Post some godawful video game character designs

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
A cloaca doesn't meaning forgoing developing a sense of social modesty.
I feel like someone really needs to make a furry porn thread so we can have an in-depth discussion about anatomy.

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The Zelda series, with its ecclectic shifts between artstyles, produced some pretty... unique character and creature designs. The N64 ones conveyed the more exaggerated designs pretty well, on account of its low polygon artstyle, which is why characters like this guy



or this one

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come off as exaggerated and cartoony, but not really as jarring. Wind Waker of course went for a super cartoony artstyle, that was pretty controversial at the time, because people were understandably worried that from that point on every Zelda game would look like that, but was, by all means, pretty easy on the eyes. Wind Waker is still a very good looking game, honestly.

And then things got weird. I like Twilight Princess a lot. Between it and Wind Waker I couldn't really tell you which one I overall prefer. But there were quite a few cases where it's very obvious that character designs didn't translate well between concept art and actual ingame model. Not even talking about Midna, whose weirdly sexualised design and body language is a can of worms all on its own, but I'm talking about characters like the postman:

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or Maro



or this dude



and... like, you can tell what these designs are going for, but god do they look hideous in the actual game. It was kind of a schizophrenic period for the series which very much carried over into Skyward Sword, which, aside from being kind of a shit game in general, gave us some pretty outrageous character designs all on its own. Like, come on. This guy?



That's not a Zelda boss. That's a supporting character from Monster Inc.

Or the fortune teller



and while we're at it, this sure is... a design for the first phase of a final boss.




Honestly. What the hell was up with that game? Like, how did any of it ever happen?


And on an unrelated note, let's not forget that one of the first generation Pokemon designs was literally just "kind of offensive cartoon of a black woman"



And no, you're never gonna convince me that this is not what that design was going for.
Demise would be fine without the limbs at least.
 

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It's not terrible, but otoh this is also just taking a couple people and making them look a little bit like lizards....except still having distinctly mammalian(breasts, belly buttons, presumably a human like vagina since she's wearing a loincloth to conceal it) characteristics that appeal to scalies/furries....which is also wierd when she's holding a child.

Basically a step or two away from the sexy XCOM vipers, though those are very explicitly meant to get the snake fans excited. Venom Sacs....that just happen to be D cups....sure buddy.
Yeah, that's part of my problem with it. It reminds me of that Tali pic from Mass Effect 3, but worse because you can obviously see the creator's fetishes being displayed.

Oh, speaking of, how about Tali (without suit) from Mass Effect 3:

 
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Yeah, that's part of my problem with it. It reminds me of that Tali pic from Mass Effect 3, but worse because you can obviously see the creator's fetishes being displayed.

Oh, speaking of, how about Tali (without suit) from Mass Effect 3:

Which was one of the many things changed in the Legendary edition.

 
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Whatever, just wash your hands.
Which was one of the many things changed in the Legendary edition.
And still superlame. Better just to not know what the quarians looked like then just human with weird hands and feet.
 
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Which was one of the many things changed in the Legendary edition.

Even the previous one posted wasn't the first one, initially they fucked up her hand and she had two finger right next to each others (going against the in game model)
 
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If I did then I don't remember them. If you have them bookmarked can you link them?
I don't have it bookmarked, but I can find it with a search.

Ok, you didn't make this one, but you pretty quickly commandeered it for posting snake porn:
 
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Whatever, just wash your hands.
I don’t think it’s lame. Basic perhaps. I’d have liked this one:
That one would be better, still don't like the Star Trek alien look (human with a weird forehead) but its better then just human with tribal tats.
 
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I don't have it bookmarked, but I can find it with a search.

Ok, you didn't make this one, but you pretty quickly commandeered it for posting snake porn:
Oh yeah, that thread... wait, you consider that porn? How long have you been on the internet?
 

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Oh yeah, that thread... wait, you consider that porn? How long have you been on the internet?
Well it's about as porny as you can get away with on the Escapist. If the intention is clearly that someone is to be getting one off while looking at it, it's porn, whether it shows genitals or not. Ecchi is still considered porn after all.