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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Funkmaster General posted:

Record of Agarest War. Especially the special edition:





It should be obvious what's bad about this, but it's completely baffling because the game is nothing like this at all. There's some questionable female character design, but every sexual image in the game was on the box. Everything else in the game was completely innocent and the "sexy" scenes are played as jokes in-game. It's certainly no "cornucopia of debauchery." I have no idea why they tried to sell it this way, at least in America. They even packed in a booby mousepad and a "sexy" pillowcase.

It's a shame because the game is good but nobody wants to play it because they think it's porn.


I played it because I thought it was porn but it turned out to just be bad.

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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

A lot of these covers are cool.

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004


That horse has seen some poo poo.


"it's Oblivion on steroids"

Scaly Haylie fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Feb 22, 2016

Junpei Hyde
Mar 15, 2013




All I know about Agarest is a few screenshots but from those I can tell that the sexualised imagery is not only limited to the cover.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

I really like the Catherine box art. Wish I was better at the actual game though.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

In Training posted:

I really like the Catherine box art. Wish I was better at the actual game though.

which side do u have on display. u a K or a C. lemme know here.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

I didn't know it was reversible, oh snap.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

In Training posted:

I didn't know it was reversible, oh snap.

that aint an answer there buddy

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Blonde haired Catherine. I think that's Katherine..

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

In Training posted:

Blonde haired Catherine. I think that's Katherine..

thats C

apparently the reversible cover is EU only, looks like its Catherine for ps3 and Katherine for 360 in the US. says a lot about the diffreent consoles and their owners imo.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Lord Lambeth posted:

Or alternatively they think it sells because sex sells

Anime sex sells to a very specific subset of people.

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Lurdiak posted:

Anime sex sells to a very specific subset of people.

I dunno Mass Effect sold millions of copies, I don't think it's a specific subset other than people who play videogames.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


The Taint Reaper posted:

I dunno Mass Effect sold millions of copies, I don't think it's a specific subset other than people who play videogames.

Shut up, The Taint Reaper.

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Lurdiak posted:

Shut up, The Taint Reaper.

Hard Plastic Videogame Cases, Hard Truths ITT.

Funkmaster General
Sep 13, 2008

Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob. :colbert:

Junpei Hyde posted:

All I know about Agarest is a few screenshots but from those I can tell that the sexualised imagery is not only limited to the cover.

There's also a (human) breeding bit but it's not particularly titillating. Other than the character designs themselves, and a couple of silly double entendre jokes, everything "sexy" appears on the box. No joke. To be fair I'm counting the spine so there's a couple on there that don't appear on the cover I posted.

And still, the box copy reads like it was written for Sengoku Rance and then slapped on the wrong box or something.

Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Feb 22, 2016

OxMan
May 13, 2006

COME SEE
GRAVE DIGGER
LIVE AT MONSTER TRUCK JAM 2KXX



I tried agarest on ps now when i had a sub and by far the most surprising thing about it was how incredibly garbage it looked. Worse than a ps1 srpg, no exaggeration or hyperbole. I guess they had to do the anime babe thing to sucker people into buying it because ive never seen a game, indie or otherwise, look so ugly.

metricchip
Jul 16, 2014

bloodychill posted:

It looks like they took actual pictures of people and shopped them to look 3D generated and I think it's going to haunt my dreams.

They're all generic NPCs from Goldeneye or Perfect Dark.

cronox2
Jul 24, 2010



woah, you look
REALLY pissed off...
People complaining about the Street Fighter V story mode art, behold this abomination:



(not an actual physical product but this is still some horrific box art.)

NuttO
Oct 22, 2001

sold fifty gold sixty platinum
i was going to post the box art for street fighter 2 for the snes because it is kind of bad, but i saw this while searching for it

randombattle
Oct 16, 2008

This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

Hmm how do we make our game about looking at calculations and projected activity interesting.. Well we could just draw the hud of the game.. No too boring..



Yeah there we go... Gonna need a better view of these monster turtles fuckin.

randombattle fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Feb 23, 2016

fishception
Feb 20, 2011

~carrier has arrived~
Oven Wrangler

Givin posted:

Can't have a bad box art thread and not have all the Druid themed boxes not repped.



