Republican Space Rangers!
Homogenous Character Design
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Because they're gonna release a game with a new technology that'll be able to render long hair strand by strand or something, making it look pretty cool. Then everybody would be like: OMG look (eyecandy everywhere!) my hair is blowing in the wind! or OMG my hair is on fire! And the games would sell well.
Either that or it's pretty easy to render a bald head.
Either that or it's pretty easy to render a bald head.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I want an action/shooter game where the protagonist is either a) Tim Gunn from Project Runway or b) Mikey Teutel from American Chopper.
Sorry what? Advent Children was a movie that certainly was not rendered on a PS2 or PS3.Ausdoerrt said:
Edit: I am assuming, of course, that you are referring to the movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and not some game called simply Advent Children which I have never heard of.
Meh. Hairstyles have more to do with the time's fashion than anything else. Short hair seems to be the norm in a toughguy kind of character nowadays, that's it.
It used to be short and wavy in the 50's, long hair in the 70's, and ridiculous haircuts in the 80's. There's lots of animated movies and games that come out of Japan with razor sharp spiky hair, other games have characters that sport emo-ish haircuts.
Attributing a decade's 'manliness' canons to developers' supposed laziness is, gently speaking, not a wise thing to do.
And that Mass Effect inclusion makes no sense, you could choose your sex, skin color and hairstyle in the game, nobody forced you to be Bruce Willis.
It used to be short and wavy in the 50's, long hair in the 70's, and ridiculous haircuts in the 80's. There's lots of animated movies and games that come out of Japan with razor sharp spiky hair, other games have characters that sport emo-ish haircuts.
Attributing a decade's 'manliness' canons to developers' supposed laziness is, gently speaking, not a wise thing to do.
And that Mass Effect inclusion makes no sense, you could choose your sex, skin color and hairstyle in the game, nobody forced you to be Bruce Willis.
Kyuu said:
...was rendered completely on a PS3 to show off capabilities before it launched. If you saw any other Square PS3 games, they look similar.
But, I'll have to agree with Wooz, attributing it to laziness may be a stretch, and the topic is getting derailed as fuck.
Never heard of that, and I haven't turned up anything with (an admittedly quick) search. They were rendering scenes from Advent Children in real-time? That's... hard to believe.Ausdoerrt said:
Well... okay. Yeah, bald and grizzled is a popular design for a tough guy. The look fits the intended result. More than a few of those are obviously ludicrous, and most are easily differentiated even with the similarity in baldness. I don't really see the big debate point. Wooz is right, which isn't surprising seeing as how he is the resident art critic/expert.
Kyuu said:
Well, I don't know the details, and I heard about it a while ago, could be complete bullshit for all I know. For sure though, the movie was used quite a lot in the PS3 marketing.
So yeah. But, with all honesty, I wouldn't find it too hard to believe, since, afaik, cutscenes for PS3 games are rendered real-time? May be completely wrong.
Cutscenes in PS3 games are either pre-rendered or no where near good enough to make a DVD movie out of them.
If it was done on PS3 there would of been more than one of them and it wouldn't of been rendered in real time.
If it was done on PS3 there would of been more than one of them and it wouldn't of been rendered in real time.
The big thing is doing everything in engine with the same assets. So you do generally get a mix of real time cutscenes and pre-renders. Real time ones save massive amounts of space while the pre renders allow way more stuff going on.
Shaved head = military = war / badass. Wierd emo hair = masturbation = cut / cry. Making shooters with emo in them makes no sense.
Soviet Travolta
First time out of the vault
monsharen said:
But you can surely tag "military/war/badass" with masturbation too. Could even be a syllogism:
Military badasses are masturbatory.
Masturbation is emo.
Hence, Military badasses are emo.
i think the main reason is that the character designers lack creativity, or are forced by the marketing/publishers/rest of the development to make the characters "cool" or "badass" than actual laziness.
Why cant we have a guy with a long hair and a ponytail brutally murder demons/zombies/nazis/aliens/soldiers ?
Why cant we have a guy with a long hair and a ponytail brutally murder demons/zombies/nazis/aliens/soldiers ?
patriot_41
Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
Patton89 said:
and call it "Steven Segal may cry?"