Generic Japan: belts an zippars
Generic America: Guns an pecs
color vs brownan bloom
girly vs manly
Take your pic

B-b-but then how would they sell to the female demographic? D:

Why should women be shoehorned into Dissidia if they don't fit the theme? You want Tifa over Cloud? She has no connection to the villain!

I'm fine with this shit in other games, but it doesn't make any sense with this one

>>23201874
I'm a chick and I find nothing attractive in feminine japs.

This guy is manly as fuck compared to the mainstream JRPG.

>>23201903

WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

OP is complaining about Japanese developers constantly making their men look like 15 year old girls with 13 year old boy bodies.

I'm manly to the point where I look stupid.

Like I said, I don't really want them all to be super testosteroned up with muscles popping out of their fucking eyes,

Just an average sort of guy.

>>23202043
SRW is a good series with a cariety of main characters (most of them are not pretty boys).

>>23202021
On that note, Dissidia is still a poor example. These are already existing characters, done in a style that was based on original drawings for them

Go pick on FFXIII versus, but this shit is good.

SE got some decent artists for Front Mission at least.

>>23202104
Try the Wild Arms series. At least the first three games.

>>23202198

Poor example? The only guy that looks like a guy up there is Jecht.

Kefka looks like a fucking alien.

>>23201941
Welcome to the minority.
Also, Bartz is the only one with canon armpit hair.

Also, OP missed two sets of earrings.

>>23201803
These characters aren't made for an american audience.

Duke Nukem if he was an angry Japanese teenager who got picked on by the Yakuza and decided to fuse with a demon later in a post-apoc future.

>>23202269
>Also, Bartz is the only one with canon armpit hair
Explain pls

>>23201941

well you don't live in japan. you probably worship those gun toting pec testosterone filled guys in video games.

...S'up dude.

>>23202372
No, they're made for a japanese audience.
The weabogs that love it are just a bonus

>>23202234
This, aside from the wild hair colors.( Jet's the only exception. )


Also if you want scrawny raggedy andy looking types, Check out Xenosaga 3. You get to play as that wuss ( but far from girl looking) dude Allen, who actually does kick some semblance of ass.

I would say Kodelka , but anything past it in the Shadow Hearts universe the characters are ripped seven ways from Sunday.

>>23202246
You're missing the point. These characters are OLD. SOME DATE BACK A LONG FUCKING TIME AGO

If you're going to pick on a game, do a recent one. This shit is SUPPOSED to look like this; its meant for FANS.

OH NO THEY HAVE EAR PIERCINGS

>>23202391
I would gladly play a game of Persona where he was the main character.

Unfortunately...

there are 18 faggots in that line up, guess the two that are not!

>>23202246
I was just about to say exactly the same thing (in regards to Jecht). He also looks like a lunatic though.

>>23202430
None of those characters are even implied to be gay.
Not even Kuja, considering it seems he wants to fuck Garnet

>>23202412

That's not the point, it's an example of the kind of crap that I'm tired of seeing in games, it's the one pic I had handy that's full of pretty boys.

>>23202234
As long I remember, Wild ARMs had beltan.

Badass coming through.

ITT: Reasons why we need more American Developers , Designers and Videogame Companies.

>>23202430

Garland and Golbez.

>>23202512
and

you guys are fucking retarded
in japan, if you dress girly, you are considered more manly
if you are buff and tough, you are considered more girly.
get some fucking cultural competence. The fact that these guys all look like homosexuals to north american eyes means they are super studs in the eyes of the east.
Fuck man, if you dont believe me, go watch a VOD on gomtv, look at the starcraft players. They are skinny pretty waifs and the girls in the crowd create a massive rushing river of pussy juice whenever they win at a video game
jesus christ

>>23202534

OP here, incidentally I heard SE is building an American studio.

Anyone care to elaborate on this?

That's why I like anime - the main characters are just normal-looking guys.. but anywho, Squall was a pretty normal looking guy - so was jecht only pussy people were Cloud, Tidus and Zidane.

They seem to make their blonde haired characters 'pretty boys' and the brown/black haired characters more hard cunts.

And somewhere on 2ch someone is complaining about English-speaking devs using nothing but musclebound space marine toughguys.

>>23201803
Welcome to the new Japan. You won't be seeing any new Gats, Kenshiro, Harlock, etc. i.e. manly men.

