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The_Other posted:Been meaning to post this for a while; back in 2011 Tim Gunn did some videos on Youtube were he critiqued various superhero costumes, mainly those characters that have changed their look over the years. I know the videos are old but I thought people in this thread might be interested and might not have seen them. Ooh, I've never seen the Green Lantern videos before. Apparently he also did two videos about Star Trek uniforms. One Two
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The_Other posted:Been meaning to post this for a while; back in 2011 Tim Gunn did some videos on Youtube were he critiqued various superhero costumes, mainly those characters that have changed their look over the years. I know the videos are old but I thought people in this thread might be interested and might not have seen them. "Next week: More Star Trek fun with Tim Gunn!" Oh cool, this must have come out really recently, I wonder when I can expect-- *Video uploaded 3 years ago* ...oh.
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Aug 10, 2015 21:01
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There's a youtube commenter who's currently really mad at me because I commented negatively on the "classic" Harley Quinn outfit in the new Batman game, which is a glistening, vacuum-sealed latex version of the outfit. I can see her belly button through her outfit.
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Aug 10, 2015 22:18
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Lurdiak posted:There's a youtube commenter who's currently really mad at me because I commented negatively on the "classic" Harley Quinn outfit in the new Batman game, which is a glistening, vacuum-sealed latex version of the outfit. Eurgh, I never noticed that. If it wasn't skintight and latex for no good reason, I'd think that was a safe way to handle depicting the character, given the massive faults of the previous games. Argh, and I'd thought Knight had avoided the problems of City...
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Discendo Vox posted:Eurgh, I never noticed that. If it wasn't skintight and latex for no good reason, I'd think that was a safe way to handle depicting the character, given the massive faults of the previous games. Argh, and I'd thought Knight had avoided the problems of City... She only has that outfit in the Batgirl DLC, which is a flashback (yet another excuse to include more Joker). Her regular outfit in the game is this monstrosity:  The usual terribleness of modern Harley designs.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:20
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Discendo Vox posted:Argh, and I'd thought Knight had avoided the problems of City... Knight takes everything that sucked about City and wraps it in a pretty "next-gen" package. It's really quite sad.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:22
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I'm not terrible at games so Knight is pretty fun.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:47
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The Arkham games have always (except for Origins) had great gameplay with the absolute worst character designs these characters have ever been subjected to. Batman started alright but has gradually turned into a hulked-out robot man and all the ladies have been uniformly terrible since the get-go.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:56
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Travis343 posted:The Arkham games have always (except for Origins) had great gameplay with the absolute worst character designs these characters have ever been subjected to. The absolute travesty is that there's no classic Batman blue and gray suit to choose from.
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10 Beers posted:The absolute travesty is that there's no classic Batman blue and gray suit to choose from. If you weren't wearing the animated series skins for everyone in City, I don't wanna know you.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:13
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Lurdiak posted:If you weren't wearing the animated series skins for everyone in City, I don't wanna know you. I divided my time between them. Love em both!
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Aug 11, 2015 00:19
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10 Beers posted:The absolute travesty is that there's no classic Batman blue and gray suit to choose from. Arkham City had a very faithful Neal Adams Batman as well as the B:TAS suit to choose from. The real tragedy is that the rest of the game still looks like it does when you're wearing it.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:50
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10 Beers posted:The absolute travesty is that there's no classic Batman blue and gray suit to choose from. Yes there is.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:53
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Lurdiak posted:She only has that outfit in the Batgirl DLC, which is a flashback (yet another excuse to include more Joker). Her regular outfit in the game is this monstrosity: I don't have a problem with that one, or with the depictions of any of the female characters in the main game. City was much, much worse. It'll be interesting to see if the concept art for Knight is as mind-breakingly upsetting as the previous games.
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Travis343 posted:Arkham City had a very faithful Neal Adams Batman as well as the B:TAS suit to choose from. If someone were to make some kind of mod that reskins the entire game to look like the animated series, from the mooks to the buildings, I would pretty much never need to play another Batman game. Although I suppose the problem with that is it presumes that someone would bother modding a WB Games PC port, which is a bit like putting nitro and rims on a wheelbarrow that has no handles. Discendo Vox posted:I don't have a problem with that one, or with the depictions of any of the female characters in the main game. City was much, much worse. It'll be interesting to see if the concept art for Knight is as mind-breakingly upsetting as the previous games. I don't find it terrible because of how sexy it is, for the record. I just think it's horribly gaudy and kind of ruins a character that had a simple, elegant design.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:57
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Aphrodite posted:Yes there is. In Arkham Knight? How do you get that one?
