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Video game art/designs that just upset you.
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Rinaldimanc
Banned
Oh my gosh I hate you so much
That's panty and stocking jerk!
That's panty and stocking jerk!
So fantasy art has to have a real life analogue now? And someone has already mentioned that there are some belly dancing attires like this.
Good thing they don't use swords, and are backline support. But hey, realism right? Damned if a character design doesn't strictly follow medieval codes of armor and dress.
No particular design, in the history of visual art, is strictly necessary.
Why does Soma wear some kind of giant coat? Why the fur? Why jeans? He needs to run around fighting vampires and undead. Shouldn't he pack some kind of kevlar?
Here's why: Because it looks cool. It's there to appeal, to sell, not to be some sort of commentary on what vampire fighting gear should look like.
I don't even know what this means. You do realize that there are no character models in EO right? All you see of the "characters" is their portrait.
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Seems okay. You're kind of throwing an entire dance culture under the bus with this kind of statement.
It took me two guesses to get the game, but it's from Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (at first I thought Magical Starsign).
Er, that Persona picture is by Soejima, not the Etrian Odyssey guy.
His art is much more precise then the Etrian Odyssey artist.
Furries and anthropomorphic animals are not the same thing. Disney's Robin Hood (the one with the Foxes and things) is not considered "Furry" despite being humanoid in shape.
revolverjgw
Member
This kind of crap, I really hate cluttered animu boxarts with 20 clones with different flavors of hair.
It's a pretty low res image, this one was posted above and it's much better.
Here's a higher res one.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Here's a higher res one.
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Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Any kind of bikini/skimpy "armour"
Anything with boobplate
Any kind of sexualized underage girl
Any kind of boobs-and-butt pose
Modern/non-classic Sonic (only Genesis-era design is real) and Knuckles
Zero Suit Samus with her high heels
I'm not a fan of the generic angry space marines or anything but I wouldn't say it "upsets" me. I just find it kind of boring. The above list, though, does genuinely irritate the shit out of me.
Anything with boobplate
Any kind of sexualized underage girl
Any kind of boobs-and-butt pose
Modern/non-classic Sonic (only Genesis-era design is real) and Knuckles
Zero Suit Samus with her high heels
I'm not a fan of the generic angry space marines or anything but I wouldn't say it "upsets" me. I just find it kind of boring. The above list, though, does genuinely irritate the shit out of me.
People complaining about the Dancer of EO4? Better they don't see Shilleka from Etrian Odyssey 1/Untold.
Oh this. This so much. Hated it and will always dislike it.
Oh this. This so much. Hated it and will always dislike it.
Let's not forget Seymour.
Jesus Christ, lol.
He always bugged me because his red bottom shirt made him look like he had a massive beer gut in game.
ThunderReign
Neo Member
Every JRPG getup ever.
It's either one of 3 things that bother me:
1. Chibi art design
2. Little kids that wearing rather revealing crap (Creepy as hell too)
3. Pineapple hair shit like this:
(granted, this is not a bad design, but I just can't stand it)
This is where you're wrong.
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.
Hate this design. It's like they wanted to make a character so that 8 year olds wouldn't worry they're playing a childish game.
I really like this design, except his hair/horns/pant roots are a little bit too much
Do people seriously find this kind of boob physics sexy? It's gross. Looks like they're gonna fall off any minute.
I'd really dig the designs themselves if they were not sexualized this much.
the way to my heart.
Basketball
Member
Butter heads
So edgy so different
Dmc
Dead Rising 3
Watchdogs
and cel shading is garbage
So edgy so different
and cel shading is garbage
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment bastardizes Western art and a Japanese IP.
great answer, it made the game so hard to like.
It's still a pretty solid sjrpg.
but I miss this
RockTurtle
Member
yes, theres a whole subreddit dedicated to it
I'm curious on that too. It's really a big turn off from the game (and I said the exact same thing a page ago so no, you're not the only one).
I mean the elf isn't bad, hell, the serving girl it's still obnoxious that they're making sure to make the boob physics that important but at least she isn't gross. As you said, those boobs on the sorcerer look like they are going to pop off and it is really gross.
I think though in general the art style is very exaggerated in that game. Not really a fan of the over exaggeration, especially when it comes to the "boobs".
it's ok to say you don't like it, but to say something subjective as tastes "is bad" is a slippery slope.
I'm curious on that too. It's really a big turn off from the game (and I said the exact same thing a page ago so no, you're not the only one
). I mean the elf isn't bad, hell, the serving girl it's still obnoxious that they're making sure to make the boob physics that important but at least she isn't gross. As you said, those boobs on the sorcerer look like they are going to pop off and it is really gross.
I think though in general the art style is very exaggerated in that game. Not really a fan of the over exaggeration, especially when it comes to the "boobs".
yes, theres a whole subreddit dedicated to it
I firmly believe this is not the audience Kamitani was trying to capture, if for no other reason than that Kamitani is an old Japanese man and probably doesn't use Reddit.
He was just having some silly fun with the designs.
RockTurtle
Member
i dont mean a subreddit for dragons crown, i mean a subreddit for the kind of boobs you see in the game but in real life. i was responding to the idea that the poster cant believe someone would like it (which there are), even though we know subjectively the game is not going for a specific fetish audience, but a gross exageration of anatomy as its art direction.
it's just the typical route when DC gets posted of "OMG, forget all those other exagerated bodyparts, only BOOBS offend me"
I know.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
wat
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.
