Enordash
Member
So this is embarrassing. The back of his helmet looks SO much like a visor to me that I straight up thought that was his front.
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Video game art/designs that just upset you.
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So this is embarrassing. The back of his helmet looks SO much like a visor to me that I straight up thought that was his front.
This guy. This guy right here signalled the beginning of the end of appealing Pokemon design.
Mr. Mime how I hate thee
He's my favourite pokemon >_>
Vocal Orgasmizzle
Banned
All Rare games, really.
Not quite the same as most examples in this thread, but...
Oh god I'm falling over, someone stop the world I want to get off
(Ultima series)
Good choice. That perspective is just awful.
Too few female protagonists is generally a problem, but this thread is about art design.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Yeah, them. That's one I missed. Looks like that Saw dude.
"Upset" is a bit too much, but I'm still getting occasionally annoyed by Zero Suit Samus. It's not that a strong, independent woman cannot be sexy or wear skintight clothing and high heels, but somehow, of all the strong intelligent women in videogames "eligible" for revealing skintight clothing and high heels I feel Samus was the least suited.
Oh well. It's an established character now, so who cares. Not like it's a biggie after MOM, anyway.
Oh well. It's an established character now, so who cares. Not like it's a biggie after MOM, anyway.
He makes me want to play Angry Birds. That alone is enough to warrant his slow and gruesome death.
I'm not even sure whether it is a weird creature or a costumed person that I'm looking at, but it's AMAZING.
old manatee
Banned
Make it stop.
Also, kudos to anyone who can remember what this was from :L
Holy fuck that's actually amazing.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
And why is Chris Pine one there? He's an actual man that actually looks like that. And he's not bald.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Silent Hill: Downpour. Silent Hill has always been known for its great art direction and especially when it comes to the creatures, Abstract Daddy and Pyramid Head being the top examples. So what happened in Konami's latest butchering of the game?
Yep, that design came straight out of Clive Barkers asshole. But maybe it was just one bad creature?
What the fuck is that? It just looks like a slipknot band member. That's not scary.
What about some starfish with rollercoaster parts on it?
Really there was only one semi decent design in the whole game, and that was the white mannequin thing. Everything else was downright embarrassing, especially with SH standards in mind. Maybe it would have been fit better into a game like Dead Space where the design philosophy seems to be just as bad.
Yep, that design came straight out of Clive Barkers asshole. But maybe it was just one bad creature?
What the fuck is that? It just looks like a slipknot band member. That's not scary.
What about some starfish with rollercoaster parts on it?
Really there was only one semi decent design in the whole game, and that was the white mannequin thing. Everything else was downright embarrassing, especially with SH standards in mind. Maybe it would have been fit better into a game like Dead Space where the design philosophy seems to be just as bad.
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The "design philosophy" for Dead Space (at least the first one) was consistent and very appropriate for the type of horror game it was trying to be. The things you posted would also look incredibly out of place in Dead Space.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Over sexualization of women in video games, it annoys the shit out of me to be playing a game, and big breasts are shoved in your face. I can't play Bayonetta anymore, and I can't play Mercenary Kings because of the title screen, and the ridiculous, breast motion in that game, same goes with Scott Pilgram.
It just gets to me.
It just gets to me.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Bayonetta is clearly more on the A side of the scale than the T in T&A. Same with the P.N.03 main character.
It bothers me in some cases too (like I said in this thread or another, 'heels' ), but really not for Bayonneta, as it is so much over the top that it feels like a parody of itself at the same time.
Salty Hippo
Member
I always think of Marc Whitten when I see this abomination.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
I love that Neverdead guy. So fucking weird. Thought the game sucked, though.
Mineshaft_Gap
4077th
You know, upsetting doesn't have to mean bad. It could also mean that it makes you uncomfortable or unsettled. There are a lot of designs I don't like not because they're bad designs but because they leave me legit shook.
Unhandled Exception
Member
Dragon's Crown x10000. Pity because the quality of art is so fucking sublime. Also, any games that sexualize children.
Omnii-chan
Member
Danganronpa's art style and designs are the reason why I'm not playing it. It already had the school setting working against it, but the way how the characters look is just too off-putting. It's a shame, because people tell me it's a game I could enjoy.
No thank you.
I haven't played it yet (though I do own it), but the fat guy disturbs me and has done ever since I first saw him. Seriously... Is he like half-bear or something?
Honestly the rest of it is fine though, some of the characters just look a bit over the top to look cool.
The design philosophy of Dead Space enemies is actually pretty distinct and consistent. The artists looked at images of car crash victims (Seriously) for ideas on what the human body looks like when violently damaged. They also tried to avoid using humanoid silhouettes to further demonstrate how the Necromorphs are bodies twisted into other shapes instead of just walking corpses, so you have things like legs twisted together in a tripod structure or babies that walk like quadrapedal animals instead of crawling. There's an obvious influence from John Carpenter's The Thing too.
