LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The nitpicking is ridiculous. Game looks good for an unfinished product.
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One or two of those pictures make it a hard sell for me. I'm facing a real issue with a lot of these games because the character designs and dialogue make me look like a creep if I play them when people are around. That's too bad because I love these games, but they really aren't designed for mass market appeal.
Hours Left
Member
Even her clothing isn't really in the category though, just her face. (And everyone's face in XBX looks funky.)
And her nose is too low. She looks like a muppet. (circa The Dark Crystal.)
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I get the impression that her eyes are just a little to far apart.
What I get from that image is that they need to lift her nose up a bit more.
And that bothers you?
Acquiescence
Member
I get the impression that her eyes are just a little to far apart.
Her nose needs to be more defined, because otherwise it just looks like there's nothing but skin between her eyes and mouth. And you're right, her eyes are too far apart. She's just a pretty badly designed character in general, and too reminiscent of the porcelain faces from the previous game.
The main guy looks fine though.
I get the impression that her eyes are just a little to far apart.
Lift the nose a bit, maybe make it a tiny bit bigger and bring the eyes closer to each other. Could be even fine looking then.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
If you want to extend the design part to clothing, what the girl in SO5 wears is also fairly reserved and armor-ish, but that doesn't make her look any less kawaii uguu, does it?
Paracelsus
Member
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Hell, I think this actually works with the aesthetic they're going for.
KainXVIII
Member
No, but i remembered, that Resonance of Fate has pretty good characters design, also from tri-Ace
FalsettoVibe
Member
Looks ok.
lazyproblems
Member
I like these images. The girls eyes are a little too far apart, but I like everything for the most part.
footfunghi
Member
but this is star ocean, and not Resonance of Fate and also not Valkyrie Profile
Black Republican
Member
looks ok, the game looks to only exist to get cosplayers to buy it though
DigitalHitmann
Banned
Dat ass?
Looks pretty nice.
Came here for this. Did not disappoint.
Lol top tier character design.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I get the impression that her eyes are just a little to far apart.
I dunno, that looks okay with the look they are trying to go for. I don't think she's the same age as the Mc since she apparently see's him as an older brother.
Night Hunter
Banned
So, is there some kind of unwritten rule that SO can't have good character design? Just because you have an anime style doesn't mean that they have to look like aliens.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Nope
ugh i don't understand why star ocean keeps trying to go for the "realistic anime" look. it's terrifying.
it's because they don't even attempt to adapt the models to the artstyle, so they end up looking like the result of a mod of a western action game.
Character models has not been this series' strong point since it moved to 3D. It hasn't actually changed the style or anything, it just doesn't translate all that well to 3D models for some reason(that or the developers are just lazy about trying).
it's because they don't even attempt to adapt the models to the artstyle, so they end up looking like the result of a mod of a western action game.
KainXVIII
Member
so badly designed characters - is staple of series? maybe its time to change it, no?
footfunghi
Member
there seems to be at least some kind of unwritten rule with the developers as you can see
and the developers certainly don't see these characters as "badly designed", else they wouldn't be in the game
and as a tri-ace fan myself
an star ocean to a degree
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Character models has not been this series' strong point since it moved to 3D. It hasn't actually changed the style or anything, it just doesn't translate all that well to 3D models for some reason(that or the developers are just lazy about trying).
I think it's more a case of, the more 'realistic' approach to the visuals they go for clashes quite a bit with the extremely anime like style of the character designs. In Final Fantasy, it works, but I think for Star Ocean, similar to Tales, some form of Cel-Shading would work far better.
freeofgreed
Member
Looks good! And I guess since Xenoblade is almost out, this is going to be the new game where people constantly birth about the faces.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Looks like Star Ocean 2 art style.
I'll be going from this
to this.
I'm excited to get back into a real time battle rpg. What is the name of it's rpg style anyway? I remember in SO2 having the option to pick at the start if you wanted some type of pause between attacks or something, but I never picked it and forgot how that went.
I'll be going from this
to this.
I'm excited to get back into a real time battle rpg. What is the name of it's rpg style anyway? I remember in SO2 having the option to pick at the start if you wanted some type of pause between attacks or something, but I never picked it and forgot how that went.
Hours Left
Member
It's relatively tame by today's standards, but what makes her stick out more is her face in comparison to the other characters, mainly the protagonist. Her face is just weird. If they altered it a bit she's look just fine IMO.
And as I said in Lynlee's case, everyone in Xenoblade has a weird doll face. (Though I find them endearing now.)
Stone Ocean
Member
I really like the character designs, specially the MC's
Heroine is kinda growing on me, she doesn't look half bad outside of scan quality screens. It's like a 3D Akihiko Yoshida character!
Heroine is kinda growing on me, she doesn't look half bad outside of scan quality screens. It's like a 3D Akihiko Yoshida character!
They just need to include japanese voices and I'm ready 
toddhunter
Member
FF13 looked good compared to SO4. It isn't something you would use for a comparison.
Unfinished Discovery right...?
Seriously,it looks good to me so far,finger crossed.(I liked IU by the way)
It didn't really amount to much. The Manual setting was done to work like the original SNES Star Ocean where every time you hit Attack you had to pick your target, but the game didn't pause for it either. Semi Auto was the same except it defaulted to the enemy you were closest to. Full Auto made it so that you didn't have to press X twice for every attack, so I always used that. There were only a few truly long range attacks in the whole game that weren't spells, and I think you could change your target manually even in Full Auto mode.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Looks good aside from pink haired girl's face and green haired girl's outfit. Both of those need fixing.
Is she wearing body paint instead of clothing?
Interesting.
Game is saved.
Just give me the delicious gameplay now
tri-Ace should hire FlightUnit to redo the character models.Always liked Willbell from the Atelier Characters.
The green hair woman gives the same vibe
I get the impression that her eyes are just a little to far apart.
better?