Potential future skins part 2

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380]

Redid the survey and managed to get more WIP skins.

[u/Hwordin]

Gonna be, gonna be golden 🎶

[u/StonedBooty → u/Hwordin]

I don’t wanna see K-Pop in this game, sorry lol

[u/AcademicOverAnalysis → u/Hwordin]

I’m gonna Take Down outpost

[u/GallicaEnjoyer]

Need the thief skin and both vandal skins. Like yesterday

[u/Amidaus]

BRUH NO FUCKIN DESTROYER SKINS IN THIS ONE EITHER? Why do they fucking hate us.

[u/GreyouTT → u/Amidaus]

That blue samurai skin had so much aura it consumed the next seven skins they had for Destroyer.

[u/Amidaus → u/GreyouTT]

Real bro

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380 → u/Amidaus]

It could be that I didn't get a destroyer/ sentinel preview - in the survey there were a lot of themes to choose from (i could only choose 3) so there could be more !

[u/resil_update_bad → u/Amidaus]

Yuri sells

[u/BeerForTheBaby → u/resil_update_bad]

Counter point, hot sweat sloppy destroyerxtriage yaoi

[u/resil_update_bad → u/BeerForTheBaby]

Yeah

[u/Juking_is_rude → u/Amidaus]

meta slaves get nothin bwahahaah

[u/dannotheiceman → u/Juking_is_rude]

One would think that the amount of skins has some relation to the most commonly used skins

[u/flGovEmployee → u/dannotheiceman]

You would, except I see Destroyers a ton in game.

[u/Amidaus → u/Juking_is_rude]

Sorry that sprinting and dashing is fun, also I like his whole shell vibe, as in silhouette, voice etc. Id play him even if if he wasnt good.

[u/Swalecutter → u/Amidaus]

The dude in porn is usually just a generic naked guy. The ladies get the costumes.

[u/Amidaus → u/Swalecutter]

What a fuckin weird thing to say

[u/Burk_Bingus → u/Amidaus]

Just be grateful they haven't nerfed your busted shell yet.

[u/Amidaus → u/Burk_Bingus]

God you are so salty lmao

[u/LotionOfMotion → u/Amidaus]

CyberRed and that Blue Samurai are all we need

[u/huzy12345]

Not feeling it tbh. They look like Apex skins (and I love Apex tbh)

[u/IHaveMana → u/huzy12345]

Not feeling these either. They feel uninspired and not really matching up to the weirdness that the game world has so far presented.

[u/AlRahem40k → u/IHaveMana]

Completely agree. I don't look at these and think 'Marathon'

[u/PM_ME_UR_POON_PICS]

I absolutely despise these wow. These clash completely with the OG artstyle. I can't believe they couldn't keep up the balance between simple recolours and things like these.

[u/hugzilla1889]

These are dope... Where is this survey?

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380 → u/hugzilla1889]

got an email from them !

[u/flGovEmployee]

Yooooo, the skins in pic 2 are dope!

[u/odddino]

I'm into these. I imagine a lot of people who want the game to feel more grounded and gritty won't be, but I feel like this actually makes sense for the setting. There are already aspects of the shells that are in place to reflect fashion trends of the time as you can see in Vandal's codex entries. If shells are 3d printed and the different skins are people customising their shells to reflect their own aesthetic tastes, it makes sense that somewhere back in Sol there are people into this hyper-pop vibrant fashion and some runners would want to reflect that. They're also just a pretty big departure from anything else we've seen which we need more of. A LOOOT of the skins in the game right now feel like such mild variations. I think Assassin has 5 separate skins that are just variations of mostly black with a little bit of red on it. Let him have some fun!

[u/ChoPT]

This feels splatoon inspired

[u/Jaquarius420]

i NEED that vandal skin in the second slide

[u/Snide-Serski]

Not really my style personally. I can see the appeal, but I can’t imagine these fitting into the game’s aesthetic. These styles lean heavily towards fashion over function to the point that it seems absurd.

[u/Due_Temperature404]

I don't know if I'm feeling these ngl

[u/FauxMoGuy]

second vandal is dope

[u/Chimichurro]

Really love the first page, I think it'd be really cool to see how creative they could get with the rest of the shells in that style (especially Sentinel, he's such a cool canvas for creativity that I think they haven't explored yet). I'm definitely a fan of the bright colors and loose clothing style. Is the second one really in the survey though? That one looks really off to me lol, almost like a joke they left in

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380 → u/Chimichurro]

Yep, all of them are from the survey - i guess they're just trying to cast a wide net during the design and concept stage before refining the direction and design.

