No. I mean you can find the aesthetics offensive to your morality and then debate whether the two are necessarily linked, but if you don't include the characters that offend you, it is a damn good looking game. Look at this spread...
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Unaesthetically pleasing games?
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This is the one thing that keeps me out of Warframe. What's a loot game where all the loot is hideous?
bobbychalkers
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To be fair, the game is literally being rendered twice at 60fps. Seeing how it turned out in the end, it wasn't worth it.
sad, but mostly true. i'd add Rising Thunder (RIP), Punch Planet, and Pocket Rumble to the list of exceptions, though.
Net_Wrecker
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I'd say fighting games are almost universally ugly these days, which is insane because they used to be my go to for "cool" characters and art design consistency. The more outfits and new characters they get, the uglier they get.
Skulls Girls is in a unique position of looking both interesting and completely fresh.
SatoAilDarko
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This sheit
To this day this is the only game I could describe my feelings towards as neutral.
Nothing really good or bad about it. I remembering playing it for over 30 hours and after finishing it thinking what did I just do? It's so incredibly vanilla that it's kind of an achievement.
I heard the Japanese-only GBA prequel Magical Vacation was more interesting.
Dissidia isn't a remaster, it's a completely new game. But I agree it's ugly for a Final Fantasy game.
TurnipFritters
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Xrd, SFV, and Tekken 7 are ugly?
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Only thing i remember is the game looking like absolute dog shit
Dwarf Fortress (lol)
Minecraft
To each their own of course, but I think these two games are legitimately beautiful.
Suburban Thug
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May try to track down the GBA game then, thanks!
Lol I just got back into it and I can see that. Many of the user created skins look so much better than the originals. They got a new art designer not long ago, let's see where that goes. I also took issue with the way colors came off on the frames they look almost plastic. Later frames now have obvious texture changes like mesa for example. There are now separate materials (metals, fabrics, etc) and take color as such.
Net_Wrecker
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Xrd has incredible tech, but I hate the overdesigned anime style. Same with Blaz Blue.
SFV has clear, chunky, expressive models, but is somehow both boring and try hard. Beard Ryu is the best thing to come out of it, and that's not even the default look.
Tekken 7 has a good base, but it just looks like a mess. Play online and witness the create-a-fighter hellscape known as customizable characters.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is a notable exception here because of how well it's emulating the anime.
Transistor
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It is a fantastic game. A great Metroidvania, but I agree, it's a rough start because of the art
I don't fully agree with these criticisms, but I won't object them either.
Conkerkid11
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Nekketsu Kõha
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Or maybe the poster just finds the art style aesthetically unappealing and you're making asinine assumptions.No. I mean you can find the aesthetics offensive to your morality and then debate whether the two are necessarily linked, but if you don't include the characters that offend you, it is a damn good looking game. Look at this spread...
FallenGrace
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Shame, it really is great. I quite like the art style though.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
I'm gonna go with the Silent Hill series. I know it's a horror game and it's meant to be unsettling, but those creepy uncanny valley characters are so offputting:
NOPE.
Nidhogg 2 is really growing on me. It looks amazing in motion.
Great call on NWN 2 and Oblivion also, they really haven't aged well and aren't nice to look at now.
NOPE.
Nidhogg 2 is really growing on me. It looks amazing in motion.
Great call on NWN 2 and Oblivion also, they really haven't aged well and aren't nice to look at now.
Conkerkid11
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Fallout 4 is probably the only good looking Bethesda developed game, and even that's a stretch.I'm gonna go with the Silent Hill series. I know it's a horror game and it's meant to be unsettling, but those creepy uncanny valley characters are so offputting:
NOPE.
Nidhogg 2 is really growing on me. It looks amazing in motion.
Great call on NWN 2 and Oblivion also, they really haven't aged well and aren't nice to look at now.
Really? I like it, reminds me of 3D Dot Game Heroes.minecraft low settings
FallenGrace
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Tales of? Yeah. The characters and some of the towns look good but the dungeons and fields are incredibly bland...
Barrow Roll
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I think BOTW is a good looking game too, but you don't need to use CEMU shots to prove it. That's a misrepresentation of what the game actually looks like to the majority of people that played it.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Just played the game on my switch ĺooks just like it 🤔
Suburban Thug
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God this is another great pick. I heard the gameplay is sublime but I was sooooo turned off by the fugly art that I never played it. Stupid name too.
Crimsonclaw111
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Yep, one of the ugliest games I've looked at.
New Super Mario Bros series. Everything from the sound effects/music/animations/graphics is awful.
It all looks and moves like bad CG from the early 90's or something.
Oh, I don't know... It actually looks very nice in this screenshot.
Nekketsu Kõha;245777614 said:
Am I missing something? The above shot looks great.
kunonabi
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SFV certainly is.
Complicated
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No. I mean you can find the aesthetics offensive to your morality and then debate whether the two are necessarily linked, but if you don't include the characters that offend you, it is a damn good looking game. Look at this spread...
What does morality have to do with aesthetics??? The game has a terrible art style.
No thank you. Looks awful.
Suburban Thug
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Are you serious or just looking for a reaction? What is wrong with The Last of Us? Please, at least post an explanation.Nekketsu Kõha;245777614 said:
The Broken Ska Record
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Nah. 3D Dot had a bit more style. Not that Minecraft is a terrible looking game or anything.
Net_Wrecker
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To be fair to SFV, there's is something about the way they do skin and outfit shaders I really like. But even then I haven't mentioned stages which I also find unappealing in most of these games too.
NetherRealm has suddenly figured out how to make incredible faces, but simultaneously figure out loot and turn Injustice 2 into a wild toybox of DC special edition action figures. I like how much they play with lighting though.
What I'm really trying to say is: What the hell happened to SNK?
CaviarMeths
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NetherRealm Studios have consistently hideous art in all of their games.
ShadowSoldier89
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tekken 7 on PS4 i could honestly list for this thread. The insane amount of chromatic aberration and film grain kills everything good about the final image. Fortunately the PC version can get around this.
Theslammer
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LOL
SFV has my favorite collection of stages in just about any fighting game. Ever. There are a lot of inconsistencies in SFV's presentation, but I think the great outweighs the mediocre.
Injustice 2 models and costumes and animations look funky, but the faces are good and the stages look INCREDIBLE. Hoooly shit.
KOF XIV models are hella basic, but that game has a charm in motion that is hard for me to deny.
SchrodingerC
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I'm gonna go with the Silent Hill series. I know it's a horror game and it's meant to be unsettling, but those creepy uncanny valley characters are so offputting:
NOPE.
Goddamn fight me IRL.
I'll kinda give you SH1 because its a 3D PS1 game, but even then when you emulate the game it actually looks great art wise.
Don't get me started on you including SH2.