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[RockTurtle]

What is it with western fighting games and terrible art direction?

i actually thought KI broke that trend BEFORE the new guys took over :/

 

[Tripon]

https://jiyunajp.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/617-tokido-interview/

Jiyuna translated a long interview with Tokido.

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014PCUKJO/?tag=neogaf0e-20 SFV Collectors edition is now $48.

 

[Sayad]

There's 12k watching SFV's dream hack stream during dead time after casuals and talking about how the game is dying in the stream chat, someone call Gunslinger!

Edit: https://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters MOV on stream now
Aaand sent to loser by a Geif player, lmao!

 

[Professor Beef]

What is it with western fighting games and terrible art direction?

As if Japanese games are a bastion of design brilliance lmao

 

[Tripon]

As if Japanese games are a bastion of design brilliance lmao

I'll take Tekken's character designed bullshit over the bullshit NRS or Iron Galaxy's bullshit any day of the week.

 

[Horseress]

There's 12k watching SFV's dream hack stream during dead time after casuals and talking about how the game is dying in the stream chat, someone call Gunslinger!

That's always the case

"OMG SFV LOL TRASH GAME DEAD GAME LOL FUCK YOU CAPCOMbut let's watch it because reasons"

 

[CO_Andy]

i actually thought KI broke that trend BEFORE the new guys took over :/

I thought so too. Orchid looks a 1000x better than any female NRS has ever rendered.

 

[notworksafe]

I'll take Tekken's character designed bullshit over the bullshit NRS or Iron Galaxy's bullshit any day of the week.

i like the design in all three of those games. but when most people are just looking at "who has the hottest waifus?" of course the western companies are going to be less impressive.

 

[call_kotaku]

i like the design in all three of those games. but when most people are just looking at "who has the hottest waifus?" of course the western companies are going to be less impressive.

Overwatch waifus are on a different tier than even anime

 

[Perro]

lucky chloe tho. *pukes*

 

[Tripon]

As long as we are talking about character designs.

 

[Nightii]

MK's roster can be comprised entirely of monsters and dudes for all I care, but the way they all get designed each time is such drab for me, just...meh.

KI is not that bad, but then they started adding terribly generic designs from generic as hell looking series.

 

[Dahbomb]

I think KI looks pretty good. Has some pretty cool designs in it.

 

[Pompadour]

Western designs are typically very boring and bland but Japanese designs often veer into aggressively awful territory. I generally like most of Guilty Gear's designs but a lot of the new characters are sheer waifu bait.

I think Japan's crappy economy has effectively forced Japan to design characters to appeal to people who are willing to buy and play games outside mobile games and these people, by and large, are otaku. The fighting games with global appeal tend to have a variety of character designs whereas there's several fighting games that are essentially Japan-only with rosters comprised almost entirely of schoolgirls.

 

[enzo_gt]

Jim Lee Scorpion > KI designs > Tekken designs > Everything NRS > Whatever Tripon just posted

 

[sixteen-bit]

 

[That Dude John]

Jim Lee Scorpion > KI designs > Tekken designs > Everything NRS > Whatever Tripon just posted

I find this to be quite accurate.

 

[Sou Da]

Anyone watching Harada v The World?

 

[Line_HTX]

As if Japanese games are a bastion of design brilliance lmao

They are leagues way better than anything NRS does. Tekken 7 FR is a clear case of this.

 

[Holy Order Sol]

lmao

Kyo clones are lit

 

[Line_HTX]

I'll give Killer Instinct some credit. It looks pretty decent, at least.

As much as I find NRS ugly as fuck, they in no way can they ever be worse than Shit No. 9.

 

[QisTopTier]

As if Japanese games are a bastion of design brilliance lmao

When are you releasing fez2

 

[El Sloth]

More [st] Mika gameplay.
Better footage this time as people are starting to learn her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavJxy3V2Pc

loool that character's appearance. I haven't been keeping up with [st] at all so this my first time seeing Mika. That design is so very Japanese. Those halfscreen dropkicks look hilarious. Will give speedy grappler a shot.

 

[QisTopTier]

More [st] Mika gameplay.
Better footage this time as people are starting to learn her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavJxy3V2Pc

Such a shitty character design for multiple reasons

 

[Line_HTX]

Anyone watching Harada v The World?

What is this?

 

[Sayad]

Jim Lee Scorpion > KI designs > Tekken designs > Everything NRS > Whatever Tripon just posted

Not sure if serious:

 

[A Pretty Panda]

Jim Lee Scorpion is an assault on my eyes

 

[QisTopTier]

Jim Lee Scorpion is an assault on my eyes

I blame nrs

 

[Line_HTX]

That one looks OK. I don't see what's wrong with it.