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Aug 11, 2015 01:00
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I think it's the pack that just came out last week. If you have it on PS4 you also have Adam West Batman though.
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Aug 11, 2015 01:05
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Aphrodite posted:I think it's the pack that just came out last week. Huh, I had no idea. I'm on XBone, and it looks like they haven't released the Bat-Family Skin Pack yet.  Although the 1989 Batmobile skin pack makes me grin.
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Oh, I guess it isn't actually out yet. It is August's release though, so it'll be out soon.
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Aug 11, 2015 01:24
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Lurdiak posted:
It's definitely better than Sad Juggalo Harley from City where she just had smeary mascara in lieu of any kind of clown makeup and like the very tips of her pigtails dyed black. The comics have finally managed to make a non-B:TAS Harley outfit that I don't hate in Roller Derby Harley though.
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Aug 11, 2015 01:27
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You can play as the batman of zur-en-arrh now, so all other costumes are pointless
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Lurdiak posted:I don't find it terrible because of how sexy it is, for the record. I just think it's horribly gaudy and kind of ruins a character that had a simple, elegant design. Hey, think about it this way- with those metal links she's all set to go spelunking for some reason! I'm guessing this version of Harley's costume intentionally contains features designed to reference each version of the character and each game in the series, hence the combination of Arkham restraints, doctor's outfit white, mourning outfit skirts, and harlequin patterns. Which is a clever design idea, but a mess visually. Still, if we're at the point of complaining about visual style on a female comic book character in the Arkham series, Progress Has Been Made.
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Aug 11, 2015 01:33
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Also "a mess visually" isn't really that bad an idea for a Harley costume.
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Aug 11, 2015 01:44
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I just read Zero Year and am strangely into purple gloves Batman.
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That's in the game too.
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Pretty long interview with Alex Ross, going into Secret Wars covers and his Spider-Man redesign.Calaveron posted:Did they... did they pixelate her boobs and crotch? Lurdiak posted:If you weren't wearing the animated series skins for everyone in City, I don't wanna know you. 
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Lurdiak posted:There's a youtube commenter who's currently really mad at me because I commented negatively on the "classic" Harley Quinn outfit in the new Batman game, which is a glistening, vacuum-sealed latex version of the outfit. Did they... did they pixelate her boobs and crotch? I'm genuinely curious: Could you even make a realistic original Harley costume design without it coming out all sexified and pandering?
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Calaveron posted:Did they... did they pixelate her boobs and crotch? Of course you can, jeez. People have been cosplaying that outfit for years and only a few of them tend to go for the body paint look.
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redbackground posted:Pretty long interview with Alex Ross, going into Secret Wars covers and his Spider-Man redesign. I'm still not sure how I feel about that costume. Spidey's my favorite, and I've always loved the blue and red. I always thought the black was just okay, but I think the blue and red is spectacular. Amazing, even.
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I just don't understand why anyone would ask Alex Ross or Jim Lee to design costumes, yet they keep doing it.
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Aug 11, 2015 12:00
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That green lantern logo on spidey's suit sure looks odd.
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The weakest tweak I can imagine and tiny addons are not phrases that come to mind for putting a trio of nightlights on a Spidey suit.
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That new Spider-Man design is like the laziest thing possible which makes it that much worse. "Yeah I added mood lighting and made his boots a little taller. Pay me, bitches."
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Endless Mike posted:That new Spider-Man design is like the laziest thing possible which makes it that much worse. The thing is, the classic blue and red doesn't have much room for improvement. Either you have to throw it out and start from scratch, as with the black costume, or you do tiny changes for the sake of change, like tinkering with the shape of the eyes or the logo or whatever.
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Yeah, that's why you just don't change it.
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Aug 11, 2015 16:29
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What about SpOck?
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:What about SpOck? That is a great spider costume.
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There could be a red Spider-Man, and a blue Spider-Man and they could have electricity powers.
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Or give him a Mullet. Also, we already have the Kid Spider-man, where's the Robot and armor Spider-man?
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I like that costume. It'll look good swinging across the Tokyo skyline. Eight year old me wants the action figure with light up action.
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