WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

>>387882289
SJWs

>>387882289
They literally disabled likes and dislikes as well as comments on the launch trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h3lW5JOjD0

>>387882289
They weren't.

what is this

>>387882289
hahaha that game is so wacky and goofy!

>>387885462
Please be bait

probably baiting youtubers to make them moneys, like goat simulator or i am bread, something so stupid that lets players can click bait for retards that buy this shit

>>387882289
Some of the hair choices are honest to god hipster styles, what the fuck

But it's fun

>>387882289
dunkey liked it

I've slowly grown to lime the new artstyle. Very SNES/N64 era design.

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>>387882289
Can I even play this if I'm under 25?

To do something new

>>387882289
Eh, now i have to buy this game.

>>387885939
no, and you need a computer

wait is this nidhogg or whatever it was called?
the fuck happened

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>>387885939
NO

>>387882289
>could've implemented so many more moves if sticked to the original simplistic character design
>went for the customizable Homer Simpsons running around doing wacky shit instead of actual dueling
Sometimes indie devs can just go full retard.

>>387882683
Because people are legitimately stupid. Yeah the artstyle is not perfect nor the same as it was, but it doesn't deserve to get obliterated in its publicity. People are just bandwagoning because "muh retro graphix", yet the game is well done enough and was released properly (no microtransactions, early access, or any of that bullshit).

>>387886315
Name three (7) non-f2p indie vidyas with microtransactions.

>>387882289
Do people still insist the first game look like it did because it was an intentional retro """throwback""" or do they know it was because they literally couldn't hire an actual artist to make good graphics?

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>make game with spritey simplistic artstyle and extremely simple gameplay
>everyone loves it
>proceed to create one of the ugliest artstyles this side of Rick and Morty
>everyone hates it
>disable comments and ratings and call dissenters trolls

>>387886237
god tier

>>387886672

If that's the case I hate to think what might've been if they actually had the money for an artist for the original.

>>387886315
Look at him! This /v/ user used his brain!
It must be a dream.

>>387886315
>Game has ugly art
>People shit on the ugly art
I don't see the problem.

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>>387882289
I honestly can't comprehend it. I'm not even a minimalist fag, I wouldn't have cared if they updated the retro sprites to something cleaner and more modern. But this...I mean it sounds dramatic but I genuinely don't want to play this game because of how ugly it is. Even though I know I would love the gameplay.

>>387885514
Please be summer

all they have to do now is clean up the fucking sprites

>>387882289
>WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

Lets go for something silly and not serious looking but that will alienate the self insert crowd who needs something to project themselves onto else they will become aggrieved about the fact that they cant project themselves on to something that they can think as being like them.
So yeah they shot for something they thought would like unserious and silly but just came out as totally meh trying to ape off like an adult swim game or some other similar indie shit. The silliness i could see was added for the sake of others watching the game instead of playing it to have something more detailed shit to look at so they can laugh and guffaw at.

>>387882289
I simply don't understand. Nidhogg's style was perfect because it was so simple, bringing the lethal swrodfighting right into focus. But this, besides any ugliness, is as busy as it's humanly possible to get.

I'm literally not going to get it purely because of the art. I guess if there was ever an argument that art style was important to gaming, this would be it. Then again it doesn't help that this is pretty similar to the original.
>>387885514
autism

>>387886315
I didn't like the new artstyle either until they showed you can actually customize the character to look pretty decent.

They never should've released the first screenshot with the Homer Simpson lookalike and instead show off the diverse characters instead.

>>387887753
I WOULD like to add that I appreciate what the art is doing, nonetheless. I think it's a good artist. I just also think I hate it.

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I think it looks really nice, to be honest.

Too bad they mucked up the gameplay.

it's good and stands out against the sea of dribbble inspired indie dogshit and weeb friendly animu y'all're a bunch o plebs

>>387882289
Why did it need a second game?

>>387888116
more money

>>387888286
They clearly fucked that part up lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7d6WHQjJsQ
>IGN
>8.0
blunder

I'm surprised people give a fuck about this game. At all. Who the fuck played first game, some 8bit indiegarbage.

