Fire Emblem Heroes has already been getting some flack for their uninspired character design, and this is a good comparison of the changes made to Rhajat for Heroes. Her original design still has problems, primarily the nylon tech this fantasy country seems to have, but the new version (named Virghat) is just so much worse. From the wiki entry on Rhajat:
…It is revealed that her cold personality is a means to mask her loneliness due to being raised in the Deeprealms by herself.
I’d believe that description, given that this was her sprite in Fates:
She’s hunched over, her eyes are in shadow, and her arms are in front of and around herself protectively. But the Heroes design and posture? All I’m getting from it, is generic poker-faced cute caster.
Oh, and of course, there’s a damage sprite, as mentioned in the comparison image.
Sigh.
-Icy
h/t: thekaizaverse
2goldensnitches submitted (and Ozzie bingo’d):
Loki from Fire Emblem Heroes. I don’t even know how to describe this.
Remember that Fire Emblem costume seemingly designed with random lasso tool movements followed by CTRL + X? Yeah, that’s hers.
Somehow the whole thing is even worse than any individual part of it. And every part is awful. So I figured she might be in a need of a bingo.
Also thanks to other readers who let us know this character’s name.
~Ozzie
From the same publisher as TERA Online, it seems that Kritika Online has decided the best way to celebrate Halloween is to release the most generic bikini armor humanly possible.
What’s worse than the obvious complete lack of any attempt at creativity is that this may literally be a rejected version of a concept on sale in TERA’s own Halloween store specials.
– wincenworks
Warhammer Battle Bikini Brigade (and more)!
@universe63 submitted:
From this article
This was the first image in the rotating slides for the article about Warhammer: Total War. It doesn’t get much better. Later in the article we have these two Dark Elves.
Even his frickin’ FACE is covered, but for her? Armor? NOOOOoooooo. We get… whatever those things are on her boobs that are going to gut her like a fish if she bends over and can’t possibly stay on without glue or piercings. I guess all her armor budget went into that hat.
OTOH, after showcasing the horrible, I wanted to showcase the one good female armor in there:
…but you have to scroll through tons of images (including more bikini armors) before you can find this one. And I can’t tell for sure if it’s a trick of the light or if she actually has a bare middrift because reasons. [sigh]
Personally I think the greatest display of priorities in these designs is this piece of concept art which could almost be “spot the difference” game:
(And in case there is any doubt as to whether this is the artist or the studio/Games Workshop’s decision, I invite you to compare and contrast with the other works in Evgeniya Egorova’s Artstation gallery)
Yeah.
As is so often the case with Warhammer (and many other fantasy settings), there’s so many things to unpack in these: Bikini armor. Evil is sexy, and of course: Nipple armor.
The worst part is that I can’t even bring myself to be surprised.
– wincenworks
With the recent re-release of Final Fantasy 12 it seemed more than appropriate that we celebrate with a Vaan appreciation post.
Think how exciting video game industry could be if instead of modelling protagonist after protagonist off B.J Blazkowicz they started looking to Vaan for inspiration.
– wincenworks
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-Icy
So, as exciting as it is that from time to time, Blizzard makes progress in their newest product: Overwatch – I am still more than a little bit bothered that this is the image of a “hunter” that they put forward on their World of Warcraft site.
The game has been updated that much that people are now trying to run bootleg “original build” servers, and they’ve never gotten some better character art for this class than this.
– wincenworks