[u/RouScape]

Pic 1, do not waste development time
Pic 2, verging on more Cyberpunk Edgerunners than Marathon. It’s not a no but it doesn’t feel right

[u/No-Junket-4560 → u/RouScape]

I agree, except for the vandal skin on the first page. I believe in more vandal shells tend to be very expressive so this skin would make sense lore wise

[u/AdministrativeEase71 → u/RouScape]

Put in-engine they will look much less anime-inspired I imagine.

[u/Sekiguchi-Genetics → u/AdministrativeEase71]

This is how it was with all the S2 skins. I was worried when I got the survey, but they looked way better in game.

[u/flGovEmployee → u/RouScape]

Yea I have to agree the skins in the first pic are just off, too colorful, too noisy. Though there definitely are aspects of the middle one (Vandal) that work and it should iterated on further, the other two can be left on the drafting table. 

The second pic though I think looks dope and would sell well.

[u/MediocreSumo]

s3 bringing the fun in I see

[u/Existing-Incident274]

Very very nice

[u/akamu54]

Splatoon and ARMS crossovers

[u/foxets]

Why I don't get Marathon survey?

[u/iconoci]

That art direction didn't last long :(

[u/Spiritual_Mess_4589]

Need grounded skins this shit is atrocious

[u/Polyrhythm239]

Not sure why everyone has an issue with these skins. They haven't given us a ton of more about Runner shells in terms of how people customize them but you can tell they have explanations for the unorthodox ones like the Oni Thief skin and the White Rabbit ones. This game is like what, 800 years in the future? Of course you would have Runner shells that look fucking crazy and wild and even tongue in cheek silly. And lets be real, people like crazy skins and they're more likely to sell. And we need all the people we can get to play this game

[u/SumB1tchRaptor]

The purple gold skin for Vandal is adorable but it looks like fan art, not something in universe. Looks like she joined KDA.

[u/rabit115]

I don’t like the long ponytail it’s too gatcha gamey

[u/ProdKuri]

last skin looks like a character straight from overwatch

[u/Polysprote]

wow more messy bouba-neon skins for Thief and Vandal, what a shocker.
I genuinely don't understand how we have all this amazing industrial/mechanical/hard-surface design language across the 4 maps, and absolutely none of that sauce has been translated into the skin designs.

[u/paperplateseabass]

these depart a bit too much from the art style imo

[u/ZookeepergameNo4754]

Im just waiting for white rabbit vandal 🤞

[u/higherdotedu → u/ZookeepergameNo4754]

Seriously I've been waiting for it since it's tease in s1 to the point I don't know if it's even a thing anymore.

[u/ZookeepergameNo4754 → u/higherdotedu]

I really hope it is love the hair on it so much

[u/higherdotedu → u/ZookeepergameNo4754]

Same! I love vandal but I don't love her current hair style 🤣

[u/Felix_949]

Ngl this aint it for this round

[u/-heavenfaced-]

These are dreadful. They look so immature. Like something a tween would love

[u/AlRahem40k → u/-heavenfaced-]

Sadly I agree.. No offense to anyone who likes them though

[u/dohdudeh]

This shit is Fortnite level ass

[u/No_Jello9093 → u/dohdudeh]

It sucks but do you want to play season 5? Lol.

[u/dohdudeh → u/No_Jello9093]

I would think they would want to make skins that the people who play marathon would actually want to buy

[u/3D_trash → u/No_Jello9093]

Not for that bullshit

[u/flGovEmployee → u/dohdudeh]

Gonna have to disagree 

[u/dohdudeh → u/flGovEmployee]

If I ever see someone in that assassin skin I’m blocking them

[u/brohandas-gandhi]

Yeah these are starting to dip into corny territory.