In the future we close up our jackets with band-aids
My vote goes to this though -
eugh
BibiMaghoo
Member
It doesn't upset me, but I'm not comfortable with it. I think either Kojima's justification for doing this is going to explode in his face in a bad way once the game is out, or it's just going to blow up in a bad way once the game is out.
He has a justification for it it is claimed, so I will wait and see what that is, but...
Controversy ahoy.
I'm curious on that too. It's really a big turn off from the game (and I said the exact same thing a page ago so no, you're not the only one
I mean the elf isn't bad, hell, the serving girl it's still obnoxious that they're making sure to make the boob physics that important but at least she isn't gross. As you said, those boobs on the sorcerer look like they are going to pop off and it is really gross.
I think though in general the art style is very exaggerated in that game. Not really a fan of the over exaggeration, especially when it comes to the "boobs".
It's kind of sad for me really. The artstyle is pretty great and a display of actual talent IMO (I'd love the Sorcerer design if she had proportional breasts), and I'd probably be interested in this game, but whenever I come across gifs like these I'm like "eh, not my kind of party".
I don't really have a problem with exaggeration as such, I think it can lead to a game looking much better than the average "realistic" stuff. I generally believe that an artist is free to do whatever they want and they're free to draw boobs as big as they please; it's up to the audience to decide whether they like it or not.
Hyperactivity
Banned
The World Ends With You is a pretty great exception I'm planning to get soonLast gen's JRPGs had some really generic medieval designs that had no cohesion at all. Each shot is from a different game.
All of these characters look so interchangeable. There's no sense of connection between their art style. If I showed you characters from FFIV, FFVI, and FFVII you can easily see that each game has its own unique design even though they are from the same gaming series.
Bayonetta is a a good example of bad design imo. Her design in Bayonetta 2 is actually a lot better in my opinion, hair looked really really weird to me
Which is a problem I have with a bunch of characters. There's a certain limit Im fine with or like, such as the average spiky-haired male protagonist or something similar, but the characters with odds strands of hair that had to have a mountain of gel ad gravity defying powers really bother me
Quite a few FF characters fit this description.
Additionally, the generic marines bother me a bunch as well.
GloriousBagel
Banned
T-that's a boy?
Data Elemental
Member
I fully agree with you there. Luckily, it's rare to see that kind of style on games that are actually worthwhile, so it's an indicator of what can be safely ignored. Still, sometimes I wonder where that style came from and how it came to be so popular among certain types of devs.
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Hyperactivity
Banned
I just realized, it took until PAGE 7 to get t Morta Kombat and Netherealm female characters
And some of you are generalizing jrpgs too much. Not the ones posting bad jrpg art, because it definitely exists, but stuff like this
doesn't give credit to good jrpg designs/art styles, like TWEWY's
which I find fantastic
And some of you are generalizing jrpgs too much. Not the ones posting bad jrpg art, because it definitely exists, but stuff like this
Every JRPG getup ever.
It's either one of 3 things that bother me:
1. Chibi art design
2. Little kids that wearing rather revealing crap (Creepy as hell too)
3. Pineapple hair shit like this:
(granted, this is not a bad design, but I just can't stand it)
doesn't give credit to good jrpg designs/art styles, like TWEWY's
which I find fantastic
Data Elemental
Member
That doesn't really explain it. What I meant was more along the lines of: Is this kind of art style even attractive to anybody? Is that just super cheap to produce? Did something that used that art style accidentally became popular and everybody has imitated it since then to recapture that "glory"? If that is the case, did that even have anything to do with the art? etc.
Edit: Well. I suppose it does answer the "where" part. Just not in as much detail as I would like.
Captain Europe
Member
Hate these designs.
rokkerkory
Member
Judging from many posts in this thread, no wonder Japanese games aren't doing too well in the west?
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I'm always surprised about the hate towards Japanese games, it makes me wonder because what others see when they see those designs, I've always been into anime and Japanese games so I really enjoy what Japan has to offer.
Apparently it is. I think you'll find that most people (non-gamers particular) don't really give two flips about art style and as long as it doesn't look offputting they might give it a shot. It's just part of the ecosystem in appstores and Facebook. If you walked into Best Buy you'll see a shelf of photorealism box art covers, because this is the kind of packaging that appeals to the kind of people who go to Best Buy for their games.
This is another part of it. When you're an indie developer, you can't afford to spend thousands of man hours on 5000 polygon models. If you're deploying to mobile/web platforms, you want to hit the widest audience possible which means very cheap (in terms of resource consumption), simplistic graphics.
I usually don't mind most art styles, but I absolutely loathe the style of Borderlands. So much so that I can't bring myself to play it. I guess it's because they were originally trying to make it more realistic but then opted out for the cartoony look, though the realistic look was much better.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
I fucking love the toon shader / cel-shaded look.
Why is people convinced that Dragon's Crown is serious? Imo everything is exaggerate on purpose to become a joke, like Bayonetta.
And honestly i don't think that the resemblance with Fujiko Mine is casual
WickedLaharl
Member
douche chills