Bad Design : The things that went wrong
 

Map Designs, Items, Power Ups, Enemies, Clothing, Effects, Vehicles, animations

The visual part of games. What are the big screw ups you guys know or can think of... i mean, not just in general, but also in expecific to you. Things you saw and said "well, that aint right..."

Let me start right of the bat with this

http://www.pokemondb.co.uk/images/artwork/cloyster.png

Cloyster, From Pokemon.

What? Noone at Nintendo or Game Freaks had the balls to say "Hey, maybe we shouldnt add the Clam that looks like a Vagina surrounded by Penises..."

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20...ia-sotn-01.jpg

Every Castlevania Castle...

Seriously, i still support that the Belmont Clan were in a Fashion Design war against Dracula due to his Crazy Interior design choices... who the fuck goes "and i'll put the first step of this stair... 4 feet above! Genius!"

I was going to say CT needing another disc, but that's not visual and it had and still has beautiful graphics.


So I'm going to say pretty much all of the non-default costumes in Rogue Galaxy. I mean, seriously, a wetsuit, bandanna, and high boots? It looks like something kinky to wear in the bedroom!

Obviously you have never played Dragon quest.

Nope! :D

Also, Brave Story: New Traveler has some of the shittiest designs for the main characters I've ever seen. Starting with dressing the MC in brown. The rules state that the MC has to be the best-defined of the cast, meaning they have to have the snazziest design, or the flashiest colors. He has neither. He just looks like a boring blob. Then you have Generic Cat-Girl in Pink, Goat-Lancer in Blue Armor, Midget with Green Coral Hair in Quilted Purple, and Lizard in a Belly Bowl and Colorless Kilt with Flash of Purple.

They are, by far, somehow the most generic cast overall I have ever seen. It's not even that they don't have work put in. They do. They just all look boring. Most games would take a cast like that and make them crazily unique, at which point I'd be saying how wacky the designs were, but at least they'd be interesting. Mostly, I think that they just don't have a lot going on with their outfits. Literally, the only person of note in the entire thing is the healer, who uses dual swords and actually has more than one color to her outfit (red and black, but it's SOMETHING).

Cloyster= a vagina surrounded by penises????
Seriously?
He looks like a clam....

I think the vagina part is from the double-shell, which I can see. The penises thing is a big stretch, though.

No interactive cutscene events and any scene in the game should be skippable.

To be fair, clams already look a fair bit like vaginas. To the point that clam, like taco or flower, is a euphemism for vagina.

I see.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...Freud_LIFE.jpg

The Freudian field day that is Bellsouth's image association aside I nominate almost every Final Fantasy for having that incredible slow down right near the end that always paralyses me and stops me from finishing it for ages. Every game since at least 7 has had it and it seems to be getting worse.

Fuck, Greed beat me to it.


Anyway here's my entry.

http://pics.livejournal.com/miraigen/pic/00074y36

Why do scientists have to make 15 foot jumps to get to their laboratories and back?

http://pics.livejournal.com/miraigen/pic/0007531q

Hey Rauru, how do you...y'know...um, walk out?