Are redesigns just a natural and necessary part of video games or do you hate when a good or acceptable design is changed for no reason?

>>714698772 (OP)
Looks the same to me.
What is she some kind of squirrel?

>>714698772 (OP)
yes yes no no no no yes no yes no no yes yes yes yes

>>714698772 (OP)
On the Run looks the best

>>714698772 (OP)
I'm fond of the ND and early 2000's teen girl look. Anything else is an inferior variant or irrelevantly bad like the Titans games or 4.

I think it's kind of inevitable in some cases. Like, in general to just get across time has passed, new clothes, or character development and such. It doesn't usually make sense for characters to always look exactly the same.

>>714698772 (OP)
coco if she rantsona

>>714699549
Within the Spyro lore Dota2mulons are a race of rare stoats with Plato based superpowers, three tails, a wicked snes of humour and SO much more!

>>714699549
she's a bandicoot, you dork.

>>714701038
>Plato based superpowers
Go on

>>714701460
A huh?

>smutbase only has crash4 coco and some shitty off model coco
life is pain

>>714700843
>WOKE Ubisoft dev was EXPOSED as FAR-LEFT TERRORIST *rantsona_with_zoomed_in_pic_of_dev+red_circle&arrow.tiff*
>"Hello guys JustSomeRants here and oh boy do I got something juicy for you all. Just this morning a woke protest footage in LA was posted on X..."

>>714698772 (OP)
It's amazing how dogshit the models are of these characters. And they got away with it for so long.

>>714698772 (OP)
>Are redesigns just a natural and necessary part of video games
Yes and No.

Sonic the Hedgehog got redesigned for Sonic Adventure to both help adjust to 3d limitations of the time and due to it being a soft-reboot. This became the new default for the new "modern" era. On the other side of the spectrum, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. See the Sonic Boom redesigns.

But let's not beat around the bush here. The Crash 4 redesigns were not only unnecessary but just plain bad compared to the classic designs. At least the Titan games had different gameplay.

>>714698772 (OP)
Fanart really carries Coco's design HARD.
These don't look all bad, but they don't look great either.
Having grown up with Crash since the ps1 games, honestly the 4 it's about time design looks the most appealing to me.

>>714701584
>A huh?
uh-huh.

>>714701871
im pretty sure sfmlab has an n.sane coco. Port that over and hope the textures aren't dogshit.

>>714702560
The saving grace with Sonic is oddly enough its really hard for Sega to fuck that up. Both of these look fine, they aren't some huge, Klasky Csupo inspired departures from what people think Sonic should be like. Classic and Modern designs for Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Metal etc all work. Now if they tried to do

>>714698772 (OP)
Everything looked PERFECT in the Nitro Racing remake. Then they SHIT all over the designs with 4 and that shitty online service game.

>>714703345
>only one is a KM n.sane coco
>AND it has shit textures
KM has been a plague on the nsfw modelling community from the beginning, but I appreciate your consideration anon. I'm skimming kemono but search sucks

>>714698772 (OP)
If you look closely, every single design has boobs except the crash 4 one.

>>714698772 (OP)
Most of the evolution in her design are small changes based on graphical capabilities
>PS1 era + WoC
you have the brainy younger sister, in overalls with 1 arm strap undone. Wrath of Cortex version looks bad in renders and in-game because everyone looks bad in that game.
>Nitro Kart through the hiatus
Matured to teenager-style attire of the time. Overalls replaced with jeans and a t-shirt. The titans-era coco looks a lot more like coco than titans-era crash. But aside from general weird changes to her head shape, the biggest stinker is that they changed her hair significantly, and added the goggle accessories in MoM. Notably the titans games are the first time her hands are noticeably larger than before. Another factor that people take into account is the way her character was changed to be more ditzy, most notably in her dialog.
>The return to form
Original Naughtdog designs reimagined on stronger hardware, including her modest breasts which were there since the original concept art.
>Post revival fall
The mobile game looks fine in design, just the way that King modeled details such as her eyes look uncanny.
Then there's IAT: added a belt despite her wearing overalls, tore her overalls so that a patch job could be done to it, re-add the goggles from MoM, add bracelet, completely iron her out and remove most of her torso.
Coco is very bottom heavy now with most of it being in her shoes.
Make no mistake, all of these forms look like coco. But adding details that were never necessary comes off as busying up the design for the sake of it rather than to emphasis what already worked.
Nitro Kart is still the best render we've ever seen of the entire cast. The FMVs capture the original designs while still looking fantastic even by modern standards 20 years after its release.

>>714704064
Yeah I hadn't looked at sfmlab for ages so it was a guess on memory lol. I can't remember where I got my old n.sane coco model from, IIRC doublestuffed released a pretty neat one on their gumroad a while ago?

