Video game art/designs that just upset you.

[Mineshaft_Gap]

I could post several dozen examples but you only need to open Google play/app store on your phone or tablet to see what I mean. This shit is just...ugh... it elicits a really bad reaction that I can't quite put my finger on.

It just seems to embody everything bad about casual mobile gaming. I get upset when I see it and I get outright depressed when I ponder how some legitimate developers are embracing a future where it's even MORE popular.

It's the software you used to see on a miscellaneous cart in some corner of an office supply store or J.C. PENNY. Those games that come in CD jewel cases and have names like "Mystery House 1 and 2" or "Hidden Aztec Adventure"

 

[Jeremy]

To be honest, it's hard for me to find the appeal in cel-shading most of the time.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

too much bloom

 

[PranooY]

This Last of Us infected design. Good thing it didn't make it into the full game.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/05/23/last-us-nearly-went-full-thing

 

[Toxi]

Skimpy asymmetrical fanservice costumes almost always rub on me the wrong way. They look less like outfits and more like random strips of cloth blu-tacked to the character's body. I like cheesecake to be even and neat; more Morrigan or Teysa (MtG), less whatever the fuck is going on in the new Zelda villain's design.

 

[ComputerMKII]

JRPGs: The thread

Also this

 

[Sojgat]

JRPGs: The thread

Also this

You will feel ashamed of your words.

#teamchico

 

[Sinfamy]

I agree with the casual apps, so uninspiring.
They lack any semblance of care going into them.

 

[rosaceadude2112]

This Last of Us infected design. Good thing it didn't make it into the full game.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/05/23/last-us-nearly-went-full-thing

that thing's cool as heck, what's the problem?

 

[PranooY]

that thing's cool as heck, what's the problem?

You'll start laughing (instead of getting scared) during your TLOU play-through when you get killed by this infected - which will totally ruin your tlou experience.
This is much more appropriate for Resident Evil series.

Also

Spoiler

i don't want my character to be eaten by a fungal butthole mouth.

 

[Faustek]

Basically every "sexy" woman and every "black" person.

Whereas if the person is black it's more of a character thing than a graphical presentation.

I should add that I don't mind sexy. Hell one of the games I'm looking forward to most, Akiba's Trip, has apparently gone down the best route for this.

Equal opportunity sexy.

 

[ComputerMKII]

You'll start laughing (instead of getting scared) during your TLOU play-through when you get killed by this infected - which will totally ruin your tlou experience.
This is much more appropriate for Resident Evil series.

Also

Spoiler

i don't want my character to be eaten by a fungal butthole mouth.

Don't like anal vore hentai?

 

[K.Sabot]

PSO2's "everyone looks like a mecha" style really upset me when I saw it, especially when compared to PSO1's more simple style that relied on color to grab attention.

Did not like the addition of more bulk to every design at all.

 

[ComputerMKII]

PSO2's "everyone looks like a mecha" style really upset me when I saw it, especially when compared to PSO1's more simple style that relied on color to grab attention.

Did not like the addition of more bulk to every design at all.

What about this?

 

[Steez]

JRPGs: The thread

This. Art design is one of the main reason why I just don't play jRPGs.

 

[PranooY]

Don't like anal vore hentai?

Not going to google that in office.

 

[K.Sabot]

What about this?

I had no serious investment into the series beforehand (see avatar).

But that is awful.

 

[Ken]

What about this?

he has delicious pizza though so he's alright

 

[Nemmy]

The extremely overdone anime style where everyone looks like a child with an extreme overbite. It's weird, as I normally have no problem with art styles people tend to describe as "anime", but this particular kind just irritates me.

It's a super shallow reason, but it was always stopping me from trying out Xenosaga:

Edit: and giant, unrealistic, overly decorative weapons and armor that can't, in no way ever, serve any practical purpose. See pizza sword above. At a certain point it goes from "cool" to "trying too hard", and then too "how is this even a weapon anymore".

 

[PaulloDEC]

I find this one particularly troublesome. What the hell is going on with this guy's hair? Is there a reason it looks like that? Did a witch turn it into cheese or something? Why are his eyebrows attached to it?

 

[ComputerMKII]

The extremely overdone anime style where everyone looks like a child with an extreme overbite. It's weird, as I normally have no problem with art styles people tend to describe as "anime", but this particular kind just irritates me.

It's a super shallow reason, but it was always stopping me from trying out Xenosaga:

How can she show her (lack of) ass, her back, her tits and her face at the same time?

 

[KJRS_1993]

Any anime / manga art style. Like what Ni No Kuni had for example.
Sorry guys. I know lots of you are fans, but it is by way and far the most ugly art style I have ever seen.

 

[Ken]

How can she show her (lack of) ass, her back, her tits and her face at the same time?

ask riot artists

 

[Faustek]

How can she show her (lack of) ass, her back, her tits and her face at the same time?

No spine? Androids are perhaps more limber?

 

[Ziffles]

I find this one particularly troublesome. What the hell is going on with this guy's hair? Is there a reason it looks like that? Did a witch turn it into cheese or something? Why are his eyebrows attached to it?