 

[Professor Beef]

They are leagues way better than anything NRS does. Tekken 7 FR is a clear case of this.

BlazBlue is a clear case of proving my point too.

 

[QisTopTier]

BlazBlue is a clear case of proving my point too.

Except it's not

 

[Dahbomb]

Nah man BB has some legit god awful character designs.

 

[QisTopTier]

Nah man BB has some legit god awful character designs.

Has more good than bad. The biggest thing is they are based on tropes what you migh hate another likes was an aspect of the characters

The only meh ones imo are mu-12, ragna, and mak needs her jacket

Half a character design in a fighter is how they attack/animate as well

 

[Dahbomb]

The trope excuse is bad and only BB apologists bring it up to defend the god awful character designs. Same excuse as when Lucky Chloe is brought up.

Sure not all of them are bad but there are enough bad ones in there to put off a lot of people.

Not everyone likes the anime aesthetic just like not everyone likes the NRS aesthetic.

 

[QisTopTier]

The trope excuse is bad and only BB apologists bring it up to defend the god awful character designs. Same excuse as when Lucky Chloe is brought up.

Sure not all of them are bad but there are enough bad ones in there to put off a lot of people.

List them

Not everyone likes the anime aesthetic just like not everyone likes the NRS aesthetic.

That's a slightly different subject

 

[Dahbomb]

Kokonoe, Es, all the Nus, Inazami, Makoto, Amane, Bullet, Lambda whatever the hell, Platinum, Tsubaki, Ragna, Rachel, Noel, Izayoil etc.

Garbage over designed anime characters. And I say this as someone who enjoys some anime.

 

[QisTopTier]

Kokonoe, Es, all the Nus, Inazami, Makoto, Amane, Bullet, Lambda whatever the hell, Platinum, Tsubaki, Ragna, Rachel, Noel, Izayoil etc.

Garbage over designed anime characters. And I say this as someone who enjoys some anime.

lol at koko, rachel, amane, izayoi nu and even plat

 

[ShadowSoldier89]

lol at koko, rachel, amane, izayoi nu and even plat

he just listed as many female characters as he could and added amane


its cool though, blazblue has snarky muscular men for him

 

[Dahbomb]

Posting that Kokonoe image only shows how bad that design is. Like generic animu waifu bait mixed with cat/glasses fetish.

You can put her in a random low level anime these days and she wouldn't be out of place.

Though mind you the game play design of these characters are excellent but of course that's not what we are talking about here.

 

[Gunslinger]

There's 12k watching SFV's dream hack stream during dead time after casuals and talking about how the game is dying in the stream chat, someone call Gunslinger!

Edit: https://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters MOV on stream now
Aaand sent to loser by a Geif player, lmao!

Believe it or not I criticize SF because I am probably a bigger fan than you guys are. So it saddens me to see capcom failing to deliver. While I am a mega fanboy I am not a blind followed either. When a product under deliver I call it out. Also SFV could have been bigger than sfiv when it comes to brining in more causal players into the franchise. But well we all saw how that turned out.... Maybe for sfvi capcom will take their time and release a finished product.

 

[QisTopTier]

Posting that Kokonoe image only shows how bad that design is. Like generic animu waifu bait mixed with cat/glasses fetish.

You can put her in a random low level anime these days and she wouldn't be out of place.

Except her design is almost 7 years old

.

Though mind you the game play design of these characters are excellent but of course that's not what we are talking about here.

That's half a character

 

[Dahbomb]

Except her design is almost 7 years old

Then she'll fit right into low level anime released 7 years ago.

 

[QisTopTier]

Then she'll fit right into low level anime released 7 years ago.

Holy shit you are ignorant /ignore

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I think Blazblue was supposed to be like a parody, thats why so many of their character designs are awful.

 

[Line_HTX]

Kokonoe is why Jubei should not be allowed to be playable. Also, too many fucking cats already.

DeKappa

 

[Dahbomb]

Holy shit you are ignorant /ignore

Resorting to name calling because I went in on your sacred cow. Classy.

 

[ShadowSoldier89]

Resorting to name calling because I went in on your sacred cow. Classy.

your attempts to insult the game have no basis whatsoever though

"generic low tier anime" has no definition and nothing to draw comparison to. So bravo

 

[Line_HTX]

At least insult based on tactics or setups or punishing.

Come on, you're better than that, One Punch Dahbomb.

 

[mbpm1]

Platinum is fine

 

[Lemstar]

sniff