Why do modern jrpg characters have such shitty designs? Why were

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What are you talking about?

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Because modern JRPGs take everything from anime instead of being their own thing.

>>380888068
Well a lot of those are pretty basic but work fine. I honestly wonder what people who think Cloud's design is good are smoking though.

>Sword is stupidly huge for anyone and even more so for his spaghetti arms
>That hairdo is laughably silly as fuck
>Overall outfit is not that bad but the baggy pants don't mesh with it imo
>Only one shoulderguard and it's not even on his dominant side

>>380888068
Sega and Nintendo and earlier pre ps1 square have better designs.

Xenosaga looks better than ff7.

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I miss when JRPG protagonists actually wore some semblance of armor. Not just cloth.

>>380889563
I disagree. Other then the hair which is kind of extreme its a pretty solid design. The buster sword is kind of dumb sure but it still is a cool design alone. No one ever says Gut's Dragonslayer looks dumb, we just accept it.
>>380889826
>Xenosaga looks better than ff7
Xenosaga literally sold on fanservice. Kosmos' tits were the selling point of the games badically.

>>380888068
What games are the third on the top, and the first on the bottom?

>>380888068
>complains about modern shitty designs
>posts old shitty designs

>>380890502
I meant xenogear. I don't like nomura designs.

>>380888068
Good design? Pic not related it would seem.

>>380890621
Both are from the SaGa series. The toku looking guy is Red from Saga Frontier 1 and the more knight like guy is Gustav from Saga Frontier 2.

>>380890850
Well that explains why I don't know them then.

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>>380888068
>Nomura
>good design
Nice joke.

They aren't mixing up their casts enough with significantly different builds, robots, aliens, or general non-humans. They are starting to fall back on either well used tropes, or getting too crazy with the designs to compensate for the fact that they are all human characters that look similar.

>>380891758
Don't like most of them. Except lighting.