Bad Character Designs in Gaming

Post 'em!

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you mean her redesign?

Why is there such a big controversy over this?

Is it because the new design is more feminine and cute?

You mean her gun, right?

I never liked her character. She annoyed me. I'm told she's really good, but I didn't use her just because fuck her that's why.

>Sort of musketeer-like clothing with some puffy shoulders
Oh okay-
>ADD UNNECESSARY SPIKES TO IT, SLAP ON A BILLOWING CAPE, AND BY THE WAY THERE NEEDS TO BE FANCY PATTERNS BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL

But she's a princess, no, can't a princess be a little pretty?

Real musketeers were fancy folk.

This, it's almost comically bad.

Because this design was fine but they changed her to be more ANIME WAIFUS YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I guess they changed the art because they couldn't get the old artist to work in the game. Strangely enough they got the same dude who did the art for Order of Ecclesia but went with a more generic animu style.

So princesses can't be modest people and have to be superficial, piling unappealing decorations onto what would be standard clothing? Tell me if those kunai-looking belts covered up by her cape serve any other purpose than to weight her down.

Redesign is glorious, she looks great with long hair. Old design was SJW-approved shit.

>seventy two bullets, more than enough to kill anything that moves

What did she look like before? Genuinely curious, it looks like an inoffensive design to me.

>piling
I can feel your rage through the screen, SJW. Her redesign is basically the same outside of having better hair.

>falseflagging this hard
Fuck off.

This is the new one?

The old one was better.

>>ADD UNNECESSARY SPIKES TO IT, SLAP ON A BILLOWING CAPE, AND BY THE WAY THERE NEEDS TO BE FANCY PATTERNS BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL

Are you retarded, user? The spikes and cape are on the original design as well.

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Kill yourselves. Old one was trash.

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This looks terrible. I'm glad this was cancelled.

Nah dude, i'm sorry. The old one is way better. The new one's not terrible, but it just loses the identity of the original.

Shame really.

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Old had short hair, which is practical in battle.
The face of the old design was also more mature and determined, befitting the character.

The new design is just a generic moe princess waifu.

At the very least the old one is less generic than the new one.

Old one was unique. New one is fucking waifubait. Luckily, there's a toggle for both designs.

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did she just lose one of her shoes?

Back in ye olde days kings would wear crowns over their helmets when they went into battle

Royals gotta flaunt their shit no matter what

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A princess can be a modest person, but a musketeer is all about fanciful.

>100 burgerbucks
>for this
thanks valve

Oh please, even real musketeers don't have short hair.

>The new design is just a generic moe princess waifu.
so much buzzword.

There is nothing wrong with this. I hate weeb designs in general, but this is fine and fits the game perfectly. Also there's a gun irl that's very similar to that.

The long hair of the redesign is better but the faces look very plain in the new art.

What game ?

This one looks way worse

This, the redesign is honestly pretty sexist.

This is just cheating

>ADD UNNECESSARY SPIKES TO IT, SLAP ON A BILLOWING CAPE, AND BY THE WAY THERE NEEDS TO BE FANCY PATTERNS BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL
The spikes are a bit overkill, but real musketeers had both the cape and occasionally the fancy patterns too.

What's kind of silly are the puffy shoulders, which for some reason you gave a pass to.

These aren't bad designs

I like it

You know... where is the point where someone chimes in and let's the art directors know that this is shit? How does a company fuck up this badly?

That's actually so stupid that it's fucking awesome. Captures the campy spirit of C&C games perfectly so I fail to see the problem.

>the cat on the front sight

Eeeh, I liked the old one more. Less spiky, and the pose was more dynamic.

Great design.

Generic design. Not bad, but not as interesting.

I have a feeling that OP just hates short haired girls.

Won't be surprised if they only reason they gave her long hair is so she can have an important haircut trope.

>Strangely enough they got the same dude who did the art for Order of Ecclesia but went with a more generic animu style.
This is all kinds of fucked up.

