Both of those would be insanely more amazing than what they've currently suggested. If I could vote for a cover, I'd pick either of these.White_Lama said:Why not one of these instead?
Then again, hopefully with being European, I won't have to look at that cover.
I'm sorry, but if you're an adult and you're not buying a game or buying a game because of Box Art.....that's just stupid.Witty Name Here said:No offense, but box art can be a pretty big factor in whether you buy games, especially if you haven't heard of them beforehand.Kungfu_Teddybear said:
For example, "Lost Odyssey" is considered to be a pretty good and, in a sense, almost "classic" JRPG. I passed that game over a hundred times while walking through the local blockbuster (back when they still had blockbuster) because the boxart looked more like an eyesore then anything else. I knew nothing about the game, but I took a look at it and thought "Yeah, this isn't for me."
Here's the European/Japanese Box Art.
While the red around the eyes is a bit... Unnerving, it looks like a fine piece of art none the less.
...Here's the American one.
Can you see why I avoided it? There is so much puke green and yellow colors on the cover, that it practically looked disgusting. The back was no better, with all the ingame screenshots being pictures of grey and brown and overall "dark" and "dreary" places.
Well, eventually I got the game and decided to play it. And you know what? I haven't run into a single bleak or puke green filtered area yet. The box art lead me to believe that the game would be an eyesore, that it would be pointlessly dreary and dull colored. It wasn't, plain and simple. And I put off getting the game for so long because the box art misled me.
You aren't the only one. I don't think the box art is nearly as bad as a lot of people are saying. That said, I don't even care about the box art because I've seen the gameplay trailer. I already know what to expect, a picture on a box is not going to change that opinion.jetriot said:
The magicka one is a parody of the battlefield ones though, so it passes imo.Greyah said:Here's another!hazabaza1 said:If you look closely, you can see that his left hand has a slight orange tinge to it...
Ingenious!
But yeah, that album art is ugly. Boo, hiss, and all that.
If you see a game you've never heard of on a shelf with box art fresh out of the Generic-O-Tron 9000, instilling the least amount of interest one can possibly imagine, are you then going to look it up on the internet for a laugh? No, of course not, cuz you just put it out of your mind 2 seconds after seeing the thing and hurriedly forgot about it.Lionsfan said:
Your contribution to the discussion is duly noted.Moralio said:
That can't be the final boxart, can it?BernardoOne said:Pre-order cover(back and front) has just been revealed.Meh. At least its colorful.
I don't really think it's an attempt at subversion. I thought it must be for a moment, but apart from the fact that rather than a mournfully waving battered American flag, it's got a burning one (Which might just annoy a couple of anti-flag-burning facists out there), it doesn't really do much else. Guy with severe case of middle-aged, brown haired, white guy-itis (Although his outfit is kind of cool), standard action pose, and in the background, a blimp.Yosharian said:I think it's fine, tough guy, shotgun, patriotic flag, it's perfect. I think you're overreacting. Have you considered that the picture is an attempt at subversion?Sepko said:
I don't think it has no effect on the end-product. People are hired to design and choose the cover among several options, using expensive and time consuming polls to help them decide. That is a lot of effort for something that "doesn't matter".Jaeke said:
The thing is, it's NOT just about the main character's gun rampage throughout a beautiful game environment. It should be a picture of the city itself or something, not some square-jawed cowboy. Something about it irks me.jetriot said:
