This looks like four hearts?

4 hearts out of 5 certainly seems like a glowing recomendation. Except well...it's noooot that. IK i'm a cheeky ♥♥♥♥ but it honestly looks very out of place and whatever is going on in above the crossguard looks really poor. Reminds me of the skin set they recently put in the game that has a bunch of engravings on it. Except those engravings were strewn everywhere into a horrid mess.

This would look cool af with my Trinity premium skin

It's time I revealed my secret weapon!
My disagreement with your opinion! Tremble before its might!

Suprise suprise b. this is the moment that you realize that that secret weapon straddled to the side of your leg is about as intimidating as a foam therepy bat.

it doesnt matter if it fits into the look or lore of warframe it just looks cool af

No It does actually matter. Warframe has a look and even if it was the coolest rainbow unicorn fencing sword and has the best lighting effects and particle effects and the model was pristine...it still wouldn't work. You're also objectly wrong because one of the items that was accepted into the game they said essentially. We wouldn't normally accept this kinda thing in and won't again, but since you didn't know we'll accept it. I think it was a nova skin.

Everybody has their own tastes and opinions. I personally like this skin and would like to see it in-game. Warframe has turned into a flashy space-fantasy long time ago. We now have pirates, fairies, jesters etc., so I really don't see a problem here.

That's not what i'm saying Phire I'm fully aware that long ago a game that takes space in a galaxy far far into the future that isn't too grim-dark, opted out of a little thing called realism and even took a couple pages from the animu playbook. You may say copy pasting your favorite tribal tatoos onto your favorite dark souls 2 inspired swords looks good. Good for you you've established you have opinions, but my opinion is this sword has 'objectivly' ♥♥♥♥ texture work especially around the handle.

On top of that it just really doesn't fit. Yes I take my hilariously large weapon which has been enchanted with the power of tribal tattoos to slay the space scum of the universe. This might make a nice dagger, but the problem with making it...a skin for the largest sword in the game is. It's so minimalst it looks like a slab of this metal on my back and the only detail work looks as if it was done hastily. It will be like 7 dollars in game so yeah i'm gonna be anal. I'm also pretty sure that the galantine has a healthy amount of skins already so this really isn't in demand either.

Do y'all realize that most of the premium skins actually have *this* aesthetic? Trinity, Nova, Rhino and I'm sure another I can't think of currently. This skin doesn't look out of place next to DE's own skins.

I'll look into it i don't really own any of those skins.

Looking like "proper warframe design" was a sketchy thing to begin with looking at all the different frames, and that went out the window with the proto skins before deluxe skins were even a thing.
This thing would've be a little bit of a stretch at worst, and now with the deluxe skins and tennogen skins there's really nothing stopping people from taking a little bit of creative freedom.

Not to mention that this hardly looks any further from traditional warframe designs than weapons like War.

Stop pretending your opinions are more important than other people's opinions.

Originally posted by Skivin:

Looking like "proper warframe design" was a sketchy thing to begin with looking at all the different frames, and that went out the window with the proto skins before deluxe skins were even a thing.
This thing would've be a little bit of a stretch at worst, and now with the deluxe skins and tennogen skins there's really nothing stopping people from taking a little bit of creative freedom.

Not to mention that this hardly looks any further from traditional warframe designs than weapons like War.

Stop pretending your opinions are more important than other people's opinions.

War is a Sentient weapon, of course it's going to look different. Each group has their own definite design philosophy, and you should be able to tell what faction a weapon was made by from a glance. This would presumably be a Tenno skin for the weapon, but the fact it has non-Tenno script on it throws it a little. Tenno weapons are sleek, curved, elegant weapons. Compare with the bulbous, smooth, crude Grineer weapons; the angular, metallic, unergonomic Corpus weapons; the Infested weapons, which are really not in any need of explanation.

It's worth noting that Digital Extremes tend to avoid parallels with real-world weapons; exceptions like the Lex exist, created in Warframe's infancy, but otherwise it has a very unique set of designs. While this weapon is in no means realistic, it does border closer than many weapons, especially with the grip design.

One last point- Galatine is sleek, long. It's the fastest of the heavy blades. This design follows more to the original design of Gram; shorter, wider. Without the technical elements, perhaps, but the silhouette is a closer fit.

(I know I sound pretentious as all Hell, but I'm a game design student, so there you go. Art students like to sound smart.)

Originally posted by A-Love:

Originally posted by Skivin:

Looking like "proper warframe design" was a sketchy thing to begin with looking at all the different frames, and that went out the window with the proto skins before deluxe skins were even a thing.
This thing would've be a little bit of a stretch at worst, and now with the deluxe skins and tennogen skins there's really nothing stopping people from taking a little bit of creative freedom.

Not to mention that this hardly looks any further from traditional warframe designs than weapons like War.

Stop pretending your opinions are more important than other people's opinions.

War is a Sentient weapon, of course it's going to look different. Each group has their own definite design philosophy, and you should be able to tell what faction a weapon was made by from a glance. This would presumably be a Tenno skin for the weapon, but the fact it has non-Tenno script on it throws it a little. Tenno weapons are sleek, curved, elegant weapons. Compare with the bulbous, smooth, crude Grineer weapons; the angular, metallic, unergonomic Corpus weapons; the Infested weapons, which are really not in any need of explanation.

It's worth noting that Digital Extremes tend to avoid parallels with real-world weapons; exceptions like the Lex exist, created in Warframe's infancy, but otherwise it has a very unique set of designs. While this weapon is in no means realistic, it does border closer than many weapons, especially with the grip design.

One last point- Galatine is sleek, long. It's the fastest of the heavy blades. This design follows more to the original design of Gram; shorter, wider. Without the technical elements, perhaps, but the silhouette is a closer fit.

(I know I sound pretentious as all Hell, but I'm a game design student, so there you go. Art students like to sound smart.)

None of this is outright wrong, but it still doesn't really change how suitable this is as a Tennogen submission either. There are plenty of Tennogen weapons themed after the other factions, but also those that don't quite fit in with anything else in the game. Notably the Nova Visage skin, which I think looks fantastic but has belts holding things together and a cap. Not a cap-like helmet, a straight up tiny hat. DE acknowledged that it was pretty out of place but they'd let it through. Not a suprise since they made the Excalibur Proto-Armor skin, which also caused plenty of grief with people complaining about things looking out of place.
You presume this would be a Tenno skin; What faction made the Ayla Syandana, then, with its vaguely Tenno apperance but covered in long energy light lines not seen in any other Tenno design?
And, again, there are the deluxe skins. What precedence is there in Warframe for designs like that on the Trinity, Saryn, or Oberon deluxe skins?

I hardly see why the grip being similar to that of real weapons somehow means it's too close to a real-world sword, that'd be like saying the Karak looks too much like an M-16 because it has a trigger guard that goes into the magwell. Heck, the Dakra has a pretty simplistic grip that you'd expect on real swords just off the top of my head, and I'm sure anyone could find more.

Let's not pretend the original weapon matters anymore either. We have the Cyskis skin that changes dual swords (or the Zoren, which are totally swords as well guys) into a weird thorn kama thing. The Danaus skin makes the Ack and Brunt into a sword and shield, and while the shield is almost the same size the sword is much thinner than the axe.
There's also the Manticore, something from back when skins changed weapon stats, which makes the Scindo axe, a classic Tenno weapon, into a crude Grineer weapon that looks more like a spiked hammer.

Of course it's important to stick to certain designs for base weapons to keep a general idea of where each weapon comes from in the game lore, but when it comes to paid cosmetics we've already gone far past the point where an item should be rejected because it has a glowing pattern on it that isn't Tenno writing.

You make some good points, at least, and you could probably still debate what I've said, but that's no reason for some of the other people in this thread just bashing a skin and using "it doesn't fit Warframe design" as an excuse to complain about something they don't personally like.

Originally posted by G41R_B34R:

I'm not pretending my opinions are better than you pleb and in no way are hyperbolic. Your comment just proves that I am in fact more important than you.

wow say tht 2 my fac fukr not onlin c wat happn ill 1v1 u irl

First off thank you A-love that is pretty much exactly how i feel about it minus shoddy texture work. I woulda went into specifics before, but I haven't played the game in a while do to a rather nasty lighting bug that can completely ruin the game at times. Thus admittily I'm rusty on specifics. As a bit of a sword enthuisist...lets say. I tend to be bothered by more unrealistic designs, however this is warframe and those blades aren't designed for humans. If I saw the animations paired with this weapon however It'd look uncomfortable and unweildy with such a fast animation. It can look flashy, but we still are space ninja's. It doesn't right to have such a large bulky weapon when even the heaviest weapons in the game have some form of sleekness or elegance to them. It might have made a decent dagger if he touches it up. You might say it's size gives it to much negative space and only details certain areas, which could be easily compensated for if it was smaller.

For Skivin: Also I mentioned the Nova Visage, just not by name. We can't forget the whole thing now that would be deceptive. We wouldn't normally accept this, but we will this one time. Please do not make further submissions like this.
- I do not have time to qoute mine that, but its roughly what was said.
I am 1v1ing you lil camper, just with wit and not fisticuffs. What do you think I am a savage?