Do you prefer character designs to be more realistic? As much as I hate excessive belts, plastic swords and unnecessary ornaments I think at the very least they take advantage of the fantasy medium. Sure, realistic down to earth designs are less cringe, but at that point why even play a JRPG in the first place? There's also the problem that most 3D games can't replicate the anime shading and expressions very well.
JRPG Aesthetics
Sebastian Murphy
Jaxson Wright
Let me show you why you're a fucking retard OP.
Here's a good, clean, simple design. Pleasing to look at and believable.
Joshua Thomas
Now lets look at a character created for RETARDS
Eli Johnson
If you want realistic walk the fuck outside faggot. It's a video game not real life
Hunter Richardson
I like his design. It has grown on me, especially since it always gets paraded as a negative example for jrpg designs. It also helps that his game was pretty fun.
Daniel Wilson
Who is this thot?
Ian Sanchez
chicken
Charles Powell
I just don't understand. It must be actively more difficult to create a character like this, especially if you ever need to draw them or make significant changes to certain attributes during a story.
Benjamin Green
Peak JRPG aesthetic would be mainline Dragon Quest designs.
Another good example were Kanekos designs for the Megami Tensei series.
Also pre nomura Final Fantasies were good.
Tyler Russell
Which of these girls have a black boyfriend?
Angel Powell
Bad artists uses complexity to cover up their lack of design principle
Not saying that complex design = always bad, but you know one when you see one most of the time
Andrew Murphy
you
Jayden Morgan
Not OP, but I don't want realistic, I want grounded.
I fucking hate shit like this and it really put me off tactics after the first, which had really great designs.
Joseph Wood
Overly generic elf archer type design. Should've picked a more creative example of a simple but pleasing design.
Jack Anderson
That's clean and simple and believable yes but that's kinda generic don't you think?
The first image that came to my mind when I think of "anime elf archer" is literally just more or less that pic
Robert Taylor
I can explicitly remember how every design from the game looks because they are all very distinct. It's a great design.
All the rest of them are too. I can even remember the men
Another good design for anime elf.
Hunter Sanders
pretty much EVERYTHING nipon elf comes back to her. Deedlit started the elves fever.
Xavier Garcia
God I love this artist.
John Garcia
>armpit peek
Isaiah Sullivan
>difficult
It's actively more difficult to make a 3 cylinder Geo Metro go 90mph uphill in first gear. Difficult doesn't mean 'better'.
Beyond that how difficult would it be to listen to a 10 year old spout off about some donut steal OP tier character design?
>his huge sword is chained together and he has elbow shields!
>Give him like 3 belts and suspenders!
>a torn up tartan covered in trophies like a uh.... uh lady bug and 4 leaf clover and magical book
What do you want for colors?
>Red blue yellow green brown bronze silver black
Brody Williams
Source on the artist?
Wyatt Baker
Pretty much every American mech until Pacific Rim.
Jace Ross
I wouldn't say I prefer them to be "realistic" but the absurdly complex JRPG designs are a turn off.
Robert Young
Think you mean after Pacific rim.
Juan Hill
I LOVE POKEMON CUTE AND FUNNY
John Price
The word you're looking for is ITT
it's "grounded"
Evan Hughes
I can remember what Gispy Danger looks like. A Transformer is just a mess of cables.
Camden Price
I'm not really into realism, but elegance is important. Too many accessories would make the character look gaudy as fuck.
Oliver Russell
Simple, but iconic character design.
Ryder White
I don't mind a little over the top but shit like , Lulu (FFX), and this cross the line
Dylan Brooks
>iconic
Literally Son Goku with a katana.
Noah Scott
I always forget about Transformers and I agree they're trash. I've just always found Western Mechs/mecha to be much more distinct in their identity.
>Aliens 1986
>Star Wars 1980
>Wild Wild West's Steampunk Spider in the 90's
Meanwhile there's a lot of overlap in design from the east in that I couldn't discern a Zone of Enders from a Gundam
Charles James
What is this variant of Goku called?
Andrew Hernandez
At least he's got a sidearm for his greatsword.
Christopher Taylor
>Do you prefer character designs to be more realistic?
No, real life is boring
Carson Allen
If this looks like a Gundam to you it's not the designs fault, you are just blind.
Nathaniel Taylor
Michael Lopez
>Do you prefer character designs to be more realistic? As much as I hate excessive belts, plastic swords and unnecessary ornaments I think at the very least they take advantage of the fantasy medium
I'm fine with either, as long as the designer did something he/she enjoyed making rather than appealing to masses.
Evan Martinez
I don't like playing spot the main character and winning. Sobered designs are the best unless everyone in your world is aesthetic and outrageous
Juan Rogers
when I was a kid I thought Epyon was the coolest looking character of all time
Nathan Price
It doesn't have to be realistic. But please, not beltsnzippers unless your character is a '90s mall goth.
Mason Hill
People who aren't in to giant robot often say all robots look like Gundams. I've had someone tell me that Mazinger Z looks like a Gundam.
Ayden Collins
it's funny how none of (You) retards who keep spamming that image even know it's context. It's not the character's actual design you absolute brainlets, pic related is, and it's a perfectly fine, minimalistic design.
The pic you posted is literally just a 'what if' compilation if the character acquired overthetop shit from the game.
Eli Campbell
also the so called "pizzacutter" he is holdin there particularly is a Judge Sword, it's supposed to look like some crystal-executioner weapon, and it's something you can't even acquire in the game, it's just legendary shit, there is just artworks of the characters holding it
I hate how FFTA is constantly used as the biggest "why jrpgs have shit designs" by retards who just shitpost with out of context shit. This game has perfectly solid art direction
Tyler Nelson
>pic related as is, is minimalistic
No it's not.
Brody Lopez
did somebody say pizza cutter
brrr haha
Nathaniel Hall
Chang's Law
Nathaniel Miller
Jace Nelson
user doesn't understand because implementing everything about that design must be more difficult even though it's shittier than a simpler one
Christian Lopez
Female MC from Pokemon Sun and Moon
Charles Allen
Brandon Jones
Artists have talent but most of the time don't know what to do with their power, it's a shame. So much potential lost for an unfunny gag.
Eli Hernandez
What potential? To see her raped by a duck?
Noah Phillips
WotL tried to subdue it and it stick looks tacky.
Owen Wood
Fantasy weapon and clothing for a fantasy world. Why are NPCs incapable of suspending their disbelief?
Brayden Myers
You don't want to see her be raped by a duck?
Landon Sanders
Because to them everything has to be realistic or it's shit
Ethan Johnson
people who werent raised on shonen anime sometimes cant immediately accept a character pulling out an overly large sword and taking out a whole group with overly stylized hits depicted as too fast to react to. Its a specific flavor of fiction that not everyone has been predisposed to get into
Tyler Foster
But these same people have no problems with stuff like capeshit and Transformers, or just a random white or black dude beating a whole room of armed thugs with just karate.
Samuel Hernandez
I prefer max coom designs
Jeremiah Evans
Such as?
Landon Watson
1. Yes.
2. Cause it might be good at other elements.
Noah Phillips
That's just a schoolgirl with a scythe. Bottom tier coom
Colton Stewart
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