Worst Redesigns

[The Lawgiver]

Never understood why they insisted on making Bane into a Ben 10 alien for the '04 Batman show, especially when the rest of the villains got some really nice redesign. At least this Bane got actually put Batman out of commission (kind of), feel like he always gets underutilized in most Batman animated stuff he shows up in.
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kinda funny how he's a gimp in his powered down form but then becomes buff fucking luchador four arms minus 2 arms when powered up with his roids. I realized some weird shit a while ago about banethat's been bothering me since, notthe redesignbut justthe guy. Great character and all but do you know how there's like a bane lookalike that predates him weird respirator and tank possible strength juice thing and all? Croc master from gi joe s adude that fucking raises crocodiles but visually is just fucking bane and yet he predates bane by like almost a fucking decade if I remember this right. Weridly DC comics also has a serpentor lookalike named Kobra that dates backto the 70sbutused to look more like iron fist mixed with the fucking phantom than serpentor.
Also unrelated but wasn't there literally a ben 10 villain that was basically just bane but without the license to be bane? or was that transformers animated? There was that whole timespan during the mmid-to-late 2000s where cartoons would do that kinda thing for a one off character.

Is it me or does Madden's UI get worse every year?

Madden 17:

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Nice clean, readable scoreboard.

Madden 22:

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What the hell is that font?

What the actual fuck is going on with everything in the second one? why does it look more bootleg than the earlier one in just about every way? Saturation's turned wildly up despite the realism style it's going for.

 

[The Last Stand]

What the actual fuck is goingon eiwith everything in the second one? why does it look more bootleg than the earlier one in just about every way? Saturation's turned wildly up despite the realism style it's going for.

Madden 20's scoreboard is worse.


Look at how small that font looks. So basic and lazy.

 

[Alkaline Cab]

Over the past year or so, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup has been updating some of their sprites. For example, the dragons:

Old:

New:


While they might be technically nicer, the problem is that it just doesn't blend with much of the old stuff - which includes the player. Tiamat (outlined in red) is probably the biggest example.



I'm not sure if it's just me, but when the floor's dark, it becomes pretty hard to tell what from what. When a good chunk of the *Dungeon* is dreary, it obviously becomes a problem.

 

[Sugriva]

Over the past year or so, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup has been updating some of their sprites. For example, the dragons:

Old:
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New:
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While they might be technically nicer, the problem is that it just doesn't blend with much of the old stuff - which includes the player. Tiamat (outlined in red) is probably the biggest example.

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I'm not sure if it's just me, but when the floor's dark, it becomes pretty hard to tell what from what. When a good chunk of the *Dungeon* is dreary, it obviously becomes a problem.

DC:SS somehow gets worse with every update. It's crazy.

 

[Valstrax]

This feels like a war crime.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

This feels like a war crime.
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Yeah, the woke redesigns are overall pretty bad. I find the dolls themselves being the worst. They just have lost all if the mysterious monster mood and look so frumpy.

Just look at difference




Also for extra tumbr, they come with food accessories. Can you be more middle age fat single cat lady?

 

[The Last Stand]

Whose idea was it to make The Smurfs from 2D:



to live action:



What the hell is this?

 

[The Jesus Lizard]

Yeah, the woke redesigns are overall pretty bad. I find the dolls themselves being the worst. They just have lost all if the mysterious monster mood and look so frumpy.

Just look at difference
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Also for extra tumbr, they come with food accessories. Can you be more middle age fat single cat lady?
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The dolls faces look a lot like those of that big flop named Wild Hearts Crew. Why is there so much magenta everywhere? The original dolls had interesting color palettes, now everything is CYMK, plus purple.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Magic: The Gathering's logo change is not only a terrible re-design, but it also symbolizes how the game has decided to shit the bed, HARD:

To think we went from this...:







...to THIS garbage:



It's as if the new logo itself, was design to strip away the soul that was the MTG of past, and to become a purely corporate product.

 

[Crysocyan]

Why is the Rebuild 00 so frail?

