Axel fat hobo Character/Art problems

[The Gut]

So, looking at what is going on here, and I am thoroughly annoyed by this...
Why is Jack from SOR2 exactly the same but somehow Axel has a flannel tied around his waist, wears a dumb vest jacket on top of his white shirt, and has high water ripped pants showing off his ankles????

If you guys made this game from scratch, why put in these new looks for a favorite main character making him look stupid, but then take your college class deviant art Jack and pop him in the game as is? There is no consistency here and it makes you guys look lazy, and out of touch with what is good and what people like.

Another consistency note, WHY IS BLAZE NOT OLDER AND FAT TOO!? Oh because you didn’t want you make your Waifu age guys? What happened?

Then there is still the ugly out of place Cherry to consider as well. She doesn’t look like any black woman, she just looks like a thing that nerds would want a black woman to look like to be as non threatening as possible, while at the same time they can feel good and woke at the same time saying they are progressive for putting a black woman in the game. Can we just have a black guy instead, who isn’t a lab assistant baby faced cyborg?

[The Gut]

引用自 Doktor Mandrake：

引用自 Haradasanz' Gut：

I see a fat hobo on screen, I see a drawing with a guy with muscles in the drawing and no Jacket! Why is the jacket in the game? Why aren’t you noticing this?

Character designs change all the time in games, he just doesnt come across as fat hobo to me and honestly sounds like hive mind

Saying what something looks like isn’t hive mind, it’s pointing out what something obviously looks like.
Characters change all the time? In what games? Bad games? Did Mario change all the time? Did Link Change all the time? Do people like or hate those games?

[The Gut]

引用自 Ash735：

引用自 Haradasanz' Gut：

Why wasn’t his clothing baggy in the 90s then? Wasn’t this a 90s game? Good use of logic guy. NOT!

Because they couldn't do those sorts of extra details back then, plus Grunge came into mainstream appeal around '94, by which point SoR3 was already out, SoR1+2 Axel is very late 80's influenced in an action hero movie sort of way. So yeah, an older more rougher Axel is going to be influenced by later styles and most men generally stick to a style once they reach a certain age.

A flannel shirt tied around someone’s waste isn’t a detail, it’s adding clothing to a character that’s supposed to fight people which is stupid. Same with the jacket. Why give him high cut pants that are ripped at the bottom, but also have him tie a shirt around his waist like he is hiding his butt at a pool party or something? Does he need another layer of clothing in the city just in case it snows? Maybe he should have a back back full of gear and a tent too, so he can sleep on the streets like the hobo he is drawn to look like.
Why does cherry have that weird cosplayer hair? Why does she have a guitar? I don’t get why any of this is in a street fighting game at all. It’s all bad nonsense crap.

[Doktor Mandrake]

引用自 Haradasanz' Gut：

引用自 Doktor Mandrake：

Character designs change all the time in games, he just doesnt come across as fat hobo to me and honestly sounds like hive mind

Saying what something looks like isn’t hive mind, it’s pointing out what something obviously looks like.
Characters change all the time? In what games? Bad games? Did Mario change all the time? Did Link Change all the time? Do people like or hate those games?

Mario did change, his sprite in SMB 1 2 and 3 are all different

Sonics sprites were changed too in 1 2 and 3

Mario has various costumes in odyssey

He was changed in super mario world

He was a friggin baby in super mario world 2

[Ash735]

引用自 Haradasanz' Gut：

引用自 Ash735：

Because they couldn't do those sorts of extra details back then, plus Grunge came into mainstream appeal around '94, by which point SoR3 was already out, SoR1+2 Axel is very late 80's influenced in an action hero movie sort of way. So yeah, an older more rougher Axel is going to be influenced by later styles and most men generally stick to a style once they reach a certain age.

A flannel shirt tied around someone’s waste isn’t a detail, it’s adding clothing to a character that’s supposed to fight people which is stupid. Same with the jacket. Why give him high cut pants that are ripped at the bottom, but also have him tie a shirt around his waist like he is hiding his butt at a pool party or something? Does he need another layer of clothing in the city just in case it snows? Maybe he should have a back back full of gear and a tent too, so he can sleep on the streets like the hobo he is drawn to look like.
Why does cherry have that weird cosplayer hair? Why does she have a guitar? I don’t get why any of this is in a street fighting game at all. It’s all bad nonsense crap.

I'm sorry your feeling were hurt, maybe someone will make a mod for you that makes this game exactly like SoR2.

[Retromint]

I dont know man, I kinda like how Axel looks like. What do you mean fat? Hes massive and built.
Cherry OTOH, her gameplay is so fun and good but she looks so bland like what the heck? How do you guys mess up designing a badass chick with a guitar? HOW?