The dev worked on the original for 4+ years
clearly he lost his mind spending so much time on a game that could be made in a single weekend

>>387888372
>the garish new coat of paint isn't always easy on the eyes
That's a legitimate reason why someone wouldn't buy a game. Nidhogg 2 is the same game but with more levels, a few more weapons and fucking horrible art direction. Who fucking cares about IGN anyway?

>>387888590
a game as simple as nighogg it's practically the only reason someone would buy it

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>>387888590
>fucking horrible art direction

But the art is concise/focused. They pushed the limits given the new theming and I don't think they could have made it look much better than it does now. The stages have some insane variety visually, no two stages look even remotely similar but they're all good lookers. You can bitch and moan about how you don't like the characters, or because you thought the original's visuals were some kind of godly masterpiece despite being an objectively uglier game than its sequel, but you're deadass wrong if you think the new game's art isn't solid.

I'd take Niggnogg 2's art over the first game any day of the week.

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>>387882289
This is what they were thinking.

>>387887841
I don't think you can make the faces and hands not look terrible, or the poses in general not look bad. The use of colour is also awful.

>>387888953
Ironically, despite being better executed, this art feels a lot more soulless. It's as if they thought "what quirky thing can we put in next?".

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>>387886315
I'm not bandwagoning, I legitmitely think it looks fucking awful. I *loved* Nidhogg and yet they couldn't be fucking sensible.

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>>387888953
That small cut looks nice. This does not.

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>>387889253
it's like someone took a shitty flash game and polished it

>>387886315
>artstyle is not perfect nor the same as it was, but it doesn't deserve to get obliterated in its publicity. People are just bandwagoning because "muh retro graphix"
Nigger the artstyle just looks like fucking shit. That's it.

>>387886752
The game is great tho. Stages are amazing and the weapons add enough variety without complicating things. Broadsword upswing is my favorite way to kill homer.

>>387886315
>yet the game is well done enough and was released properly (no microtransactions, early access, or any of that bullshit).
BUT IT LOOKS FUCKING DISGUSTING.

I hope some magnificent autist somehow mods it to have the original graphics.

>>387889253
Beats the stale atari-look any day.

>>387882289
yeah, pretty terrible unsuitable design. Person in charge of that is retarded or a woman.

>>387889253
But that looks fine.

If you want to post something that looks like shit, get a screenshot of the final room in castle. The fire in the background is too noisy and actually detracts from the gameplay and overall quality of the foreground visuals.

>>387889625
>>387889584
contrarianism has its limits, /v/

>>387889625
>that looks fine
>characters at 3/4 instead of side on for no reason
>the same bird graffiti four times in one screen
>those terrible faces and proportions
>that yellow vomit all over the ground
Yeah, no.

>>387886315
Didn't played it yet, but the divekick doesn't seems as great as it was in the first game and it looks slower in general

>>387889673
Says the guy worshipping a bunch of stick-figures on a black canvas.

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>Going from Minimalist to over-detailed

>not making it look like SMB NES

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so /v/, what more games did this same thing?

>>387888953
Good looking backgrounds won't save the game from shitty looking characters.

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>>387889253
>>387882683
i hope they have super plain options in the future.
what in gods name were they thinking? i thought nidhogg was a fight to the death between two gladiators or something not nu-males put up against scantily clad wemen in shorts and t-shirts
give us some fuckin cool looking armor and id probably actually play it.
god damn good armor makes my dick so hard

>>387882683
So the developers decided to do something fun and interesting with the artstyle rather than going "LEL RETRO". I don't see why people are losing their shit over this.

>>387890667
>>387889730
>>387889625
>>387889584
>literal shills don't post on 4cha-

>>387891327
>aaa homer!! homer!! aa

>>387890134
>good armour!!!
*posts ungodly shit armour*

>>387888953
>nighogg 1
>objectively uglier

I just don't understand the youth of today

They really should have added an option to just have an upscaled fencer dude like in the original, it'd be satisfying to curbstomp the players who make a homer-sona

At the end of the day, it's a subjective thing. Some people don't care much about the art style, and the new shit will be enough to swing it for them. Some weirdos might even prefer it.