All this time, I thought that was a helmet.

 

[raven777]

My friends tell me to try this game out but that icon art always prevent me from downloading the game.

 

[PaulloDEC]

All this time, I thought that was a helmet.

It could be, for all I know! That thing on his lip might just be moustache-armor.

 

[Twilight Gap]

343's Covenant designs. It's like they took all the dino jokes literally.

Also

Everything going on with this character disturbs me.

And the biggest one

WTF happened to Spyro?

 

[chaobreaker]

No consistency in the designs in the designs of LoL champions. They just look silly together.

Look at those pauldrons. Ridiculous.

 

[Bold One]

This Last of Us infected design. Good thing it didn't make it into the full game.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/05/23/last-us-nearly-went-full-thing

yikes, thank god that didn't make it into the final game

 

[Nemmy]

How can she show her (lack of) ass, her back, her tits and her face at the same time?

Believe me or not, it actually upsets me way less than her face.
And I tried to replicate the pose after reading your comment; it's kinda doable, though uncomfortable and unnatural as hell.

 

[pillowtalk]

The DCU online and Injustice concept art and in-game graphics looks so painfully generic.

 

[NotLiquid]

Prototype's art design upsets me but that's because it's the hideous kind of grim and gritty with terrible mutated "gross" monstrosities that clash heavily with the cartoonish super power action.

Talk about game/visual dissonance, and it doesn't even serve to bring anything but an even worse story to it.

 

[Hatchtag]

Cartoon characters that are puns with overly obvious designs, my core example being Skylanders. It's what differentiates Pokemon and Skylanders to me. Pokemon have a lot of subtlely in their designs and puns. Sure, there are some that aren't super subtle (Magnetite, for example), but having a few that aren't helps you to realize that the rest are puns, and makes it fun to figure out the ways in which they are. Skylander's have no subtlely. It really turned me off from the game.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

JRPGs: The thread

Also this

This makes me happy though.

 

[Menome]

No consistency in the designs in the designs of LoL champions. They just look silly together.

I've only played a dozen or so matches, but I was under the impression the League of Legends characters came from an assortment of different dimensions? It would make sense for them to be a disparate mix-and-match of varying styles.

 

[Persona7]

I am not upset or anything but modern pokemon is horrible.

 

[Zeyphersan]

Most female "armor" in games, covering just the bare minimum, so horny guys can still get their fanservice while the game is like "Look, they're protected!"

No, they're not.

 

[Auskeek]

I've grown to deal with this, but I still don't like it

The whole of KoF XIII's character designs upset me at first, but Ralf and Clark... like this is hilarious but also freakin stupid at the same time.

 

[K.Sabot]

Anyone else think Aiden's hat, mask, and trenchcoat combo looks super tacky and bad?

I seriously have a hard time not laughing every time I see this or the box art image.

 

[Chrono Helix]

All this time, I thought that was a helmet.

Me too...

 

[Twilight Gap]

Most female "armor" in games, covering just the bare minimum, so horny guys can still get their fanservice while the game is like "Look, they're protected!"

No, they're not.

It's just as bad when they give them full armor and then accentuate the bust.

Why leave the sternum so unprotected?

 

[Papercuts]

This being Bomberman.

 

[NotDreamcast]

Anyone else think Aiden's hat, mask, and trenchcoat combo looks super tacky and bad?

I seriously have a hard time not laughing every time I see this or the box art image.

That hat just doesn't work with that coat.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

I find a lot of Rares work just aesthetically ugly, particularly where they branch out from cartoon animals.
JFG characters, the KI crew, the GBTG cast... yeah, I'm not a fan.

I mean;

come on.

 

[Ombala]

D.M.C thread? It just kept getting worse thru the game for me.

 

[MisterGrey3000]

This Last of Us infected design. Good thing it didn't make it into the full game.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/05/23/last-us-nearly-went-full-thing

I don't think that's a bad design at all.
It's terrifyingly grotesque, which kind of works.
I imagine encountering something like that in the game would have been incredibly memorable.

 

[Kinyou]

This Last of Us infected design. Good thing it didn't make it into the full game.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/05/23/last-us-nearly-went-full-thing

I think I would have liked that more than the bloater

 

[Hatchtag]

I am not upset or anything but modern pokemon is horrible.

Different =/= horrible. People seem to think that all Pokemon should look like the original 151, when really they're designing an open world game. They design a region, and design the Pokemon to fit that region. It's why Gen 3 Pokemon look tropical. It's why Gen 4 Pokemon tend to look over-designed; they're bulkier to put up with a harsh climate. It's why Gen 5 Pokemon look almost completely different from previous Pokemon, they're from a different country. It's why Gen 6 Pokemon have an emphasis on elegance, they're trying to match them with France. Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon tend to not be very extreme-it's because they're in a region without many extremes. Kanto and Johto are supposed to feel like they could be anywhere, and the Pokemon are designed to feel like they could, for the most part, be found just about anywhere because of it.

 

[Red Arremer]