Nintendo Magazine WildFire article: Yojiro Interview

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:19 am

Yes moving away from my discussion,like shadowhog just said,
what do you people think is a original character design and way?

CM August · Post by **CM August** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:06 am

I merely think one should go for a character design that looks unique without also looking retarded. A character's appearance should preferably also fit in with whatever world was designed around it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:27 am

@CM August
That was a great response,perfect!If only half the world thought like
that we would have funny cartoons without grossout jokes and retarded
characters.Any one else?

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:51 am

All of this Guest's posts seem to me to be terrible poems that don't rhyme.

One Classy Bloke · Post by **One Classy Bloke** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:33 am

For a new sonic character to look good, it has to follow one principle (which also applies for most fancharacters):

- Don't look like a recolour of an existing character with clothes and extra dongles.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:43 am

- Don't look like a recolour of an existing character with clothes and extra dongles.

I wasn't aware that any Sonic character had dongles, much less extra ones.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:22 am

If my post sound like poems that don't rhyme or poems peroid,
I assure you that it was a accident.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:11 am

Referring to how you break up
all your posts this way
is really what Double-S-'s
trying to say.

To add to that problem,
this one is a shame:
the lack of all rhyming
makes it much more laaaaaaaaaaame.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:18 am

One Classy Bloke wrote:For a new sonic character to look good, it has to follow one principle (which also applies for most fancharacters):

- Don't look like a recolour of an existing character with clothes and extra dongles.

There are so many green/red/black/blue/purple/yellow bastards out there, I'd just love to see a fan-character out there who is just brown and prefferably without a special power.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:53 pm

westerners tend to suck at character design. The use of spandex in almost all american born heroes is extremely uninspired. Maybe I'm racist. All I know is that Mechwarrior robot designs and American RPG character designs make me want to vomit. Worse is in a last ditch attempt, many American designers are flocking to the art direction of the Japanese. The result is things like Sudeki and Teen Titans. Nuff said.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:04 pm

Worse is in a last ditch attempt, many American designers are flocking to the art direction of the Japanese. The result is things like Sudeki and Teen Titans. Nuff said.

Sort of like how the Japanese flocked to the art direction of the Americans first?

P.S. Your statement suspiously reeks of an Japanophile.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:12 pm

on another note though I think Tintin and Asterix and Obelix have wonderful character designs and respective art styles. I'm not a japanophile. I'm sorry that the designs from neverwinter nights, icewind dale, and everquest look like they were shat out of a machine. Blizzard creates nice designs. I think the FFXI designs are pretty soul-less too.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:25 pm

Naming three developers doesn't really cover 'westerners' as a whole, though, and you could just as easily accuse Japanese character design of being redundant and generic. You also said 'Nuff said' to conclude an almost nonexistant argument, outside of being guilty of saying 'Nuff said'. Finally,

Anonymous wrote:The use of spandex in almost all american born heroes is extremely uninspired. Maybe I'm racist.

What?

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:23 pm

Anonymous wrote:All I know is that Mechwarrior robot designs ... make me want to vomit.

And you like what better? Gundam? The thing is, Mechwarrior (and I am assuming you mean the MechWarrior series) is trying to be somewhat realistic... at least more realistic than putting heads and hands on what are nothing more than walking tanks.

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:17 am

Anonymous wrote:The use of spandex in almost all american born heroes is extremely uninspired.

Spandex was invented in 1959, DC's best known super-heroes were created before 1959.

Ngangbius wrote:
Worse is in a last ditch attempt, many American designers are flocking to the art direction of the Japanese. The result is things like Sudeki and Teen Titans. Nuff said.
Sort of like how the Japanese flocked to the art direction of the Americans first?

P.S. Your statement suspiously reeks of an Japanophile.

Apparently derivative crap is okay, so long as it is derivative of works from the same country.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:47 am

westerners tend to suck at character design.

!!!

The Japanese can be worse. Much worse.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:23 am

At least everyone doesn't look the fucking same in American and European games. I like Japanese art and all, but even I won't deny to admitting that most Japanese games have six or seven stock, default designs repeated endlessly with various little touches. Occassionally you have the unique looking title like Katamari Damacy or Under the Skin, but those kind of art designs are not typical of Japanese gaming.

Post by **G.Silver** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:49 am

It's probably just because it's Japanese, right? ;)

God damnit people, I was making a JOKE. Why did you open this can of worms??

PS Mechwarrior designs are mostly ugly.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:06 am

Anonymous wrote:westerners tend to suck at character design. The use of spandex in almost all american born heroes is extremely uninspired. Maybe I'm racist. All I know is that Mechwarrior robot designs and American RPG character designs make me want to vomit. Worse is in a last ditch attempt, many American designers are flocking to the art direction of the Japanese. The result is things like Sudeki and Teen Titans. Nuff said.

I'm not gonna even bring up my race related post from the other page,everyone seems to have handled this nicely.On topic:Wildfire looks really fun I hope they release more info!

One Classy Bloke · Post by **One Classy Bloke** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:22 pm

Ok, here's some information for you, from a Sega employee. I haven't played it yet.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:25 pm

Zeta wrote:
- Don't look like a recolour of an existing character with clothes and extra dongles.
I wasn't aware that any Sonic character had dongles, much less extra ones.

What a strangely erotic idea.

James McGeachie · Post by **James McGeachie** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:25 am

So this game just got a name change to something really faggy.

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2006/8/16-34

"Sonic and the Secret Rings"

...Yeah. I dont really get it, but I suspect the reason might be because Sonic Wild Fire was obviously some kind of Sonic Wi-fi thing, perhaps they no longer have wifi elements they were planning or something, I don't know.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:59 am

But I liked Sonic Wildfire.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:00 pm

I'm in 2 minds about that title. Part of me thinks it sounds crap yet at the same time I think it suits the storybook setting of the game. I prefered Wild Fire but ultimately the title isn't really that important.

Post by **Delphine** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:46 pm

I can't decide which lame joke to make. Sonic Potter and the Secret Rings? One secret ring to rule them all? Sonic and the Secret Rings Around Uranus? Choices, choices.