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I thought it was a guy with a big nose but it's actually his armor.

I've somehow trained myself to not really be able see this anymore when looking at it directly now days. I have to be looking at it kinda cockeyed or indirectly to see it now. But literally for years, including my entire childhood. All I ever saw when looking at this portrait was the weird winking birdman on the right.

I always saw the chin of this sprite as a giant smile.

I thought it was Big Boss.

>>14323444

Take your thumb and cover up the right side of the image or his right eye and ear and it becomes a little easier make out. Apparently lots of other people saw the same thing because images like theses are all over the internet.

When Pokemon Red and Blue first came out I always saw Parasect's eyes as his teeth and the shading on his shell as slant eyes, like he was some weird Chinese caricature or something.

Then it showed up in the cartoon and I was like, "Oh."

I always thought the Vendetta ability in wow looked like a bird wearing a mask, I never realized until years later what it actually was.

>>14323549

That got me to smile.

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>>14323346

Here's to you, anon.

>>14323623

Breddy gud anon.

A clear visual of characters is so important in games, I am amazed when companies get it right totally fucking ruin it.

Valve's TF2, and early DotA2 (after release) are perfect examples.

Even in their design documents there are pages on how important readability are in game.

>>14323832

No, I thought it was tickling or something.

As a kid I thought his white beanie hat thing was his hair.

I always thought the Petard from Age of Empires 2 was some guy with a beige hood on, and the dark bit was like his face covered in shadow from said hood. Up until last year, actually. But nope, just some bald guy with a big beard.

Guess I was the real petard here.

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>>14323973

Yup. Nintendo Power official player's guide 2003.

I used to see Sergei as a weird smiling fuck that was turning to the side and had his face in shadow. It made scenes where he was being serious have this weird context where he was being sort of smug the whole time.

The way I saw it, his nose would be behind his hair, he's looking to the lower right of the screen, and he has red scars on his neck. His face is shadowed because of the angle of the light.

>>14324623

And here's some context. Look, they even use some kind of variant of his portrait art in this one where he's surprised, but with my perspective he just looks a little happy.

And because I'm a dumbass, here's the actual sprite I'm talking about.

Heracross has a very, very strange design. It seems like there isn't even an official consensus whether its head is segmented apart from its torso or not.

>>14324623

I made more edits because I feel like my paint drawing wasn't really getting it across.

>>14323981

Oh boy, when I was a kid I thought the Teutonic knight was a black dude with a laurel wreath (because the low res icon). Every time I saw an army of these always said "the kniggas are in town" or something like that.

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>>14323981

I always thought the woad raiders used their shields when attacking and never noticed the axe.

I still have a hard time not seeing this face.

>>14331170

I thought goombas had beaks and the two that spawn touching each other in 1-2 were siamese twins.

>>14331113

>the kniggas are in town

my sides

>>14323346

I can't stop seeing it now. The other part of his face even looks out of place, the way it's darker and has that crease.

>>14331016

see second pic

How has this not been posted yet?

>>14331016

I think it looks more like Godzilla.

>>14331245

No word of a lie, I was about to ask what the fuck the actual face was supposed to be when I saw it.

>>14331016

I can see it

<You say this thing has funny eyes? Well they are red and lack pupils so they look evil, but not funny.

<To the sides? What do you mean the- oh.

>>14347644

Do you see gondola?

>>14324623

Same here. If the mask had a nosepiece then it would be a lot less ambiguous.

>>14330993

kek, I'm saving that.

>>14331245

That reminds me: I thought the evil wizard Agahnim was supposed to be the dead king in the opening. I thought the skull was a chest decoration like a bad guy would have. Didn't help that the text box doesn't talk about the king at all and only talks about Agahnim.

I always thought this was some kind of blue bacon until I saw the official artwork and realized they're metal pipes

Who else thought these were a guy scratching his nose and an axe respectively?

For several years, my brain could not parse what this is supposed to be. Eventually it clicked and I was like, oh, those are her shoes. I don't know what the red would have been, but I kinda saw her head as being mermaid legs, or something. It's Terra from FF3, KO'd.

>>14348837

Dead goombas become little baby gondolas. What a revelation.

>>14350573

I saw the axe at first, but now that I know what it is, I don't know how I saw the axe. I guess the hand is the sharp part of the blade. Kinda like the great axe from Diablo, except with pitch black/fleshtone steel for some reason. That left picture, though. I don't know what that's supposed to be if not image related.

>>14350603

This one? I thought it was a lobster claw for the longest time.

>>14350856

I still don't understand what that icon is. My mind always interpreted it as cracked stone with magma under the crust. I don't know what that was supposed to have to do with critical strikes.

>>14350573