My friend is about to make a huge mistake...

My friend is about to make a huge mistake. He's a part of a game studio and they're working on some game that's like a Souls type game, and from the bit I tried of the barebones alpha it's actually good. Unlike Souls games, the gameplay is actually smooth, fast, and fluid and not a slow clunky mess, so that part is great so far. The problem is the artstyle. Their team was deliberating what artstyle to use, and they all ended up deciding to make it "anime style" which is something my friend said he suggested to the team and they loved it. Problem is:

-the game is a very dark themed game, like a mix of cyberpunk and fantasy, anime doesn't fit that kind of setting and theme AT ALL
-its a 3d game, and every 3d game that used anime style art instead of realism looks like ass(DBZ Xenoverse, that JoJo fighter/brawler, those Naruto games, Berserk Musou, etc). They all just end up looking generic as fuck like this moe shit stuff does and none of the characters ever look believable or interesting.

I've been trying to convince him to get the team to scrap that and do a realism style, but he won't budge, he's dead set on doing anime. This is gonna seriously ruin this game so bad, and I really don't want an "I told you so moment" with my friend. Any ideas on how to steer them away from anime shit and see the beauty and benefits of realism?

Pic related, they said they wanted to do an artstyle similar to this or JoJo or something.

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I don't see the problem there.
Got a link to the game studio or the project?

Well an anime art style already guarantees 99% of the people won't have any interest on it. Fuck your friend.

Exactly, glad someone sees that. They're fools for not doing realism. Even some shitty overwatch pixar style would be better received than anime.

if it's oldschool anime it sounds fine

Ok, you told him your OPINION, and he disagreed. That's all you can do and all you should do.
I think the style you're thinking of is 'cell shaded,' which is not the same as 'anime'. I'd consider anime style more like a Final Fantasy game, and they go steampunk all the time and do it decently.
Either way, stop pushing your faggy ass opinions on hard working people when you're just a nobody faggot that makes shitty threads on Sup Forums.

Anime style is shit when westerners do it, cringy as fuck. Go for more unique style

omg when will the jojo meme die

You're a faggot. If it's truly a good game, literally nobody will give a fuck what graphical style it uses. Just look at the Undertale faggots for proof of that, not that I consider that a good game in any way.

This. League of Legends is western anime, and that stuff looks like absolute garbage.

Undertale isn't anime, that's like some quirky western toon style. Anime is too polarizing to use as an art style.

Cel shaded is fucking awful though, look how awful xenoverse and jojo looks:
youtu.be/_BK9lXikGN0?t=352

anime and 3d don't mix

Anime is good.

I will never fucking understand what westerners see in this absolutely fucking stupid and tasteless art style of adding spikes on top of more spikes. Shit like WoW or Lords of the Fallen for example, with their huge oversized stupid hands, feet and clunky spiky pieces of armor. WHO the fuck sees that trash and goes "yeah, this is in good taste", seriously?

Honeypop is western anime and good though

youtube.com/watch?v=4tROktDdFbI

Oh but little girls running around in miniskirts is fine though

Both of these look fine and would fit the game they want to make if they have the talent to do so. Your friend made a good decision by not listening to your dumb, pleb ass.

Who implied otherwise you mouthbreather? Both are bottom of the barrel tier trash. Ironically enough, girls with skimpy outfits is also a cliche of this stupid generic WoW-like western garbage.

>a mix of cyberpunk and fantasy, anime doesn't fit that kind of setting
full

fucking

retard

Now you may say this particular style of anime doesn't fit the setting, but flat out saying anime doesn't fit invalidates your entire posting.

>-its a 3d game, and every 3d game that used anime style art instead of realism looks like ass(DBZ Xenoverse, that JoJo fighter/brawler, those Naruto games, Berserk Musou, etc). They all just end up looking generic as fuck like this moe shit stuff does and none of the characters ever look believable or interesting.
FURI

ggnore

>WHO the fuck sees that trash and goes "yeah, this is in good taste", seriously?
Lords of the Fallen is so heavily inspired by Warhammer it might as well be. Warhammer is widely known for its huge amounts of cheese.

>they wanted to do an artstyle similar to this
Vampire Hunter D style is solid choice but
>or JoJo
pic related
These two things are completely different, one being dark fantasy with vamps and another being western pop culture wannabe.

How the fuck does anime fit that, their game is supposed to be a more serious setting, not some joke slice of life shit or some show about martial artists that can nuke planets and shit.

