Sometimes the heels can be justified, like when the character actively uses them in combat like Bayonetta or Raiden.
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Video game art/designs that just upset you.
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AcademicSaucer
Member
or ZZS in the new smash
As a person who lkes those designs, and a person who LOVES customization in games. How can a game have TOO MUCH customization. Its not like its needed to enjoy the experience.
Do you not like chibi art styles?
typical bad JRPG design.
People do (or used to) wear clothes like this so I really don't see the problem.
What I don't like when people post Etrian Odyssey in these kind of threads/post they only show the same images. There's more to the game than lolis
Anywho my vote has to go for black characters in Dragon Quest.
I'm tired of seeing the stereotypical huge red (sideway) oval lips.
For some reason it gets on my nerves.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
My man, and yes those designs are awesome.
And you have no issues with Oro, Necro, Q and Urien?
I think "impractical" clothing is also excused in any setting where the characters are supposed to be superhumanly competent. If I can swing a slab of metal twice the size of me around my head like a twig/run up walls like a spider/etc. then I'll wear whatever I want because it has no meaningful impact on my competence
Black Door
Banned
Yes, because the dancer is not the only character design in the game
Roland1979
Junior Member
Heavy on the bloom, lens flares, motion blur. And a general lack of colors. Even in horror games i prefer it to have plenty of color, just avoid basic colors if you have to, but not bleak please.
Sentenza
Member
The only justification it needs is the Rule of Cool.
Polioliolio
Member
that hair..... also, what the fuck is that thing in his left hand? Is it a sword or a metal paddle?
What's worse is that character is supposed to be THIS character ->
People do forget how much Japan Sci-Fi and West Sci-Fi cross breed when it comes to the highest level of the media.
Funchameleon
Banned
its like foot binding and gib me a bon0r
Funchameleon
Banned
Me too. Nothing gross or anything. IU just relaly like the design of teh cihld in the ridiculously revealing swimsuit. i love the way they sexualize her chil-d-like hips. Ftw. I'm a 25 year old male
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
We love the Dancer and we're both 25 years old, awesome.
Tidus, FFX, is one of the worst offenders, I can't fathom how Square could put in such an INCREDIBLY bland and boring character in the game. Ruins it for me, really, the Meg Ryan comments don't help either (once seen can't be unseen).
Kitana's second costume in MK9. Tries too hard to be sexy, but fails spetacularly with those disturbing lips. Give me Mileena's mouth, it disturbs me less than this PoS:
In fact, I don't really like MK9's art style at all. Look at this Sonya render, her mouth is laughable and it feels like a failed attempt at CG looking realistic.
Kitana's second costume in MK9. Tries too hard to be sexy, but fails spetacularly with those disturbing lips. Give me Mileena's mouth, it disturbs me less than this PoS:
In fact, I don't really like MK9's art style at all. Look at this Sonya render, her mouth is laughable and it feels like a failed attempt at CG looking realistic.
Yikes, the anime/chibi/jrpg art style hate is real.
Recently I haven't been able to get in to realistic designs in games. A shit load of AAA games are doing their best to wow us with how real they can get. Everything begins to look the same, or samey.
I'll take chibi/anime/jrpg art styles over realism any day.
Recently I haven't been able to get in to realistic designs in games. A shit load of AAA games are doing their best to wow us with how real they can get. Everything begins to look the same, or samey.
I'll take chibi/anime/jrpg art styles over realism any day.
YesManKablam
Member
I've grown to deal with this, but I still don't like it
what
No thank you.
What?
Hugo from Street Fighter.
WHAT?
All y'all need some Castlevania Judgement before you go running your mouths.
*Barf*
Don't like those old 90's western CG rendered characters (see: any random PC game boxart from the mid 90's) or those WOW-style characters with the huge chunky boxy armor with spikes everywhere. Also hate the generic grey rubble bloom-filtered post apocalyptic worlds so common last gen.
gotta go with halo 4. They made human and forerunner everything look the same. Humans lost most of that boxy industrial look and forerunner lost all of their religious, grandeur and relic like appearance and just became "angular" blobs with tron lights. Then they put it in everywhere and it just ended up boring and generic by the end. The thing that made forerunner architecture interesting in the first halos is that they were scarce, having just enough so that you never get fatigued by it.
the halo 4 enemy designs are some of the worst enemy designs I've ever seen in games. They look like they belong in metroid and do nothing for the halo sandbox. The whole point of every new enemy addition in halo had been to introduce new gameplay elements to the game, but in halo 4 they just re-made the halo 3 evolved flood in the form of those dogs, then put in more elites but made them teleport around randomly and made their weak-spots impossible to see/hit.
I like the armor in halo 4, but it's just messy at times, and they needed the red edit marker and really say "where does this fit in the halo context", i think reach hit a nice balance while halo 4 armor went too extreme with it.
Also the JRPG stuff, its just silly, and yet it takes itself to seriously in that regard. It just looks like a train-wreck, like that girl who wears waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much makeup but thinks it makes her look pretty.
the halo 4 enemy designs are some of the worst enemy designs I've ever seen in games. They look like they belong in metroid and do nothing for the halo sandbox. The whole point of every new enemy addition in halo had been to introduce new gameplay elements to the game, but in halo 4 they just re-made the halo 3 evolved flood in the form of those dogs, then put in more elites but made them teleport around randomly and made their weak-spots impossible to see/hit.
I like the armor in halo 4, but it's just messy at times, and they needed the red edit marker and really say "where does this fit in the halo context", i think reach hit a nice balance while halo 4 armor went too extreme with it.
