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Video game art/designs that just upset you.
- Thread starter Mineshaft_Gap
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two recent ps4 ps+ games come to mind as one's i find aesthetically offensive:
bonus awful art direction award goes to:
a game i actually enjoyed but found so ugly that i couldn't finish it. i'm probably in the minority in that shitty art direction can actively ruin a game for me.
bayonetta is another example - some awesome bosses and environments eclipsed by overall bad character design.
bonus awful art direction award goes to:
a game i actually enjoyed but found so ugly that i couldn't finish it. i'm probably in the minority in that shitty art direction can actively ruin a game for me.
bayonetta is another example - some awesome bosses and environments eclipsed by overall bad character design.
Sounds like someone can't appreciate the depth of FIVE TONE SHADING.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
i fucking vomite every time i see this style...
I vomit rainbows when I see Kishida Mel's GORGEOUS art.
Sooo good.
WickedLaharl
Member
I dont know how much the rest of you know about social justice (Im an expert), but social justice is the worst thing on this planet.
I actually dislike Kishida Mel's Atelier work; it always feels very overly-detailed and I'm not a huge fan of the coloring either. I was pretty happy though when I saw that hidari working on the new Atelier games though.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
two recent ps4 ps+ games come to mind as one's i find aesthetically offensive:
bonus awful art direction award goes to:
a game i actually enjoyed but found so ugly that i couldn't finish it. i'm probably in the minority in that shitty art direction can actively ruin a game for me.
bayonetta is another example - some awesome bosses and environments eclipsed by overall bad character design.
Again?! What is so off-putting about these games?
Doesnt look that wrong to me, her right hand obviously isnt on it yet and looking at the position of her left hand and the far axe blade it looks like shes going to grasp the bottom with her right hand and then swing it around and down. The positioning of the left hand looks a little awkward but nothing too terrible.
Twilight Gap
Member
Yea assuming the girl in the second pic doesn't have super strength and that thing isn't made of styrofoam, she wouldn't be able to support its center of gravity in that position with just one hand
I don't mind the design but that image is too busy
Look at the other arm
Wait, it isn't all that bad; Looked at it at the wrong angle... Still looks awkward for me, at least
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I would have played Darksiders if the art design wasn't so dorky.
Twilight Gap
Member
Yea that's what I'm saying. Her wrist is twisted and all the weight is down at that point. If she were mid swing, the momentum would make her spin around or stumble backwards unless she has two fingers on the top end of it.
... Oh boy, didn't even notice that. Heh
MisterGrey3000
Member
Alas, this might be the case.
I am but a lowly baka gaijin who fails to grasp the beauty of Nippon's glorious animation techniques.
Polioliolio
Member
Gonna get hated on I know, but I always found newer non human Sony characters to be very stupid looking.
Creative? Maybe, but still ugly as shit.
I agree on Knack, but those other ones are spectacular. I especially like the paper puppet dude on the bottom.
Twilight Gap
Member
lol yea the fact that she's so tiny gives it away more than anything. I don't like to nitpick on poses like that because they're not easy to do at all. However, if this is official game art, that's the least of the problems going for it.
I absolutely hated this.
I loved Drippy. I want a Drippy plush!
It seems pretty obvious that shes not mid swing though, rather that shes setting up for a swing. Also in the case of the weapon shes using IIRC theyre magic god weapons and all of them are oversized so their weight implicitly isnt an issue. Pointing out flaws in an image is of course fair game but if theres a more charitable and/or (in my opinion) obvious interpretation of an image that doesnt make the artist look incompetent why not go with that?
Twilight Gap
Member
Ugh. The bolder background makes it even harder to discern what's happening in the middle of the image.
Shadowplay1979
Member
we all lose with this
Also everything made by Tetsuya Nomura who makes the most utterly ridiculous incoherent and purposeless designs for characters...and whom i consider to be more or less the person who started the downfall of all modern Jrpg designs since the late 90s
seriously this makes me wanna choke myself to death on a chainsaw
Also everything made by Tetsuya Nomura who makes the most utterly ridiculous incoherent and purposeless designs for characters...and whom i consider to be more or less the person who started the downfall of all modern Jrpg designs since the late 90s
seriously this makes me wanna choke myself to death on a chainsaw
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
bobawesome
Member
I never understood why Kingdom Hearts 1's Cloud had Vincent's gauntlets... I liked the 3rd design in Advent Children, but KH2 did something to it. I can't put my finger on it.
