Post some godawful video game character designs

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I want you to look at both characters very, very carefully and think about why they aren't designed that way. Take your time.
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This has literally never stopped Japan
With all respects to ZUN, their art style kinda sucks ass and is a placeholder until fanartists get ahold of it and make the 'commonly agreed upon' designs.
 

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I want you to look at both characters very, very carefully and think about why they aren't designed that way. Take your time.
I know full well that they're teenagers. I only chose them as an example of the series's general aesthetic because they're in every game. There are plenty of other characters who look both older and younger than they do, and none of them are showing off enough bare skin to count immediately as 'sexualized' either.

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If you want to see more examples, go find them yourself. And I already said some of them look younger than Reimu and Marisa do, so don't bother showing me any of them to make whatever point you think you're making.
 

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It's a dude in street clothes. That's it. They protag'd a generic background npc. At least Watch Dog dude had an 'iconic' cap.
At least Cole has electric powers and personality be, it good or evil path. I give you someone even more generic.




These are characters you would find in a fake video game from a movie or TV show. It's not the worst, but not much stands out either. Looks like they were borrowing design elements from Ben 10.




Once again, big ass earrings you should not be wearing in a street brawl.
 
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Did I ever say how much I hated Master Chief's design from Halo 4-5? And by extension the whole family of GEN2 Mjolnir armour.

I'm not going to claim the original chief design was the best shit ever, but blaaah.


Infinite was a much better return to form but too bad the game on a whole is a dumpster fire.


And they just added some Crysis Nanosuit shit to Infinite that's the GEN2 but taken to 11. Therefore worse. Ew.
 
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Skylanders Spyro. They turned him into some weird pug-nosed gremlin
Speaking of 3D PS1 Platformers in HD: the Crash Bandicoot games from 7th generation. They tried way too hard on "modernizing" the characters. Seriously, what the fuck am I looking at here? Especially Mind Over Mutant.

 

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Tons of Mortal Kombat characters, but special mention goes to

Dude in a mocap suit

Racist discount Kano

Discount black Lui Kang

Discount Ken Masters
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Another discount Kano ... but with a vest!

Discount Kabal
 

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Tons of Mortal Kombat characters, but special mention goes to

Dude in a mocap suit

Racist discount Kano

Discount black Lui Kang

Discount Ken Masters
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Another discount Kano ... but with a vest!

Discount Kabal
I feel like the "We have mortal Kombat at home" applies to all of these.
 

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Urban Reign did this so much better. Makes me miss Spikeout and Fighting Force.



Generic Brad Pitt rip-off from 2006.

 
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