SRK most appealing character design

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Preferably a hot blonde girl. Extra points if she’s haughty.

Outside of that probably the character with the most flashy or over the top looking moveset. Examples being accel slide loop, stupid gun poses, and dainty girl in a dress with pro wrestling moves.

Outside of all female cast games like EFZ and AH, or games that branched off of already existing IPs like Fate/Melty. The best game would have to be Darkstalkers, because some really unique female characters came out of that series, who eventually went on to become fanboy favorites.

Worth mentioning since the game came out before character designs were heavily targeted at fanboys.

Guilty Gear. Sol is an undeniable badass, with a list of other characters to fill in every type of male character. Going from Ash Crimson level androgynous to wall of muscle.

Yes. Because not being able to find a character that’s visually appealing makes it really difficult to want to play the game.

It’s kind of like the game is throwing you a mixup of “you have a list of choices, none of them look good, all of them look bad” before you even start playing.

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If I were to completely ignore character playstyle and playability (as well as which character designs I consider to be actually the most creative), I would gravitate towards the evillest motherfucker I could find on the select screen – characters like M. Bison, Rugal, Urien, Heihachi, and Eddie. None of this fruity, limp-wristed “MINE IS THE INFINITE DARKNESS” emo-goth bullshit; I’m talking evil that takes PRIDE in evil, like Bison and his shit-eating grin, or Rugal and his pornstache, or Urien and his “YOU DIED. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Come to think of it, I guess I’m mostly attracted towards sadists, preferably with broad shoulders. Vega may be pretty, but at least he looks like he could take a punch without snapping in half.

(Probably one of the many reasons BlazBlue’s character design turns me off, there’s no real smug-asshole villain in the cast, just boring anime-emo like Arakune and v-13. Rachel’s too sedate and Jin’s too fucking skinny. Maybe Hazama will turn out to be sufficiently sadistic, although he too could stand to eat a sandwich or two.)

But for practical purposes, I usually just pick the guy/girl with the most bullshit crouching fierce (or functional equivalent thereof). Go, Ralf, go!

SIDE NOTE: I don’t really have any hard aesthetic preferences for what I like in character design, but there are certain elements/rules that I’d really like to see more of:

  • Men who are built like men (unless they’re Dhalsim, who has an excuse). Less of this army-of-teenage-Japanese-pretty-boy-stickmen, please, and more characters like Ralf, Bang, or even Vega who have a physique that actually looks like they’re in a game to FIGHT instead of brood.

  • Women who are hot, but built like they can actually fuckin’ fight. This is one of the great elements of Street Fighter character design I have always respected – EVERYONE, male or female, is ripped as hell because they’re expected to duke it out on the street. It’s so easy just to slap moe features/big boobs on a generic female physique, give them funky hair, and pretend it’s creative, but it’s a whole other deal to come up with an unmistakable physique like Chun-Li’s, Cammy’s, or hell, even Sakura’s. I’d like to see more variation in character physical proportions across gender lines.

  • Less little girls, please. I know that the creepy otaku crowd is your bread and butter these days in Japan, but can we dial it down just a tad with the slutty-little-girls-with-no-noses bit? Please? I don’t pretend that any of it is going to suddenly turn me into a pedophile, but I really don’t like to think I’m subsidizing the ACTUAL no-life creeps by feeding you guys quarters…can I redirect any of that money to al-Qa’eda instead?

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The pretty boy:

Remy
Benimaru
Ash Crimson
Vega
Lee Chaolon
Testament

etc

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i never thought about him as the pretty boy :looney:

you fuck!!

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More horrifying is the amount of KOF characters that are not the pretty boy!

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  1. All the characters my friend hates (He loves playing the hero or the strong androgynous hairless girly-man) and all around “fun” characters like stupid or insane characters like Dong Hwan, Iori, Akuma, etc. Hugo is in there too.

  2. Tekken is pretty good about the girls. There’s pretty much every kind in that game that represent a wide variety of people.

  3. Guilty Gear. Their diversity in the kinds of fighters is amazing. Ninja, assassin, demon, possessed, soldier, scholar, vampire, and knight. SF is like what? Karate guy, boxer guy, wrestler guy, kickboxer guy, and native american.

