That game's art is intentionally ridiculous. I don't think people are taking it the right way, and people are sure as hell paraphrasing the artists statements to Kotaku's Jason Schreier (a writer I like, but who I think missed the mark on this). I also think the writer came off sounding dumb, but I don't think this is something you need to boycott the game over.
That said: The art syle being intentionally ridiculous doesn't make it any less crazy, and that might make you not want to buy it.
i thought he was being sarcastic about the iconic part
not really
I think it’s fair to say that if it weren’t for the words “Dragon’s Crown” etched at the bottom, many people wouldn’t understand that they were looking at language. Imagine the same refracting prism applied to people, and actually you don’t have to imagine it, because that’s literally the whole game.
The only characters here who aren’t fucking mutants are the Elf and the Wizard, who are there to calibrate the player; everybody else is some fun-house exponent of strength or beauty stretched into some haunted sigil. Iconic isn’t even the word - they don’t evoke icons, they are icons. They’re humans as primal symbols.
It’s very weird to pull up a story about a game with frankly visionary art and hear why it shouldn’t exist, or to hear what I supposedly fantasize about, or what kind of power I supposedly revere, and any attempt to defend oneself from these psychotic projections or to assert that creators may create is evidence of a dark seed sprouting in the heart. It’s an incredible state of affairs. They’re not censors, though - oh, no no. You’ll understand it eventually; what you need to do is censor yourself.
he means they're distorted and exaggerated to the point of not being representational, they're more symbols of the character class than any attempt to realistically depict a person
mind you, that still leaves you with the problem that the depiction of "wizard" is just "a big pair of tits"
Yeah, again, I'm not saying it's "good" or "right" I just think there's more too it than "lol i love swole tits".
True, there's also "you must be gay if you don't."
I don't even know if that's what the artist intended with his statement to Jason. It sure SEEMS that way, but the man has already apologized. Everyone makes stupid statements. Hell, his might even have been a poorly translated one.
Mutant, crazy cat-ladies whisking the digested meals she's fed to captives, out of festering fistulas splitting their collar-bones, with a damn fast muscular tongue... ain't got nothing on this.
Mutant crazy cat ladies whisking the digested meals she's fed to captives out of festering fistulas splitting their collar-bones with a damn fast muscular tongue ain't got nothing on this.
Eh, you see horrifying things and it's just shocking for a moment 'til you get used to it. I'm freaked by what that dude dreams about. I mean, if that's his ideal beauty and is willing to throw that into a high-profile project, well, he's gotta have some nasty spiders crawling out of his shoulder-blades.
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Eh, you see horrifying things and it's just shocking for a moment 'til you get used to it. I'm freaked by what that dude dreams about. I mean, if that's his ideal beauty and is willing to throw that into a high-profile project, well, he's gotta have some nasty spiders crawling out of his shoulder-blades.
It probably isn't. Maybe I'm just giving them waaaay too much credit but when I see those forms I'm reminded of this:
I don't think the work here is meant to titillate. At all.
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That game's art is intentionally ridiculous. I don't think people are taking it the right way, and people are sure as hell paraphrasing the artists statements to Kotaku's Jason Schreier (a writer I like, but who I think missed the mark on this). I also think the writer came off sounding dumb, but I don't think this is something you need to boycott the game over.
That said: The art syle being intentionally ridiculous doesn't make it any less crazy, and that might make you not want to buy it.
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
This doesn't look very ridiculous
not really
he means they're distorted and exaggerated to the point of not being representational, they're more symbols of the character class than any attempt to realistically depict a person
mind you, that still leaves you with the problem that the depiction of "wizard" is just "a big pair of tits"
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
Those guys are wearing animal skulls to guard their loins. Are w-we sure there isn't a connection somewhere???
True, there's also "you must be gay if you don't."
I don't even know if that's what the artist intended with his statement to Jason. It sure SEEMS that way, but the man has already apologized. Everyone makes stupid statements. Hell, his might even have been a poorly translated one.
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
I was happier then.
http://www.powernapcomic.com
You're right, it doesn't.
Now what about this, which is what people are actually complaining about.
See?
It even freaks Kro out.
The guy who routinely has dreams of writhing flesh-monsters from the horror dimension.
Shit, his brain is fried.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Making a skull motorboat her breasts
Holding her magic staff between her butt cheeks
Tragically broken arm
look she just wants to give this skeleton a hug while showing off her gigantic spilling-out-of-my-corset tits
I give all kinds of corpses hugs while showing off my gigantic spilling-out-of-my-corset tits
Not even for Vanillaware, whose previous characters include a skeleton with giant rude tits
The sorceress is whorifying.
It probably isn't. Maybe I'm just giving them waaaay too much credit but when I see those forms I'm reminded of this:
I don't think the work here is meant to titillate. At all.
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
My post was in response to this
I know the character design is pretty terrible, don't rake me over the coals for thinking otherwise
that is absolutely fucking terrible and ridiculous
http://www.powernapcomic.com
and I'm usually the one that likes weird distorted bullshit
She is wearing pants though, so constant panty shots are going to be difficult to pull off, but I'm sure they'll manage.