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hylianknight3 posted...

It is completely fair to say that the character designs in a type of game with unmemorable character designs are unmemorable.

I disagree to the extent that the only reason they're unmemorable in look is because they look like real, regular people that you could actually see every day, and that's the intention. Calling them "generic" suggests they're bad designs.

Like, if you throw Nathan Drake into a Final Fantasy game full of more bizarre, fantastical designs, then yeah, it's super generic to the point that it doesn't even fit the style, and that's bad design. In games like Uncharted, Call of Duty, and the like, it's the opposite. If you throw Cloud or Sora or JRPG protagonist #55 into one of those games, now THEY stand out and look bad.

Basically, the point I'm making is that it's really hard to make "memorable" character designs in realistic games without giving them some kind of bizarre, unrealistic addition to their design in order to stand out from everyday people. That doesn't mean the designs are bad, and stuff like that meme seem super dismissive to that fact. People are just used to more ridiculous designs from Japanese games, but it's not really a fair comparison.

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