/vr/ - Retro Games

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Yeah, there's some very nice ones (I like the one with wings, from Titan), but then there's the ones which aren't, either the graphic isn't particularly interesting, or the monster behavior is outright uninspired.
I'll go over some of these on appearance.

>1; This is a black and white Baron with the Beta lost soul for a head. He doesn't look awful facing the front, but once you see him actually walk about, he looks VERY awkward. This is an incredibly old sprite by Vader, older than some of the people on this board even, and while Vader is an incredible artist now, this shows that you have to start somewhere.

>2; Baron with some sort of white war paint (and a necklace?), I don't actually hate this one, but the fire on his hooves looks pretty awful, it's not shaded as well as the green plasma around his hands, and it looks awkward and out of place. If it was shaded better, and perhaps his eyes, plasma, and fire was either all green, or all orange, this would look much better.

>3; Greyscaled Baron with awful fire graphics pasted over his legs.

>4; Baron dyed red, and with a filter on him. Maybe if he had some good code he could be better, but he just looks inferior to the original Baron from an aesthetic point of view.

>5; The Bruiser, but not as good. Unlike the clean and well done aesthetic of the Bruiser, this design is very busy and cluttered, the war paint + all the spikes looks somewhat awkward at this resolution. Also unlike the Bruiser, this guy has really pretty cheap looking death frames.

>6; The Hellknight, but brown. The idea here was a weaker third version, but the shading looks muddy, and it would have been conveyed better with maybe smaller horns and no plasma on his hands at all, perhaps he would have to make a pause before each thrown ball, reinforcing the idea of him as inferior.

>7; This is another greyscaled Baron.