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worst designed characters, the thread.

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I win
 
BioFan said:
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cool looking game but hate the character design. :(

Inafune said they wanted the main character of Dead Rising to be the anti-thesis of RE4's designs.

Instead of that gothic, glorified hollywood look (also very prominent in the DMC series) they wanted a down to earth average joe, that would in some instances be considered ugly.

I mean, Capcom is known for creating over "sexified" characters that pop off the screen, but in this case its kind of obvious that they designed him ugly on purpose.

And I agree, this game looks sick. Glad to see hardware being used for gameplay purposes and not just making games more shiny via Unreal Engine. As in, having 1,000+zombies on screen is kind of interesting.
 
One name....

Imari Stevenson or some of you might remember by as www.VeonPrismvp.com.

Not to hate on him.... :lol :lol :lol But his work really ranked up there in worst degisned characters as well as horrible art in 2d/3d.

While I remember his art was bad it did have a redeeming quality, the guy really dreams of being in the industry. He took his website down, www.veonprismvp.com but I remember a thread about horrible art where his "work" was posted left and right. His "works" have been called everything from horrible to straight up abortions. :lol

Poor guy.

Now he's been keeping busy with drawling Disney cartoons with big boobs as well as other cartoons with big boobs.


Here is some of his other 2d work that might remind people of his other works as well as his older 2d and 3d works. Certainly an improvement.

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marsomega said:
One name....

Imari Stevenson or some of you might remember by as www.VeonPrismvp.com.

Not to hate on him.... :lol :lol :lol But his work really ranked up there in worst degisned characters as well as horrible art in 2d/3d.

While I remember his art was bad it did have a redeeming quality, the guy really dreams of being in the industry. He took his website down, www.veonprismvp.com but I remember a thread about horrible art where his "work" was posted left and right. His "works" have been called everything from horrible to straight up abortions. :lol

Poor guy.

Now he's been keeping busy with drawling Disney cartoons with big boobs as well as other cartoons with big boobs.


Here is some of his other 2d work that might remind people of his other works as well as his older 2d and 3d works. Certainly an improvement.

desirea1.jpg

desirea.jpg

passion.jpg

enya.jpg

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES AND WHY THE HELL DID YOU THINK WE NEEDED TO SEE IT.

MY EYES ARE BLEEDING.
 
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Dude, you accidentally posted these charismatic and basically well-designed charecters in the WRONG THREAD.


I don't know fuckin' shit about these two, but the mere fact that one of them has an SD version renders them superior to everything else in here. And god knows I am not anime fan.
 
jett said:
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES AND WHY THE HELL DID YOU THINK WE NEEDED TO SEE IT.

MY EYES ARE BLEEDING.


This is his game art....Just be lucky you didn't have to see his 3D game art and concepts as well as his "how my game would look like on XBOX" screen shots...He started this company where his products were game scenarios and arts which would be sold to game devs to do all the programming...Be lucky he took down www.veonprismvp.com and hope to god none of the images featured on that website survived somewhere...

:)
 
Red Scarlet said:
I'd pick either Crash, Bubsy, Master Chief, or especially...

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I think this fucker's worse.
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A fricken indian? I mean come ON, it's so generic and both Super Street Fighter 2 and Killer Instinct did it, and you're telling me you're doing it AGAIN! COME ON!
 
Don't see a pic there, but I'm guessing you mean Nightwolf? His design was bad, but Stryker still takes the cake for MK, for me (never really played MK4 or after, if they got any worse designwise).
 
Yeah it's him. Can't believe they brought him back for Deception. I know they wanted to bring back the cheesiness of MK3, but not the suck!

And yeah MK4's had some stinkers, especially the main badguy Shinnok. Never EVER have your final boss choosable as a standard character. So anticlimatic. And the design of Kai is generic, although better than fricken Striker.
 
Almost all of the new MK characters in MK4 and up have been horrible. Quan Chi is really the only one that stood out and has become a major player.

Shinnok has a pretty good backstory and is well built up as the big new villain but he looks so lame with that little pope hat. It's pretty weak that he's a normally playable character in MK4 but what really ruins him is that the CPU never does his special impersonations when controlling him. So basically the final boss of the game has nothing but the regular MK normal attacks. I've never understood why he uses other people's moves anyway. There's no story explination for it and he has his own powers in MK Mythologies. They probably ran out of time.

I really hate Tanya. Boring design, it's stupid how every non-human girl in MK has to wear one of those swim suit outfits. She wasn't even originally a new character.
 
Atropos from Chrono Trigger

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I mean, come on, she was just Robo's sprite with a pink template and a green bow. :lol

Amy Rose from Sonic the Hedgehog

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Another stereotypical example of a girl character by making her pink. I hated the dress more though. XD
 
marsomega said:
One name....

Imari Stevenson or some of you might remember by as www.VeonPrismvp.com.

Not to hate on him.... :lol :lol :lol But his work really ranked up there in worst degisned characters as well as horrible art in 2d/3d.

While I remember his art was bad it did have a redeeming quality, the guy really dreams of being in the industry. He took his website down, www.veonprismvp.com but I remember a thread about horrible art where his "work" was posted left and right. His "works" have been called everything from horrible to straight up abortions. :lol

Poor guy.

Now he's been keeping busy with drawling Disney cartoons with big boobs as well as other cartoons with big boobs.


Here is some of his other 2d work that might remind people of his other works as well as his older 2d and 3d works. Certainly an improvement.

desirea1.jpg

desirea.jpg

passion.jpg

enya.jpg


WTF!


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"Hey there sexy!" OMG look at the picture name.
 
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Joanna Dark - from Perfect Dark Zero. A perfectly fine character ruined by bad design in the sequel.

Also any non-Sonic "good-guy" character from Sonic Adventure.
 
Waychel said:
Another stereotypical example of a girl character by making her pink. I hated the dress more though. XD

I hated that they made Sonic blue just because's he's male! Such a stereotype!

Seriously - I know what you're trying to say but it kind of does make sense being that the characters in the series are strangely coloured anyway.


My vote goes to

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To Naughty Dogs' defense, they designed Way of the Warrior (which is rather crappy but has some fun designs), not that game Kasumi Ninja (with the farting Scotsman).
 
Customizable characters are kinda iffy on the subject of bad character design, too. Some of the blame has to go to the player for not saying no to drugs.
 
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