>>714700843
>in defense of animal labor

>>714698772 (OP)
>CNK gets a butt shot of Coco
Was it really necessary?

>>714704769
Do you want to sell video games?

I miss you

>>714704547
based, thanks anon

>>714704769
It was necessary then and is still necessary now.

>>714709468
She really has a big butt in that game

>>714709468
fuckin juicy god damn I love that version of coco

>>714704312
Pretty sure that was the point of this thread

>go looking for coco models on models-resource
>find this
op PLEASE add this to your image

>>714710596

>>714709468
>crash in that webm

>>714710596
>>714711135
They knew what they were doing, the youth had to be shown.

>>714713117
imagine if coco had the runs and was farting with each and every step and more and more shit squirted out of her cute butt

>>714709468
>>714711604
>>714713608
Yes. Coco, designed by her creator Charles Zembellas, has both nice tits and a nice ass. Only retards think you need to choose between those.

>>714699549
didn't know blind people posted here

>>714713817
nasty brat, elder brother rape correction is in order!

>>714711246
>try to parody Mario Kart babies, except yours are all hideous

>>714698772 (OP)
The only time I think there should be a redesign is when the character moves from the big screen to a handheld. Sonic on the GBA should have been the only time there was a redesign aside from the jump to 3D.

>>714698772 (OP)
Only as much as graphics engines, rendering pipelines, animation methods change. Art style fashions changing is less important, but also important enough.

coco's cocos

>>714698772 (OP)
She had too much booba for the faggots at toy for bob. So they completely ruined her cute design

>>714702560
2d to 3d is always going to be a redesign as well.

>>714714864
hello coce

>>714714864
I want to impregnate this provocative bandicoot so much, bros

There is a lot you can say negatively about N.Sane trilogy, but most of the models look roughly how you would expect them to and then they get an upgrade with better animations in Nitro Fueled thanks to Beenox.
I'm still miffed that it was TFB that got Crash 4. You would think they would've been given Spyro 4 since they worked on the Reignited trilogy That still looked shit, but at least they worked on it. instead of the game series they didn't do remakes for.

>>714715284
AGE 4?!?

>>714715482
Sorry anon. That's my wife. We're chatting as you can see

>>714715284
BANDICOOT POWER

>>714713117
kek, can't unsee now

>>714715816
Everyone says the choices in the last 6 years regarding Crash and Spyro have been done out of incompetence but it feels like actual malice. The Crash revival train could have been ongoing right now as we speak. The numbers for the remakes were there, they were making more profit than they hoped for. They just hated us.

>>714716748
tell me about it

>>714716748
It's almost as if they were fans of other franchises but not Crash.

>>714717309
The irony is neither Sega nor Nintendo would want TFB anywhere near their flagship franchises.

>>714716947
>Have a near perfect run on the PS2
>Future series is "ok" but definitely with flaws
>Remake sucked all of the things that made the original good
>Rift Apart again is "ok" but with heavy flaws
I dunno what's worse: A series that got a successful revival being dead, or a series that is shambling along never being able to recapture what made the originals good.

>>714698772 (OP)
It really depends
A character like Link can get away with it because they're largely different characters just cycling through reincarnations and that each redesign fits more with the individual tone of each game.
Pit's redesign was well-received and it was designed with Link's evolution in mind

>>714719131
I still find it amazing that no matter the design, I can still recognize it as Link.
Even BoTW Link with the most radical departure of the standard design I can still recognize as Link.

>>714698772 (OP)
Depends on if the new design is worse.

>>714716748
the "reward" for vicarious visions and beenox was to work on their most prestigious and profitable IP: Call of Duty
as far as numbers go it's probably in their best interest, but when you have directors leaving the company and moving onto other things, you know that they've basically been gutted and turned into a soulless shell company that only exists to earn activision money and will be put down when the gravy stops flowing.

Vicarious Visions practically got the designs right in CNK (Hottest Coco), it's unfortunate what happened with the N. Sane Trilogy.

>>714715816
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because even without comparison to the rest of the series I think NST has some of the most viscerally repulsive character models in any video game ever

>>714721741
It's mostly the lighting and animations not doing the designs any justice, Nitro-fueled proved they needed some more polish to them and wackier animations.

>>714721741
I thought they got it quite right. Crash isn't supposed to be cute. The other anon is correct in saying that the lighting sure as hell didn't help. The switch version unironically looks better because of this.

The Crash 4 design actually looks good. The rest, not so much.

>>714722393
>Crash isn't supposed to be cute
You had me until this
Not only should he be cute, but he was always a cute little bastard

Just not in the handsome way

>>714714864
>tits stomach and pussy have a lighter shade of fur
don't know why it does it for me, but it do.

>>714721741
Its both the lighting and fur effects they gave certain characters.

>>714719296
It's the hair and the eyes