GPX | 1,369 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Video games have a rich history of a vast array of villains, baddies, badasses, ninjas and other minions. All are there to make gaming a challenge, a misery, a pleasure and other types of emotions. So where am I going with this? Well, a thought has recently crossed my mind since playing some games on my trusty Xbox Live: Geometry Wars and Shinobi. Playing these 2 games, the common "baddies" in the ships and ninjas have certain colors that are a common theme among a lot of games that are out there. Yellow, red, green, blue are probably the more common colors that exist in gaming. The question I have is: which color is the most commonly designated to the most lethal baddy in games? I can start the ball rolling with my 2 above game examples: * Shinobi - blue ninja - quickest speed, and can attack in both ground and air. * Geometry Wars 2 - green ship - quickest speed, can zip around in hyperspeed, bordering on cheating at times. Anyone feel free to add a game title and the color of most lethal opponent! Let's see if we can come to any conclusive answer to the topic in question.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox | 1,666 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Silver/Gray Spoiler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Brown for Goomba I’m willing to bet more people died from the first Goomba of Super Mario Bros. Stage 1-1 than any other villain or hazard in the game. Dude is a straightforward mass murder. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 36 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: Brown for Goomba I’m willing to bet more people died from the first Goomba of Super Mario Bros. Stage 1-1 than any other villain or hazard in the game. Dude is a straightforward mass murder. Let's just say I'd probably get a modest chuckle out of seeing a super-cut of YouTube/Twitch gamers playing SMB 35th Anniversary Edition for the first time if that was their intro to SMB. "WTF, that enemy isn't fair! Waaaa" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,833 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 I probably didn't explain clearly enough in the original post. My original thought was more to do with games which use color coding for the common enemies during each level. I guess showing some pics would make it easier to comprehend: Apologies for the blurry pics. Taken fresh from my recent gaming session on the home TV.. Damn you green ship and blue ninja! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,534 Graphics Team · Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 No games with color-coded enemies come to mind right now, but there are plenty of games that alter the color of an enemy boss as it takes more and more damage. I've been playing a lot of Image Fight recently, and the bosses start turning red as you get closer to beating them. -CasualCart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 17 minutes ago, CasualCart said: No games with color-coded enemies come to mind right now, but there are plenty of games that alter the color of an enemy boss as it takes more and more damage. I've been playing a lot of Image Fight recently, and the bosses start turning red as you get closer to beating them. -CasualCart Yeah, when bosses start changing color as you do more damage, they also tend to become more powerful and/or quick in addition to the color change. I'm much more intimidated by a super super quick boss with little health than a super slow boss with tons of health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,096 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Purple Gannon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,941 Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Definitely $0D blacks on the NES https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Color_$0D_games 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 On 12/14/2020 at 9:28 AM, CasualCart said: No games with color-coded enemies come to mind right now, but there are plenty of games that alter the color of an enemy boss as it takes more and more damage. I've been playing a lot of Image Fight recently, and the bosses start turning red as you get closer to beating them. -CasualCart Just a curious thing, have you noticed what your commonest color of use when drawing gaming art? And do they differ with the “goodies” vs “baddies”? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,534 Graphics Team · Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 7 hours ago, GPX said: Just a curious thing, have you noticed what your commonest color of use when drawing gaming art? And do they differ with the “goodies” vs “baddies”? I haven't paid much attention, but it seems like mostly primary colors - red, blue, and yellow. I think that's common in design, though, to show the audience/player who is important. (There's no mistaking who the important characters are in Power Rangers haha.) -CasualCart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,941 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 As someone who's never watched Power Ranger and only recognize them by the colors, I had absolutely no clue that some of them were more important than the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 15 hours ago, CasualCart said: I haven't paid much attention, but it seems like mostly primary colors - red, blue, and yellow. I think that's common in design, though, to show the audience/player who is important. (There's no mistaking who the important characters are in Power Rangers haha.) -CasualCart Yes, no doubt the primary colors and green are among the commonest palettes used. I guess this is more an artistic enquiry, in that which is the most dominant color chosen to designate the highest rank minion/baddy? Probably no way of knowing for sure seeing there’s too many games out in the market right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,798 Events Team · Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Blue. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 34 minutes ago, JamesRobot said: Blue. Hide contents What is that ugly pixelated thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,798 Events Team · Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, GPX said: What is that ugly pixelated thing? I don't know but I hate it with passion. It's knocked me into countless bottomless pits across many games and consoles. Edited December 19, 2020 by JamesRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 11 minutes ago, JamesRobot said: I don't know but I hate it with passion. It's knocked me into countless bottomless pits across many games and consoles. Is that from Castlevania? Well whatever it is, I don’t like it either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,798 Events Team · Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 43 minutes ago, GPX said: Is that from Castlevania? Well whatever it is, I don’t like it either! Haha yeah, the flying Medusa heads. Nasty little bitches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,534 Graphics Team · Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 13 hours ago, Sumez said: As someone who's never watched Power Ranger and only recognize them by the colors, I had absolutely no clue that some of them were more important than the others. I wasn't referencing a color-hierarchy among the Power Rangers individually - just that the Power Rangers as a unit are more important that the rest of the characters in the show, and I think their colors make that very clear. Green Ranger is more important than beige rubber-suit villain haha. -CasualCart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 On 12/18/2020 at 6:08 PM, CasualCart said: I haven't paid much attention, but it seems like mostly primary colors - red, blue, and yellow. I think that's common in design, though, to show the audience/player who is important. (There's no mistaking who the important characters are in Power Rangers haha.) -CasualCart Let's play "spot the main character" lol. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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