One of my favourite things about the original was the art style, it would have been a forgotten browser-tier footnote without it.

I just hate how they're making us choose between shitty visual design or unplayable webcode.

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>this is legitimately what people want
unbelievable

>>387891825
as you can see, my art is unparalleled to everything else

>>387891407
>homer, we're in 4chan

>>387892492
that is much easier on the eyes

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>>387892492
>colorful, expressive, and still containing hints of detail with fantastic animations that bring out the core gameplay as much as possible
>all while keeping a slick Another World aesthetic

Why the fuck wouldn't you want this

>>387892492
I don't want either.

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The sequel

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>those animations

>>387893692
The retarded fidgeting animations just make it even worse.

>>387890134
>buying rune legs

how is the game ugly?
the art style is detailed and colourful, something a lot of people arent used to it seems.

you all sound like fucking children.

>>387892857
>Implying he is old enough to know what Another World is.

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>>387894316

I genuinely like it. Its looks unashamedly fun and colourful, my only complaint is that its got mixel shit instead of traditionally animated sprites

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>>387894316
>how is the game ugly?

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>>387894429

>dude let's shit all over the screen so it's impossible to read moves

>>387894316
It's mostly that the characters are fucking ugly, the rest isn't that bad.

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>>387887739
>reeee gamers need to stop self inserting!

I know that's not your point, but I've seen it before. People that want to create thier own special snowflake character ((probably thier own self insert, ironically)) and then bash people for wanting to self insert. I for one am a sucker for a good charactor creator, and just like the rest of the planet, i want to do one of two things: make a better looking, not short/hairy/balding version of my lame as fuck self, and a goddamn qtpie waifu. Dragon's Dogma let me do both at the same time. No wonder it's one of my favorites.

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>>387886237
You got a problem with trees?

>>387894713
>i want to do one of two things: make a better looking, not short/hairy/balding version of my lame as fuck self, and a goddamn qtpie waifu
I don't do either desu
I either make some goofy dumb looking character or just roll with the defaults, I don't give a damn about character creation

>>387882683
So they added clothes and customization to the characters that were previously just nude Homer Simpsons?
Is that it? That doesn't seem that bad. I'd honestly really lean towards it being an improvement because the old character model was and remains pretty damn ugly. Not that the customization completely remedies the fact, but I think it helps.

OP kind of made think that they may have simply added a female and clothed alternative to the previously default nude male. And that'd be pretty weird. But if it's just customization in general then what's the big deal?
Being able to dress like a pirate or whatever looks like a great improvement to me. Am I missing something? Where is the controversy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YplCV7Se4ts
woooow its fucking nothing

the game was goofy, they made it look goofier, what is the issue again?

If you're actually worried about visuals that aren't broken and not game mechanics you're what's ruining games

>>387888981
Underrated post

>>387895414
The issue is that it's ugly as shit and poorly animated.

>>387882683
reminds me of
>dont hug me im scared

>>387892715
I actually thought literally the opposite just because of the eye bleeding neon yellow and blue mixed together

>>387895475
looks like it's animated just fine, and that it fits the overall design of the game
if you didn't just parrot opinions and actually at least pirated it and gave it a try you'd see you're just being a baby.

The game doesn't have to appeal specifically to you, there's billions of people on this planet.

So were the shills hired before or after they realised they fucked up with the "so bad it's good XD" art style?

>>387888981
I want a new CF game, too bad the new one went nowhere due to incompetence.

>>387892857
>expressive
They are just shapes, looks like an atari 2600 version of karate champion.

>Another World aesthetic
Niggas b reaching.

>>387894316
I think some of the backgrounds/levels are nice, but having messy/detailed characters over a messy/detailed background is just frustrating when you're trying to play something as fast and reaction-based as this.

>>387882289
even if you ignore the fact that all the characters look like retarded muppets, the new artstyle is still bad for the simple reason that's it's much harder to read what's happening, a problem 1 didn't have at all. you'd think that a game based on high-speed precision swordfighting would put more thought into readable characters who don't get lost in the background noise.
also the animations are complete hippo-shit.