Do you mind if important game characters look different from game to game?

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Drake looks the same to me? He just looks more detailed and older in 4.
Part 3 and 4 always looked completly different to me. Sure he's getting older, but it's like playing someone who only looks somewhat similar.
 
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As long as there's a resemblance, differences in detail is not the same.
Frank actually looks the same in that picture other than his advanced receding hairline.
 
As long as there's a resemblance, differences in detail is not the same.
Frank actually looks the same in that picture other than his advanced receding hairline.
Edited the op with better comparison. He is now like 20 years older.
 
Edited the op with better comparison. He is now like 20 years older.
2 is very similar, 3 is a different person
1 looks like a younger version.
They got the noise and everything else right.
But yeah he looks older then DR1
DR2 just looks more detailed and like I said, more advanced receding.
Lara is pretty consistent up until Rise of the Tomb Raider.
The original 2013 one they made her look a little Chinese in game, the Definitive Edition was better( yes I know people think the original is better but it wasn't)
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Seriously, the 2013 Lara was better camp was smoking something.
 
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Doesn't bother me- as long as its an evolution or atleast the idea of it (age, etc.). Close enough is good enough for me.
Now when we make some radical changes overall- say Devil May Cry & Dante- i begin to have issues.
 
Doesn't bother me- as long as its an evolution or atleast the idea of it (age, etc.). Close enough is good enough for me.
Now when we make some radical changes overall- say Devil May Cry & Dante- i begin to have issues.
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his transition is perfect, watcha mean
 
You probably won't get much of a reaction on character changes unless someone alters a digital panty line. That's usually the bridge too far around these parts.
 
It bugs me when they intentionally de-beautify female characters. It's mild annoyance rather than major upset. It's more the agenda and mindset behind the de-beautification that bothers me, rather than the changes themselves. Otherwise, though, changes don't generally bother me.
 
As long as the new look is just as good or better then the one that came before it, I have zero issue with it.

The only time where a change to a character look genuinely bothered me, was Vanessa from Virtua Fighter.
Not only for the obvious reason (Black woman to bleached up "black" woman). Is just an inferior look overall (for me)

She is nowhere near as muscular, is like they were trying to make her look like a model.

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If the point was to try to make her more conventionally attractive, that's fine. It's just not for me, at all.

I way prefer "cool/badass" over "hot" any day of the week. And you obviously can be both. But again, they didn't execute that well for me, at all.

Also, don't get me started on them stripping her of her Muay Thai and Vale Tudo Stances, and just going with Vale Tudo.
I understand why it was done, it just unfortunate.

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I'm fine with all dante looks (cept donte)
It gives me the show of aging process, little bit of immersive. But radical changes is not my cup of tea. Unless it changes because of graphic. "Modern" style changes, such as DEI changes is not welcomed by me though. I remember Borderlands tannis, in 1 & 2 is quite cute, but i dont buy 3 because she is uglier tho...

Its also reminds me to FFXVI, aging process ain one game also cool tho
 
As long as character writings, and their actions are coherent - I don't mind if the character "grows" with time or gets better detailed with graphical enhancements.

But many times, the characters do have very little personality to themselves, so I understand the intention - to attract someone with new visual. When it comes to that - it comes down to almost coin toss for me.
 
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Don't really like when characters look too different, maybe the original actress wasn't available but it's still weird, like a character being recast halfway through a show, always jarring.
 
Depends, I don't like that they inserted Leon into Tomb Raider. He's better in killing Zs than raiding Tombs.
 
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Max Payne looks different in every game but still somehow feels like the same character, maybe because the voice acting is the same.
 
Not in the fucking slightest. Literally the last thing I care about in games. I wish people were as loud about stale game design as they were freaking hair color.
 
Ubisoft was really good about keeping Sam Fisher's look consistent.
Technology improved and his outfits were different, but his face was always recognizably the same.

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And then came this abomination:

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Face was wrong. Voice was a nightmare.
Still a good game, but that ain't Sam Fisher.
 
None of the examples in the OP bother me.

I did not like going from Metroid Prime 1/2/3/Hunters to Metroid Prime Federation Force though. Not only does the 'chibi' style look awful, it also removes any kind of serious tone.
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Controversial opinion I kinda like when this shit happens. Especially, if it's the ones displayed in the op or the previous mentioned Xenosaga and Splinter Cell examples. I feel if you show the differences and still keep the design consistent then it's dope to me. It really showcases the eras that the character are going through.
 
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Yeah it's super annoying. That being said, to me Drake looks exactly the same in every Uncharted game.

For me it's more like.. For example I hate how Link looks in every Zelda game after A Link to the Past 😅 to me it never felt like the real Link anymore after that.
 
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As long as the change makes sense and it's not about making female characters uglier, then I'm okay with it.
 
I don't find the character differences here all that big of a deal. Xenosaga is a bad one for me.

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This was always a standout example because it always had the same feeling as a different production studio taking over a new season for a popular anime.

I just don't understand the need to Tom Holland'ed the face of PS4's Spider-Man game.
It was never about Tom Holland. Search an image of Peter Parker voice actor's face and you'll understand why they changed his facial structure to look like a 20-something Yuri Lowenthal, for easier facial capture.
 
Look a bit different? No. At least as they resemble each features through out the games. People can age you know, they can apply that to video game characters.

They change voice actors - its an issue. I'm still salty about Outsider Dishonored 1 to 2 change. Billy Lush had this eeire-magical Outsider vibe. And was in CGI reveal trailer of D2. Robyn Lord Taylor is a good actor don't get me wrong. But has a totally different Outsider vibe- dark I guess vibe? He lost his charm, flow, mannerism, vocabulary. And that didn't exactly click with me. Weird change mid-development since reveal trailer had Billy VA.
 
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No I don't mind. Especially in the case of the Mario games. It's helped to define his look.


Street fighter is another series where characters change but still have a resemblance to the designs before.
 
It was never about Tom Holland. Search an image of Peter Parker voice actor's face and you'll understand why they changed his facial structure to look like a 20-something Yuri Lowenthal, for easier facial capture.

Whatever the reason is, the change is still bothering me especially when it made me think Peter Parker looks few years younger like he's still in high school.


One the other hand, in The Last of Us, Tess is made few years older to the point of close to being a grandmother.


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2 is very similar, 3 is a different person
1 looks like a younger version.
They got the noise and everything else right.
But yeah he looks older then DR1
DR2 just looks more detailed and like I said, more advanced receding.
Lara is pretty consistent up until Rise of the Tomb Raider.
The original 2013 one they made her look a little Chinese in game, the Definitive Edition was better( yes I know people think the original is better but it wasn't)
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Seriously, the 2013 Lara was better camp was smoking something.
Hmm interesting I didn't know that she looked different again in the definitive edition.
 
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Doesn't stop me playing the game if it's good, but i don't like what they have done to Lara Croft over time, and changed her look nearly completely, and the reason's behind the change as well, but it won't stop me playing a good game though as i've said.
 
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