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Artwork in modern RPGs, specifically JRPGs has decreased in quality in the last ~20 years to the point where most new games look like they were made using RPG Maker assets. Is it that hard for studios to hire competent artists, or do consumers actually prefer the modern weeby anime style where every character has the same expressionless face?
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- Anonymous
1 week ago
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The entire gaming industry has taken a "less is more" approach after Breath of the Wild popularized minimalist UI and menus.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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>Breath of the Wild popularized minimalist UI and menus.
Nah, that was AssCreed and Skyrim and Apple. Have you been living under a rock for the past two decades?- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Nintendo hom*osexuals have no cultural referents outside of nintendo.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Stop consuming corporate slop if you want soul. Follow and support indies who hand-draw their art.
- Anonymous
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That isn't the remaster art on the right you fricking moron.
- Anonymous
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That art is from Another Eden collab.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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The Fate boss theme from that is really good.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Man, how the hell Mitsuda ended composing music for gacha games?
He deserved so much better.- Anonymous
1 week ago
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That song isn't Mitsuda, but he has done music for the game and is the executive music producer or whatever the title is. The score is handled by Procyon, which is his company made of his proteges. They also did the music for Xenoblade 3. The game is by Masato Kato and is off brand Chrono Break. Probably the most RPGlike gacha but still a gacha.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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You make sound like he hasn't gotten work in years.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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He hasn't done a full soundtrack in quite some time, seems like he passed to torch to Mariam Abounnasr.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
Mitsuda's the composer for Dungeon Meshi
- Anonymous
1 week ago
Dungeon Meshi is a comic book, moron. It doesn't have music.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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For anyone curious as to why OP is lying b***h here's the real remaster vs the original
Kys OP you braindead fricking outrage click monkey- Anonymous
1 week ago
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This still looks worse than the original
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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a lie remains a lie
- Anonymous
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NO MATTER HOW TENDER
HOW EXQUISITE
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Why did they make his hat and socks purple ew.
Red looked better.- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Did they change the in game colors?
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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>took away that tan
Ruined
- Anonymous
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Anyway, if you gays want to argue about hand-drawn vs digital.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Original has way more soul. I would be embarrassed to be seen playing a game that looked like the v2 design
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Haccan's art isn't the same as the original, it's fantastically detailed and charming in its own way. I think it's a good fit for the series.
- Anonymous
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Nah. New Visions of Mana may look good, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t look boring. It does.
- Anonymous
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I always wonder why modern artists are so terrified of contrast
- Anonymous
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That’s a common problem with novices. I guess a lot of “professionals” these days just never move past that stage.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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>The original is a literal photo of the artwork
Gross - Anonymous
1 week ago
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I kind of like both of these. They have different charms
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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The one on the right isn't even from the remaster, it's from Another Eden's Chrono Cross crossover.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Left looks more like an unrefined digital sketch than a hand illustration
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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still makes me mad
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Is the new art even by a hentai artist?
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Urushihara is more than just a hentai artist.
- Anonymous
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Shame, because the mobile art was a pretty descent compromise between original and modern.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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It's not ideal but it's a far better half step. I really don't get how anyone can look at the remake art and think it's even acceptable let alone good. It's so boring.
- Anonymous
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Mogage guy at least has "he fricks energy"
like on thisstill makes me mad
the OG cleric boy on the second row definitely looks he knows his way around a wiener while the new one looks like totally generic sexless anime boy #large number indicating genericness
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Drop the armor bits and the remake version looks like he fell right out of some high school setting.
- Anonymous
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God this is criminal but at least the remake gives you the option to use the classic portraits. The real nightmare is the modern map sprites being "We Have Fire Emblem Heroes at Home" with no option to switch to something more fitting.
- Anonymous
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>Sexualize more a girl that wasn't sexualized in the original
>Completely unsexualize a girl that was
very sexualized in the original
what's the goal? - Anonymous
1 week ago
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>aaaaaa i don't know how to draw armors better remove them
Such a display of incompetence. Why even bother to give money to such a buffoon?- Anonymous
1 week ago
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I would very much like to know how the hiring and processing of this all went.
