I don't remember any specific quotes, but I can give you an idea:orannis62 said:
"Worst FPS EVAR!"
"Why don't my guns do any/so little damage?"
"This game is SO boing!"
...You get the idea.
Stolen Pixels #145: Re: Your Box Art
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"Worst FPS EVAR!"
"Why don't my guns do any/so little damage?"
"This game is SO boing!"
...You get the idea.
"Hey, Tim, do you want to play my copy of Mass Effect 2?"
"Hell no, that game has terrible box art!"
"But the reviewers said-"
"No! How dare they put terrible box art on a (possibly) good game! It is all their fault I don't play games with bad box art!
OT: Good comic. Loved the Halo/EA box art.
"Hell no, that game has terrible box art!"
"But the reviewers said-"
"No! How dare they put terrible box art on a (possibly) good game! It is all their fault I don't play games with bad box art!
OT: Good comic. Loved the Halo/EA box art.
It's obvious that the cover is specifically aiming for a retro 70's Sci-Fi theme; the alien and the girl are too blatantly old school to be accidental. The only problem is that the GAME doesn't aim for that retro 70's Sci-Fi theme, so it feels like false advertising. You buy the game because the cover makes it look like a throw-back to older Sci-Fi films, then you play the game and everything is extremely shiny and it looks like just another modern Sci-Fi.
Two things:
1) That last one is brilliant. BRILLIANT I SAY.
2) It is just sad how similar Halo and Mass Effect are.
1) That last one is brilliant. BRILLIANT I SAY.
2) It is just sad how similar Halo and Mass Effect are.
I, also, got this impression. Maybe it's the Episode I or II covers that we got that from.IrishBerserker said:
It would not take a big stretch of the imagination to expect that it's already been done.Scarlet Knight said:
It's Bioware. They already have the RPG fans. Putting Halo-ish box art on there is not going to scare off anybody who likes leveling up and assigning stats.
Grabbing the Halo fans is a logical business move, and i commend them. Who knows? Maybe some of them will actually read the dialog and become semi-literate, or stop using "fag" as a punctuation mark.
Grabbing the Halo fans is a logical business move, and i commend them. Who knows? Maybe some of them will actually read the dialog and become semi-literate, or stop using "fag" as a punctuation mark.
The problem with the box art is that it is essentially generic. The problem with any other box art is that, odds are, it couldn't attract more people that weren't going to buy it already.
For example: the first box art that was used for advertising ME2 was just a particularly beat up piece of the hull with M7 readible though the scratches and dents.
The problem: you really can't tell what exactly the game is, even if they put the title somewhere on the cover. Is it a space-ship battle simulator? Is it a FPS? Is it even a game?
The solution: put the "main" characters on the cover to relay the shooter aspect of the game.
Odds are that they will dish out a much nicer cover for a deluxe version that those of us who are RPG whores (just admit it if you are, I know I am) can have something else to look at if we want to play the game.
For example: the first box art that was used for advertising ME2 was just a particularly beat up piece of the hull with M7 readible though the scratches and dents.
The problem: you really can't tell what exactly the game is, even if they put the title somewhere on the cover. Is it a space-ship battle simulator? Is it a FPS? Is it even a game?
The solution: put the "main" characters on the cover to relay the shooter aspect of the game.
Odds are that they will dish out a much nicer cover for a deluxe version that those of us who are RPG whores (just admit it if you are, I know I am) can have something else to look at if we want to play the game.
I think this is a serious case of over thinking. It's probably a bland cover because they didn't put a lot of effort into it. Or they/there focus group kinda liked it. I don't think it has to be some insideous marketing ploy: Its just that they did a sub-par job on the least important part of the game. I think your looking for patterns where none exist.