nxp3

Dark

solidousSNK

Dun dun DAAAAAA da da dah daaaaah. Da duh dah da daaaaa da da da DAAaaaaaa...

Pope John Peeps II

icarusprime

"in the near future, because of the war in iraq and the resulting nuclear war, super soldiers will style their hair like members of Fishbone and have massive robotic arms with meat products strewn in an ornate manner across hard steel, sugically afixed to their bodies.
This is Bionic Commando.

Oh, and all cats will have the ability to shoot lasers out of their eyes"

that being said, Lucas Arts newish game has a really terrible design for their main character as well..

all in all, if it plays well....... if it's FUN... the guy can sport a beer gut, a nascar ballcap sideways on his head, a can of baked beans for fingers, military grade explosive braces and jheri curl in his pubic hair for all i care.

brodie123

wolvie007

When did the bicepular tubesteaks go from being a point of hilarity to a point of contention?

This is serious business (!?).

kmattson

windsor b

the game looks fun as hell.

Insomnia Bob

zanzibarlegend

zanzibarlegend

drack48

1) The arm just looks too big and clunky. Like he would walk lopsided in real life due to weight of the thing.

2) Yeah, the hotdogs do look like hotdogs, but also they look so exposed they could get snagged and torn on something in a jagged post-apocalypitic city, or whatever that level is.

3) I have no problem with the dreads in general, but they just don't feel like they belong in Bionic Commando, so they probably should go. It just feels like an attempt to re-envision the character as 'extreme'.

4) But I am happy to see Bionic Commando return (complete with theme!). Just please don't do what they with Lost Planet, no invicibility after falling on the ground!

VicViper

solidblur

curtis

McKack

SuperCracker

Witzbold

Sunjammer

What was even more humerous was how Nintendo of America approved the US box art of the NES version which was false advertisement, due to the fact that it had used screenshots from the arcade version on the back of the box.

Witzbold

Cornrows == [en.wikipedia.org]

Dreadlocks == [en.wikipedia.org]

They are two very different hairstyles and judging by the character's loose hanging hair, he does not have cornrows. And quite honestly, who cares what his arm looks like? No one cared in the original version. We all just want to swing around like Spider-man.

Kain-Xavier

Insomnia Bob

i_9

The hairstyle was 10 foot long bangs, like any number of dozens of look-alike anime.

Unless they bring back this lime-monster, it won't be bionic commando. Not *really*.

Also, if you think phalli are bright orange, you may need to adjust your color settings, or see a doctor. Or stop dating people addicted to cheetos, doritos, orange crush, and turpentine.

deathbunny

I demand the inclusion of Super Joe for player two (online co-op, include it devs!). You can't have Bionic Commando without Super Joe.

GorbyGipper

wtf007

Agemosu

robinhood1013

"Masturbation is bad"

Witzbold

dead_red_eyes

I'm serious!

dead_red_eyes

Though I do agree with those who say that changing the colour of the cables in the arm to a blue would make them look less sausage like, or make the fibre texture on their surface a bit more pronounced.

frozenfox13

@Witzbold: Bo0o0o0o0 Why play the game when you can be pissed now! Why what! LOL

Really though they are just doing their job. Let them do it and if it is good then it will be good. I don't remember an insane amount of people like the original any way.

Runna

feartheraven

Witzbold

DoubleM

Deuce

Schu

wtf007

Probably not though.

Degreeless

Anyway...
[gaygamer.net]
Could be dreadlocks. I probably would have given him some sort of rakishly touselled look, but I suppose then it wouldn't flow in the breeze.

Jackablade

thenino85

Everything else she did scared the shit out of me as I was growing up.

Witzbold

And they can't just give him long hair because it's too difficult to animate. Even Heavenly Sword, which has the best character models since forever, had to clump the main character's hair together. Individually modeling each and every strand of hair is an absurd amount of work for very little return.

Moonshadow101

That is why they should have made BC that way he always has been... these character just lack personality... BC always looked like he just woke up and some one put this arm on him and told him super joe was gonna die if he didn't save him...LOL If this guy was more like kojima then we wouldn't be going thru this... -read creative- hey but we will see what he comes up with.

Design by committee sucks...

@Witzbold: I actualy heard some one playing grace jones *song* which was just a chorus of her with a 3 minute build up... man that lady is scary!

Really though if they wanted some thing to swing in the air give him a dog tags thats is super shiny or some thing so the player is blinded once an a while by the sparkle!

The bling bling kids will eat it up! Also too a flavor flay clock would be sweet on every bad guy! Hey and if they are going for a real update then when you get to the end you find out this was just a sick version of running man and it turns out to be the next gen version of survivor 20XX! Now every one is happy!

Runna

If they really want to be edgy give him a turban !

Runna

Darthvinder

Earthslide

Witzbold

Also too I wonder if super joe is going to be in this one?

Also too dreads don't make me think edgy they remind me more of some one laid back. Edgy is a mohawk made of feathers, grace jones...LOL fashion design schools want edgy gamers want cool. He should really look back at some things that where also re-imaged. I remember hating the transformers design as they where too busy yet the movie actually rocked and added to the folk lore of transformers.

I like the concept around the hand thing but I think they made this character to die... really. Then the real BC will step up and throw down.

Really though I wonder how this is going to sell?

Now if they mess strider up like this I will be pissed once more!

Runna

If the dude's going to have dreads, make them all over the place and not just kinda' pulled back. That would probably help a bit, or... if they were really cool, pull a Mass Effect and make the character customizable; arm-size, hair, skin tone, whatever you want. Though, that isn't going to probably happen.

The arm tubes should be a darker shade. That'd fix that.

Detha

-EDGE-

Witzbold

Cojo21

Ampillion, Dayman. Fighter of the Nightman.

Scuba Steve

Cyco

TheBard

digitalmorphine

Witzbold

retronaut

The hotdogs is what Im worried about though.

Witzbold

And I'm in the "the arm is too big" camp. How much would something that large and mechanical weigh? And why isn't he having to lean a fair amount to his right to compensate for that weight? Unless he also has Bionic Balance...

Eltigro

Ra is on That 70s Show

Cathl

Soldrak

Anyways, dread locks can stay, but that arm is a bit too big... cables can stay, but I think there's probably too many.

Akin

Insomnia Bob

Damn I thought we were on the 21st century. And this game is set 100 years in the future, MAYBE dreadlocks are OK 100 years from now when there are fewer racist jerks and losers? WHO KNOWS! Maybe!!!

Soldrak

Us cracker ass honkies should stick with what works. The buzzcut.

InsomniaBob played the race card!
It's super effective!

Seriously, though, I'm not a fan of those dreads. It's not gonna make me NOT play this, but still. I'm sick of the formulaic approach to making a game character look 'edgy'. And the dreads reek of that formula.

Insomnia Bob

If the piping really irks people (which is more than a little silly as far as I'm concerned) then they could always flatten them out a bit and bundle them a bit tighter, more like the Crysis suit.
[www.aeropause.com]
Then of course you'd have people whining about the pipes not being representative of what one would consider to be a realistic military issue bionic arm with grapnel attachment.

Jackablade

El-Suave

the-red-terror

shouryuuken

Anyway, I digress. Regarding the arm, it looks like it's heavier than his actual body and would tear off after one swing.

inphanta

the-red-terror

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What's wrong with just giving him some long hair for that windy effect? Besides, the original as far as I remember has red hair that kind of sticks straight up - that's fairly unique and could sway quite nicely.

The arm is fine, but yeah the color makes me think hot dogs. Steel coils or something of the like seems more fitting.

noelix

Cornrows? Sorry, wrong game. Try GTA. If you meant dreadlocks, then I ask you: do all video game heroes need the same hairstyle?

Know why his bionic arm is large? Maybe to emphasize the fact that y'know, it's fuckin' bionic. This is not a real arm folks. It houses a grappling hook + cord + his wallet and keys! It's gonna be a little larger than life, ok?

Y'know, I can't wait until the next unexpected franchise revival occurs, just for the inane nitpicking.

BigApple

Dishliquid

More importantly, this game is automatically awesome no matter what due to the involvment of one Mike Patton. Because Mike Patton kicks ass.

ShakeWell

Too few video game heroes are self-aware these days. Let's have some more with personality rather than just power.

jordan.w.s

MeanMF

superbagman

Haze4peace

ibelli

sinny

Astrofox

And yeah, lose the hot dogs in the arm. But otherwise, I'm still sold on this. I think it's going to be awesome. Keep your Zeldas and your Metroids and your 800 million other remakes of old games, I've waited a long time for this one!

Karlott

7th_Ronin

ABigSmall

of course feedback is quite okey to do, but sometimes it looks more like complains...

some bad decision are sometime took because of complains that are made because of misunderstanding from the mass... really

anyway look, these are complains about a freakin character, not gameplay, level design or you know anything thats really important and basic... of course we cant complain about level design or else because we havent been able to play.. but still a character is a simple image , a tool for marketing , and some may like some may not... but the guys who made this really thought about it like really hard before even pushing the very first vertex, so to me seeing people complaining about something they didnt understand or found weird is shocking to me...

on the other hand there could have been an error in the design if a large amount of people didnt understand what was going on

my point finally is just, if you love your games please be really clear in the arguments and comments you do... and never forget one clear thing...

7th_Ronin

Insomnia Bob

nemyhlovecraft

SpootCaz

zanzibarlegend

theherlihyboy

thisisasignin

serotoninzero

peet

kNZA

Oh, and thanks for those that pointed out they AREN'T even cornrows. Man, I'd be scared to see the reaction if the character were black ...

DARTH_TIGRIS

The Rage

Aimless

@bungong: THANKYOU, poor, sheltered, uncultured people dont know the difference. though most hair in games always seems to look like shitlocks.

VenoMuS

solidsquirrel

Insomnia Bob

Sailorcancer

DFS

I means this isnt the o.g. bc its the next gen bc...those memories of the old one are fine as they are

7th_Ronin

Now, granted, the one shown of in Bionic Commando has been smothered in Xtreme-Sauce. But I take more issue with the fact that it looks like the weight of the thing is about to pull it out of it's socket. The hotdogs, ironically, are the most authentically "bionic" part of that arm.

I just hate to see something getting slammed for being true to the science behind the buzzword.

Insomnia Bob

Just gray, or army green those tubes and we're in business.

fecalchaos

bungong

The hot dog thingies do look like hot dogs, and do look stupid, but I kinda like that too.
I even like the stupidly big arm.

All I'd change, if indeed it isn't already in place, is that the character is fully aware of how dumb he looks.
Accepting function over form, but bitching about it from time to time.

Dorcas

And after his throat feels better, someone needs to drown him.

Insomnia Bob

Brian Ashcraft

jayntampa

def PD

Maybe change the color of those psudo-muscle tubes, though. Can't hoit.

Insomnia Bob

solidsquirrel

solidsquirrel

VenoMuS

ABigSmall

solidsquirrel

sinny

But yeah, that arm does look a bit too big. Seems like it would be unwieldy. And the "hot dogs" could do with a color change.

Nedus