COULD IT BE

metricchip
Jul 16, 2014

cronox2 posted:

People complaining about the Street Fighter V story mode art, behold this abomination:



(not an actual physical product but this is still some horrific box art.)

Let's not forget the amazing Valentine's Day cards:





Or maybe the Gamepro strategy guide

The Grimace
Sep 18, 2005

Are you a BigMac of imbeciles!?
Jesus Christ, those are all terrifying.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


This is neither box art nor bad, but it IS Street Fighter and terrifying:

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

metricchip posted:


Or maybe the Gamepro strategy guide


lmao, it looks like blanca is giving them all the ol hot'n'spicy

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

cronox2 posted:

People complaining about the Street Fighter V story mode art, behold this abomination:



(not an actual physical product but this is still some horrific box art.)

I feel like I need it explained why this is an abomination. Like, the only thing that jumps out at me is that Ryu looks really funny-looking. Otherwise it's just a bunch of Marvel and Capcom peeps getting ready to fight in a canyon cuz video games. Even the framing is decent.

metricchip
Jul 16, 2014

The Grimace posted:

Jesus Christ, those are all terrifying.

Let's take a look inside

:yikes:

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

bloodychill posted:

I feel like I need it explained why this is an abomination. Like, the only thing that jumps out at me is that Ryu looks really funny-looking. Otherwise it's just a bunch of Marvel and Capcom peeps getting ready to fight in a canyon cuz video games. Even the framing is decent.

They're all just striking terrible static poses in thin air with no urgency, chunli is loving flying higher than warmachine and the hulk is.....loving hell what is the hulk doing?

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon


Ever want to share a space suit with two other people? We got the game for you, apparently.

tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly

cronox2 posted:

People complaining about the Street Fighter V story mode art, behold this abomination:



(not an actual physical product but this is still some horrific box art.)

FEATURING MVC AND MARVEL SUPER HEROES

E: I just realized that it's referring to the game MSH, I thought it was just a rerelease of MvC

tap my mountain fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 23, 2016

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

bloodychill posted:

I feel like I need it explained why this is an abomination. Like, the only thing that jumps out at me is that Ryu looks really funny-looking. Otherwise it's just a bunch of Marvel and Capcom peeps getting ready to fight in a canyon cuz video games. Even the framing is decent.

Aside from what Brazilianpeanutwar said, just loving look at venom.

It really feels like a bunch of cropped images placed randomly. They all have different stylization and proportions.

edit: i love how bummed Dr Doom looks and how Magneto looks like an angry old man.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

They're all just striking terrible static poses in thin air with no urgency, chunli is loving flying higher than warmachine and the hulk is.....loving hell what is the hulk doing?

The helicopter than Chun Li jumped out of is off frame and the Hulk is hurling himself at everyone head first. Neither of these things are too out-of-character. I do like that Spiderman is swinging from the logo or something.

e:

Nasgate posted:

It really feels like a bunch of cropped images placed randomly. They all have different stylization and proportions.

I get that, that's a good point. It's like the artist did Venom, Wolverine, and Ryu and then showed it to marketing and they were like "good but we need more heroes on the box" and the artist said "oh... ok..."

bloodychill fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Feb 23, 2016

randombattle
Oct 16, 2008

This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

Every single part of Venom looks hosed up. What is that leg even.

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

bloodychill posted:



Ever want to share a space suit with two other people? We got the game for you, apparently.

That game was so bad, but very atmospheric.

Content : A pretty bad game by all accounts but way ahead of its time, Batman GTA before GTA3,sadly based on a terrible batman movie and barely anyone remembers it.

It's a bad cover art cause batman looks like he wants to bend you over the batcar and take you to brown town....actually that's a brilliant cover.....

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bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
Batman's knowing smile

In Training
Jun 28, 2008



This says Never Forget to me, lol

metricchip
Jul 16, 2014

And Gamepro wasn't the only guilty one.

tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly
I thought they saved the bad dbz fanart for the cheat codes pages

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Ryu arms don't bend that way

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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I like the evolution this thread has made from bad box art to just bad official art/gaming media halfassed art be it covers or otherwise

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