Bioshock Infinite: The latest victim of the Stupid-American-Box-Art Virus.
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Well that was obvious from the start. Having that "generic" box art will attract the casual guy over the "super artsy" box art.Scrubiii said:
Though, I am looking forward to the alternate covers.
It's not completely generic. It's bad, sure. It could be a lot better given what the game is about. But it's not the worst I've seen. At least it has pretty colors and the guy isn't dressed as your typical action hero holding an M14. They could do what Bioware did with ME3. They could add another cover on the other side.
It's a bullet hell shmup by CAVE called Mushihimisama HD, Japan only, atleast for the moment but you can play it's sequel Mushihimisama Futari as thats region free and rather cheap.Rose and Thorn said:Excuse my ignorance, but what game is that? It looks interesting.TrevHead said:Japanese Boxart
Thank god I live in the UK where many games have the Japanese cover. Although Japan does have more cartoon tits though.
Christ, I'm continually ashamed of how petty gamers can be. This is the reason that when there are serious complaints with genuine merit, they get ignored. Why the hell do you people care? You know why they're doing it: to sell more copies to the less informed portions of the market. Will it work? Probably. Will it in any way affect the quality of the actual game (as informed consumers you can actually find the answer to this question)? Probably not. So why the fuck would you pick slightly cliche box art as something to waste your time complaining about when all its doing is giving a good developer a few of the bucks that would otherwise go to some shit for brains executive working at EA or Activision? At least this way, those bucks have a chance of being used to... I don't know, develop good games. Jesus, gamers really need to learn to pick our battles...
The cover is fine. There is a lot of art surrounding this game that is more abstract if you are interested. These covers help sell the game, there are numbers to back it up, and a publisher has a duty to put a cover on that they think will sell the most copies possible. There are much better things to get upset at.
Honestly that may be a problem for some people but I myself have never had an issue with the covers of games. The first thing I saw about Heavy Rain was it's box art and I still bought the game, glad I did to because it's pretty good game.Sepko said:
They probably could have chose a better boxart but it could change for all we know. Oh well stop yer complaining, "Don't judge a book(game) by its cover" I personally look into games before I buy them. It's not like cod has ever had a good boxart anyways. At least this has more for the eyes to feast upon.
Futile. Even fratboys aren't THAT careless with their 60 bucks and they actually do a little research before they throw away their money: they ask what their friends are playing.Scrubiii said:
This audience can be influenced by tv commercials, but nobody buys anything based on box art alone.
As a long time fan of the Shock games (System Shock 1-2 as well as Bioshock 1-2) this game in general has annoyed me, despite the fact that I'm REALLY looking forward to it. It's just not a Shock game. Where's the dead world you have to explore feeling alone and desperate as you find audio logs that gradually allow you to piece together the back story? An amazing and still effective set-up to this day, a set-up so effect that even System Shock 1, a horribly outdated game, is still worth looking at. That's just a minor annoyance that shouldn't effect the rest of you.
What worries me is how streamlined it actually looks. Shock games always have been unique, at least until games like Doom 3 came along and copied them, but despite the amazing world this just looks like another shooter when you watch the gameplay, and this box art and the whole "must-have shooter of 2013" also worries me further. It's still going to be an amazing game I'm sure, but I don't want Shock of Duty, I want Bioshock! Ah well, hopefully it's just the gameplay we've been shown. Either way it'll be amazing, and it's not like I'm the kind of person who completely shuns shooters for being shooters, heck I got Black Ops II Hardened Edition. (as much as I love and respect games like Bioshock, alot of times I just want to relax and have fun, and I personally feel Call of Duty does that better then any other game. If it pisses you off all the time like many people you obviously aren't going in with the same attitude I am, and don't yell at me for liking a game you don't please, the fact that I have to put in this long parenthesized comment just to try and keep the CoD haters away alone should put alot of the internet to shame.)
What worries me is how streamlined it actually looks. Shock games always have been unique, at least until games like Doom 3 came along and copied them, but despite the amazing world this just looks like another shooter when you watch the gameplay, and this box art and the whole "must-have shooter of 2013" also worries me further. It's still going to be an amazing game I'm sure, but I don't want Shock of Duty, I want Bioshock! Ah well, hopefully it's just the gameplay we've been shown. Either way it'll be amazing, and it's not like I'm the kind of person who completely shuns shooters for being shooters, heck I got Black Ops II Hardened Edition. (as much as I love and respect games like Bioshock, alot of times I just want to relax and have fun, and I personally feel Call of Duty does that better then any other game. If it pisses you off all the time like many people you obviously aren't going in with the same attitude I am, and don't yell at me for liking a game you don't please, the fact that I have to put in this long parenthesized comment just to try and keep the CoD haters away alone should put alot of the internet to shame.)
ALOT of people including myself still like physical copies of their game. The day I'm forced to download a game and can no longer buy a physical copy, eagerly tear into the packaging, pop it into my N64/PS2/Xbox 360 and instantly get it running I'm going to cry. So many great memories that will never be made again.Radoh said:
yes, you're right, developers and publishers must be careful selecting the cover,Sepko said:
even just putting the "title" on the cover, is more beautiful and appealing than "cliched male character" cover. it just boring and ugly.
some people argues that "why the hell i care the box art?", i think they forget that a "classic" game handles every detail with care, even the cover art, and the picture of the box will be the "description", the promotion of the game. and it will show "what kind of feel" the game will have.
some box covers for example
It really is not that bad...this whole thing is just people being stupid. There's far worse box art in the world and far worse ones this gen, it really is not a big deal so can we please stop treating it like so
See, and I'm not so sure about the probability of this, since if they skimp on this portion of their production it makes me wonder where else they might have cut corners. Look, I'm not going to blame them for wanting to sell more games (hell, I'd want the same if I were them), but this is one of the signs of a company making decisions based solely on profit and market appeal whereas Bioshock's fanbase and audience were invested in it because of its originality.TheCommanders said:
