Comments on: Modern Video Game Character Design Comparison [PIC]

By: david

david — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:23:32 +0000

hes got to upload all the guys in prison break

By: John (not really)

John (not really) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:09 +0000

As others have already remarked, there are at least 2 major flaws with this list:

1) Nearly all of these characters are from military/mercenary-type shooters.
2) Nearly all of these characters are designed in two specific regions of the global video game market (America & Canada / Northern Europe)

What about all of the RPGs like Final Fantasy? What about all the historical and fantasy RTS games, like Age of Empires 3 and Guild Wars, respectively? Professional sports/wrestling games? Cartoon fighters like Super Smash Bros? Neo-2D games like Braid and Trine? Games with customizable protagonists like Fallout 3?

And so on and so on…

By: eddie

eddie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:56:07 +0000

i thought they did something like cluster movement, that all the hair moves in generally the same direction but are controlled by one over-thing…

idk?

By: asdf

asdf — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:10:40 +0000

They’re all bald because it’s near impossible to make realistic-looking hair in video games. Each individual strand would have to move independently or it would just look like crap. It’s just easier to have a bald dude.

By: Thomas Anderson

Thomas Anderson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:59:38 +0000

“For some of them, I would have never noticed they were in completely different games”

Ha ha, it is be-cause they are-not from different games. When you read this and understand, you will be laugh-ing.

By: Keranu

Keranu — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:55:44 +0000

Great article, just another reason why the millenium sucks. Stupid meathead characters.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:22:51 +0000

a big reason for it is how difficult it is to render hair well. hair is one of the most difficult parts or a character model because of how complex it is, so the majority of games just exclude it.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:08:41 +0000

“I hate veterans, I hate black people, I hate women.” – Francis, L4D

Not really, of course… but that’s what I imagine he would say given a few more megs of voice clips.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:06:07 +0000

We should restrict them to 16×16 sprites with a few colors… that’s how you get creativity: pushing the boundaries of what you can do. What’s ridiculous is that the graphics power available today (rendering hair procedurally isn’t as costly as you might think) far outstrips any designer’s ability to achieve. Give me a smaller graphics card, a smaller processor, a smaller unit, a smaller price-tag, and some damn creativity and I’ll be satisfied.

By: siliconavatar

siliconavatar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:45:06 +0000

Wow people going into combat want muscles and short hair.

Wonder why… 9_9

This thing was weak sauce.