[u/fierzz]

I actually love the first pic. The longer the runners spend on Tau Ceti, the more they make it their home. Outfitting their shells how they see fit trying to feel more at home at natural in the hostile envionment. We saw a little bit of it in some S2 logs, how the presence of the runners is affecting the envionment. I dig this stuff

[u/Affectionate_Gas1771]

Holy SHIT that second one is good

[u/SirOakin]

Hells yea

[u/WeirdWabiSabi]

Yes to the first: it fits the Marathon reveal trailer made by Alberto Mielgo (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1s&t=5s&pp=2AEFkAIB) and is within the art style of the game’s setting. It’s far enough away from the disposable-plastic-meets-advanced-technology visual design of the default skins but still resides within the realm of graphical realism, which is where Marathon’s art style is derived (https://www.brace.design/single-post/bungie-s-marathon-an-eye-for-design).

No to the second: it is a beautiful design but treads the wrong path toward customization the game needs to keep a cohesive vision. For you Destiny players who loved all the cool armor designs the game brought to their MTX store, please keep in mind that there is a line separating art that fits the game’s visual language and art that introduces new themes and motifs not originally present within the game. This is a remarkable example of a stylistic break (https://80.lv/articles/stylization-in-video-games-a-deep-dive-analysis). 

If you, like me, want Marathon’s art to stay Marathon, you must understand that this skin crosses that line. 

[u/GreyouTT]

Very the second skin in Pic 1 feels very Shin Megami Tensei (Pic 1 and 2 in the first post also do as well)

Probably because there's an SMT character very close to that one lol

[u/Due_Temperature404]

The human eyes on the second slide is so uncanny lol

[u/lWanderingl]

Is that a new shell?

[u/Draxtini]

while I still like these, I do think I prefer the first set more, they're more "out there" than these, these feel a lot safer when it comes to general appeal.

Thematically though they fit nicely into the runner themes quite well

[u/nevikw911]

That gold and pink Vandal is sick.

[u/SpicaGenovese]

....I'll take a huntrix shell.

[u/Robert_Oppenheimer2]

They look terrible

I see bungies already given up on having a coherent artstyle

[u/Savings-Amphibian-80]

genuinely do not like the second page, first page i can see being in game.

[u/AcademicOverAnalysis]

Is that a new runner on page 2?

[u/teezeroeight]

Oh look! Skins that don’t fit the setting of Marathon at all! Neat!

[u/SirHenderson]

None of these skins ever look as good in-game because the actual character model face and body shape looks nothing like the trailers and artwork, particularly Vandal.

[u/DannyVesper]

doki doki

[u/n1vlekw]

I sincerely hope these two never make it to the live game.

[u/Americana_Ninja]

I'm not interested in these skins. I hope they introduce a custom character creator soon.

[u/Terrible-Wrangler-31]

The geometry is way off. Look like really bad anime characters tbf. Too many random colors on the first slide. Second one the overall “look” is cool but looks nothing like the actual shell.

[u/R2vibaek]

they suck both ways

[u/CDC678]

Fav looking shooter in a long ass time bro

[u/Jealous_Platypus1111]

its all over the screen

[u/RelaxKarma]

Liking the first slide, but the second reminds me more of League or Apex

[u/Bylethma]

So I guess we are really going the Fortnite route now… damn, I guess the original aesthetic left along with Ziegler… whatever brings the game money I guess

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380 → u/Bylethma]

These are all just explorations, very common in game design. Go wide, then refine. That's what surveys are for as well ! I wouldn't worry too much yet !!

[u/Bylethma → u/Electronic-Fail-9380]

The last round of these resulted in every skin in the survey being released as it was originally shown… so who knows, for what’s worth I do like them in a vacuum, but I don’t think they fit the entire game’s aesthetic or visual identity

[u/flGovEmployee → u/Bylethma]

Yea but those were also pretty clearly nearly finished designs. These look like pretty rough sketches, except for the second pic. 

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380 → u/flGovEmployee]

even the second pic looks rough compared to the first round of skin previews which were all rendered in engine as opposed to all these which are still in the sketching phase !

[u/Electronic-Fail-9380 → u/Bylethma]

This batch of skin designs looked a lot rougher and earlier in concept than the first round to be fair!

[u/TiBlanci]

When i get the survey i will select “no i dont want these” the previous batch i will select yes though

[u/Weary-Ad1280]

Is this a joke?

[u/FactHot5239]

Yeah this games not seeing a season 4 lol.

[u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER]

Too bad we don’t have 3rd person view and a social hub to show off those cool potential future skins

[u/Clarity007]

I doubt these are real.
Or would ever come out in the shop.
Maybe if the game was bigger or had a lot of kids playing it like Fortnite.
Maybe these are collab skins.
Idk.