/vr/ - Retro Games

Concept art for what was intended to be an additional race in the Fallout universe. It's a type of raccoon mutant created with the FEV. There's actually still a reference to it in the final game found on a holodisk in the Glow:

>With batch 11-011, we have improved the mitotic cycle efficiency by 43%. We have infected 53 raccoons with the new strain. In addition to the now expected size increase, behavioral tests confirmed an increase in intelligence and manual dexterity by 19 points on the Schuler-Kapp index. Unfortunately, several subjects escaped confinement and had to be hunted down and dispatched. Major Barneet ordered the remaining subjects terminated. Two pairs were unaccounted for.

Obligatory pre-Toriyama Chrono Trigger character concepts.

I can say, when I was interested in the lore of FFVI I was surprised seeing the official art is completely different than the sprites in-game.
Notable example being Kefka clad in red, while his sprite has a green cloak.

Didn't ruin it too much for me at least, but it was quite surprising.

Mm, looking at Resident Evil 1.5 art I like several of the beta characters better.

I don't like the final Elza design they chose though. The Asian version is cuter

>>1816279
Got any art of Maria/Mary?

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>>1816317
Thank you.

>>1816236
Bestiality did work better as a story point back in the forties, no wonder they scrapped it.

>>1816234

>>1816550
Yoshi.

>>1816559
Yoshi's Safari Koopalings.

>>1816323
so RE2 would be Dead Rising 2?

>>1816568
Mario and Bart Simpson's lovechild. Actually an early concept of Sonic, believe it or not.

>>1816574
Another early Sonic. They loved ripping off cartoons for his design, as this Bugs and Mickey crossbreed shows.

>>1816581

They wanted something western. Americans ripoff anime all the time

>>1816581

"first we used a character that looked like a rabbit with ears that could extend and pick up objects. As the game got faster and faster, we needed to come up with a special characteristic to give our character some power over his enemies. I remembered a character I had thought about years ago who could roll himself into a ball and slam into enemies. Hedgehogs can roll themselves into a ball, so we decided to go from a rabbit to a hedgehog"

>>1816572
>Being completely unaware of RE1.5

>>1816617
Modern game designers never think like this, and yet they had the formula figured out back in the 80s:
>Think of a few characterizing concepts
>Use these concepts to form a character
>Design levels to showcase concepts

Meanwhile devs today run through the motions:
>Create a skin for a tried-and-true character archetype usually a gritty man with guns
>Put character in a situation in which they could thrive usually a war and a lost family member
>Design levels to show off visuals rather than engage the player usually a desert or a generic city

>>1816821
There's a lot of good stuff for Pokemon concept art here:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Prototype_Pok%C3%A9mon_and_characters

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Capsule_Monsters

>>1816635
>>Being completely unaware of RE1.5

Some would call it bliss.
The amount of bullshit and self-whoring and dicking contests around RE1.5 builds out there?

That guy is LUCKY to by unaware of RE1.5.

>>1816234

THE MOST AMERICAN CONCEPT ART EVER!

WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN SONICMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU!?

Nina (left) and Ryu (right) prototype concepts for Breath of Fire 3.

>>1816875
Actually, it's Teepo and Ryu.
This one has Teepo, Ryu and Nina.

>>1816875
Nah, that one on the left looks like the 'real' design for Teepo as a child, before the other character designer stepped in.
This is actually interesting; it would seem that they had already finished some of the sprite work before the other guy joined the project, and some of the revisions didn't make it into the final game, probably as a matter of budget or deadlines.
That looks like adult Ryu on the E3 picture (which DID got a revision), but they obviously kept the original children sprites, since they were only needed for the first act of the game (both Teepo and specially Ryu don't look anything like their official artwork versions)

>>1816931
gah, you beat me to it.

> Concept Art thread
> Not posting Morrigan's original concepts

>>1816323
I wish they had kept Elza Walker's design as an alt for Claire in the final RE2.

Some Snatcher art from the PC-88/MSX2 version

>>1816973
What the hell?