>>23202576

Really? US Studio with Japanese working there or US game developers killing the SE-style of game?

Both sound shit to me.

>>23202534

Why not european, indian or middle eastern?

That's why Balthier or Basch should have been in the game.

They are fucking manly, no matter how much you say their game sucks. Hell, but Basch/Gabranth or Balthier/Dr. Cid and it would have worked quite well.

>>23202407
fuck yeah Koudelka
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gFsxYXGO7Nc

Fire Emblem has the highest number of manly men in any Japanese franchise

/thread

>Squall was a pretty normal looking guy
>Squall pretty normal looking guy
>Squall normal looking guy

LOL WUT

>>23202628
Oops, this one.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=F1eC58AcWtc&feature=related

>>23202534
What would that change? NOTHING.

Earlier characters in Shin Megami Tensei games drawn by Kaneko had some pretty ugly guys, which is cool, I guess.

>>23202495
And MY point was that you picked a shitty example.

>>23202370
In other words, actual men.

'SUP, NIGGERS?
I HEARD YOU LIKED WRENCHES AND NUNCHUCKS AND SHIT, SO WE PUT WRENCHES ON YOUR GIANT ROBOT'S NUNCHUCKS SO YOU CAN WRENCH ENEMIES WITH A WRENCH IN YOUR GIANT ROBOT

Dissidia is Brawl for faggots

>>23202651

Dunno, never seemed that feminine to me.

Yo!

>>23202678

No I didn't, the image illustrates much of what bothers me.

Oh my god get the fuck over it.

Girly men never bothered me because I dont fucking focus on men as much as the rest of /v/ does.

>>23201803
>I'M LOOKING AT YOU SE
FFX was the last FF. FF is dead and its corpse has been prostituted over and over by SE... Just let it rest already.

>>23202679
>gun toting pec testosterone filled guys
>actual men

>>23202680
I already got your ass covered.

>>23202728

No, piss off.

>>23202695
Brawl is Melee for faggots.

>>23202651

We use 'pretty' for things like that in Australia lal

>>23202728
>>23202575
These, guy

>>23202575
HAHA fucking guys like Flash and Jaedong make me wish i was a skinny disgusting BOY over in taiwan or something. I would be swimming in vaginers

>>23202679
>gun toting pec testosterone filled guys
>actual men

>>23202754

Why the fuck does it bother you so much? Obviously bitching isnt going to change it and focusing so much on the male characters doesnt look good for your image.

>>23202208
YES THIS WHERE DID SE GO WRONG???

Front Mission's art was great without having tons of pretty boys!

This complaint is mostly just the Final Fantasy series and specifically Nomura Tetsuya's designs. Most JRPGs use more typical anime style designs.

>>23202512
Not as bad, but if they ever make a Wild Arms 6....

>>23202821

your penis would be even smaller

>>23201803
>>Dissydagwia character portraits

The next step is to have blacks in a main character spotlight in something Japanese.


Romancing SaGa 3 came close.

>>23202834

I'm on fucking 4chan, image is nowhere near my list of worries.

Citan 2.

>>23202855
Jesus fuck

>>23201803
wow

TOTALLY DIFFERENT HAIRSTYLES FACIAL STRUCTURE AND EYES

What about spike spiegel?

>>23202853
In b4 people complains that Testsuya Nomura ruined FFXII, Chrono Cross, etc.

>>23202918

Okay well the point is, stop caring about the dudes.

Sackboy is manly looking.

>>23202853

The most recent Suikoden games have been pretty fucking up there with SE man.

I've confused the main characters with chicks too often.

>>23202512
As long as you remember dates back to 3? Go back n play the first one and discover just how wrong you are.

FF13 has two girls and this guy

>>23203030
Rudy had 2 beltan

>>23202983

No. I can bitch if I want, in the end none of matters, but I like venting my inconsequential opinions from time to time.

>>23203049

True.

>>23203030
Now he doesn't even have to remember!

There needs to be more male characters in FF like Cid and Barrett.

>>23203090
One for his pants and one for his gun.....REALLY now? Thats just nitpicking...

I had no fucking clue this was supposed to be a guy when I first saw promo material for the game.

>>23203214
>Thats just nitpicking
Just like most of the complains regarding FF