
How do you call this kind of art style? Because I find it really off-putting
pinkurocket
Member
Yep.
Nice user-created character you posted.
Also
Still can't believe how stuck up people are on (two of) the faces of this game when you've got:
To look forward to.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I actually can't think of any, even if the "generic" macho western game looks boring for me, but in no way am I repelled by that.
Pound_lb003
Member
I will say, almost EVERYTHING Epic has ever done, with that weird, Warhammer, gritty fantasy sci-fi style has always put me off. To me, I can't help but look at it, and hear screamo music. Which, I am also not a fan of.
I think that's the only thing I don't like about Gears. Is it's aesthetic.
I think that's the only thing I don't like about Gears. Is it's aesthetic.
digitalrelic
Banned
Dust: An Elysian Tail
I keep hearing great things about it but I just haven't been able to bring myself to pick it up and play it. That anime/furry look is just too much for me. I'd probably love it if I actually gave it a chance.
I keep hearing great things about it but I just haven't been able to bring myself to pick it up and play it. That anime/furry look is just too much for me. I'd probably love it if I actually gave it a chance.