[VexTheHex]

Axel looks too wide and the beard really didn't do him any favors since they just kind of did the cartoony beard mouth for him. Shave him and slim him a bit and he'd look better. Also fix his pant bottoms.

Cherry is fine. People projecting SJW status onto her turning themselves into the very judgemental nutcases they act like they hate. Seriously games can't add black chicks without gamers crying "SJW" which is annoying. "But the guitar don't make sense" in the game where our cast jumps out of tall buildings twice, Adam beats an entire SWAT team that 4 players couldn't, and Mr Y jumps out of a airplane over the ocean and arrives in time to help his sister. "Her hair is red!" so what, many characters in this game have colored hair. She is a aspiring rockstar, it'd be weirder if she didn't dye her hair. Her design is fine. It's more inspired than Floyd... who is just Max and Zan combined. I will say I like Diva better in ways though compared to Cherry. Was hoping she may be unlockable alongside Shiva and Estel until you fought the twin clones of her which makes her more of of a generic mob.

[Meat Miracle]

Axel is a middle aged ex-cop, who three times went on a solo crusade to beat up every punk in the city. The SOR4 look is exactly how he'd end up looking like.

[VexTheHex]

引用自 MEAT GOD：

Axel is a middle aged ex-cop, who three times went on a solo crusade to beat up every punk in the city. The SOR4 look is exactly how he'd end up looking like.

Adam and Blaze do not look like the fighting and aging has got them in the slightest though in comparison.

[Sgt. Pepper]

I think someone's trying to compare an action movie to a character study.

[The Gut]

引用自 Ash735：

引用自 Haradasanz' Gut：

A flannel shirt tied around someone’s waste isn’t a detail, it’s adding clothing to a character that’s supposed to fight people which is stupid. Same with the jacket. Why give him high cut pants that are ripped at the bottom, but also have him tie a shirt around his waist like he is hiding his butt at a pool party or something? Does he need another layer of clothing in the city just in case it snows? Maybe he should have a back back full of gear and a tent too, so he can sleep on the streets like the hobo he is drawn to look like.
Why does cherry have that weird cosplayer hair? Why does she have a guitar? I don’t get why any of this is in a street fighting game at all. It’s all bad nonsense crap.

I'm sorry your feeling were hurt, maybe someone will make a mod for you that makes this game exactly like SoR2.

Are you sorry? Well in that case, if you’re feeling sorry for me and want to help me out, can you send me $3000.00 USD, that would help me out a lot, thanks kind generous person who cares about me.

[Mantis]

As mentioned by others, Axel's design seems at home. It is more reflective of the era many of us who grew up with SoR lived through. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you don't have an artistic bone in your body. Instead of spewing a load of expletives, why not criticise the artwork constructively?

It's important to keep in mind that Axel's new design is canonical. Some time had passed between 3 and 4 and this is Axel after becoming a hermit away from the city until he was called back by his friends. You see the beard plot device all the time in fiction. It tends to represent age and wisdom; to fill in the blanks from a large gap in a story's timeline.

[The Gut]

引用自 Ruby Big Boobies：

引用自 MEAT GOD：

Axel is a middle aged ex-cop, who three times went on a solo crusade to beat up every punk in the city. The SOR4 look is exactly how he'd end up looking like.

Adam and Blaze do not look like the fighting and aging has got them in the slightest though in comparison.

No they don’t, they just chose to destroy the main character of the game, and did basically nothing to the others. Good thing I Axel and want to play a cool looking version of him, instead of this new Hobo idiot version.

[Raster]

I like the way everyone looks. It seems like a waste of life to get upset over a video game character's aesthetics.

[Jizzney_Princess]

Back in my day Link was left-handed, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Change is always bad.

[The Gut]

引用自 Mantis：

As mentioned by others, Axel's design seems at home. It is more reflective of the era many of us who grew up with SoR lived through. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you don't have an artistic bone in your body. Instead of spewing a load of expletives, why not criticise the artwork constructively?

It's important to keep in mind that Axel's new design is canonical. Some time had passed between 3 and 4 and this is Axel after becoming a hermit away from the city until he was called back by his friends. You see the beard plot device all the time in fiction. It tends to represent age and wisdom; to fill in the blanks from a large gap in a story's timeline.

Okay keep in mind I like Axel and they didn’t do that to any other characters, so what are you even talking about?

Artistic bone in my body? Dude you think drawing homeless people is somehow artistic beauty? It isn’t, your taste is trash if you like this ugly version of Axel the in shape badass we all liked and wanted to play in the previous games of that era. Axel just looks like a part of the enemy line up, and should be an unlockable joke character not a serious main character looking like that, same goes for Cherry, she is trash.
If you like it, for whatever reason, great, I hate it, and it looks stupid. If you liked the original games, that’s because they were good looking and fun to play for their time, and not full of nonsense things like homeless guys and black female weak looking cosplayers as main characters.