Of course, it looks ugly and nasty and gross, but that's kinda the point.
Azure Wolf
Banned
Hugo from Street Fighter has been mentioned in this thread, but the irony is that it's actually one of the more realistic SF characters, given that it's basically a carbon copy of Andre the Giant from 1978, via the Andore bros design from Final Fight.
Jet Force Gemini character designs as mentioned previously, are well worthy of disdain, they are sub par to the even the kind of character design you'd expect to see on supermarket own brand Rice Krispies from 1983. They're so badly designed as to be cringeworthy.
I'm also inclined to agree with many regarding Japanese RPG character designs; especially effeminate male characters with Japanese facial features but with Nordic hair and eye colour wearing convuluted and ridiculous outfits with zips, complex looking fabrics and gimmicks aplenty.
Also, almost all female characters in fighting games are bad, excluding the classic vanilla Chun Li, either being hyper sexualized or grossly underpowered looking waifs, yet quite capable of fighting huge Zangief types with 'girl power' alone. It's just an irritiating and overdone concept that stretches even fantasy based games to their limit of credibility.
Jet Force Gemini character designs as mentioned previously, are well worthy of disdain, they are sub par to the even the kind of character design you'd expect to see on supermarket own brand Rice Krispies from 1983. They're so badly designed as to be cringeworthy.
I'm also inclined to agree with many regarding Japanese RPG character designs; especially effeminate male characters with Japanese facial features but with Nordic hair and eye colour wearing convuluted and ridiculous outfits with zips, complex looking fabrics and gimmicks aplenty.
Also, almost all female characters in fighting games are bad, excluding the classic vanilla Chun Li, either being hyper sexualized or grossly underpowered looking waifs, yet quite capable of fighting huge Zangief types with 'girl power' alone. It's just an irritiating and overdone concept that stretches even fantasy based games to their limit of credibility.
MissDeviling
Member
Whaaat? What's wrong with other SF female characters?
Azure Wolf
Banned
I just don't like any of them except Chun Li, the rot set in for me as early as Cammy, the second female character ever in the series - to this date one of the most ridiculous female character designs in any fighting game, though, granted a good cosplayer Cammy is an amazing sight to behold.
Yeah it's a sexy design, but nothing more than that in a fighting game context IMO, the rest have all been much the same, either hyper sexualized or looking like they couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag, though I did think Mika was at least an original looking design.
In fairness there's been plenty of terrible male SF character designs too, T Hawk, Gill, etc.
EDIT: I have to admit I'd forgotten about a few of the roster and in hindsight I do also think Ibuki and Makoto are great female character designs in SF, but because both, like Chun Li, are primarily dressed in a functional martial art style, and not trying to be deliberately cute or sexy, it just adds so much more integrity to their characters.
Too many fighting games have vapid, 'sexy' and totally unrealistic female characters, I just prefer more grounded and legitimate characters in fighting games in general.
RégisEstUnCon
Neo Member
Funny how nobody said "Puggsy"
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Looks like an orange uterus.
Looks like an orange uterus.
Yeah, UVIII art style is somehow weird. It's almost the same as UVII, but darker, grittier and just off (the whole game is also bad but that's another story). I also like UVII art style, and the perspective. I really miss games with such perspective (and freedom to interact with the world)
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
User 73706
Banned
The original design for her had a darker shade for her hair, a bigger nose that pointed down and wasn't perfect and more fierce eyes that were slightly too big for her face. She had a touch of wildness to her look that was better and had more character. Your average gamer seems to hate it when women in games don't look like dolls so they changed her look.
Look at these pics:
Edit: Just realized her arms got smaller and less muscular than the original. lol SE.
The final design is very (poor) anime inspired just like the story.
I'm going to guess that it is all Motomu "A rose by any other name would smell like Lightning" Toriama's fault.
I'm struggling to find anything offensive about these. What do you think Don't Starve should look like instead?
Chun-Li's getup isn't particularly functional or suited to martial arts, when you really look at it. Yeah Cammy's high riding leotard is an obvious attempt at sex appeal, but it also happens to be a more practical outfit than Chun-Li's.
Azure Wolf
Banned
I see your point, but I still disagree, Chun Li at least has a traditional kung fu style outfit on and massive spikes on her wrist bands that would be pretty useful. Cammy has a piece of string covering her ass and a hat, it's about as good a fighting outfit as being naked would be.
Although having said that the women's UFC outfits are somewhat minimal too, but if they wore something like Cammy's outfit, things would get X rated in a hurry.
There might even be a market for it.