2022 was a year of video games that purposefully had some weird-looking guys and accidentally had some weird-looking guys.

Being a weird-looking guy isn’t exactly a bad thing. Sometimes it’s an endearing feature to a guy, looking a bit messed up. Sometimes it’s just a normal-looking guy, but the context behind their visage turns them into a weird-looking guy. The concept of a ‘weird-looking guy’ exists on a spectrum, and there are no two guys that are the same type of weird-looking. You feel me here?

In video games this year, we saw weird-looking guys that we loved, weird-looking guys that we hated, and weird-looking guys that struck fear in our hearts. I have made a point of not including Boc the Seamster because although he is a weird-looking guy, I feel too sorry for him to kick him while he’s down.

Why don’t we look at some of the weirdest-looking guys that appeared in video games this year, and talk about what made them so weird-looking?

Disclaimer: This is a Just For Fun post! Do not consider any of these as a Serious Critique of these characters’ designs! It’s just a goof!

Heimdall, God of War: Ragnarök

I loved God of War: Ragnarök a lot, but I have to admit it: Heimdall has a weird head.

Maybe it’s the eyes. Maybe it’s the fact that he’s a Grade-A Cunt. I don’t know. Everybody else in God of War: Ragnarök looked great, but there was something about Heimdall that looked weird to me. Like a Skyrim background character. His…