LSW Sprites + Style Stuff

[KaseiHonoo]

Hello every one sorry if this feels like a rant I'm just extremely irritated at this person right now and I need to get a opinion like as soon as possable.

So as you know I'm making a DB game and it is using the LSW sprites.

I am also having a contest where you can put your fan created original character.

Now someone who entered is having a bit of an issue that is irritating me.

He wants to have his character extremely fluid and extremely well shaded while EVERY ONE ELSE is in the LSW style with the color corrections and the pieces of shading. He says that me using this style is just being lazy. He also says that 8 bit graphics are bat shit ugly and are out done and that megaman 9 and 10 would have been better if they weren't 8-bit.

He is complaining cause his beam cant have the same shading as in like FF6 even though it would stand out like a sore thumb.

He also sees no problem in having one character that stands out visually than all the other characters by a shit ton and that I should just do it.

Can you believe this guy!

[Blue]

Y'know all of these posts can go into the one thread dedicated to your fan game.

[caejones]

Well, bluntly put, if the stylistic issues are too big a problem, either don't use his designs or make them fit (I'd go with just picking someone else's, though... better to just drop the problem entirely rather than risk making it worse...).
If that's not possible, though... umm... Eh.

For my own projects, I'm willing to permit stylistic dissonance if I had to just because it'd be more than what I have now, but it's an issue I've kinda wondered about.

But since it's a problem you shouldn't have to put up with... well... don't.
[edit] Ah, read the thread in fanworks, and see that you can't drop uncooperative people without enough cooperative people. Perhaps I'll try to find some? No promises, unfortunately. [/edit]

[KaseiHonoo]

True but I wanted to talk about the subject or dismissing this style as ugly and lazy and unattractive and no charm

[SparkyPantsMcGee]

If his style is visually attractive, why not use it, why limit yourself?

I don't agree with his Megaman 9 and 10 statements though. They did that for nostalgic/ continuity purposes. Plus they look fine.

However, your game(as far as I know) doesn't have a nostalgic value so why limit the games potential? If you can pull it off and make all the sprites as nice as his(this is based on your statement, I don't know how good it looks) then I say do it.

[KaseiHonoo]

It wasnt even that it. It was the fact that he didnt see any skill in the style itself which is the enhanced LSW style. And he wasnt even doing that much more advance. He just wanted really fancy beams. And he'd be the only one with them. He said they were like an ugly birthchild of 8 bit and 16 bit. I was mainly shocked by how he was hating on the style itself so much.

[SparkyPantsMcGee]

I'm sorry, what exactly is LSW styled sprites and can I get a sample of what they look like?

With his consent, I was also wondering if you could post his sprite concept for comparison.

[KaseiHonoo]

OK, here is an example of a LSW Goku enhanced by Son Goharotto:



I've gotten permission. He's still letting me use her and knows I'm submitting it to various forums.

[SparkyPantsMcGee]

I don't understand the kids problem. I was expecting a style completely different from yours, but both sprites looks similar. I mean if "[yours] were like an ugly birth child of 8 bit and 16 bit," then so are his. Honestly though, if you can "enhance" the look of the beams and make them better than I say do it. However since he's being a whinny pain in the ass, I say take caejones's idea and find someone else to put into the game. If he's getting upset over minor changes then tell him to make his own damn game.

[KaseiHonoo]

Like i sad the argument got worse cause we went off topic but he said he was just gonna stick with the style.