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"....I hate your face." Ever refuse to play a game because of the MC?
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Deified Data
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I hate Geralt's design for the same reason I hate Dante's. Trying way too damn hard.
EmCeeGramr
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This isn't actually true.
Project Grimoire was meant for children and child soldiers, Project Gestalt involved people of all ages. Hamelin sent out clones of Noir around the world to find someone capable of becoming an Original Gestalt without consideration for age.
Oh God yes.
"I can't identify with a young 24-year-old living in a rough neighborhood in the 90s!"
*is shown a 1980s 35-year-old Mafia enforcer and 30-year-old Eastern European immigrant and former soldier*
"Oh yeah I can identify with these dudes."
I've been wondering this for years but....why hasn't any Japanese developer make an open world crime game thats like GTA (do not say Yakuza)? I would pay top dollar for a game they let me play as moe criminals.
Deified Data
Banned
Why?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I refuse to play games, regardless of their quality, if the artstyle is pretty much moeshit (like Racettear).
Look, artstyle will last the whole game. If I'm not going to enjoy what I'm looking at for the rest of the game, then screw it.
Look, artstyle will last the whole game. If I'm not going to enjoy what I'm looking at for the rest of the game, then screw it.
Most of the games with characters unappealing to me (Gears of War, God of War, modern warfare FPS, etc.) are in games featuring gameplay unappealing to me so I don't have to worry... games with unappealing characters that I played anyways because I liked the gameplay would be a bit more interesting for me to think about. Wind Waker, FFX, Nier, Planescape, and Vanquish being the only ones I can think of ATM.
Surprised to see both Geralt and CJ mentioned in this thread. Even though I'm not normally big on western games, I didn't see anything wrong with their designs. Neither of them were generic-looking (CJ you could pretty much set up to look however you want) and both fit their worlds. The main problem I had with San Andreas was its ridiculously long and frustrating missions without checkpoints
Surprised to see both Geralt and CJ mentioned in this thread. Even though I'm not normally big on western games, I didn't see anything wrong with their designs. Neither of them were generic-looking (CJ you could pretty much set up to look however you want) and both fit their worlds. The main problem I had with San Andreas was its ridiculously long and frustrating missions without checkpoints
Fimbulvetr
Member
Hey man, don't generalize. Maybe they do work for the mafia and were just happy to see games giving their people appropriate representation.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
No. Ill refuse to play games that don't make sense to me though, like emptying a clip into a human soldier with no real armor like in most Battlefield games.... That to me is a much bigger turn off. Have it make sense god damnit!
The main problem I had with San Andreas was its ridiculously long and frustrating missions without checkpoints
Especially frustrating. And no direct restart if you fail the mission, no, you have to drive the whole way back and stock up first again. But that's OT now.
I can't remember one game where I didn't play it because I didn't like the main character, and there are games where I don't like the main character, like FFX.
So is this Anakin Skywalker's and Justin Beiber's baby?
Just shameful.
A character designed solely for manchildren who like to see a woman pirouetting around in tight clothing showing her crotch.
Bayonetta was an awesome game. I thoroughly enjoyed its shamelessness. I don't understand why people get so worked up over sexual presentations in games. Who the fuck cares.
Have you been on GAF in the last month?
Tell me more about your... culture.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Just wondering, as they seem to the most repeated posts in the the thread, do find the people who hate bayo's design enough to not want to play the game the same people who don't mind the Dante redesign (at least in this thread) and vice versa?
While im sure there are many that are ok with both, I have found there is some parallel in the people who found Bayo too much and like Dino as well people who love Bayo, but hate the DmC redesign on a pure asthetic level.
Me personally, I cant discount a game purely on a MC but honestly I mind Drake to smarmy and smug for my liking. It helps that I don't like that style of game anyway to avoid the uncharted series.
Oh god, How could I forget this? Bought the game couldn't even finish the first level. Its actually a cool game but the design just irritated the fuck out of me. No. just fucking no.
While im sure there are many that are ok with both, I have found there is some parallel in the people who found Bayo too much and like Dino as well people who love Bayo, but hate the DmC redesign on a pure asthetic level.
Me personally, I cant discount a game purely on a MC but honestly I mind Drake to smarmy and smug for my liking. It helps that I don't like that style of game anyway to avoid the uncharted series.
El Shaddai:
Oh god, How could I forget this? Bought the game couldn't even finish the first level. Its actually a cool game but the design just irritated the fuck out of me. No. just fucking no.
CJ is my favorite GTA protagonist. I never felt any sort of disconnect because he was black
revolverjgw
Member
The animu dorks in Hard Corps Uprising dissuaded me from playing that game for a while. I wish I could replace their sprites with some 80s dudebros
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Bit off topic, But re: Bayo
Much as i love the game and will defend it to my dying breath, There is one point in the game that I nearly put the controller down in disgust. Even Kamiya himself cannot defend this :- it was soooooooooo not needed.
http://youtu.be/aNkKQ_ANV3Y
I still think the majority of the game was a parody, but for me, this pushed it a little too far.
