Worst Character Design Video Games

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My pick:

Quiet from the Metal Gear series. Seriously the way they depict this "character" is borderline offensive!

What's yours GAF?

SolVanderlyn

Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.

It's Quiet.

She looks freaking awesome in her XOF uniform in the intro though.

Does this mean you're not ashamed of your words and deeds?

MMO females come to mind, armor everywhere apart from 90% of their torso and thighs.

I totally agree she can wear clothes and still be alive, if Kojima had done it Like Nier Automata it would been more acceptable

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That girl from Star Ocean V.
Akiman wtf.

Figured Quiet would show up here.

Quiet is a legitimate trash can of a design in terms of outfit.

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Quiet looks fucking awesome. Kind of a lame character though.

Any who, Maria from Castlevania Judgment is so real shit.

Warrior Within Shadee

I mean, yikes...

That girl from Star Ocean V.
Akiman wtf.

I love this design

That girl from Star Ocean V.
Akiman wtf.

Yeah pink hair's face is a crime against video games. Why did you post the second picture though? She's not in there.

Like half of the examples in the other thread lol.

But yeah, Quiet and Cindy from FF15 come to mind.

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It's Quiet.
She looks freaking awesome in her XOF uniform in the intro though.

How is she breathing?

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It's just a shameless, boring rip off of everything from pop culture combined. Whining to the ends of the earth too. And we had to lose an icon for it...

Figured Quiet would show up here.

Yep, she is complete trash. And her backstory why she is dressed that way is even more ridiculous.

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Bikini armour the thread tbh. Don't think I've seen a single bikini armour that doesn't look like shit and have obviously bland motivations for the design

'but muh backstory'

basically all the female characters in the neptune jrpg series

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theres a reason why shes naked

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Jynx cuz of the racist implications

Woah we don't need two "best" dressed topics.

Surprised nobody didn't say Velvet Crowe yet.

I see skindentation, that means it's a good design.

Did anyone of Gaf believe this?

Saw the thread title and immediately went to Quiet.

Did anyone of Gaf believe this?

I didn't. I hope nobody did because there is no single excuse for that. lol.

That girl from Star Ocean V.
Akiman wtf.

Ohh good pick

Does this mean you're not ashamed of your words and deeds?

Words? Yes

Deeds. Of course not.

Fire Emblem Awakening started the trend, but it got worse in Fates. The female armors are awful.

Camilla for example:

'but muh backstory'

Wth! 😂🤣

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Quiet and Ivy are two of my favorites, but chose what you will. For me, my most hated is

...this garbage ass character (reboot Lara Croft). Not only does she constantly switch between apathy and whining as a response to any external stimuli, but she's supposed to be the replacement for one of my favorite video game characters, original Lara Croft.

ROTR is the only time I've ever skipped cutscenes in a game because I couldn't stand the protagonist any more and I literally have zero enthusiasm for the next game in the franchise because I know it'll star her in it.

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I expect a lot of crossover with the "best female character design" thread

whoever this thing is from the X Blades cover I always see posted in bad box art threads

you guys are making me sick what the fuck

Edit: let me say old Pauline. what the fuck are those boobs

This is before her nano-mach- er, you know what I mean.

The dingus on the left.

Yeah pink hair's face is a crime against video games. Why did you post the second picture though? She's not in there.

The girl with the blonde hair, duh!

'but muh backstory'

Lmao

And she isn't even sexy. Those ugly shoes are criminal.

Yep, she is complete trash. And her backstory why she is dressed that way is even more ridiculous.

I mean...Ehh...It's Metal Gear....

Anyways, I'm guessing female characters with fewer clothes makes their designs bad.

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Quiet and Ivy are two of my favorites, but chose what you will. For me, my most hated is
...this garbage ass character (reboot Lara Croft). Not only does she constantly switch between apathy and whining as a response to any external stimuli, but she's supposed to be the replacement for one of my favorite video game characters, original Lara Croft.

ROTR is the only time I've ever skipped cutscenes in a game because I couldn't stand the protagonist any more and I literally have zero enthusiasm for the next game in the franchise because I know it'll star her in it.

This thread is about character design, not character writing. I can agree that Lara was pretty poorly written in ROTR but I think her reboot design is miles better than the older ones.

Sera from Inquisition. And I don't say this because she's not your typical hottie, I truly appreciate "average" looking characters. But something about her face in-game just looks terribly off. Oh, and her outfits generally look pretty bad.

Truth be told, though, what I said above is true for most of Inquisition's characters.

Bland, boring, generic, grey, uninspired, uncreative, unattractive, non-feminine, terrible.

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