 

[TheRetardKing]

This is Dollarama Macaulay Culkin.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Riot Games's and League of Legends's logo changes, also seem to represent the same change in directions with their games as Wizards of the Coast has done with MTG:

Riot Games's logos:







And here's the League of Legends's logo changes:









And speaking of Wizards of the Coast, their logo change was also a similar downgrade, and represents the same changes they did with MTG:

 

[The Last Stand]

Riot Games's logos:

I actually like the second one. But, I see your point.

And here's the League of Legends's logo changes:

Same with the third one.

 

[Big Fat Frog]

I think when it comes to horrible redesigns and my suggestion... I'm gonna pass you.

Taro Kitano in Hotwheels: World Race
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VS Taro Kitano in Hotwheels: Acceleracers...
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Like, what the fuck? This is probably the most egregious offense when it comes to the redesigns. Some are good like the Wylde brothers, with Mark going from the little bro following in his older brother Kurt's footsteps in World Race, to coming out of prison after Kurt basically left him to rot all edgy and trying to break out of his brother's shadow.

Spoiler: Kurt Wylde in WR vs A

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Spoiler: Mark Wylde in WR vs A

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But most of the redesigns are not good. Take Lani Tam and Vert Wheeler for example...

Lani in World Race. Looks normal. At least as normal as you can get in a low budget animated film.
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Compared to her appearance in Acceleracers. It's the eyes, man. And the eyebrows.
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And our main man Vert, a 16 year old surfer in World Race.
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To his appearance in Acceleracers. Now 18 years old and... Woah, his eyes changed color. And... why are you ghostly pale? I thought you were a surfer in California for Christ's sake.
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Most of it can be attributed as a stylistic change, but Lani and Taro look unbelievably fucked up in their redesigns. Also for some reason everyone has huge fucking feet in Acceleracers compared to World Race.
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Slightly less Autistic, but definitely the Xbox Avatars received a MAJOR downgrade when moved over to the Xbox One.

They look hideous, and tried really hard to go with the hip inclusive shit but it just seems like a parody. I went from having mine go from a characterization of me on the original avatar, to making mine a fat, black transgender goblin with a Native American shawl, died hair, robot limbs and a retarded wheelchair with the new one because making your avatar look normal with the new ones is impossible. They always look like they popped out of a Tumblr drawing. Thank God you can revert back to the original avatars if you want, though.

Kia's recent logo change also comes to mind...

I remember driving behind a Kia a while ago and squinting at it thinking what fucking car brand was I was looking at. I thought it was a Killer Instinct Mobile or something because of the sharp edges and shit

Wasn't until I looked at the horrible, shitty box design of the car I realized it was a Kia.

 

[The Last Stand]

Spider-Man's logo.



Iconic.



Meh. Nerfed.

The Amazing Spider-Man pales in comparison to the original trilogy.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Here's some more logo changes for teams of people that play video games for a living, that weren't needed:

NAVI (as in the Ukranian E-Sports team, and not the characters from the James Cameron Avatar movies)


T1 (although this was due to sponsorship and ownership changes)


LGD (their DOTA 2 team is sponsored by PSG, but the logo change is still a downgrade)


Mouz (they changed their logo from a mouse, to whatever this is)

 

[TVB]

Spider-Man's logo.

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Iconic.

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Meh. Nerfed.

The Amazing Spider-Man pales in comparison to the original trilogy.

The Sam Raimi trilogy's logo's typefont is just as iconic as the trilogy itself. I'd say TASM's typefont, while it's a downgrade for sure, is ok, yet it's still better than the duology itself, especially the second movie.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

who could forget this $1 mn botch? it's like the execs said "make it look more drunk":
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the design document reads like CorpSpeak nu-demonology. It even inspired a cool song:

DaBaby Convertible???

 

[sharkfist]

The most recent iteration of Call of Duty (MW2, 22 - even the name is fucking stupid) has got to have the WORST user interface in a while. Here's a comparison with the original MW2:

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OLD

It's almost as if these retards designed this new shit for a tablet. Giving me some HUGE win8 vibes (remember that dumpster fire?)

 

[Arianne Chan]

From classic Miis...


To this ugly shit