Also the JRPG stuff, its just silly, and yet it takes itself to seriously in that regard. It just looks like a train-wreck, like that girl who wears waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much makeup but thinks it makes her look pretty.
Rinaldimanc
Banned
I fucking hate this thread fuck
Almost everyone even in GAF hates jrpg designs/cel-shaded looks ugh fuck.
Almost everyone even in GAF hates jrpg designs/cel-shaded looks ugh fuck.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
To be fair, if you take off the nostalgia goggles, Spyro was always an ugly, cutest-common-denominator character design. If it weren't for the history he has with gamers, his original design would blend in with current smart-phone games and nobody would notice.
typical bad JRPG design.
This is actually a great design, it just makes people uncomfortable.
GoldandBlue
Member
The high heel shoes just get worst and worst.
Gormless Noodle
Member
There's always gonna be haters for everything though. There's a shit-ton of people here that love it as well as there are people that hate it. Mankind, what can I say.
ryanofcall
Member
except Coraline was an amazing Movie (I don't know aboud Crush3D though xD)
Rodolink
Member
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb...6/20131223191754!FFXIII_enemy_Silver_Lobo.png
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb...e/7/72/20140221153432!FFXIII_enemy_Yaksha.png
http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/crying-waterfalls.gif
and for a long time i didnt like War's design it had just too massive arms (now I think it's awesome)
http://brainstomping.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/darksiders-madureira.jpg
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb...e/7/72/20140221153432!FFXIII_enemy_Yaksha.png
http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/crying-waterfalls.gif
and for a long time i didnt like War's design it had just too massive arms (now I think it's awesome)
http://brainstomping.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/darksiders-madureira.jpg
Rinaldimanc
Banned
"Cool space armour"
:lol :lol :lol
For reference. What it looked like before 343i got their tainted hands on it:
it'd be a great design if she weren't wearing assless chaps one would expect during some strange gay pride - belly dancing - carnival hybrid event. (there's really no reason to expose the inner thighs)
I love JRPGs, but over the past few years there has definitely been a lot of ugly looking ones (see my post in this thread). There are still some with great art styles though.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Love DC Comics but I could not get behind the character design and art style in Injustice.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
That ankle funnel guy is seriously the absolute worst. Holy shit, I'm at a loss of words at how overdesigned that crap is.
This stuff is obviously also beyond garbage. Worse though, this one in particular reminds me of that anime Suisei no Gargantia which I felt pretty meh about overall anyways but I couldn't believe how blatant the fucking fan service in there was.
The main female character (and her friends for that matter) even did some ridiculous belly dancing in one episode and damn, the whole art style is so... urgh. This kind of red glow on their shoulders and checks which is like some kind of perma-rouge. Even if I felt like the anime executed well on the kind of story it tried to tell (which had some very serious and somewhat interesting ideas) I couldn't take it seriously when you constantly get huge tits or half-naked characters shoved in your face and they even do 1-2 fanservice episodes right in the middle. Just what the fuck.
Seriously, search for the belly dancing scene and tell me that's not just creepy considering they're like 15 or sth, belly dancing for an audience consisting to a large degree of grown up men.
This stuff is obviously also beyond garbage. Worse though, this one in particular reminds me of that anime Suisei no Gargantia which I felt pretty meh about overall anyways but I couldn't believe how blatant the fucking fan service in there was.
The main female character (and her friends for that matter) even did some ridiculous belly dancing in one episode and damn, the whole art style is so... urgh. This kind of red glow on their shoulders and checks which is like some kind of perma-rouge. Even if I felt like the anime executed well on the kind of story it tried to tell (which had some very serious and somewhat interesting ideas) I couldn't take it seriously when you constantly get huge tits or half-naked characters shoved in your face and they even do 1-2 fanservice episodes right in the middle. Just what the fuck.
Seriously, search for the belly dancing scene and tell me that's not just creepy considering they're like 15 or sth, belly dancing for an audience consisting to a large degree of grown up men.
Cpt Conifer
Member
Tidus, FFX, is one of the worst offenders, I can't fathom how Square could put in such an INCREDIBLY bland and boring character in the game. Ruins it for me, really, the Meg Ryan comments don't help either (once seen can't be unseen).
This. I thought it was cool that they made him a pro athlete but there's too much other shit, between the character design and the direction they chose for his dub...
Chaps are assless by definition and design, do you even chaps bro?
To be fair, some kind of belly dance dresses are suppose to be like this.
There's also some one live in Iran think this is bad and should be prohibited.
And this is the result.
CortexVortex
Banned
Putty Squad
Bubsy
And, of course:
Perhaps the worst character design I've seen in a Final Fantasy game.
Bubsy
And, of course:
Perhaps the worst character design I've seen in a Final Fantasy game.
The image you posted caused a panic attack in me.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Ok, seriously, wtf is up with this Chico thing.
Cause I haven't played Ground Zero's, and I would really like it to not be a spoiler, but everyone and their mums scream this shit whenever Quiet is shown.
I can't see Vaan has the worst Final Fantasy character design, especially when we have freaking Nooj:Putty Squad
And, of course:
Perhaps the worst character design I've seen in a Final Fantasy game.
God, that is the most embarrassing design I've ever seen in a video game.
Poofynamanama
Banned
Exploratory
Banned
JRPGs: The thread
Also this
As I get older I can bare Kojima less and less. This shit is ridiculous.
bobawesome
Member
Everything gets shit on to some degree on GAF.
I can't see Vaan has the worst Final Fantasy character design, especially when we have freaking Nooj:
God, that is the most embarrassing design I've ever seen in a video game.
Let's not forget Seymour.
Jesus Christ, lol.