Game concept

But those images never go away, and gamers will always be able to see just how much stronger designs and games could have been if companies just took more of a chance. For those unfamiliar, Mass Effect is a story heavy, third person shooter, all about space adventures with your rag tag crew full of romantic possibilities.

Of course fans were outraged! But now, through a couple of official concept art pieces, we can see what might have been in all the different iterations of our beloved Tali'Zorah nar Rayya.

But believe me, I chose the best two to include. They feature lots of flames, movement limes, and black outlines in their art. But these concepts are just too extreme. I wish there was a world where this Mario design was a reality. Nintendo messed up by not using these.

The Halo franchise was internationally successful and the super soldier design for the Chief here has been expanded upon ever since. But that same slick design could have been much…rounder. In the concept art for Master Chief, we can see his suit was originally much more rounded and form-fitting. Honestly, it looks to me like a simplified Doomguy design. Or quite possibly an 80s space marine with an Oculus Rift over his eyes.

I think this design is much more suited for a different generation and would have been a great action figure for kids in the 70s. Now in , a Reboot of the famous Doom franchise was released and basically brought back the hyper-aggressive aesthetic. Needless to say, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the top selling games of all time, and is probably the highest selling Zelda game of all time as well.

That said, these versions of Link and Zelda are going to be the most recognized designs moving forward. Both Link and Zelda in Breath of the Wild look pretty different from other iterations of the dynamic duo.

But we now know thanks to an interview with the Art director, that Link could have looked out of this world. And by that I mean there was originally a concept design where our Green Tunic Hero was in an emerald spacesuit! I want them as DLC now. Kratos finally gets the opportunity to just kick back and relax in Norse mythology.

Among those are the Valkyries, normally ethereal angels that have somehow been given physical form. These fights are the hardest bosses in the game by far and honestly a blast. But thinking back they do blend together and all feel like the same fight with minor variations.

After fighting all of them I felt like they all had one or two unique moves and their own cool helmet. But we see in the concept art that the Valkyries were originally going to be much more individual. Sora especially, being one of the most memorable designs out there. And that goes double for the Keyblade. But it turns out that Sora was originally going to be a bit more ferocious, as a little lion boy.

In the second game, protagonist Shepard has a tragic accident and is rebuilt by the Cerberus organization, headed by the Illusive Man. Who, in the game, look basically like Nightwing from Batman? Both way, Cerberus and all involved with it were originally going to look much different. The Illusive Man seems to have gotten a half off haircut and took in a bit too much Reaper energy. And finally we have a concept design for a Cerberus grunt which is just SO perfect.

I love you bubble boy. These little girls run around and literally climb through the pipes of the submerged Rapture to harvest the Plasmid goo from the defeated splicers. Some more horror themed designs, some sci-fi ones, but my favorite of all is the idea that they would be giant chipmunks.

These concept drawings for them are both hilarious…and sort of terrifying. The picture in my head of the imposing Big Daddy, stalking through Rapture holding hands with a squeaking chipmunk in a dress? The game was being developed off and on over a 10 year period and was originally pitched as Final Fantasy 13!

Noctis is the prince of Insomnia, a land constantly at war with their neighboring kingdom, the Empire. Say what you want about the Injustice franchise as fighting games, I can see both sides. But I personally think a lot of the designs they went with are weak. NetherRealm has always had a hard time with more delicate facial features, especially with their female designs. But in these concept pieces we can see that originally NetherRealm was attempting some really unique designs.

Unfortunately in the end most of the designs were played safe, and were just realistic versions of the comic crusaders. At least as far as video games are concerned. Sonic originally had a number of design concepts, but the most surprising one is that he was at one point going to be a rabbit. Honestly this rabbit design looks more aerodynamic than the hedgehog one and rabbits are much more known for their speed than hedgehogs.

Sonic would have faded into obscurity and the gaming landscape would have changed! Overwatch has A LOT of unused ideas. That said, Junkrat and Pharah probably had the most drastic differences between their concept and final iterations. Junkrat in particular seemed to have been originally planned as a bulky, bomb defusal traitor with a rocket shoulder.

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