Tell him, from the mouth of a consumer, that I wouldn't dead buy anime styled shit, even if it played good.

Tell em that if they want commercial success, they need to make it either their own style, a more sober kind of deal, or something alongside these lines, but anime would both the away customers who would buy an enjoy it, alongside generally not fitting the game they want to make.

realism is just as bad as anime though, they should come up with something unique

your knowledge of anime is so limited its literally making me cringe

> trying to steal madhouse's thunder

good fucking luck

vampire hunter d blood lust is a fucking masterpiece of animation

A fast paced JoJo Souls game?
All of my money!

it's also incredibly popular, so goes completely against OP's argument

>game where i can teleport behind you and unsheath katana

would buy

Blade & Soul

>What is Ghost in the Shell

Also DMC4:SE, it's literally Vergil's playstyle

Only if it had pvp

>teleports behind enemy player
>unsheathes katana
>enemy player is already behind you unsheathing his katana
>"tch, you're fast"
>die

I dunno, seems like Vampire Hunter D or Texnohlyze would be perfect fits desu

N-NANI!?

But that's western anime, japanese style anime is a fail, which is what op's friend and his studio wants to do

>tfw no cute vampire gf to hunt at night with
Why even (un)live

>-the game is a very dark themed game, like a mix of cyberpunk and fantasy, anime doesn't fit that kind of setting and theme AT ALL
you are an idiot, also watch more anime
>they said they wanted to do an artstyle similar to this or JoJo
he's also a retard and gay

>Anime souls
Your friend is a fucking genious

that's why anime sucks, all it's about is cute girls being cute bullshit

i'm talking about reality here, not your imagined delusion where anime is a serious art form

>and every 3d game that used anime style art instead of realism looks like ass
There is an exception though. Guilty Gear Xrd. However, it's a 2D fighter made in 3D, it wouldn't work in an actually 3D game like a so called "souls-like".

This also. Look at Sudeki and X Blades.

That's Vampire Hunter D dipshit. Its practically oozing with cyberpunk and fantasy. It's practically only second to Kojima in terms of good-looking vampires.
youtube.com/watch?v=IVcMbDqg5qk

Is SUPERIOR ANIME-BASED ARTSTYLE the new limb-based combat meme?

Is this the same autist who kept asking about fantasy vs cyberpunk and kept complaining about muh rainy rooftops with evil corporation men watching fights or something

Why is he called Vampire D but never gives any of the girls he saves the D.

They should call him Vampire G for GAYBOI!

You idiots this OP always makes threads like these but it's fresh pasta every time. Learn to recognize it.

>all it's about is cute girls being cute bullshit
That's not true, at all.

There are legitimately fantastic, no bullshit series about cute girls.

An anime styled souls game would probably draw alot more attention then yet another gritty realistic take on the concept that'd be outdone by the original.
There's a reason why nobody really gave a shit about Lords of the Fallen, or whatever the fuck that game was.
So you should probably shut the fuck up and just let your friend make his game, he probably knows more about making games then some cuck on Sup Forums

E.Y.E. let's you teleport into the enemy behind another enemy and backstab them with a katana

I get the impression this is exactly that, and the same guy.

user Flip Flappers is a breakthrough anime about two girls discovering they can love other girls.

Papika a local rapist grooms innocent Cocona, She likes to play with her butthole when she sleeps

And tells you "Bullshit! Ultra-failed attack." after the enemy explodes into guts everywhere.

>Unlike Souls games, the gameplay is actually smooth, fast, and fluid and not a slow clunky mess, so that part is great so far.

sage

Kojima never created any vampire characters

But their game is supposed to be really dark and gritty, so they may as well use realism style, anime is gonna fuck it up and make it seem goofy instead of serious

>A mix of cyberpunk and fantasy
>Anime doesn't fit that kind of setting and theme at all

Do they have any unique mechanics? Or is it just a souls game with different animations?

What's the setting?

Do they have any concept art of the enemies/characters?

You should explain to your friend's team what you just explained to us, but be respectful, and respect their decision if they remain adamant about the fecal anime artstyle

If the characters aren't cute/oversexualized underage girls then there's no point making it anime.
If he is smart he would make Madoka or Dark Souls.

Undertale has that old MS-DOS graphics style, which is a lot more appealing than some anime shit.