Much as i love the game and will defend it to my dying breath, There is one point in the game that I nearly put the controller down in disgust. Even Kamiya himself cannot defend this :- it was soooooooooo not needed.
http://youtu.be/aNkKQ_ANV3Y
I still think the majority of the game was a parody, but for me, this pushed it a little too far.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
Yup, didn't care to play the game because the characters looked flat out stupid.
there is more to it than a few characters.
But I have to agree with the OP on Tomb Raider's Croft. Looked goofy and imo the original 'anti-feminist' figure as far as gaming is concerned. "She has tits!" yeah... so?
Phonomezer
Banned
What irritates me is that people try and call out the Bayonetta character for being overtly sexual or slutty (which isn't the case at all imo), yet I haven't seen the same vitriol being leveled at the character designs from Dragon's Crown
Gross.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
Can't stand that figure / "character" either.
Here: they're both awful and embarrassing, though DC's is probably worse.
Criminal Upper
Banned
Sorceress defense force assemble!
I hate how every single one of Heavy Rain's characters looked. Disliked their models immensely.
I hate how every single one of Heavy Rain's characters looked. Disliked their models immensely.
I thought I was the only one who thought that.
What irritates me is that people try and call out the Bayonetta character for being overtly sexual or slutty (which isn't the case at all imo), yet I haven't seen the same vitriol being leveled at the character designs from Dragon's Crown
Gross.
I've always thought this was the stupidest design in gaming. Yes, including Luso.
Net_Wrecker
Member
You mother seems like a smart lady with good taste.
I wish more in this thread were like her.
To Far Away Times
Member
I liked Bayonetta despite the main character. Such a stupid looking design. I swear the charcater is modeled after one of those inflatable wavy tube guys you see at car dealerships.
Kagamin! LOL, fantastic!!
Let's see, I LOVE Raiden from MGS2 (its probably my favorite MGS game), Vaan from FF12 didn't bother me at all, Final Fantasy 8 is my favorite, gasp, a protagonist who actually has a character arc! Nier looking like a caveman didn't bother me, and Bayonetta is the character action game of the generation.
I literally can't understand what this means, maybe its your tag confusing me, but "moeshit" seems incredibly condescending. What to your mind is "moeshit?" aside from a doujin game, like the Atelier series? Japanese design in general?
Yeah, my wife loved it. Probably one of her most favorite games.
GOLD5
Neo Member
I can't stand Daniel Craig as Bond and I don't care to play as him either. Especially when it's an eerie representation of a well known movie but with black toques and Liverpool accents and everyone dresses like an 18th century pauper because it's 2012. If you guessed I was talking about the new Goldeneye game you were right.. Too bad Brosnan would have told them where to go if they had tried to get him back for the game.. Long live Jason Bourne! errr, Bond! James Bond!
encephalon
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How could I forget Dragon's Crown? Sorry Vanillaware, I would buy this game if it weren't for those designs. Truly frightening stuff.
i always thought that the point of bayonetta is that she's so over the top and silly that her character is mocking the oversexualization of women in games.
you're given so many fetish outfits as unlockables, but they don't make her look sexier, just sillier and even more over the top.
you're given so many fetish outfits as unlockables, but they don't make her look sexier, just sillier and even more over the top.
She's modeled after typical fashion sketches or manga for women. If you hate Bayonetta's design that much there's a pretty good chance you're male.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah I agree. She isn't a horrible character. Hell, I thought she isn't even porny because her style is exaggerated.
Rodney McKay
Member
War in Darksiders is probably my least favorite designed Main Character. I played the whole game, but the only time he got any better was when I unlocked his end of game super armor. It wasn't great either, but if I remember right it was at least a simpler design.
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Also, Altair was an asshole. Loved the concept behind AC1, but Altair was a douche.
Supermanisdead
Member
I didn't bother playing Final Fantasy XIII because of the character designs of the cast.
Sorry, but no.
Really? Apart from Vanille I think this is one of the best designed FFs. Sazh could use a better haircut, but his clothes are top-notch.
But he was only a asshole in the beginning.
Even worse in game.Frankly an upgrade over TruDante
Knux-Future
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Phonomezer
Banned
What a dreadful opinion!
It's OK to be happy about Zynga's misfortunes in the other thread, but not OK to be happy about Bayonetta not doing well?
Fimbulvetr
Member
Playing through the most recent Prince of Persia atm and this guy is a posterchild for this thread.
Looks like Squall needs to step his game up. Even this dude's belts have belts. And wow, that face... it's like half-way between "dat ass" and "derp".