No but that's what I've heard people say they don't like about King in KOFXIV, cuz before she was pretty but still looked boyish, now shes a big titty waifu

It's gearbox. They even manage to fuck up re-releases of games they didn't make.

>implying Skelter Helter isn't the raddest guy of them all after Travis
I can't wait to kill the third brother in NMH3

I see where your coming from but pretty much every JRPG looks like this

If you want designs that actually seem plausible and practical than you're looking in the wrong place

HOW do you even fuck up this hard? This is just unreal, someone with a major in design could probably spend hours just describing all the shit wrong with this one design.

It's like they just started at some random part and kept attaching more shit until they came out with this.

>he needs scary horns, and the horns need piercings-- like ten of them, and then have a giant jutting chin-- and a wedge on his head-- and tribal tattoos down his neck. and give him some misshapen necklace things, and also he's 1/3rd cyborg, and his big cyborg arm has like, electric claws on it, and big flippy doodads all along it, and its held on by anime scales that link to a gigantic belt that looks like a shield glued to his belly, and also he's got LITTLE HOOVES

I really doubt everyone in this thread can make something of equal or greater value of what's posted

Why is that needed to criticize?

touche

See this is the Japs' problem: they can't make characters that are distinct by their actual physical characteristics like facial features or build so they resort to making them look different by piling on more and more accessories

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Just fuck my shit up

That a belt on her hair?

Why did they have to go for the most generic anime look?

The redesign looks better imo, but maybe she should have looked less happy.

She looks pretty good in both imo

It isn't so much a redesign but a redraw that saps away the distinctive qualities of the originals artstyle in favour of something completely generic. It's a real shame. Anyone defending these new designs are probably tasteless weebs.

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I honestly hope that's whats going to happen. Can't fix the generic anime face though.

what is this from? don't remember this shit being in the anime.

It's Castlevania judgement.

Here's Maria Renard

Castlevania Judgement

kek, i legit thought that it was light.

Put a bad taste in my mouth which is a shame because the dungeon was pretty rad.

>It's time for your appointment
>WITH DEATH
>seems you have a root canal scheduled

ow the edge.jpg

I'm pretty sure the thought process was "Deathnote is big right now, therefor if we get the deathnote artist to do designs then this game will surely succeed!"

Somehow a thief/pirate translates into a shinigami.

demise is just as bad as this one. and you have to fight it like 30003004000330 times

Ah yes, Sypha Belnades, a woman taking the guise of a man, who could have guessed their gender

You mean this guy? Because Demise wasn't that bad.

The original was fine

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>if we get the deathnote artist to do designs then this game will surely succeed!"
That still baffles me. SOMEONE must have said the designs looked like shit at some point of the development.

light yagami

misa amane

random shinigami

rem

how original.

I guess the designs themselves aren't bad but they certainly don't remind me of who they were supposed to be.

Eric was no manly man but I don't think he was Ellen Degeneres.

Yes that one, my bad.

b-b-but muh special snowflake artstyle

At least mah boy Jonathan didn't fall victim to Ohbata.

...Does he have three fucking sets of zippers at his crotch?

Isn't there a Ragnarok Online enemy that kind of looked like this

the only thing about the redesigns that bugs me is Stocke has lost a lot of his smug

How DARE you not agree with me!!1
How DARE you not like the inferior coloring and shading of the original!!1
How DARE you not prefer the less detailed linework of the original!!1
How DARE you!??!?!?

About that...

Hol on a second

Is this

an
actual

fucking

JOJO REFERENCE?

0/10

It's Shaman King, duh.

Out of all of the redesigns, hers is the only one that I'd call an improvement.


>ANIME WAIFUS YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

REEEEE-speak for girls who are actually cute and attractive.

Why are you so afraid of women who look youthful, healthy, and curvy rather than looking like men or like they only have half a decade left until the baby factory starts pumping out defective products with mental deficiencies? Have feminists whipped you into submission like a dog?

>cripples in gantz

>arguing with tumblr
Don't.