Im sorry OP.
But I already didnt read past anime.
When I think about anime graphics, immidiately blurry ass screen, japanese porn, 32x32 texture.jpg, janky animations, giganto eyes, Unity engine, huge ass black outlines to hide aliasing, comes to my mind.

Souls is clunky as shit, this is fact
Bloodborne is the only Souls game with somewhat more fluid gameplay.

So theyre making a Bloodlust into a game? Next thing youll tell me, is the mc is dhampir.

realism is also 100 times harder to make you fucking idiot, you dipshit have no idea about game making and what work they are doing

This. Anime pretty much IS about cute and underaged girls, why would you make a game anime style if it won't have that shit in it? Hell, Berserk is the most sickdark anime ever made, and even that added underaged girls later.

He is talking about Ayami Kojima, you fucking pleb.

Realism is worth the effort though, the game is gonna be better received if it is. The second people even get a whiff of anime style in there, it's gonna turn them off. I figure this studio wants their game to actually be a success, not some shit that ends up in some steam weekend anime sale.

>if it's harder, it aint worth doing, fuck effort

anime, ladies and gentlemen
no wonder the vast majority of anime has no shading or details

Gotta love dragon

anime is fucking trash

>unironically wanting another dark edgy "realistic" garbage like Bloodborne

I still can't believe people still respond to this thread en masse.
How retarded/new can you be?

Why exactly are you on Sup Forums?

Why is that a problem? What matters is the colors used if anything. Anime has done horror, sci-fi and cyberpunk plenty of times before.

can't find anything in the archive

You can dislike anime and still post here

you can but you shouldn't

>-its a 3d game, and every 3d game that used anime style art instead of realism looks like ass

Are you serious? plenty of 3d anime games look good

>Undertale isn't anime, that's like some quirky western toon style. Anime is too polarizing to use as an art style.
Missed my point entirely. Hopefully your friend not only doesn't listen to your dumb ass, but stops talking to you entirely. You're a legitimate retard with no clue about anything.

Name 3.

>I can have a prejudiced distaste for the entire subset of visual media that the site was founded to discuss and still post on that website
r/Sup Forums is not an accurate representation of what this site is for, I'm sorry if you've been deceived.

Though one thing can be agreed on. They are westeners so a 3D anime style game will probably look like utter shit.

Well at least you put in something new even though its just memes XDDD
3/10, needs more originality

this faggot has been posting here for like 4 years. If you reply to him you are underage, new, retarded or all three. Hide and move on.

Go back to gamefaqs if you don't like anime, you're not gonna find any sympathy here, faggot

How is it prejudiced when it's based on facts? Anime is generally a trash medium and anime art is pretty inferior to most western art styles. It's for people who can't draw realism.

>Unlike Souls games, the gameplay is actually smooth, fast, and fluid and not a slow clunky mess, so that part is great so far.
Did we even play the same games?

Fable.

Yea, really. Everyone forgets that.
You can even multistrike like in all your animus.

>Wind Waker
>Gravity Rush
>El Shaddai
>Jet Set Radio
>Guilty Gear XRD
>XIII
>Sly Cooper
>Naruto
>Anything Telltale
>Team Fortress 2
>Killer is Dead

To name a few

He's talking about cel-shaded, not anime. The fucktard has no idea what he's talking about.
Cel-shaded i.e. tf2, borderlands etc

You had my support till you showed you were either a troll or an idiot.
>all it's about is cute girls being cute bullshit
Tsk tsk tsk. I don't even like anime and I know that's bs.

I played souls games, they have bad controls and it feels clunky and awkward as fuck

>anime ruins yet another thing

why not just do another style that isnt used as much anymore? or make up your own?????

>It's for people who can't draw realism.
In order to draw something as stylized as eastern art that you find in mangas and animes you need to be able to understand how real life stuff works
Now if you're talking about some specific cases where you KNOW the artist is incompetent then I don't know. But don't assume things you don't know

All those games look awful though, have you fucking seen jet set radio or killer is dead? shit looks like trash, had they tried realism style those games would have been way better.

good combat =/= fluid combat or not clunky controls

now you are making it WAY TOO obvious you are trolling

You have to be at least 18 to post here, user
Just kidding, adults can have no taste, too

>anime artstyle will turn people away
>anime is popular as fuck everyone
explain
also the art in the op doesn't even look like moe to me, although i do not know of this anime

>everyone
meant to say everywhere

>anime is popular as fuck everyone
it's not you faggot not even in Japan