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aguspal

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Its been a long time since I have even faced a box art... lol

I cant honestly think of any... ugh. I think its also because I dont care about box arts in the first place.
 

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BathorysGraveland said:
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It just looks ugly as fuck. I heard the US version required blue blood, because apparently this was too violent (???). Pretty good game though, all in all.
That's the first time I've seen that (shitty) box art, you'd be amazed how much it's improved by removing the red.
 

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BloatedGuppy said:
I hate that Femshep. She looks 15. Shepard is a veteran military officer with years of experience even before the trilogy starts. This girl still has baby fat.

Imagine if the default Shepard had been female for years, and they finally did a contest for a "new look" Manshep, and settled on Taylor Lautner. Shepard is meant to be in his/her early 30's in ME3. Babyshep doesn't even have laugh lines.

Booo. Boooooooo.
I think you are confusing baby fat with cheek/chin bones.
 

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The box art for Halo 4 is pretty bad, I wish they had left the chief out of the picture.

I agree with whomever mentioned Arkham Asyleum and Arkham City GotY. Both are just aweful.
 

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Pretty much every Mega Man game before the X series.

As others have stated, the Mass Effect 2 and 3 box art is pretty bad too.
 

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Twilight_guy clearly won the thread already.

The one that usually comes to mind for me is:


Because of the cover I didn't try the game until a couple of years ago. I know it says Roleplaying Strategy Game on the top, but the cover looks like a top-down shooter, and a bad one at that.

Such a good game, and they had to give it that cover. What a waste.
 

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This.

I hate how they're just...floating there. And what's up with the third Samus fading in from the upper left corner?

Fuse's box also deserves a mention, although I can't be sure if it will be great or not.
 

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I know it's not very bad compared to some of these but the Portal 2 box cover was still pretty lame.


They should have stuck with the minimalistic look of the first one.



You can't tell from this jpeg but it also had this really shiny metallic thing going on which made it all the worse

And finally, the obvious one that I'm apparently the first to remember.


 

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Beffudled Sheep said:
scorptatious said:
Point to the one you think is the worst box cover.



If you pick the right then you are correct!

I'll admit though, the American box cover is sort of nostalgic to me as I remember seeing it a lot at my local Hollywood Video store when I was little.
When I was a wee child of like 10 or 8 I remember passing by that game when looking for used games on the cheap. I passed on it because I thought the cover (and therefore the game) was very, very stupid. I was cursed with the crappy American version of the box art and to this day I wish that I somehow got a copy with the good European art on it. I would have picked it up and loved every second of it as I do now.
Dont you mean "Japanese" art, the cool artsy cover is the original japanese one, (not sure if they used the same one on Europe) at least back then i used to buy a lot of videogame magazines and EVERYONE was raving about the unending awesomeness of ICO so i bought it day one crappy box art and all
 
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enriquetnt said:
Beffudled Sheep said:
scorptatious said:
Point to the one you think is the worst box cover.



If you pick the right then you are correct!

I'll admit though, the American box cover is sort of nostalgic to me as I remember seeing it a lot at my local Hollywood Video store when I was little.
When I was a wee child of like 10 or 8 I remember passing by that game when looking for used games on the cheap. I passed on it because I thought the cover (and therefore the game) was very, very stupid. I was cursed with the crappy American version of the box art and to this day I wish that I somehow got a copy with the good European art on it. I would have picked it up and loved every second of it as I do now.
Dont you mean "Japanese" art, the cool artsy cover is the original japanese one, (not sure if they used the same one on Europe) at least back then i used to buy a lot of videogame magazines and EVERYONE was raving about the unending awesomeness of ICO so i bought it day one crappy box art and all
It is also the european box art. And I was young back then and didn't even know they had video game magazines. Wish I had known about its greatness back then :(

Picked it up from a friend when I was 13 for free and fell in love :D
 

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BearMinerals said:
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This.

I hate how they're just...floating there. And what's up with the third Samus fading in from the upper left corner?
That's Dark Samus silly. The two Samus's back to back represent the pure/corrupt sides of Samus throughout the game since she becomes corrupted with Phazon. Whereas Dark Samus is merely the antagonist and sorta represent what she'll become if the Phazon corruption overtakes her.

Not entirely sure why the corrupted side still has samus' regular Varia suit as opposed to the more fitting PED suit but it is what it is.
 

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Yakuza 3 - Too embarrassing to display. It looks like a poor photoshop work.
The game, however, is such an underrated gem.

 

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Epic game, but if I hadn't already played Soul Reaver and wanted to see how it all started, this would definitely not persuade me if I glanced at it in a store.

 

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Warachia said:
That's the first time I've seen that (shitty) box art, you'd be amazed how much it's improved by removing the red.
Yeah, I just saw the special edition. That one looks pretty damn nice actually.

 

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Terminate421 said:
Oh my god! I have been wanting to play that game again but couldn't remember it's name! Now I know. :D I fondly remember playing it at an old friends house and having a shit ton of fun.
 

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Mechalynx said:
Epic game, but if I hadn't already played Soul Reaver and wanted to see how it all started, this would definitely not persuade me if I glanced at it in a store.
Wow, dat brow.

Oh early CGI, you aged so finely.
 

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Can you guess which one was planned box art for the European version of the game? Thank Cthulhu that they went with the original.
 

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BloatedGuppy said:
RheynbowDash said:
I have to disagree, because Bioware was nice enough to give us the reversible cover so we didnt have to look at that generic 30-something, stubbled, white guy on the cover (I do enjoy the red-head FemShep ^_^)
I hate that Femshep. She looks 15. Shepard is a veteran military officer with years of experience even before the trilogy starts. This girl still has baby fat.

Imagine if the default Shepard had been female for years, and they finally did a contest for a "new look" Manshep, and settled on Taylor Lautner. Shepard is meant to be in his/her early 30's in ME3. Babyshep doesn't even have laugh lines.

Booo. Boooooooo.
That may be so, but you have to admit, would YOU buy this game if it had some wrinkly old woman in space armor on the cover?
 

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That may be so, but you have to admit, would YOU buy this game if it had some wrinkly old woman in space armor on the cover?
TIL 32 year old women are old and wrinkly.

I'd just like to see some maturity in her face. Allison Brie is 30 now. Do you think she's old and wrinkly?

I'm not looking for Shepard as portrayed by Dame Judi Dench. I just want someone who actually looks their age. Or even looks like a soldier. As opposed to someone who wandered in from a photo shoot for 17 magazine. I'd feel the same way if it was a guy.
 

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Korten12 said:
Terminate421 said:
Oh my god! I have been wanting to play that game again but couldn't remember it's name! Now I know. :D I fondly remember playing it at an old friends house and having a shit ton of fun.
Man, I loved custom robo, too. The final boss was fucking impossible though. Also, the 3-way gun is kinda OP.