>Well we have this series of games done by a well known artist with a very distinct style. Can't have anything like that in our game these days. Better find the dullest hack artist we can find to draw everyone dull and inoffensively bland.I swear this was probably done to appeal to self insert gays who can't wrap their heads around a hero looking heroic.
- Anonymous
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these remakes are low tier projects with small budget, no sh*t they're going to hire bottom feeders for them
- Anonymous
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thats not a hero. thats a woman.
- Anonymous
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New artist didn't stand a chance trying to follow up Urushihara
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Perhaps but I feel like a better attempt could still have been made. Even the mobile game (art posted above somewhere) was head and soldiers above the remake.
- Anonymous
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>___ slop
Opinion disregarded. - Anonymous
1 week ago
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Mod approved low quality thread.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Thank God I'm not autistic and internet social enough to care about this. Everyday you autists bemoan about the same stuff non-stop you might as well be Gay or Trannies.
>Hurr durr what is discussion
"Muh soul/soulless" isn't a discussion, it's a pity reach-around train theory session.- Anonymous
1 week ago
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room temp IQ post
- Anonymous
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I struck a nerve.
- Anonymous
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>Thank God I'm not autistic and internet social enough to care about this.
Keep telling yourself that, champ.
- Anonymous
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Remakes/masters are sh*t?
Really?
Reeeeeeeally?
What a minute?
Are you seriously....
But what about.....
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY?
WHO
WOULD
HAVE
GUESSED? - Anonymous
1 week ago
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Left is super low effort. You can see marks from the initial sketch. Should've kept Toriyama for CC.
- Anonymous
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That's because the art was literally unfinished. Nobuteru Yuki is extremely talented but he just didn't have enough time. See the remaster art he actually finished the sketches
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Lynx looks way less threatening and imposing and more like he wants me to buy cereal. Which I actually do need now that I think about it.
- Anonymous
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Only in that image because it's supposed to be a cute photo
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Your villain should not be included in a cute photo
- Anonymous
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technically "lynx" is just a corpse being puppeteered, not the real villain.
- Anonymous
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They are both sh*t. No MC should wear a rag on their head.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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More like you're a corny ass b***h with no swag
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Sorry, I'm not a hom*osexual. Flirt elsewhere.
- Anonymous
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Neither of these are "art"
Angloboxed morons seem to use "art" simply as a synonym for "pictures"
Your brains were destroyed by utilitarianism- Anonymous
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It's just used interchangeably with artwork
- Anonymous
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You're a fricking moron, illustrations are literally considered art
- Anonymous
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You have no concept of what art even is. As I said, you just use it as a synonym for pictures.
- Anonymous
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>You have no concept of what art even is
>you just use it as a synonym for pictures
that's a concept though - Anonymous
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>synonym for pictures.
No? Not all pictures are illustrations anyway. How the frick are you going to sit here and deny that the work of an ARTIST is not art for frick's sake?
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chrono cross' original art always gave me adam warren vibes
- Anonymous
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Yes, art has lost personality and become sterilized corporate sh*t. Not only in video games, but card games, tabletop, books etc.
That is why AI art isnt even so bad, art has already lost its soul.
Perhaps now it will have to regain it to put up against AI souless outputs.- Anonymous
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>That is why AI art isnt even so bad,
good one anon- Anonymous
1 week ago
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He makes a good point. Corporate “art” was already becoming AI “art” before AI “art” was invented. The same goes for “cinema” and “literature”. I look forward to seeing what humans will come up with to stand out, if anything at all, else we might as well let AI take care of it.
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Not everything looks like corporate art, throughout history there has always been bad and good art, regardless of such AI art will never be good no matter how hard you Indians shill it
- Anonymous
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Reading comprehension much? I never said AI “art” was good. If anything, I hoped the liberal use of quotes would get that point across.
- Anonymous
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The original post said
>That is why AI art isnt even so bad
It's just a way of sneakily trying to defend AI sloppa
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>Be moronic
>Get called moronic
>No you're mad. Heh heh. Got em. - Anonymous
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>I'm not replying to you but I'm still totally replaying to you!!
kek
>Sage
lol.- Anonymous
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see
I struck a nerve.
