This thread always seems to pop up every now and then with the same few images...but still cracks me up every time
The helmet and cape wearing protagonist of doom is the greatest single contribution to GAF
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Sprites that look like things they're not supposed to
- Thread starter MrBadger
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The helmet and cape wearing protagonist of doom is the greatest single contribution to GAF
Is this some crappy fanart?Shit, so it is. It looks that way on the sprite too
Once again this thread got bumped just after I saw something that reminded me of it.
When I first played Doom as a kid I thought the straight-on perspective of the shotgun looked a bit like needle-nose pliers or some kind of clamp.
The double barrel shotgun from Doom 2 didn't have that problem, but it has another issue in the reloading animation. The player is supposed to be opening the barrels and putting shells in the back, but I thought it was cutting to the player turning the gun around and putting shells in the front.
When I first played Doom as a kid I thought the straight-on perspective of the shotgun looked a bit like needle-nose pliers or some kind of clamp.
The double barrel shotgun from Doom 2 didn't have that problem, but it has another issue in the reloading animation. The player is supposed to be opening the barrels and putting shells in the back, but I thought it was cutting to the player turning the gun around and putting shells in the front.
Agh from A Link to the Past.
it is amazing to me that people claim they never saw the guy on the left i though it was that for YEARS
Lucent
Member
Same. I always saw him as the 2nd illustration. His headdress matched his robe so it was easy to see it wasn't his hair or anything.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
lol
Looks more like Diddy Kong with a mustache and beard (Mario's hands -> his ears)
Mind blown.
That's some imagination. Not even forcing myself I can see this.I always kinda thought Red's back sprite in the original gen1 games was just him sitting down on the field...
Lucent
Member
Yeah I always saw that as him with his arms out, braced for battle. And that "eye" is definitely a sideburn.
mullet2000
Member
I always kinda thought Red's back sprite in the original gen1 games was just him sitting down on the field...
I actually did see it as him sitting. Not the eye thing you point out though.
I've...never thought about it too hard before. Kinda just realized now that he isn't sitting.
The black part is the sideburn and the flesh-colored part is the ear actually.
Mavromatis
Member
Is that a duck? Nope, it's settlers.
Were kids totally ignoring any concept art on the box? A lot of these surprise me at how far off the mark they are.From a similar thread on this that we had before http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=854929
Lucent
Member
Yeah really. I never saw his forehead protector as a face. Lol
I always kinda thought Red's back sprite in the original gen1 games was just him sitting down on the field...
When I first saw this sprite in a blurry screenshot I did think he was sitting (I didn't really have any context to the screenshot). Not the eye thing, always saw his head facing in the direction of his opponent.
Took me a while to stop seeing the sitting pose and seeing the correct pose when I finally got the game.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Not a sprite, but a related example most of us should be familiar with:
Those orange things are not the eyes.
Those are nacelles.
UnemployedVillain
Member
I always kinda thought Red's back sprite in the original gen1 games was just him sitting down on the field...
This is one of the few unambiguous sprites in the game. I have no idea how you saw those things
I always kinda thought Red's back sprite in the original gen1 games was just him sitting down on the field...
Took me a while but I finally saw it.
For those who can't see:
So there's other people that saw Red sitting, but not the ears as eyes?
...Now I know how the people who misunderstood Agahnim's sprite feel...
MagnoSauce
Member
I'm another one. Just sitting, but in the position he's supposed to be in.
Not a sprite, but a related example most of us should be familiar with:
Those orange things are not the eyes.
holy
FUCK
Ragnorok64
Member
I had to close my good eye and hold my phone way out to even come close to seeing that.Took me a while but I finally saw it.
For those who can't see:
Ragnorok64
Member
I always saw it as a guy wearing a turbin.I do love Shovel Knight, but there's this merchant character, Chester - and I can't quite make out what he's supposed to look like. There's definitely something funky going on with this sprite's face.
Apparently this is what the sprite is supposed to represent... I'm not seeing it.
TheGreyHulk
Member
Holy crap!!! Doing this actually got me to see it. Hahaha
Did bit of photoshopping on that pokemon sprite. Like this?
Nice job. I couldn't see it until I squinted and titled my head at your upload.
MAX PAYMENT
Member
Did bit of photoshopping on that pokemon sprite. Like this?
After trying really hard to force myself to see the sitting position, I see it like this..
What is actually his shoulder could be seen as a knee. And his arm may be inside his legs. He's sitting at the same angle as he is standing, so no perspective shift.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I always figured it was his armor's core, seeing as how he loses his armor after this. Plus, when you play as X and encounter the downed Zero, his arm is clearly cut off and fallen in the same place that this orb thing is, and he loses his buster.Thanks for the necro. :')
I'll add one more: downed X in Mega Man X5 intro stage:
Might be just me, but I can't figure out what the part indicated by the arrow is. Is it :
- X's right foot, him being in a weird open leg position
- X's right knee destroyed and separated from his leg
?
I've always assumed it to the the shoulder pad of X's armor considering it is missing on his left shoulder. I could be wrong of course.
omnislayer
Member
That is exactly what it is. At least it has always looked like the shoulder pad to me.
I imagine most people who played FF6 when the SNES was still current did so through rental. It was a very expensive game.
Did bit of photoshopping on that pokemon sprite. Like this?
This is amazing.
he really does look like a hurf-derf
Ragnorok64
Member
In Seiken Densetsu 3 I always though that Angela's sleeping sprite made her look topless.
Whelp in trying to hunt down a screen shot I found out that if one turns off a layer, she actually is. Just a bit differently than I thought (what I thought was side boob was actually just knees,).
Whelp in trying to hunt down a screen shot I found out that if one turns off a layer, she actually is. Just a bit differently than I thought (what I thought was side boob was actually just knees,).
Weltall Zero
Member
Not really, because back sprites were actually enlarged 2x compared to the rest of the game, so they looked pixellated even back then.
Holy shit at that one. I always thought the mouth was his eyes. To be fair, how was I supposed to know he has no visible eyes?
I never understood how to read Grahf's portrait when I played Xenogears way back when. It was just a whole lotta nonsense.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
"SE" as in the FFXIV team, who are for the most part young people whose first experience with FFVI was as simple fans. I don't know about the FFVI team though.
Yes but obviously its quite a widespread misinterpretation is all I'm saying
Platinum Mad
Banned
Did bit of photoshopping on that pokemon sprite. Like this?
This is great but now I can't unsee it.