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Do Saints play Champions Online O_O

nephtnepht Posts: 6,883 Arc User
edited November 2013 in Off Topic
LOLWUT a certain other super game has taken to copying Cryptic's BACK OF THE BOX SCREENSHOTS style .


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    decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I'm confused. Yes, they're both medium-action shots and head-level, but that's about the only comparison.

    And either one would probably have been better served by a more dramatic angle.
    'Dec out

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    chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    people placement and stances. buildings in background placement
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    decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Which, from a design standpoint, really don't resemble each other much. Certainly not close to being a "copy", not even vaguely.
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    nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Champions Online is like the prototype for Saints Row IV

    SRIV, Far Cry 3, and Borderlands 2 as well as Champions Online and other games seem to all be drawing
    from one big database of tropes and lists of ubiquitous objects to place somewhere in the game.

    It's like they agreed to do weird things in some smoke filled hotel room at E3:
    High ranking dev: "Dude, dude, lets all put toilets in random places on the maps this year."
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    flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    The 1st picture lies. There's no capes in SR 4...
    Or TIGHTS like that...
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    kenpojujitsu3kenpojujitsu3 Posts: 1,320 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    nextnametaken wrote: »
    It's like they agreed to do weird things in some smoke filled hotel room at E3:
    High ranking dev: "Dude, dude, lets all put toilets in random places on the maps this year."

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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Toilets were pretty important in Silent Hill, so maybe it's a good thing.
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    wrathsoul1wrathsoul1 Posts: 679 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    On the bright side, the fandom got what they asked: capes.

    And I'm sitting there, either waiting for the Volition Comics pack to be debugged or for more military gear.
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    jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,317 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    And to answer the original question, I can't say for certain, but I'd be surprised if there weren't a few members of the Latter-Day Saints playing this game...
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    sistersiliconsistersilicon Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I doubt any New Orleans Saints players are on CO. The Venn diagram of the intersection of "NFL players" and "MMO players" is a razor-thin sliver labeled "Chris Kluwe", and he was a WoW player and a Minnesota Viking. And a punter, so he doesn't count in the first place.
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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Says that Saints Row is a bad game. Gives point by point comparisons with biased reasoning for why CO is superior in every way.




    ...oh wait... wrong thread?
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    kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Nice art style at the very least. Just the right amount of anatomical exaggeration for a comic feel, but enough realism to make it feel like takes itself seriously. Why couldn't Champions go that route in its art direction?
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    biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,739 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    Nice art style at the very least. Just the right amount of anatomical exaggeration for a comic feel, but enough realism to make it feel like takes itself seriously. Why couldn't Champions go that route in its art direction?

    I would like Champions a lot less if it was rendered more realistically.
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    kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    While I find your preference in art style highly questionable.
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    wrathsoul1wrathsoul1 Posts: 679 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    spinnytop wrote: »
    Says that Saints Row is a bad game. Gives point by point comparisons with biased reasoning for why CO is superior in every way.




    ...oh wait... wrong thread?

    At least, you don't need gear to dodge in SR: you just need to move out of the way.
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    biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,739 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    While I find your preference in art style highly questionable.

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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    wrathsoul1 wrote: »
    At least, you don't need gear to dodge in SR: you just need to move out of the way.

    Mocks you for taking joke post seriously.
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    kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
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    joybuzzerxjoybuzzerx Posts: 882 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    Nice art style at the very least. Just the right amount of anatomical exaggeration for a comic feel, but enough realism to make it feel like takes itself seriously. Why couldn't Champions go that route in its art direction?

    I don't know. Maybe it's just those characters, but their art style looks pretty awful.
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    kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    It's the haircuts. Dreadful.
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    chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    bits that are off;

    green guys head size and neck width are too big
    hers are too small.
    torso length on him and her are both off.

    females legs look too short

    and the way his feet are placed, he slips, its groin injury time
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    xydaxydaxydaxyda Posts: 817 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    They look like little people made big person size.
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    biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,739 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    xydaxyda wrote: »
    They look like little people made big person size.

    That was my initial reaction.
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    meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited November 2013
    I'm not thrilled with this art style like in Saints or DCUO, or Valiance Online (if it will be ever made) used for comic book superheroes.
    Comic books aren't realistic, to beging with. Too much realism harms this subject and people in skin tight costumes look silly in realistic art.

    Comic book game should have enough correct body proportions to not look like Liefield/Champions Online/DCUO with character designs, but otherwise should be stylised. Ultimate Spiderman, Borderlands, or even Dragon Age 2 have nice stylised graphics.


    Thing that killed all my possible future interest with Valiance (again, if it will be ever made, I really doubt) was to seee their character models and that they went this total unneeded realism way. It looks terribadgodawful.

    chaelk wrote: »
    bits that are off;

    green guys head size and neck width are too big
    hers are too small.
    torso length on him and her are both off.

    females legs look too short

    and the way his feet are placed, he slips, its groin injury time

    Their proportions are right. Both characters are between 7,5 and 8 head tall, which is correct for modern real life population. And is also totally non-heroic and looks strange with skin-tight costumes.

    The rest is that both characters are shown with focus on their waist level and there is no real depth field on this screenshot, so both figures look flat with distorted proportions - on a flat screenshot.

    That's not character models, but effect of perspective on this shot.

    If you will measure their proportions, female legs are half of her total body length. That's correct. Green man is under very strong perspective effect and it's hard to tell anything about him.


    I'm sure that both models are looking much better in actual game.

    Still, both look strange in spandex costumes, no matter from which angle.
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    kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    They still have bad haircuts.
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    sistersiliconsistersilicon Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    They still have bad haircuts.

    I think the woman sculpted her hair into a hood ornament from a '38 Plymouth to make up for her fivehead.
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    joybuzzerxjoybuzzerx Posts: 882 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    They both look over the hill with short stubby legs. And while the male is supporting the six pack I can't help but look at that screenshot and think "People's idea of realistic is, gotta have the love handles"
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    nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited November 2013
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    nephtnepht Posts: 6,883 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    They still have bad haircuts.

    Oh yeah ugly ugly UGLY hair ._.
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    zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Posts: 3,797 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    nextnametaken wrote: »
    Champions Online is like the prototype for Saints Row IV

    SRIV, Far Cry 3, and Borderlands 2 as well as Champions Online and other games seem to all be drawing
    from one big database of tropes and lists of ubiquitous objects to place somewhere in the game.

    It's like they agreed to do weird things in some smoke filled hotel room at E3:
    High ranking dev: "Dude, dude, lets all put toilets in random places on the maps this year."

    Why does the Saints Row IV link send me to a CO link? Is that just happening to me? :confused:
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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    zedbrightlander1 wrote: »
    Why does the Saints Row IV link send me to a CO link? Is that just happening to me? :confused:

    It's a very mysterious game.
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    chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    someone is having a game of Silly Buggers.

    A general game playing throughout the world. Anyone from 2 - any amount can play. Please take note of local laws as police may not find you silly but stupid.
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