Also, Persona 4:
And I hope the character models in Persona 5 look more like the character portraits.
Yeah man, Persona 4's biggest problem was including optional, out of the way costumes.
Zeuanimals
Member
Lol. Hey man, people posted concept art of designs that didn't even make it into the game, this upset me because it undermined a badass character.
OMG this thread is delivering
SixStringPsycho
Member
This guy, it gave me the creeps.
It also reminded me of
It also reminded me of
Devilinthiscity
Member
I loved the first two inFAMOUS games, but had always hated Cole's character design. It looked so generic to me.
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RMS Gigantic
Member
For me, this is any situation where a game has an even vaguely realistic visual style or atmosphere, but the designers make sets and character designs that have virtually no practicality to it, or outright defy universal laws.
This can take several forms, including the oft-mention clothing that's bound to entangle, trip, or flat out fall off of the user, yet doesn't because the developers are simply too short-sighted or even stupid to realize it. Another example is vehicles that are too large to move by the mechanisms they appear to move by. The Helicarrier from the recent Avengers movie is a shining example of this: the designers made the thing too carelessly big for the helicopter-like blades they gave it to have any hope of even lifting an empty hull of the thing.
Related to the above though not strictly visible (though it does effect vehicle designs etc. in the game) is when physical laws get misapplied or ignored. Space Engineers comes to mind here, with spacecraft consistently outputting thrust yet at some point no longer accelerating, among other anomalies.
This can take several forms, including the oft-mention clothing that's bound to entangle, trip, or flat out fall off of the user, yet doesn't because the developers are simply too short-sighted or even stupid to realize it. Another example is vehicles that are too large to move by the mechanisms they appear to move by. The Helicarrier from the recent Avengers movie is a shining example of this: the designers made the thing too carelessly big for the helicopter-like blades they gave it to have any hope of even lifting an empty hull of the thing.
Related to the above though not strictly visible (though it does effect vehicle designs etc. in the game) is when physical laws get misapplied or ignored. Space Engineers comes to mind here, with spacecraft consistently outputting thrust yet at some point no longer accelerating, among other anomalies.
GamingIsDead
Member
street fighter 4, street fighter vs tekken and tekken revolution. I hate that cartoony art style they are going for.
Also this "thing" is the worst character design i've ever seen in a video game.
Also this "thing" is the worst character design i've ever seen in a video game.
Nothing says classy like transphobia
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
street fighter 4, street fighter vs tekken and tekken revolution. I hate that cartoony art style they are going for.
Also this "thing" is the worst character design i've ever seen in a video game.
.....wtf?
Zeuanimals
Member
CH for Chris Hansen? This guy doesn't "love" kids, he loves the guy who interviews guys who "loves" kids.
C. Viper? Yeah, I have no idea what the hell is up with her freakish bust.street fighter 4, street fighter vs tekken and tekken revolution. I hate that cartoony art style they are going for.
Also this "thing" is the worst character design i've ever seen in a video game.
GamingIsDead
Member
I don't like the hideous design so i must hate a certain group of people. Brilliant deduction. I really hope you're offended.
I say thing because i have no idea what the hell they are shooting for with this character. It doesn't look all to human to me, like some fucked up saiyan race in a dragon ballz episode.
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
To be fair, you used "thing" in reference to a transgendered character with no further context given. If that's not what you meant, okay, but it's hard not to take it any way but the wrong way.
MisterGrey3000
Member
street fighter 4, street fighter vs tekken and tekken revolution. I hate that cartoony art style they are going for.
Also this "thing" is the worst character design i've ever seen in a video game.
You really shouldn't use the word "THING" to describe a transgender character, no matter what your intent is.
:/
GamingIsDead
Member
I'm confident you will get over it.
MisterGrey3000
Member
This.
It's incredibly easy to interpret your post as being derogatory because of the history the word "thing" has with transsexual people.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Anything related to Professor Layton. Nightmarish.