- Anonymous
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don't care looks better
left looks like it's drawn by a child, right looks professional game art- Anonymous
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>right looks professional game art
And that's a PLUS in your mind?
- Anonymous
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>"weebified"
>weeby
Shut the frick up, Amerimutt monkey.- Anonymous
1 week ago
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>t. american
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To this day I have no idea what CC's plot is about.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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i do, and it's not really worth knowing. it's basically one big hardon for schala, the most forgettable b***h ever.
- Anonymous
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I've played the game multiple times, and I can't wrap my head around all the events.
Here's my attempt (it's obviously wrong).>Crono and co saves the future
>Belthasar who was originally sent to the bad future is now in the good future
>He starts tinkering with time travel again
>Something goes terribly wrong and he just sends his whole dome back to the past
>The Mother Brain (FATE) is afraid that those events may severely change the future
>She proceeds to hide all the technology in the Sea of Eden and lobotomizes the people
>Also hides the Frozen Flame, the relic that allows Lavos to communicate with humans
>Many of years later
>Serge's father takes Serge to the legendary Sea of Eden in a desperate attempt to save him from an attack he suffered
>Serge resonates with the Frozen Flame and becomes the arbiter, the only person capable of using it
>In the game, all the frickery happens because FATE wants Serge's body
There's also the whole third act, involving the six dragons that I didn't even mention above.- Anonymous
7 days ago
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Been a while, but as I recall the paradox produced by the ending of Trigger(by defeating Lavos on 1999, the future Chrono and co. learned about him in no longer exists) was part of the reason everything went breasts up
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7 days ago
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Lavos and Schala got stuck in Time Purgatory and want to destroy all reality rather than continue to exist/not exist forever. Through a cycle of broken time loops, they hijack both the ultimate achievement of Humans (Chronopolis and FATE) and the ultimate achievement of the Reptites (The Dragon Gods).
The only way to stop them and to set the future back to the right path (the good endings of Chrono Trigger) are to go into Time Purgatory and free Schala. Since that is OUTSIDE of Time, it means that Schala never has the chance to be corrupted by Lavos and never has the chance to frick with the timeline.
Once Schala is freed, the whole game and backstory undoes itself and everyone gets to have a nice summer vacation. The end. However, this means Kid never exists as a "daughter-clone" and Schala gets shunted to 1999AD and is seemingly the only one to retain memory of what transpired.- Anonymous
7 days ago
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I've played the game multiple times, and I can't wrap my head around all the events.
Here's my attempt (it's obviously wrong).>Crono and co saves the future
>Belthasar who was originally sent to the bad future is now in the good future
>He starts tinkering with time travel again
>Something goes terribly wrong and he just sends his whole dome back to the past
>The Mother Brain (FATE) is afraid that those events may severely change the future
>She proceeds to hide all the technology in the Sea of Eden and lobotomizes the people
>Also hides the Frozen Flame, the relic that allows Lavos to communicate with humans
>Many of years later
>Serge's father takes Serge to the legendary Sea of Eden in a desperate attempt to save him from an attack he suffered
>Serge resonates with the Frozen Flame and becomes the arbiter, the only person capable of using it
>In the game, all the frickery happens because FATE wants Serge's body
There's also the whole third act, involving the six dragons that I didn't even mention above.overly complicated
- Anonymous
7 days ago
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Ultimately not really. It is just an excuse to go on an adventure through pretty pre-rendered backgrounds while Masato Kato barfs sophmore year philosophy on you.
Chross real seems like an "artist's game." The music is great, the visuals are great, but it comes off as incredibly masturbatory.
I like it a lot while thinking it is only decent as a game. - Anonymous
7 days ago
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It's sci-fi kino, you don't get it
- Anonymous
7 days ago
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*Translator's Note: "Kino" means sh*t.
- Anonymous
1 week ago
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Anime also decreased in quality with the jump to digital animation. It's sad
- Anonymous
3 days ago
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Sage
