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Golden Goat posted:I remember this show! PYF DeviantArt madness is over there, dude. E: How fitting, the image's URL includes "AAAAAAAA"
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Three way sumo butt action!
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 18:54 |
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Golden Goat posted:Wellll Bioshock 1 had decent box art. 2 just had the same box art as the first. I can't not see Bomberman on Bioshock 2's cover. Also to be fair to Infinite they fell back on that cover because their publisher wouldn't let them feature Elizabeth because they thought that people wouldn't buy a shooter if it had a young girl on the cover. Although later on The Last Of Us fought to do just that and wound up being a smash hit sooo...
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 18:56 |
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"We put a helmet on a Gears of War guy! DOOM IS BACK!"
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 19:00 |
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Sleeveless posted:I can't not see Bomberman on Bioshock 2's cover. Speaking of Bomberman: You wouldn't believe this is a standard Bomberman game just by looking at this cover
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 19:13 |
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Capcom truly nailed the essence of Warwick Davis
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 19:26 |
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Sleeveless posted:I can't not see Bomberman on Bioshock 2's cover. It occurs to me that Bioshock Infinite's cover would have been way better served by having an 80's action movie thing with Booker and Elizabeth back-to-back, Booker shooting some dude with the shotgun and Elizabeth using her weird powers to zap a portal or something. Alfalfa The Roach posted:Speaking of Bomberman: Let us dispose of this iconic party game character in favor of a grim dark monstrosity that has nothing to do with the series! Again though to be fair, it would be kind of a neat cover if it wasn't a loving bomberman cover. Shadow Hog posted:
I had this! And the game was amazing despite that sweet shade of hooker red lipstick that Willow is wearing.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 19:26 |
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Speaking of Bomberman: No, but I would have believed Konami was going to retire from videogames and enter the pachinko market if you told me after showing me that cover.
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Shadow Hog posted:
Boy you sure got a pretty mouth
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 19:27 |
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Remember when BioShock 1 and 2 had some unique and interesting boxart, then BioShock Infinite's boxart was Dude With A Gun Didn't they include the cooler boxart on the other side of the cover? I feel like a lot of good modern boxart is ruined by how ugly the cases are and how everything has to be plastered with all sorts of pointless horseshit, like who cares how good the Bioshock Infinite boxart looks when it's attached to a puke green DVD case with 30 different Xbox 360 logos covering everything. Not like that never happened back then, but I felt there was more variety at least. E: Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Hakkesshu posted:Didn't they include the cooler boxart on the other side of the cover? If anything, there's less logos than usual on boxes. I mean every SNES box had a solid 1/4 of the box covered in black bars and Nintendo logos, look back at all the Atari boxes posted in here and look at how much of it is just system advertising.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 19:52 |
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One thing I've noticed is that a lot of modern games will have interior art that would make it cool to flip the liner and use it as box art, except that the name of the game isn't on the interior spine so it's impossible to know what game it is in a stack or shelf.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:02 |
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True, I guess it was really just on the PC where there was any freedom. Though 360 cases do stand out to me as being particularly ugly.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:03 |
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I'm the handsy lizard demon who is going in for a butt grab.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:03 |
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He gotta big face
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:29 |
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Shadow Hog posted:
God damnit, cover artist, just take a moment with your prelims and make the eyes even!
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:30 |
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TheScott2K posted:
How did they not just redo the masterpiece that is the doom box art?
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:31 |
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Hakkesshu posted:True, I guess it was really just on the PC where there was any freedom. Though 360 cases do stand out to me as being particularly ugly. They're just green DVD cases.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:45 |
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I don't get why so many shooters covers focus on the protagonist, who is often completely unseen and unheard DOOM isn't about some faceless mook! It's about YOU, being trapped on Mars and surrounded by demons! YOU shoot the guns! YOU grab the key cards! For the physical box, Bethesda should put a reflective sheen on the Doomguy's visor and add the tagline, "YOU are DOOM" gently caress yeah
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 20:52 |
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Lady Naga posted:They're just green DVD cases. Green DVD cases are inherently tougher to work with from a design standpoint. "Your work will be displayed on a solid black case" is basically a blank canvas where as "Your work will be displayed on a radioactive ooze colored case" means you're starting with kind of a nasty handicap.
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Shadow Hog posted:I remember Bethesda doing it with Doom 4: I like that DOOM one, Big bold letters are cool, and it makes me think of a movie
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:11 |
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Remember when BioShock 1 and 2 had some unique and interesting boxart, then BioShock Infinite's boxart was Dude With A Gun The galling thing is they had a contest for the fans to select the cover.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:11 |
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Lord Lambeth posted:The galling thing is they had a contest for the fans to select the cover. The 4th one is the best.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:22 |
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God forbid they have a cover art that isn't gruff generic white guy protagonist just standing there.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:25 |
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2nd, 4th, and 6th are amazing but literally any of those would have been better than the poo poo we got.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:33 |
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The secret is people everywhere like generic white guys on covers.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:38 |
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Also, best or worst cover?
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:40 |
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She's only two feet tall
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:43 |
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Jump-kicking with roller blades. That's seriously street right there.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:45 |
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Excuse me this is the thread for bad box art
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:47 |
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Bleusilences posted:The 4th one is the best. bloodychill posted:2nd, 4th, and 6th are amazing but literally any of those would have been better than the poo poo we got. 4th one won and it's the reversible cover art http://www.e-diots.net/2013/03/bioshock-infinites-alternate-reversible-cover-is-beautiful/ bloodychill posted:Green DVD cases are inherently tougher to work with from a design standpoint. "Your work will be displayed on a solid black case" is basically a blank canvas where as "Your work will be displayed on a radioactive ooze colored case" means you're starting with kind of a nasty handicap.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 21:53 |
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Lady Naga posted:4th one won and it's the reversible cover art I had a PC box version that could not have its cover reversed
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elf help book posted:Why was everyone so scared of anime? to be fair if you put a big anime face on your cover art it reduces the chance i'm going to buy it by like 99% even today
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 22:13 |
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The art's fine here. What's poo poo is the subtitle and GOTY crammed in there.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 22:35 |
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elf help book posted:Why was everyone so scared of anime? Capitalism hadn't finely tuned its ability to mine the mentally bonkers back in the 80s and could only, at best, target genre fiction dweebs when trying to monetize the Sadness Demographic.
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Golden Goat posted:The art's fine here. What's poo poo is the subtitle and GOTY crammed in there. I remember being excited for that game thanks to NBA Jam and then being annoyed by how god drat hard it was.
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# ? Feb 24, 2016 00:11 |
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Any other series with a gradual decline in quality on the boxart?
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man i can practically hear blue-pants's spine telescoping in that third one
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