1/4

>>1816990
2/4

>>1816995
3/4

>>1817001
4/4

>>1816354
I think Madonna could've worked as a love interest for Sonic if she was simply there for fanservice in the same way as Jessica Rabbit. Perhaps there would've been less furfags in the Sonic fandom.

The problem with Sonic 2006 is that the game designers expected us to take a romantic relationship between Sonic and some Final Fantasy reject seriously.

>>1816987
Be glad you didn't saw Felicia's original concept.

>>1817057
Now I'm curious.

>>1816581
Eventually the concept behind that rabbit was revisited for Ristar. The rabbit thing was meant to grab and throw objects, pretty much like ristar and astal.

>>1817059
I warned you.

>>1816572
No, Claire was just a hot blonde im a functional motorcycle jumpsuit in the early version of RE2. Personally, I liked her first design more.

Billy and Jimmy Lee from an unmade Double Dragon sequel. I liked these designs better than what Genzoman actually came up with for Neon.

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>>1816837
Resident Evil 1.5 seems to be one of those games where the mystery surrounding it is probably more interesting than the actual product. I rather just take Kamiya's word for it that it sucked.

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>>1817108
But didn't Mikami like it? I thought Kamiya and Mikami hated each other.

>>1817108
Same, but I did like the character designs. I remember having an old GamePro that showed 1.5 .

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>>1816987
Its a refrence to the anime character Devilman.

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>>1817117
>But didn't Mikami like it? I thought Kamiya and Mikami hated each other.
What the fuck are you talking about? Kamiya was Mikami's junior during RE2's development. They had some disagreements over how they should've made RE2, but they respect each other professionally. Even Mikami admits that RE1.5 wasn't going to be very good.

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>>1817120
Devilman Lady, actually.

>>1817119
Sexy!

>>1817143
Funny shit is that originally, Morrigan was supposed to be the game's comic relief character while Felicia was meant to be the deadpan serious, yet sexy one.

Once Morrigan's design evolved into a sexy succubus, Felicia's character was also changed into the adult child we all love and fap to.

>>1817076
One of Felicia's early concepts was recycled for Battle Circuit, though.

Yellow Iris is even a skin you can aply to Felicia's model in Marvel vs Capcom 3.

>>1816973
Looks like if Devilman was drawn by Toriyama.

>>1817143
Darkstalkers is older than Devilman Lady

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>>1816234
I did a run of trying to restore the bulldog artwork a month ago, because these all have some fairly bad video/image compression going on.

>>1817117
Kamiya loves Mikami! Mikami is like Kamiya's godfather

Some character designs for an unmade Kunio-kun game for the PS.

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>>1816271
These kind of disgust me to look at! Looks like a very generic 90s anime. So glad Toriyama got involved with the project.

>>1817387
I feel the other way around. I liked Chrono Trigger, but I can't stand Toriyama's artwork and how all of his protagonists look like Son Gokou with a different hairstyle.

>>1816283
This is pretty common in early FF games. In particular, the character portraits show clear differences from their field sprites. Amano's illustration style is lovely and painterly and all that, but to make things clear at such a small resolution and to meet color palette restrictions, some details must be removed and other sections of characters broken up for the sake of contrast.

>>1816581
>Bugs and Mickey crossbreed
No.

>>1817392
I honestly don't understand how you can say they all look like Goku. Yeah there's facial similarity with Crono, but Toriyma's art is a lot more varied (and cute!) than the art style of that generic style in the original concepts.

Crash Bandicoot

>>1816271
It's a shame we didn't get this artstyle. Instead we got "GOOD MORNING CRONO" samefaces all over this great game.

>>1816234
I gotta say I prefer this to the final design.

>>1818264
>parroting

>>1816574

That turned into Eggman though, didn't it?

Crash Bandicoot Caves concept

>>1817404
>implying Crono doesn't look like Trunks
>implying Marle doesn't look like Bulma
>implying Ayla doesn't look like Launch
>implying Magus doesn't look like Piccolo
>implying Lavos 2 doesn't look like Cell 1
>implying Lavos Core doesn't look like every throwaway alien Toriyama has ever drawn

Naughty Dog used to have a rather big collection of their concept art of CB

http://web.archive.org/web/20080705064315/http://www.naughtydog.com/crash/crash/c1-background.htm

>>1819425
What the fuck have you been drinking? Magus looks nothing like Piccolo. He looks like Vegeta

>>1819441

Nah, that's totally grey Piccolo with hair.