  4. Yes it is. VF’s characters are fucking boring and plain as shit. It’s a major part of why I don’t play it. I like well rounded characters who can actually be represented outside of the game as if they were a person and not just some “Hey here’s this guy he fights” thing.

The personality helps some (a lot) of players choose the character they play at first. It may not keep them playing that character, but it still gets them to the game at least to discover and explore the game and its systems.

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testament, asura, duolon, etc arent “pretty boy” chars, they are more of dark gothic chars.
If anyone tries to be pretty boy, its Ash.

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the big guy!..characters that are rediclously jacked or tall or gigantic!.. and i never play females. i would think there is nothing more embarrassing then to be the guy at the arcade playing the 16 yr old school girl. Like how do u explain that to ur friends and family, or ur girlfriend. Well then again, most of them i would think dont have a girlfriend.

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A few additions:
I like the earnest, self-parodying fighter like Bang Shishigami.

I don’t like the spiritual types like Nakoruru, Julia, Talim

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Testament and Duo Lon wear women’s clothing.

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Needs Balrog option.

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There’s not exclusivity rule either. Vega is the ‘ninja’ but he is also undeniably the ‘pretty boy’.

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where does Zappa fit in?

either way i love using fat fucks and lolismoeblob

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Why is C. Viper a slut again? Because she is a single mom? Wow

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My favorite are the “slut” characters and the “fighting gals”. ;D Just because I love women.

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Wheres the evil dude option like Bison,Rugal,Akuma,Heihachi and so on?

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My thoughts exactly. Evil is the new good.

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  1. Like i said in last post the “evil” guys motly
  2. None in almost every fighting game girls that fight look to slutty
  3. Street fighter they have less of this so called emo and Metrosexual males in their games.
  4. Gameplay is for me more important then look.
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Prolly cuz Shermie has one of the biggest rack in all of KOF, wears a very short skirt, and boing boings alot.

I think the character’s personality about it and everything helps the charatcer, even so much as to overcome their archtypes. There’s been some exceptions.

I like Terry for his Street smarts design. I think personality wise he’s pretty cool. and I’ve always liked his mix of specials

Dudley for his technical boxing prowess. I mean c’mon, he whups your ass, then says “Straighten up, let’s have some tea and chill.”

I think King via KOF/Art of Fighting is hot in this respect as well as she has technical prowess, kicks your ass in a bartender suit and then proceed to get you drunk. so she beats your ass AND takes your money.

Jam because she has some pretty cool moves. She’s a tease, is cute, and is hot at the same time. I like the mechanics for her moves where you can store stocks for them and mix and match them in combos.

Chip Zanuff is my favorite of the ninja types, mainly because he breaks away from it. Where most of them are silent and to the point (Exceptions: American Ninjas, Galford lol)
This guy talking shit and giving you the finger.

Dr.Baldhead/Faust is probably my favorite out of the nutjob types

Some characters I think break through their stereotypes. I look at Heart, the main character from Arcana Heart and her type of design usually annoys the shit outta me, but I actually find that character adorable in the fighting game. Perhaps since she believes in the power of love AND makes it a point to smash people’s faces in (she seems to be packing some serious badunkadunk too).

Question 1: I like guys that are a mix of technicality and speed to counter specifically with speed, not with built in counters, Guys like Lee Chaolan, I love his silver whip. Guy’s like El Fuerte who runs around all over the place and Jam Kuradoberi. Granted my favorite period is Terry Bogard. Grapplers get love too.

Question 2: Can’t really pick, there’s a few girls in several games that stick out that I like, but then another in that same game I dont like. I think I’ll go with Melty Blood.

Question: 3 Guilty Gear, each character was unique from their attitude and so on. You have an unrestricted badass in Sol, a “cool guy” in Johnny who is…well, he’s actually fucking cool. A nutjob who’s funny, a Ninja that practically says fuck you the whole time we could go on.

Question 4: I think character design is very important. while gameplay matters as well, if the characters are forgettable, who’s gonna play it?

Also, we need a dumb fuck option, Dong Hwan and Dan lol

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I like the fat guys.