What are your favorite video game sprites/3D models?

[mosey]

If 2D isn't your thing, what are your favorite 3D models? Mine...

From Final Fantasy (V or IV?)
Ifrit

Some flying snake thing!

Aya Brea in Parasite Eve one

[neorocker]

SotN or bust! Such cool graphics, and, well, pixel monster / demon / angel babes.

[mosey]

Breath of Fire 4 is even better in motion.

[BIL]

I like METAL and GUTS especially via MY MD.


Contra The Hard Corps


Devil Crash MD, Gynoug

For 3D, Masahiro Ito's lovingly hand-animated abberations.


Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3

Hyperdetailed fantastical warbirds epitomised by Toaplan, Raizing and Seibu Kaihatsu.


Battle Garegga

Nazca.


Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug 3

All credit to esreveR for the Garegga and Metal Slug gifs!

[Mischief Maker]

The GTD Orion from Freespace 1 and 2:




Just a work of beauty.

[chempop]

[quash]

I love all the Guilty Gear sprites, but Eddie's is without a doubt the most impressive.

[KAI]

The Super Flanker, the R-103 Delphinus and the Su-43 from Ace Combat 3




Charlotte's stage from Samurai Spirits 2


Ougon Musoukyoku

[Obiwanshinobi]

Valkyrie Profile characters.



Suikoden II characters (the lot). I must admit Suikoden III characters retained some of its charm in 3D.

Wee human characters in Sensible Software games, Walker, Assault Suits Valken, Metal Warriors (one is playable!), Jets'n'Guns, Gunstar Heroes (one is a boss!), Cave Story...

[Skykid]

[PedroMD]

I love all the pixels in Contra: The Hard Corps, but especially this robot



and this one:



Also, the Arkbird from Ace Combat 5:

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Sweet Home on the NES has some fantastically disgusting monsters, but this scene makes it the goriest NES game ever (as far as I know!).

[Leandro]

He makes such an evil, sadistic face during this move, I never understood that. Really cool.

[drauch]

Skykid beat me to it...

[CKR]

[BIL]

I love all the pixels in Contra: The Hard Corps, but especially this robot

Hard Corps has the best robots <3 Not even Gunstar's are quite as derangedly, lankily expressive.



"Whooo! Oh and IMMA KILL YOU"

[drauch]

Basically horror and babes. What I grew up on!

[neorocker]

I love all the pixels in Contra: The Hard Corps, but especially this robot

Hard Corps has the best robots <3 Not even Gunstar's are quite as derangedly, lankily expressive.

My favorite in Hard Corps is the two-sphere robot with the waggling arms. The thing is so goofy and has so much personality, wiggling its arms and throwing itself all over the screen. I completely lose my shit every time I see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuxAcNiZVo&t=4m15s

[CStarFlare]

[BIL]

Master Boreworm

I don't know if it was a glitch, but I swear a few times I've left the game paused for a while, then come back and heard his giggle on unpausing. LONG AFTER I KILLED HIM. Must investigate that.



One of the great "MOTHERFUCKER I'LL KILL YOU" bosses of the era.

My favorite in Hard Corps is the two-sphere robot with the waggling arms. The thing is so goofy and has so much personality, wiggling its arms and throwing itself all over the screen. I completely lose my shit every time I see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuxAcNiZVo&t=4m15s

I just tried making a few dedicated boss gifs, and holy crap it's way too big a project to approach casually if they're to be done justice. Total bouncing, flailing multi-sprite madness. Something for a rainy day.

[Squire Grooktook]

SCRUB GRILLS

Spoiler

[neorocker]

I don't know if it was a glitch, but I swear a few times I've left the game paused for a while, then come back and heard his giggle on unpausing. LONG AFTER I KILLED HIM. Must investigate that.

I just tried making a few dedicated boss gifs, and holy crap it's way too big a project to approach casually if they're to be done justice. Total bouncing, flailing multi-sprite madness. Something for a rainy day.

Regarding Splatterhouse 3: it's a random event! There are a few things in the game like this if I recall, but the boreworm laugh on pause / unpause is one of them.

And yeah, Hard Corps is completely nuts. You can really feel how much fun the devs had making the bosses as ridiculous as possible.

[Daigohji]

One of the best games on the Gamecube: http://youtu.be/WNNgKRH60w0

Shiva (FFX version): http://youtu.be/EBuZrPI2x_g?t=18s

It still amazes me that the character models in Silent Hill 3 were possible on the PS2: http://youtu.be/JeP9vA2I1BA?t=2m24s

[BIL]

Regarding Splatterhouse 3: it's a random event! There are a few things in the game like this if I recall, but the boreworm laugh on pause / unpause is one of them.

Cool. I knew I probably wasn't crazy. ^_~

A complete set of accurate HC boss and enemy gifs would be so cool. So many awesomes. Maybe that'll be my bonsai tree.

[evil_ash_xero]

This is really hard to answer. It's even harder to find pics, or animated pics.

Symphony Of The Night, and the Metal Slug games(1-3) are coming to mind.

I love this sprite, as it makes horrible death seem pretty funny. It's probably one of my all time favorite sprites. I don't know what that says about me.
The Allan O'Neil sprite(where he's laughing and shooting) is a favorite, but I can't find any gifs.



For just cool designs, you gotta hand it to Rad Spencer. I mean, he's 8 bit and still looks good.



Sexy Parodius has some sexy and funny sprites. I couldn't find any good pics of Tanuko, unfortunately.



As for 3D..who doesn't love a mullet?

[Bloodreign]

Her hair looks horrible in the final 2 sprites, the first one looks nice though as it flows well with her movements.

just one of my favorites.

Edit: one more from a fighting series I recently finally found the time to love.

[drauch]

Yeah, I definitely prefer the sprites of Mai from previous games. But dem boobies bounce too good, I tells ya.

Forgot about this little guy, especially with the recent discussion:

[evil_ash_xero]

What's up with that guy? Did he fall in some whipped cream?

[Bloodreign]

Another nice one from Vampire Savior, cut your own head off as an attack.

[adanrmackey]

Aya Brea is the best 3D model for me.