>>1817032

It was one sided. It wasn't too serious.

Willie the Wombat.

>>1817387

Robo looks really cool but the overall style is very unattractive, I agree. Those 90s hairstyles, jesus.

I like the inclusion of the Wise Man in the party though, more proof that Gaspar was intended to be a party member.

>>1816271

Looks better than the actual style

>>1819379
>He said something I don't like
>Wow he must be parroting

>>1819446
Not really

>>1816234
Why do I get the feeling that Sonic is giving me a seductive look in the middle pose?

>>1819920
It's a trap, bro. Once you grab him to initiate buttsex, he will stab you in the gut with his spikes.
The cheeky bastard.

>>1817032
>final fantasy reject

are you me? Thats exactly what I call her.

>>1819920
Looks more like he's scolding, to me.

>>1817401
>a real life man was traded for the rights to a cartoon rabbit

>>1819446
I think he kind of looks like pic related mixed with Vegeta.

JC Denton - Female version

There are still areas of the game where it's apparently there was going to be a choice (like the cheats, "set deusex.jcdentonmale bcheatsenabled") but I wonder if UNATCO would have had less of a problem with JCDentonfemale wandering into the mens' bathroomn?

>>1816271
What a shame they went with Toriyama's generic shit instead.

>>1819441
>Magus looks nothing like Piccolo

>>1820267
Yeah, instead of a different 90s generic shit.
Oh boy, a protagonist with goggles. How ORIGINAL.

>>1820306
Thanks Doc

>>1820378
To be fair, Lucca looks pretty cool.

>>1816568

not gonna lie, they would've been pretty badass

>>1818254

dude...straight to the heart. how do you go from this, etc, etc.

bump

>>1818264

Eh, they could ask another artist to do official art but they won't. Even if they did they would make them keep the style

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>>1816931
>everything needs to be shiny, even the clothes!
>especially the clothes, even though they are made of dull non-reflective fabric!

Hate this "style". It seems to have been used a lot in the mid 90s.

Don't know why people complain about Toriyama's art in particular other than how prolific DB and DQ are. I think Yasuhiko's art looks good, but you still see him reusing the Amuro design across some of his works.

Didn't see this posted yet, so here you go.

>>1819415
Nope! Eggman was actually going to be the main character at one point, looking like this, but the devs liked both the design for sonic and eggman and decided to make eggman the villain to sonic

>>1824741
The hell? Eggman looks pretty cute.

>>1817378
Billy and Jimmy were in that page just because or were a cameo?

>>1824843
>unmade
Oops, nvm.

>>1817348
>We didn't get fancy suit-wearing Pyron or Griffith Pyron
Damn shame.

>>1823292

I thought Dragon Ball and Chrono Trigger ripoffs before I read the filename. Fuck, it's funny how Dragon Quest is so popular in Japan (even more than FF and Pokemon) but elsewhere no one cares.

I always imagined Spyro would become bipedal. Look at all the adults dragons after all

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>>1825098

The rest

http://www.theanimationacademy.com/spyromenu.htm

>>1816271

wow this looks way better than toriyama's stuff

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>>1816323
>ducati
>ricer-racer look
I'm glad they scrapped this. Her cruiser-style fits better with the location/themes of RE2. Makes her being a badass a bit more believable.

>>1825485
Besides RE2 Claire still rides a bike.

Ha ha, time for Metal Slug!

If I recall correctly these all came from a Metal Slug facebook page, as well as the PS2 art gallery. I have some more of 'em.

>>1820084
are you implying that just because im real that my life would be worth more to disney than mickey mouse?

>>1816647
I know you're trying to score some easy points with the retro fans, but really that's not how it is.

If anything, people buy more of the gritty brown-haired 30s something action hero today than before. At least that's how me and my coworkers think, working with games

>>1816581
Mario is a redesigned Popeye.

>>1825503
we dragonball/streetfighter now!

>>1816581

He's a cross between Felix and >>1817401

>>1825546
because that's all there is anymore, because people like you think that's all that sells

>>1825485

They should have kept the design. I don't like generic White lady #4. At least Claire isn't a blonde

>>1824683
Actually that design type started with Akira from Raideen. Also speaking of Yasuhiko, anyone ever heard of Valken 2?

>>1825546
The cancer reeks in this post.

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>>1825506

God damn, I love this guy's art style. So detailed and full of personality!

Also, Metal Slug 8 where?

>>1825506
Some of those are shown randomly during the credits of Metal Slug X.

The CD versions also had art galleries full of concepts and misc art.

REALLY glad Skies of Arcadia didn't turn out looking like this.

>>1826423
Jesus Christ, Fina. That forehead.

>>1824843
They were supposed to join Kunio and Riki at some point.

>>1826281
Eyup, there we go. Still, the Facebook page was the only place where I could find them in a good resolution online. Ya got any suggestions so I can save 'em?

>>1817119
That's "Fuck You" Dante

Legend of Zelda

>>1816610
Spoilers: It was a joke. I'm back with more art though.

>>1827057
Donkey Kong

>>1827062
More Zelda.

>>1827067
Cancelled Donkey Kong Racing, reminds me of Roger Rabbit.

>>1827069
Pac-Man

>>1827073
Cancelled Pac-Man Ghost Zone for PS1

>>1827076
Paper Mario

I've always loved the models/dioramas that Westone used for their covers. They still display them too. Having actually seen the dioramas outside of the covers really made me feel good.

>>1819884
People complaining about the Toriyama art style obviously haven't played the game, because in-game, the sprites are low-res enough that they don't even look like anime characters, they just look like video game characters.

Besides,
>implying the original concept art wasn't just the generic Final Fantasy art style

>>1827107
>Having actually seen the dioramas outside of the covers really made me feel good.
Post some of that shit.

>>1827140
It was actually in that Untold History of Japanese Game Developers supplement DVD. There's a brief tour of Westone's office and right in the front room is a bunch of stuff displayed, including the dioramas for Monster World IV and The Dragon's Trap. I think there might have been a WBiMW one too.

Concept art from a cancelled polo sim starring Kunio and the Boys from River City fame.

>>1827156
2/4

>>1827157
3/4
>>1827153
What a shame. I was hoping some real pics online. Is that DVD worth ordering?

>>1827160
Forgot pic

>>1819425
>an art style that depends on heavily simplifying character designs results in characters looking similar when they're drawn by the same artist.

Gee whiz, no kidding!

>>1827161
4/4

>>1827160
It's long sold out, sadly. It was Kickstarter exclusive outside of the short leftover copies they were selling on HG101 a few month's back. It was also $66, money well spent though. I'm sure there are pictures of the dioramas on the internet somewhere though.

>>1827169
And here's an even earlier concept art from a Kunio kart racing game.

>>1827171
2/2

>>1817076
>D
>would give da D

>>1827057
Haha, are those coords like memory addresses in the cart or what?

>>1827067
more!

>>1825805
>herp like you think that's all that sells
Well, it does sell because you buy it. Let's continue this loop forever then.

bump

Midnight Bliss line art collection for Vampire Savior

>>1833340
Lilith's sexy pose collection

>>1816973
want to see if there's some Lei-Lei concept art

>>1830902
I would enjoy Rance way more if I could play it as a nymphomaniac lesbian.

>>1833843
I like the Vampirella vibe of Design F.

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>>1827175
That's the Super Mario Kart kart, they're not even hiding it

>>1835990
Yeah, it got canceled cause there were too many mascot racers coming out at the time. The polo game would've been nice to play though, considering how niche the actual sports is.

>>1829143
Okay, I'm back after a few days banned for shitposting on /tv/.


Oddworld stuff!

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>>1838436
I have a tonne more concept art but a lot isn't retro and some is from cartoons and not games.

>>1833342
> Dimitri's ass

MY OVARIES

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>>1838436
ooo oddworld